Dotage?

Sir,
Whilst I appreciated DSJ’s otherwise excellent tribute to Enzo Ferrari (Motor Sport, October 1988), I must take issue over his references to the great man’s dotage.

I was privileged to correspond with the Commendatore as recently as last December, and his letters did not suggest that he was in the slightest degree deranged or feeble-minded.

Of course he doted on fast cars all his long life, but that redounds to his praise.

Bryan Apps Southbourne, Dorset.