Happy-go-lucky Frenchman Patrick Depailler would have been 72 today. If you need a reminder of his flair, car control and fearlessness, go onboard with him at a sodden Montreal in a Tyrrell 008.
For more opposite lock, go onboard around Long Beach.
For more about Depailler, here’s what his Ligier team-mate Jacques Laffite told us about him in 2008: Laffite on Depailler
James Hunt and a Hesketh in Holland. It all aligned 50 years ago when the future world champion pulled off one of F1's most unlikely wins at Zandvoort, as Matt Bishop recounts
"An old man with white hair, in a suit, wearing dark glasses, in a dark office, with bodyguards all around.”
A third of the way through the 2025 F1 season, McLaren's title fight is shaping into a psychological duel as much as a physical one — with one key element giving Oscar Piastri's the edge over Lando Norris, says Mark Hughes
Prost, Fittipaldi, Stewart, Andretti, Mansell, Häkkinen and Villeneuve will be driving their championship-winning machinery