1997 F1 season: Schumacher’s clumsy move that handed Villeneuve the title
The 1997 Formula 1 World Championship was a memorable contest that saw Jacques Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher fight for the title all the way to the final race, and only…
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There was neither an epic world championship fight, with Alain Prost taking his fourth and final title at a canter, nor a deluge of classic races, but some great seasons…
“And look at that!” exclaimed Murray Walker. Eighteen laps from home, we’ll never forget how Nigel Mansell’s world title hopes disintegrated along with his left-rear Goodyear. It happened just after…
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I’d been in the world 14 years and one month when, on January 4, 1967, I watched Donald Campbell’s fatal Bluebird somersault on Coniston Water, on our black and white…
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Faulty steps and tragic dark shadows cast the still-young world championship in a peculiar and troubled light, especially from this distance of 66 years. This was also a season that…
Formula 1 is back to its best in 2024. But does that means this season should be bracketed among the most outstanding in the world championship’s near-75 years? That we…
The 1997 Formula 1 World Championship was a memorable contest that saw Jacques Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher fight for the title all the way to the final race, and only…
There was neither an epic world championship fight, with Alain Prost taking his fourth and final title at a canter, nor a deluge of classic races, but some great seasons…
“And look at that!” exclaimed Murray Walker. Eighteen laps from home, we’ll never forget how Nigel Mansell’s world title hopes disintegrated along with his left-rear Goodyear. It happened just after…
In terms of Formula 1’s mass appeal, this was its genesis. A human story that catapulted the sport from minority interest to a global phenomenon. It had every bit as…
Few knew: ‘Uncle Ken’, firm of handshake and belief, kept a mean secret; and, with views to his past, present and, wisely, future, Jackie Stewart had let a couple of…
I’d been in the world 14 years and one month when, on January 4, 1967, I watched Donald Campbell’s fatal Bluebird somersault on Coniston Water, on our black and white…
What’s blue-and-white and red all under? John Surtees’ Ferrari 158 wore North America’s racing colours at a topsy-turvy Mexico City decider, its welfare ostensibly catered for by influential US importer…
Faulty steps and tragic dark shadows cast the still-young world championship in a peculiar and troubled light, especially from this distance of 66 years. This was also a season that…
Formula 1 is back to its best in 2024. But does that means this season should be bracketed among the most outstanding in the world championship’s near-75 years? That we…
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