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3 days ago · Everything after Watson’s big bang tips a hat to John Barnard. He’s the engineer and serial innovator whose McLaren carbon-fiber monocoque kicked off the modern Formula 1 space race.
4 days ago · Watson, who qualified 17th on the grid, got his Michelin tyres working well on the Detroit circuit and overtook one driver after another until, on lap 37, he went into the lead, as Rosberg had gearbox issues. Watson won the race from Eddie Cheever and Pironi, taking the lead in the World Championship. [97] [98]
3 days ago · The season turned out to be very rocky for the 21-year-old Roman driver. While his teammate John Watson finished sixth in the championship with twenty-seven points, including carbon fibre McLaren MP4/1’s maiden win at Silverstone, de Cesaris was eighteenth in the standings.
12 hours ago · The 1979 Formula One season was the 33rd season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1979 World Championship of F1 Drivers [ 1 ] and the 1979 International Cup for F1 Constructors [ 2 ] which were contested concurrently over a fifteen-round series which commenced on 21 January 1979, and ended on 7 October 1979.
3 days ago · Nigel Ernest James Mansell CBE (/ ˈmænsəl /; born 8 August 1953) is a British former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1980 to 1995. Mansell won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1992 with Williams.
1 day ago · Driving the iconic No.17 Ford Falcon with John Bowe, it was Dick Johnson's final Bathurst victory. At the other end of the spectrum, a young Craig Lowndes was making his debut. After a late-race restart, Lowndes announced his arrival in the sport with a sensational move around the outside of Bowe under brakes into Griffins Bend.
1 day ago · News, video highlights, calendar, results and live timing from the Repco Supercars Championship, formerly the V8 Supercars Championship.
