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On This Day in F1: 06 March

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– Andretti wins maiden GP 1971

“My Home” well not really MY home, but the circuit in South Africa whose name literally translates to that in the native Zulu. Kyalami. The opening round of the 1971 Formula One Season is underway. Unlike what we might be used to nowadays though (boy are we spoilt!), Spa and Interlagos aren’t part of the roster (how did they live like that?), some teams have three cars on the grid and the season is only 11 races long (this is just sad). The anticipation is probably greater than what we face now because the last running was about 4 months prior.

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On This Day in F1: 02 March

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– Ferrari Break F1 Test Agreement
– Mosley Leaves UK over EU law
– Prost GP Buyer Controversy
– Schumacher Rocks and Rolls

2005 – Ferrari broke an F1 test agreement today, by amassing more than 50km of ‘shakedown’ mileage in a GP week. Debuting the new F2005 model at Mugello, Luca Badoer completed 317km — 267 more than allowed. Ferrari indicated that Badoer would continue at the privately-owned track tomorrow. In season testing was fully banned in 2009.

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On This Day in F1: 01 March

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– Rene Arnoux wins 1980 South-African grand prix

– Death of Peter Walker

1980: Just one month after claiming his maiden F1 victory in the Brazilian Grand Prix, Frenchman Rene Arnoux continued his momentum to score his only back-to-back F1 success in the third grand prix of the 1980 season at the Kyalami circuit in South Africa.

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On This Day in F1: 22 February 2013

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– Irvine faces wrath of Rahal

– FIA opens tender process for standard ECU

2001: Newly appointed Jaguar Racing team boss Bobby Rahal lashed out at the team’s first driver Eddie Irvine for openly criticizing the new Jaguar R2 after suffering a heavy crash during the car’s first outing at a testing session in Valencia: ‘I think Eddie is trying to tweak us into getting the job done, but I believe the way to motivate is to be positive. I mentioned to Eddie that I thought he needed to contribute his commitment more positively.’ Rahal’s reproach was the onset of what would become a very blurred relationship between Irvine and the three times CART champion who in the beginning of his career was also a nameless participant to the 1978 American and Canadian Grand Prix for the Wolf F1 team.

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On this day in F1: 8th February

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– Belgian Grand Prix is off (once more)

– Birth of Cliff Allison

2006: The FIA issued a statement saying that it had received a notification from the Royal Automobile Club of Belgium to withdraw the 2006 Belgian Grand Prix from the F1 World Championship Calendar. Officially the withdrawal had been made ‘in order to allow the completion of extensive improvement work to facilities at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit’, but at the same time a discussion was going on about the organization of the event.

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On this day in F1: 4th February

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Who’s Ralph Firman?

Ligier Dominate

Montoya Slams Schumacher

Sauber Hits the Ice

2003: Eddie Jordan, the owner of Jordan GP, had the F1 world scratching its head when he announced that relatively unknown driver Ralph Firman, would be partnering Giancarlo Fisichella for the 2003 season. Firman who was born in England, yet drove under an Irish licence had won the 1996 British F3 championship for Paul Stewart Racing.

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On this day in F1: 3rd February

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Prost Advises Button to Go to Williams

Mercedes Buy a Stake in McLaren

New Ferrari Engine Introduced

BAR Consider Move to Japan

Mercedes To Buy Rest of Brawn Shares

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On this day in F1: 2nd February

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Hamilton Abuse

Bernie Slams Big Ron

Birth of Roger Williamson

2008: F1 saw an ugly side of the sport during pre-season testing in Barcelona.  McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton was subjected to racial taunts and abuse from a number of spectators. Hamilton had become extremely unpopular in Spain after the previous year’s rivalry with Spanish ex-teammate Fernando Alonso.

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On this day in F1: 1st February

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On This Day  – 1st February

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Giedo van der Garde revealed

Max Mosely blasts EU

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