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Daily #F1 News and Comment: Tuesday 1st July 2014

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This page will be updated throughout the day. Please if you are on Twitter press the tweet button below. If you re-write and tweet individual story headlines don’t forget to include #F1. You may not realise how hugely important this is and has helped grow our community significantly. OTD Lite: 1979 – The Epic Villeneuve vs … Read more

#F1 History: The First Turbocharged Engine – A Renault Revolution

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Brought to you by TheJudge13 chronicler Jennie Mowbray “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~Winston Churchill~ Turbochargers and reliability:   two words that were not linked together at the dawn of the first turbocharge era in Formula One, 1977. Renault’s initial turbocharged engine had a very rocky … Read more