Motorsport Musings

With the crowd exhorting its hero onto greater heights, Mansell produced not only one of the most famous comeback drives in F1, but also one of the best passes, when he outmanoeuvred Piquet in the 1987 British Grand Prix.

Carlos Reutemann retired, Spa-Francorchamps was deemed grand prix worthy and Ari Vatanen was short of cash – that’ll be the end of March 1982 then.

F1 fans are being given the chance to win a visit to the home of Williams F1 and raise money for the Lymphoma Association in the process.

Kimi Raikkonen is poised to make an F1 return with Williams next year. But is he the right man to lead them to greater things? I’m not so sure…

The ’81 Monaco Grand Prix provided an epic battle between Alan Jones and Gilles Villeneuve, with the French-Canadian taking his truck-like Ferarri to his first victory since 1979.

That a ban on racing in Switzerland didn’t preclude a Swiss Grand Prix reflected the bizarre nature of the 1982 season – and then the race was almost cut short…

The 2010 Monaco Grand Prix wasn’t without incident, but one that seems to have gone under the radar was Rubens Barrichello’s steering wheel lobbing episode.