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Kunimitsu Takahashi — My only grand prix
1977 Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji How proud were you in 1961 to become the first Japanese rider to win a world championship motorcycle grand prix? People talk about this…
Seven decades of Formula 1 racing. These were the times of our lives
F1 today is unrecognisable from its first World Championship race in 1950, which was covered in this magazine. Since then, we’ve seen great drivers and teams come and go, political battles and mind-boggling technical advances. But for 70 years, F1 has remained the pinnacle of our sport. To mark this anniversary we asked the world’s greatest motor racing writers to celebrate the world’s greatest motor racing championship.
1950s
Doug Nye
Our finest historian goes back to where it all began, and the rise of Britain’s unstoppable garagistes
1960s
Nigel Roebuck
Esteemed F1 commentator on the significance of Clark, Moss, Gurney… and Sergeant Pepper
1970s
Maurice Hamilton
Fleet Street’s finest observer of the sport on the fearsome rise of Bernie Ecclestone towards control of F1
1980s
Paul Fearnley
Our own highly knowledgeable contributor on racing’s ‘superpower decade’
1990s
Simon Arron
F1 reporter and historian reflects on that Imola ’94 weekend and the sad demise of the Lotus team
2000s
Mark Hughes
Motor Sport’s top-line F1 analyst considers politics, power plays and the fallout from ‘Spygate’
2010s
Andrew Benson
The BBC’s chief Formula 1 writer assesses Lewis Hamilton’s mastery of the hybrid era
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