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The Grand Prix Arrows Almost Won
Damon Hill led the 1997 Hungarian Grand Prix comfortably in an unfancied Arrows — until a broken washer cost him the win in the closing laps. It remains the closest Arrows ever came to victory, and their last-ever podium.
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The Rookie Title Lost in a Gravel Trap
Lewis Hamilton led the 2007 championship by 12 points heading into Shanghai. A tyre call gone wrong put him in the gravel trap at the pit entry, and his rookie title bid unraveled from there.
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Seventeenth on the Grid, First at the Flag
Kimi Räikkönen qualified 17th at Suzuka in 2005 and passed race leader Giancarlo Fisichella on the final lap at 200mph to win. It's still cited as one of F1's greatest single drives.
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The Grand Prix Decided by a Collision, Two Years Running
Senna and Prost's championship came down to a collision at Suzuka in 1989 — and again in 1990. Same two drivers, same track, opposite outcomes both times.
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The Deal McLaren Made Before Melbourne Even Started
Hakkinen and Coulthard agreed before the 1998 Australian Grand Prix that whoever led at Turn 1 would win. A radio mix-up nearly broke the deal, and the fallout became one of F1's defining team-order controversies.
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He Won the Race and Lost the Title in the Same Corner
Felipe Massa won his home Brazilian Grand Prix and briefly believed he'd won the championship too — until Lewis Hamilton passed Timo Glock at the last corner of the last lap.
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The Race Ayrton Senna Won With One Gear Left
Senna had chased his first Brazilian Grand Prix win for six years without luck. In 1991 he finally got it — with a failing gearbox that left him stuck in sixth for the final seven laps.
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The COTA Weekend Where Hamilton and Verstappen Stopped Being Polite
Before their title fight became one of the most contested in F1 history, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen had a tense, wheel-to-wheel moment at Austin in 2021 — a preview of exactly how close that season would get.
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The Shortest Grand Prix in F1 History Happened at Sepang
On 5 April 2009, a monsoon downpour turned Sepang into standing water and forced officials to stop the race early — producing the shortest Malaysian Grand Prix ever run, and one of the shortest in F1 history.
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F1 Fan Clubs Aren't Just Merch — Inside the Scuderia and Orange Army Phenomenon
Ferrari's tifosi took eight decades to build and outlasts every bad season. The Orange Army did something similar in four years flat. Both are real, and both are currently working.
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The Photocopier That Cost McLaren $100 Million
A stranger at a copy shop noticed something wasn't right about a stack of confidential documents. That's how F1's biggest-ever espionage scandal actually got caught.
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Senna and Prost's Rivalry Ended Nothing Like People Think
Two collisions, two championships, and a feud everyone remembers — but the real ending happened quietly, over the phone, in the months before Senna died.
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