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Hunt's Hesketh to be auctioned

While it is James Hunt's title-winning McLaren that is currently in the spotlight, the car with which he scored his first F1 victory is up for sale in May.Granted, that win came in a non-championship race, the International Trophy at Silverstone, but it was significant in that it marked the beginning of one of the true fairy tales that F1 experiences from time to time… and surely one deserving of its own movie.Having entered F1 in 1973, albeit with a March 731, Hesketh Racing, formed by English eccentric Lord Hesketh and Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley, recruited Harvey Postlethwaite to pen what was to become the 308, the team's first effort as a constructor.With its aluminium monocoque...
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