Someone asked me this morning, “When will Formula 1 race again?” Like thirty other people did in the couple of past weeks. The pause was pregnant. My retort today was very different to most. And for very good reason… “Will F1 race again?' Rollback eighty years – before the FIA F1 World Championship became the thing – and there were nineteen Grands Prix in 1939. Mercedes drivers Rudolf Caracciola and Hermann Lang won the Swiss Grands and German Grands Prix driving W154s and Tazio Nuvolari took his Auto Union C to victory in Yugoslavia, to close off the glorious ‘Golden Era' that ran from 1918 to ’39. The Bathurst 100 was the last of three international races to...
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