There were four grands prix on 23 May over the years, all of them in Monaco and most of them with surprising and even shocking results… Jackie Stewart overcame car sickness, Ronnie Peterson’s March Cosworth and Jacky Ickx in a Ferrari to win the Formula 1’s 200th Grand Prix, his second of three wins in the principality, for Tyrrell in 1971. Riccardo Patrese won a dramatic 1982 Monaco GP for Brabham Cosworth. Alain Prost had been in a comfortable lead when he crashed out as it started to rain with three laps left to race, leaving Patrese in the lead, but he too spun and stalled a lap later. That handed the lead to Didier Pironi’s Ferrari, which ran out of fuel on the final lap,...
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