Formula 1 — no, let’s rather say Ross Brawn — would do well to read up on race history today while pondering future F1 rules… In an era ruled by data, F1 has become a bit mute. See, data has no imagination, no style either. It’s just info, which if you have too much of, can lead you down the garden path. But if we take a look at what happened in F1 history sixty years ago today, we stumble upon an F1 path so sadly much less traveled… Way back on 29 May 1960, Stirling Moss won the Monaco Grand Prix driving Rob Walker Racing’s privately entered Lotus 18. It was significant because that was Lotus’s first GP win — a brand that bucked the F1 trend of big, bruising, powerful F1...
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