Here’s one that not even among the most ardent race fans will know. Did you know that James Hunt ended up second in his last ever Formula 1 appearance two weeks after his final grand Prix at Monaco? And that Nelson Piquet raced the Brabham BT46B fan car about a year after it was outlawed from F1? Or that both of those events happened today, June 3 1979? Both Hunt (pictured above that weekend at Donington and the BT46B had their final competitive outings at the Gunnar Nilsson Memorial Trophy fundraiser at the venue, whose proceeds went to the late Swedish F1 winner's Cancer Foundation following his untimely death from the disease. Although he did not want to compete, Hunt was an...
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