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Why unloved Lotus 76 may be Colin Chapman's most significant car
A wide variety of Lotus cars are often proffered as the ultimate F1 game-changer – but was the Lotus 76 an unusual candidate which trumps them all?
Alonso drives the ex-Senna McLaren MP4/4
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- Last updated: September 19th 2019
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Moss revisits the Mille Miglia
Battersea Park Formula E track walk
The Roebuck/Hughes show
As part of a TAG Heuer advertisement the watch company managed to persuade McLaren to put Alonso in Ayrton Senna’s championship-winning MP4/4 from 1988.
With Honda power the Brazilian won eight of that season’s 16 races (team-mate Alain Prost won seven) and, famously, he qualified at Monaco 1.427 seconds ahead of anyone else. In short, it’s a pretty awesome machine…
TAG Heuer video
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Tracking shots lap
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Alonso tells Button what it was like on track
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt-QOtOeQk0[/youtube]
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