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Flashback: First F1 race behind the Iron Curtain delivers a thriller
When talking about the best Formula 1 debuts, we usually talk drivers – Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen, Jacques Villeneuve, Mario Andretti – but if we were to talk about the first race at a venue, the Hungarian Grand Prix certainly belongs on the list. First taking place in 1986, the race was remarkable as much for the circumstances surrounding its creation as what transpired on track. A sport that had long been a capitalists’ wet dream – extravagant spending, heavy sponsorship, celebrating the individual over the team – would be for the first time hosted by a communist country. A long-held ambition of then-F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, going behind the Iron Curtain had proved to...
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