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Inside Line: No more Boys from Brazil

One of the forgotten sad milestones of the 2018 season opening Australian Grand Prix weekend, is that there were no Brazilian drivers on the Formula 1 grid for the first time since 1969 when a young Emerson Fittipaldi burst on to the scene. Since then Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna carried the baton, between the trio they bagged 101 grand prix victories, 126 pole positions and with eight????? F1 titles between them and the country ranks only third to Britain and Germany in the all time world champions list.???? Fittipaldi's final days in Formula 1 coincided with Piquet's arrival on the scene and of course there was no love lost between Senna and Piquet whose careers overlapped for several...
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