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F1 circuits have become 'sterilised' in recent times.When the 1992 world champion began his F1 career, it wasn't uncommon for drivers to suffer fatal accidents or be seriously injured. However, following the darkest weekend in the sport’s history at Imola in 1994, when Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger both lost their lives, rules were tightened up to ensure both tracks and cars were much safer.There was been one fatality since then in F1 with Jules Bianchi losing his life following a crash at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix.

Naman Ramachandran Jim Wiseman’s Sky original documentary “Williams and Mansell: Red 5” is set for a debut on Sky Documentaries and Now on July 8. Featuring some of the biggest names in F1, it follows Nigel Mansell and the Williams Racing team’s rise to fame told through the eyes of his team, family and drivers including Jenson Button, Damon Hill and Karun Chandhok. Mansell grew up in England in the 1960s, dreaming of becoming a professional race car driver, despite not having the financial means for it, while Frank Williams was realizing his own dream at the company he founded, Williams Grand Prix Engineering. The two joined forces, and after years of trying to win together, Mansell left to join Ferrari and then ultimately retired from racing after years of ups and downs, without ever winning the Formula One Drivers’ Championship. But seemingly overnight, he came out of retirement and re-joined Williams Racing. And in 1992 Nigel and his FW14B Williams car became one of the most formidable combinations in sports history.

F1 team. Not even during Mercedes' run of seven straight drivers' titles did they go close to winning every single race in a season.

Michael Schumacher’s F1 debut, when he brilliantly put his Jordan seventh on the grid, only for the car’s clutch to fail on the opening lap and force him into retirement. READ MORE: Ten Formula 1 drivers you completely forgot about - and what they are up to now Given how the race played out, with the other Jordan driver, Andrea de Cesaris, chasing down winner Ayrton Senna in the closing stages before suffering an engine problem, it is not outlandish to suggest Schumacher could have been in the fight for victory.But it is circumstances which paved the way for Schumacher’s debut which were most extraordinary.Jordan, in their debut season in the sport, had run De Cesaris and Luxembourg-born Bertrand Gachot.

Top Gear's Star In a Reasonably Priced Car challenge was the one which gave the winner the best bragging rights.All the big names in the F1 world have taken part - including Lewis Hamilton, Nigel Mansell, Sebastian Vettel and Damon Hill.READ MORE: Top Gear reveals nation's favourite cop cars - from the Sweeney to Inspector MorseBut as the challenge drew to a close, there was a shock result when a young upstart not only knocked the reigning champion off the top spot - he smashed the fastest ever time.The BBC One show ran the weekly feature where famous faces got behind the wheel of a bog-standard car and did laps of the Top Gear circuit.There was also a spin-off which put F1 drivers in the same ordinary car, a Suzuki Liana, to see how fast they could drive it around the track.

Sebastian Vettel will leave Formula 1 at the end of the season with a career record bettered only by a tiny number of drivers in the history of the sport.Unless Vettel manages the unlikely feat of winning one of his remaining 10 races with Aston Martin, the German will leave the sport with 53 Grand Prix wins and four drivers’ titles, all won in four consecutive seasons with Red Bull from 2010 to 2013. Only three drivers – Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher and Juan Manuel Fangio – have more F1 titles to their name while just two – Hamilton and Schumacher – have claimed more Grand Prix wins.But it is fair to say Vettel’s career has been front-loaded with 39 wins coming in the Red Bull stable – including his first with junior team Toro Rosso in 2008 – before his switch to Ferrari for 2015.

Sebastian Vettel will soon have extra time to engage in his passions away from being a full-time driver when he retires from F1 at the end of the season.The four-time world champion announced his decision to call time on his career ahead of this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest. After a 15-year career, Vettel said the decision stemmed from his desire to spend more time with his family and pursue his other interests, including environmental causes.He is also hugely passionate about motorsport history and owns a number of classic cars, including a Williams FW14B from Nigel Mansell’s 1992 championship-winning year. READ MORE: Martin Brundle urges Aston Martin to replace retiring Sebastian Vettel with F1 'young gun' Vettel, who has established a fortune of more than £100million during his career, paid a colossal £2.7million for the car back in 2019.

F1 fans set to converge on Silverstone.The home of British motorsport has been the scene of some of the most memorable moments in F1 history, including Nigel Mansell’s stunning overtaking move on Nelson Piquet in 1987 and Lewis Hamilton’s incredible wet-weather win in 2008, the first of his eight Silverstone triumphs.There have also been moments of controversy and great danger. In 2003, the fans at Silverstone and millions watching around the world witnessed both as priest Cornelius Horan somehow got onto the track and ran into the path of F1 cars at the fastest part of the circuit, where speeds reach around 200mph. READ MORE: Bernie Ecclestone quizzed about Ayrton Senna by Brazilian cops after gun arrest At least 13 cars whizzed past Horan, with most having to take evasive action or slow down.

Max Verstappen will aim to extend his lead over his rivals in this season's rankings, while Lewis Hamilton will be hoping to put a disappointing campaign so far behind him to achieve a historic ninth victory at Silverstone. There have been plenty of iconic British Grand Prix racing memories on the track, such as Nigel Mansell's battle with Ayrton Senna in 1991 and Michael Schumacher's sensational win in the rain in 1998.

Lewis Hamilton after being accused of aiming a racial slur at the seven-time F1 champion.However, the former F1 driver, whose daughter Kelly is in a relationship with Max Verstappen, has insisted the term he used was commonplace in Brazil and was not used in a racial context. The interview in question, in which Piquet discussed Hamilton’s clash with Verstappen at last year’s British Grand Prix, took place in November, but the comments have only just come to light.Piquet was reportedly in danger of being barred from the F1 paddock at races if he failed to apologise.READ MORE: Damon Hill almost ran over track invader as Nigel Mansell won British Grand Prix“I would like to clear up the stories circulating in the media about a comment I made in an interview last year,” he said in a statement.

READ MORE: Guenther Steiner tells F1 giants to stick to the rules after Wolff and Horner complaints Such was the pace gap between the two cars, Mansell lapped Hill an incredible five times, including on the very final lap as the Silverstone crowd began to party.As Mansell passed the chequered flag, one overexcited spectator breached the fence and made his way onto the track, behind Mansell but just in front of Hill, who narrowly avoided running the man over. Hill recalled the incredible scenes during the pre-British Grand Prix edition of the F1 Nation podcast.“I crossed the line just behind him [Mansell] and there was a track invasion,” he said.

F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone has claimed Lewis Hamilton "doesn't seem bothered" about his poor form in 2022. Hamilton has struggled so far this season, with Mercedes team-mate George Russell outperforming the seven-time world champion in his debut year with the team. And Ecclestone believes he's lacking the motivation which he had earlier in his career."Toto [Wolff] is getting a bit fed up with Lewis.

Formula One driver Martin Brundle has recalled a remarkable story that led to him being 'sent home' from a Monaco Grand Prix after missing a weigh bridge. F1 officials regularly call cars and their drivers to be weighed in the pit lane during qualifying sessions, to ensure they are not breaching the strict regulations, and significant penalties can be issued if a driver doesn't adhere to the instructions.

motorsport.This weekend will see F1 return to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, and though the races won't be under the baking Saudi sun, the night race should still prove tricky going on the twisty street track.Drivers like Lewis Hamilton have to be on the top of their game and in peak physical condition as they wrestle the 200mph rocket ship around the F1 circuits across the world.It means that drivers have to follow grim training routines and difficult diets to make sure they are within sight of the front come the checkered flag.Gone are the days in which mechanical steering was king, which gave us images of Nigel Mansell collapsing during one race, and Ayrton Senna unable to lift up the winners' trophy at his home race of Brazil.However, modern cars arguably put more strain on the body than older cars due to their extremely high downforce, and drivers have to work on strength as much as they can.One of the key workouts for F1 drivers is strengthening their neck muscles as they can pull up to as much as 6G in some corners.Special exercises target weight lifting for their necks and trapezius muscles, meaning F1 stars can shift around 40kg with their neck alone.Drivers use special headsets attached to ropes that pull against them as they try to keep their head still.

Formula One legend Sir Frank Williams has passed away aged 79.Sir Frank, who founded the Williams team in 1977 and helped them become a household name in Formula One, was admitted to hospital on Friday and passed away on Sunday morning.He is widely regarded as one of the greatest F1 chiefs in the sport's history, having shaped the British constructor into a hugely-competitive outfit with a string of titles to their name.Williams ultimately oversaw 114 victories and helped deliver seven Drivers’ Championship titles, including for Britain’s Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill.A Williams statement released on Sunday said: "It is with great sadness that on behalf of the Williams family, the team can confirm the death of Sir Frank Williams CBE, Founder

F1's most enduring moments; there was Daniel Ricciardo's redemption in 2018, Nigel Mansell and Senna battlingitout in 1992, and in 1955 Alberto Ascari crashed into the harbour.

Laurie Cunningham signed for Real Madrid in 1979 in the presence of the then Baggies' boss, Big Ron AtkinsonAnd where sporting dinners would be held with soccer legends from Johan Cruyff and Bill Shankly to Brian Clough and Trevor Francis as well as motorsport favourites Nigel Mansell and Barry Sheene. Welcome to the 1863 London Museum Tavern and Music Hall which became a cinema from 1912-31 and was later reinvented as Lorenzo's, unquestionably the city's No 1 celebrity restaurant in the 1970s and 80s.

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