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Old 8 Jan 2023, 07:23 (Ref:4139227)   #2
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I suspect only the reader demographic prevented Hunt's championship win in 1976 in Japan. It was one of the first F1 ictories to break free of the sports pages.

I'd add Jim Clark's amazing recovery drive at Monza in the 1967 GP ; Roger Clark's RAC Rally victory in 1972 ; Ickx winning the Race of Champions in 1974 ; Takuma Sato's Indy wins 2017 and 2020 ; Ickx(again) winning Le Mans by a whisker in the GT 40 in 1969 ; Mansell's pole lap at Silverstone in 1992 . More parochially , amazing drives in lower formulae include a then unknown Senna annihilating a FF1600 field at Mallory in 1981 ; Gunnar Nilsson's sublime drive at Cadwell in F3 and JJ Lehto showing wet weather artistry in monsoon conditions also at Cadwell in a Reynard FF2000. And the stunning , ultra smooth driving of Dan Rooke in the AXGT in Rallycross .
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