Run at scary Mosport #OnThisDay 49 years ago, the ’77 #CanadianGP had it all: Hunt’s & Andretti’s epic dice, a crash between Hunt & his team-mate, a trackside punch-up, & drama in the closing laps. Click to read a @motor-sport.bsky.social column I wrote.
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The ’78 #CanadianGP, run #OnThisDay 48 years ago, is always remembered for Gilles Villeneuve’s maiden #F1 GP win, but Jean-Pierre Jarier led from the pole in Ronnie Peterson’s tragically available Lotus 79 & he would have won had he not been stopped after 49 laps by an oil leak.

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2024
#CanadianGP: VER
#BritishGP: HAM
#BrazilianGP: VER

2025
#AustralianGP: NOR
#BritishGP: NOR
#Belgium2025: PIA

2026
#BahrainGP (Sepang): VER

#MaxVerstappen: 11
#LewisHamilton: 10
#SergioPérez: 2
#LandoNorris: 2
#OscarPiastri: 1
#ValtteriBottas: 1

2023
• #MonacoGP: Max Verstappen
• #BelgianGP: Max Verstappen
• #DutchGP: Max Verstappen

2024
• #CanadianGP: Max Verstappen
• #BritishGP: Lewis Hamilton
• #BrazilianGP: Max Verstappen

2026
• #BahrainGPinMalaysia (Sepang): Max Verstappen

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(1/2) The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal features a famous wall on the exit of the final chicane (Turn 13). It earned its nickname after three former World Champions (Damon Hill, Michael...

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#OnThisDay in ’73 Peter Revson (pic) won a wet-dry #CanadianGP. Well, maybe. The organisers messed up their lap charts & many thought he hadn’t won at all. Some thought Howden Ganley had won. What does Ganley think? “Emerson Fittipaldi,” says Howden today. 🤯