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well that's now new considering Pirelli, in the 80's and early 90's they were also quite rubbish in F1, only 3 victories between 1981 and 1991

A thought just occurred to me is that in 1975 or whenever Jones won, our national anthem was God Save the Queen (the British anthem). Don't know why they didn't play that.

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"I could see I was heading absolutely broadside, shoulder on, to a mini caterpillar truck," Brundle later wrote in his 2004 book, Working the Wheel. "This was the price for racing on an old circuit that did not have the benefit of an internal road for safety vehicles. I thought 'That's it, I've had it, I'm going to go under this thing.'

"I miraculously missed the caterpillar by less than half a metre. I smashed into the tyre barrier and I remember seeing a marshal jump in among the tyres at the point where I hit. I'll never forget this man's face as the front of the car caught him and he was flung through and over my cockpit. The marshal was lying on the ground with a bone sticking through the leggings of his overalls."

It was a chilling reminder of the safety improvements F1 needed, coming near the end of a season that had started with the ultimate wake-up call at Imola, then Karl Wendlinger's accident at Monaco and Pedro Lamy's aerial shunt while testing for Lotus at Silverstone. The marshal was left with a broken leg, but when Brundle met him one year later, he said he "could see the lasting effect of his injury."

Hill came in for his stop on lap 25, but had further complications in the pits: "The mechanics had trouble getting the nut off the right-rear wheel, which meant it was never changed - except I didn't know that."

He was able to emerge second on-track, but still leading Schumacher on aggregate, with the Williams pit wall furiously working away at the numbers. Schumacher came in for his final stop with 10 laps remaining, having swung the time advantage back in his favour to lead by four seconds on aggregate.

The aggregate gap swelled again to almost 15 seconds, but Schumacher was able to make serious inroads thanks to his fresh tyres. Hill, meanwhile, needed to keep the buffer at over 6.8 seconds - no simple feat.

"I wasn't receiving much information on the radio and I remember glancing at a giant trackside screen while trying to learn more about our relative positions," Hill wrote.

Schumacher had been gaining rapidly on Hill at a rate of over one second per lap, putting the Williams driver under pressure as his lead dwindled. Hill felt "completely spent" - but then produced the lap of his life to clinch the victory, something he later recalled as being an out-of-body experience."Eventually I caught a brief glimpse of Michael on the screen, so I knew where he was on the track, but I had no way of knowing how the aggregate time was panning out. I simply had to push as hard as I could on worn tyres."

"From the moment I exited Turn 1, I did not drive the car in any normal sense until I reached the hairpin halfway around the lap," Hill wrote. "I was possessed. I watched my hands moving the wheel, completely free to do whatever they wanted in response to the car moving beneath me.

"I was just an observer of something phenomenal. I would never come close to driving like that again."

"It had taken everything out of me, and then this thing had happened on the last lap that I had no explanation for," Hill said. "I kept it to myself for years, trying to understand what had happened. But for now, this result was all that I ever wanted: to know I could do it when it really counted."

After making a poor start, Mansell had won a close scrap with Jean Alesi in the closing stages, who told the '92 world champion: "You're completely mad, but very quick for an old man!" Alesi would have the last laugh though, taking the podium thanks to the aggregate times - something Mansell admitted he had forgotten about.

"Williams couldn't have done a better job of making me feel like an understudy to Nigel if they had tried," Hill wrote in his 2016 autobiography, Watching the Wheels. "They hung on his every word while he told them exactly what I had been saying all year about the improvements that needed to be made to the car."

In his book, Hill recalls Williams technical chief Patrick Head telling him after qualifying: "You walk around with a long face, you're glum, you're never happy. It affects the team." This was after sticking his car second on the grid, with Mansell back in fourth.

"From now on, I would be out for myself," Hill decided. "This was my car, my track, my race; I'll do what I like."

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Importantly for Hill, though, it showed Williams that he was the man to back - ironically, coming in the best display of Mansell's comeback. True, he won in Australia, but only after Hill and Schumacher had both dropped out of the race.

The Pirelli tyres were good. It's just that they didn't have contracts with the top teams. Same as Bridgestone in 1997


Unless there's been some video editing going on, this suggests they played Advance Australia Fair. Sounds like a taped version (which was standard)



Almost as if AJ is full of shit...