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READ MORE: Ross Brawn on Hamilton’s masterful win, Alonso’s brilliant podium, and the title race that keeps on giving He got on to Fernando’s tail on Lap 54, and was trapped there until Lap 65. That weekend in Budapest he did not, as had Jack Brabham prior to the Dutch GP at Zandvoort in 1966 (which he went on to win before taking his third World Championship that year), feel the need to mark that turning point by walking to the grid wearing a beard and using a jack handle as a walking stick… But he made just as big an impression.Īfter Valtteri Bottas had wiped out the Red Bulls and Lando Norris’s McLaren at the first start, Lewis had then gone to the grid alone on intermediates for the restart while the rest of the field pitted behind him for slicks, setting the scene for Esteban Ocon’s opportunistic win.īut while Lewis was staging one of his trademark recoveries, Fernando reminded him just what a tough competitor he is, a lesson the Englishman had first taken on board in his rookie season in 2007 when they were paired at McLaren.
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READ MORE: Alonso says first podium since 2014 shows he’s moved to ‘another level’ compared to start of his F1 comebackĪnd, of course, Fernando made it a trio with a superb drive to third place in Qatar last Sunday which proved, beyond question, that he is back at his very best despite turning 40 on July 29, just before the Hungarian Grand Prix. Both Michael and Nigel were in the twilight of their careers, on the brink of final retirement from F1. Nigel joined the exclusive club when he won for Williams in Australia in 1994, and Michael did it in the European GP in Valencia for Mercedes in 2012 when, incidentally, he set a new record of 155 podiums, since beaten only by Lewis Hamilton. But it’s a much less likely situation since the 1990s, as the average age of the grid has plunged in the modern era and they tend to have retired before starting their fifth decade.
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In F1’s early days that was not such a big deal, as drivers tended to be older when they graduated to the sport’s highest echelon. Yep, they were all over 40 when they stood atop a Grand Prix podium. But those are the easy bits, so let’s expand things a little and throw in the likes of Giuseppe Farina, Juan Manuel Fangio, Luigi Fagioli, Maurice Trintignant and Graham Hill. They are all world champions and they all drove for Ferrari. So, name something that Nigel Mansell, Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso have in common.