• Ask Steven
  • The winning formula

  • June 22, 2012: Our resident expert - Steven Lynch - is back to answer more readers' questions, including who the most successful designer is and which race was the shortest in the sport's history

  • Italian Grand Prix
  • Piquet assumes championship lead with victory

  • September 14, 1980: Nelson Piquet won the Italian Grand Prix, which took place at Imola rather than the usual Monza circuit, and in so doing overtook Alan Jones in the drivers' championship

  • German Grand Prix
  • Laffite ends Jones run

  • August 10, 1980: The domination of Alan Jones was ended by Jacques Laffite's victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim

  • Monaco Grand Prix
  • Reutemann wins after early pile-up

  • May 18, 1980: Carlos Reutemann won an action-packed and wet Monaco Grand Prix for Williams, a race marked by a spectacular four-car first-corner pile-up

  • Italian Grand Prix
  • Andretti wins as Lauda moves to the brink

  • September 11, 1977: Mario Andretti wrapped up his third win of the season at the Italian Grand Prix but Niki Lauda's second place was enough to all but secure him his second world championship

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