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May 25, 2012: Our resident expert - Steven Lynch - is back to answer your questions including the record for the most consecutive different GP winners

August 26, 2011: Our resident expert Steven Lynch tracks down the driver with the most races for one team as well as answering readers' questions on F1's next star and the limited success of Spyker

July 1, 2011: Our resident expert - Steven Lynch - looks back at the longest front-row qualifying streaks, and which drivers were pole-sitters on their debut

June 3, 2011: Our resident expert - Steven Lynch - is back to answer more of your burning questions

October 8, 2010: Our resident expert - Steven Lynch - is back to answer more of your burning questions

March 4, 2010: Our resident expert - Steven Lynch - is back to answer more of your burning questions

January 19, 2010: Reader Tony Romack tells us his experiences of the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix

January 6, 2010: Rene Arnoux recalls his favourite race - the 1979 French Grand Prix

January 1, 1983: A review of the 1983 season

May 9, 1982: John Watson won the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder but the weekend was completely overshadowed by the death of Gilles Villeneuve when his Ferrari crashed during qualifying

April 25, 1982: A Ferrari one-two at the San Marino Grand Prix should have been a reason for local joy, but the race will go down as one of Formula One's darkest days

April 4, 1982: Niki Lauda, in his third start since ending his two-year retirement, showed he was still a major force with victory at Long Beach

March 21, 1982: Nelson Piquet's victory in front of his home crowd caused wild celebrations in Rio de Janeiro but he was not in a position to make the most of them after collapsing on the podium, a victim of heat and exhaustion

January 23, 1982: Alain Prost won the season opener at Kyalami, but once again the weekend was dominated by off-track politics, a grim portent of what was going to be yet another year where behind-the-scenes bickering tarnished the sport's image

October 17, 1981: Nelson Piquet claimed the world championship thanks to a fifth-place finish in Las Vegas, the two points it brought enough to put him one point clear of Carlos Reutemann who was back in eighth. Alan Jones, who had announced his retirement three weeks earlier, signed off with an impressive victory and some stinging attacks on his rivals

September 27, 1981: Jacques Laffite's second win of the year in the penultimate race in Canada set up a tense finish to the season, sending the Formula One circus to Caesar's Palace with three drivers in the hunt for the title - Carlos Reutemann on 49 points, Nelson Piquet on 48, and Laffite on 43

September 13, 1981: Another weekend where the turbocharged cars dominated ended with Alain Prost securing his third win of the season from Alan Jones, while Carlos Reutemann regained the championship lead. The race was also memorable for a spectacular accident involving John Watson

August 30, 1981: Alain Prost took his second win of the season for Renault, leading the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort for all but a few dozen yards during a fierce battle with Alan Jones. Nelson Piquet's second place put him level with Carlos Reutemann in the drivers' championship

August 16, 1981: The Austrian Grand Prix was won in style by Jacques Laffite for the Talbot-Ligier team and much of the work was done by someone else many months before