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January 18, 2013: Our resident expert - Steven Lynch - is back to answer more of your questions including those on world championship leaders killed and a driver known as Peter Rabbit

January 16, 2013: We look back at the time the world championship came down to a three-way fight for the title, held in a car park...

October 27, 2010: An in depth look at Bernie Ecclestone's 80 years of wheeling and dealing

January 26, 2010: We look at ten of the best liveries in Formula One

December 17, 2009: Veteran F1 reporter Alan Henry looks back at some of the successful and not so successful comebacks to F1 in light of Michael Schumacher's seemingly imminent return to the sport.

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

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

August 2, 1981: Nelson Piquet put his championship aspirations back on course with victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim

July 18, 1981: John Watson followed third in Spain and second in France with a popular victory in his McLaren at Silverstone

July 5, 1981: It was a happy weekend for the local fans as Alain Prost driving a Renault won the French Grand Prix

May 3, 1981: Nelson Piquet scored his second successive win with victory at the San Marino Grand Prix, taking him within three points of championship leader Carlos Reutemann