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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 1h

McLaren has now won the #F1 constructors’ championship 10 times - & its 10th title brought to my mind its first such success in ’74. That was a triumph of courage over adversity, achieved despite tragedy. Click to read my brand-new #MotorSport column.
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Matt Bishop: When grief-fuelled McLaren honoured its founder the best way — with F1 victory

McLaren's victory celebrations, after winning its tenth F1 constructors' championship in Singapore, sent Matt Bishop contemplating its very first title — in 1974 — that was formed from the tragedy of ...

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Motor Sport @motor-sport.bsky.social · 6h

As McLaren celebrated a 10th #F1 constructors' title, @thebishf1.bsky.social pondered its very first championship — forged in the grief of founder Bruce McLaren's tragic death
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Matt Bishop: When grief-fuelled McLaren honoured its founder the best way — with F1 victory

McLaren's victory celebrations, after winning its tenth F1 constructors' championship in Singapore, sent Matt Bishop contemplating its very first title — in 1974 — that was formed from the tragedy of founder Bruce McLaren's death

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 11h

#HappyBirthday Rikky von Opel, 78, the only #F1 driver from Liechtenstein, great-grandson of Adam Opel (1837-95), founder of the famous car maker. Rikky von Opel started 12 #F1 GPs in all, in Ensigns & Brabhams, & here he is in an Ensign N173 at Silverstone in ’73.

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 12h

Bernd Rosemeyer (pic) was born #OnThisDay in 1909. Had he not lost his life in ’38, during a record-breaking speed run, he’d have been 40 when the #F1 world championship was inaugurated in ’50: 3 years younger than the first F1 world champion, Nino Farina. What might have been...

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 21h

…& the Magnussens, the Fittipaldis, the Nakajimas, the Andrettis, the Brabhams, the Piquets, the Stucks, the Winkelhocks, the Parnells, the Pilettes…

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 23h

Yes - & Murray was a patriotic Brit of course too.

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 1d

At 50 years 206 days, Mark Williams (pic) has just won the #XianGrandPrix, becoming the oldest winner of a ranking #Snooker tournament. #AnorakFact: the previous record holder was Ray Reardon, who was 50 years 14 days old when he won the ’82 #PlayersTournament.

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 1d

#OnThisDay in ’96, as Damon Hill crossed the finish line to win the #JapaneseGP & clinch that year’s #F1 drivers’ world championship, Murray Walker famously said, “…& I’ve got to stop, because I’ve got a lump in my throat.”

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering Patrick Marie Ghislain Pierre Simon Stanislas Nève de Mévergnies, aka Patrick Nève, born #OnThisDay in ’49. Not an #F1 great, he has the distinction of being Williams Grand Prix Engineering’s first driver - #AnorakFact. Pic: with Frank Williams at Monza in ’77.

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 1d

Would you rather be a footballer, be a racing driver, or found your own car company? Or what about all 3? Piero Dusio, born #OnThisDay in 1899, played for Juventus in the 1920s, was a #MilleMiglia regular in the ’30s, & founded Cisitalia in the ’40s (pic: his superb ’46 202CMM).

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 2d

That’s correct. They don’t.

Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 2d

I was there, so that was a particularly careless error on my part. I’ve duly deleted the post.

Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 2d

#OnThisDay in 2014, at Sochi, Lewis Hamilton (pic) won the first ever world championship-status #F1 #RussianGP. #AnorakFact: 2 Russian GPs had been held previously, at St Petersburg, in 1913 & 1914, won by Georgy Suvorin & Willy Scholl respectively.

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 2d

#OnThisDay in 2003 Rubens Barrichello (pic) won the #JapaneseGP, while his Ferrari team-mate Michael Schumacher finished 8th. Nonetheless, Schumi secured a record-breaking 6th #F1 drivers’ world championship in a nail-biting season-closing F1 GP.

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 2d

#OnThisDay in ’97, at Suzuka, Schumacher (pic) won, lifting his points total above Villeneuve’s, 78 against 77. However, Frentzen finished 2nd, just 1.378sec behind Schumi, earning Williams the #F1 constructors’ world championship with one GP remaining.

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 2d

#AnorakFact: Gerhard Berger’s ’86 #MexicoGP win was the last #F1 GP win for the mighty BMW M12/13 turbocharged 1.5-litre four-pot, which was good for 1400bhp in quali trim by ’86. (2/2)

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 2d

#OnThisDay in ’86, in Mexico City, Gerhard Berger won an #F1 GP for the first time, also scoring the Benetton team’s first F1 GP win, with a zero-stop strategy on rock-hard Pirellis that beat all the Goodyear one-stoppers. Pretty car, the Benetton B186. (1/2)

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 2d

In ’75 Bertil Roos established the Bertil Roos Racing School. He sold it in ’99, & died in 2016, aged 72, but his eponymous racing school is successful to this day. (2/2)

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 2d

Bertil Roos, born in Gothenberg #OnThisDay in ’43, was more successful in the US than in Europe. He started one #F1 GP (Anderstorp, ’74, Shadow DN3; pic) & was #SCCA #SuperVee champion in ’73, won races in #CanadianAtlantic in ’75, & was #CanAm 2000cc champion in ’82 & ’83. (1/2)

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 2d

#AnorakFact: Paul Hawkins (pic) & Alberto Ascari share a unique claim to fame, namely that they both ended up in the harbour during a #MonacoGP. Ascari was killed in a Monza test 4 days after his harbour immersion. Hawkins was killed at Oulton Park 4 years after his. (2/2)

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 2d

Remembering Paul Hawkins, born #OnThisDay in ’37, who won one #F1 race, the non-championship ’65 #CapeSouthEasterTrophy at Killarney, Cape Town, in a Brabham BT10, & a number of sports car races including the ’67 #TargaFlorio, with Rolf Stommelen, in a Porsche 910 (pic). (1/2)

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 2d

Remembering Piero Taruffi, born #OnThisDay in 1906. He started 18 GPs & won one, at Bremgarten in ’52, at 45, in a Ferrari 500. Pic: at Silverstone in ’52 with 2 greats, double world champion Alberto Ascari (right) & first ever world champion Giuseppe Farina (centre).

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 3d

Many thanks for your very kind words, much appreciated. 🙏

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re looking for a podcast to listen to, here’s the latest episode of #AndColossallyThatsHistory, Richard Williams’ & my #F1 history pod. It’s all about a motorsport GOAT, Bruce McLaren, whose eponymous F1 team is riding high once again. Click below.
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The Bruce McLaren story: A life measured in achievement, not in years alone

Podcast Episode · And Colossally That's History! · 10/10/2025 · 1h 18m

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 3d

#OnThisDay 5 years ago Lewis Hamilton won the first & only #F1 #EifelGP. #AnorakFact 1: in so doing, he equalled Michael Schumacher’s record for most F1 GP wins (91). #AnorakFact 2: as of now, the race was the last F1 GP run in Germany.

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