Subsequent week’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will rejoice the seventy fifth anniversary of Method 1 with a stellar assortment of grand prix automobiles that contributed to the game’s international rise for the reason that first championship was held in 1950.
Set for placement in a F1 seventy fifth Anniversary paddock show behind Flip 3, greater than a dozen F1 automobiles are headed to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca to enrich dozens of others that may participate within the Mario Andretti Trophy F1 races for automobiles from 1966-1985, and kind a particular exhibition group that lap the famed 2.3-mile street course.
Among the many highlights for the exhibition group, Honda and Williams are bringing Nigel Mansell’s 1986 FW11 which may have a featured visitor driver to wield the 1.5-liter twin-turbo V6 engine that made greater than 1000hp in its day.
The occasion, which has 2009 F1 world champion Jenson Button as its grand marshal, opens on Wednesday, August 13 and runs by way of Sunday the seventeenth.
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F1 seventy fifth Anniversary Show
- 1956 Maserati 250F (Stirling Moss gained the Italian GP at Monza)
- 1962 Porsche 804 (Dan Gurney gained the French GP in 1962. That is Porsche solely win as a constructor in F1)
- 1964 BRM P-261 (Graham Hill gained Watkins Glen twice-64/65 and the Monaco-65)
- 1965 Honda RA272 (Richie Ginther gained on the Mexican GP marking Honda’s 1st F1 win. It was additionally Goodyear’s 1st F1 win)
- 1967 Lotus Kind 49 (Jim Clark gained Dutch GP, British and Watkins Glen in 1967)
- 1974 McLaren M23-05 (Emerson Fittipaldi gained McLaren’s 1st F1 world championship – constructors’ and drivers’)
- 1978 Lotus Kind 79 (Mario Andretti gained the championship in 1978 with 5 victories U2013 2 wins on this chassis at Zandvoort and Manufacturers Hatch)
- 1983 Williams FW08C (Keke Rosberg gained the 1983 Monaco GP)
- 1984 Toleman Hart TG184 (Rookie Ayrton Senna’s first profession podium with a 2nd at Monaco)
- 1984 McLaren MP4-2/01 (Niki Lauda gained McLaren’s third drivers’ championship and 2nd constructors’ championship with 5 wins on this chassis)
- 1988 McLaren MP4/4 (Alain Prost gained 7 races and completed 2nd within the championship in 1988)
- 1992 McLaren MP4/7A (This automotive had 5 wins: Senna-3 and Gerhard Berger-2)
- 2009 Brawn BGP001 (Jenson Button gained 6 races and championship in 2009)
- 2019 Toro Rosso STR14 (Rookie Alex Albon ran the primary half of the season earlier than switching to Pink Bull, with Pierre Gasly returning to Toro Rosso along with his greatest end of 2nd in Brazil)
- 2024 McLaren MCL38/02 (Lando Norris gained 3 races and McLaren gained the constructors’ championship in 2024)
