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Hawthorn to Hamilton - 60 years of British success
If Lewis Hamilton celebrates his first win with Mercedes in Germany this weekend it would be a fitting way to mark 60 years of British success in Formula One. On July 5, 1953, Mike Hawthorn triumphed at Reims in France after a 60-lap thriller with the great Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio to become the first British driver to win a world championship grand prix. Only a second separated the two men after 498km of racing on public roads, Hawthorn's Ferrari and Fangio's Maserati trading the lead for lap after lap in what has gone down as Formula One's "Race of the Century". Blond and dashing, Hawthorn became Britain's first world champion in 1958 before retiring that year at the age...
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