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Flashback: Italy '71 - too close to call

There have been many exceptionally close finishes in the history of Formula One racing, but few can match the drama of the astonishing Italian Grand Prix at Monza in 1971, when the first five cars home crossed the line within 0.61 seconds of each other. On the eve of the Formula 1 Gran Premio d’Italia 2013 we remember the slipstreaming classic which produced the one and only Grand Prix victory for British racer Peter Gethin…It’s not for nothing that Monza is known as the ‘cathedral of speed’. Since it opened in 1922 Monza has been characterised by long straights that cut through parkland forest, but whilst today the flat-out blasts are broken up by several...
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