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Feature: Formula 1's strangest race starts
The start of a Formula 1 race is often pinpointed as the most crucial moment – but what happens when things don’t quite go to plan? Motorsport Week looks back at some of the strangest sights, procedural mistakes, and other mishaps, that took place at a grand prix start. Canada 1989 Mansell ‘led' the race… but wasn't the race leader A wet but drying circuit greeted the drivers in Montreal in 1989 – and led to two of them starting before the actual race start. From P5 and P13 respectively Nigel Mansell and Alessandro Nannini ducked into the pit late at the end of the formation lap in order to change to slick tyres. Mansell and Nannini hurtled down the pit lane but rather...
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