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Ex McLaren driver: 'Verstappen had died several times in my time'

Former McLaren driver Bruno Giacomelli, who was active in Formula 1 in the seventies and eighties, thinks that Max Verstappen would not have been able to drive in F1 in his time without a few cracks. He says the difference in safety between then and now has changed a lot. Safety in F1 Formula 1 safety has greatly improved over the past 26 years. Especially after the jet-black weekend of Imola in 1994, where Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger were killed, a lot of progress has been made. Because the sport used to be so much more dangerous Giacomelli thinks the five titles of Juan Manuel Fangio are worth a lot more than, for example, the seven titles of Michael Schumacher. The Italian also...
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