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Today in Racing: 18 June

A busy, diverse, and most interesting day in race history, 18 June has it all… There were three Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps on this day over the years – Juan Manuel Fangio won the 1950 race from Alfa Romeo 158 teammate Nino Farina and Louis Rosier’s Talbot-Lago. Phil Hill led Wolfgang von Trips, Richie Ginther and Olivier Gendebien a Ferrari Dino 156 1-2-3-4 in the 1961 Belgian GP and Dan Gurney drove his Eagle T1G-Weslake V12 to its only ever win, all be that at a F1 record 235km/h average ahead of Jackie Stewart’s BRM and Chris Amon in a Ferrari in 1967. More recently, Thierry Boutsen benefited Ayrton Senna’s McLaren Honda suffering a late engine failure to take...
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