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Posts Tagged ‘Phoenix’

Posted by glennm on 15 September 2012
The famous red-and-white Marlboro livery graced McLaren International's cars from 1974, shortly after their origins in 1965 under founder Bruce McLaren, through a 1981 merger with Ron Dennis' Project Four Racing organization and their complete domination of the 1988 F1 season, until EU tobacco
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Posted by glennm on 15 September 2012
In the 1990 U.S. Grand Prix, a street race in Phoenix, Arizona, Ayrton Senna came from behind after young French driver Jean Alesi almost stole the season's opening event in what would have been a major upset for the under-funded Tyrrell 018.
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Posted by glennm on 29 January 2012
In 1990, after Alain Prost had moved on from McLaren to Ferrari, Aryton Senna won the U.S. Grand Prix at Phoenix. But the star of the race, in a Tyrrell, was young Frenchman and F1 newcomer Jean Alesi, who battled the defending World Champion wheel-to-wheel and did what nobody else could.
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