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The dominators
Modern-day F1 cars that ruled the roost

Senna, Prost

Post-1980 Formula 1 has seen its fair share of utter domination. In 2002 in particular, numerous complaints were heard about Ferrari's F2002 destroying any chance of race-day excitement. Henri Greuter crunches the numbers to see whether the F2002 is indeed the most dominating car the modern Grand Prix era has so far seen.

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Poachers turned gamekeepers
Part 8: Encore – from Ferrari International Assistance to FIA’s Intrepid Adversary

July 29, 2008, was to become another milestone date in the history of F1 politics. It was the day that the formation of a Formula One Teams Association was formally announced, and everyone in the know sensed there was trouble ahead. We look back at the past 12 months, a time in which the FIA/FOTA dispute gave us another epic encore to the original FISA/FOCA war of the 1980s, including yet another threat of a breakaway series. Now updated with Toyota pull-out analysis!

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