Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up.

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday to Ev!

On this day in motorsport

Alain Prost, Ferrari, Paul Ricard, 1990
Alain Prost won at home today in 1990
  • 35 years ago today Ivan Capelli nearly scored a surprise win for Leyton House in his Adrian Newey-designed March at Paul Ricard, but Alain Prost overtook him to win the French Grand Prix
  • 35 years ago today Danny Sullivan won IndyCar’s Cleveland Grand Prix after a serious pit fire on Al Unser Jnr’s car injured several crew members, including Brian Barnhardt, who now works for McLaren’s IndyCar team as their general manager

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