Colton Herta, Andretti, Road America, 2025

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On this day in motorsport

Nelson Piquet, Benetton, Adelaide, 1990
Nelson Piquet surprisingly ended the 1990 season with back-to-back wins
  • 35 years ago today Nelson Piquet won a lively, season-closing Australian Grand Prix for Benetton, narrowly holding off Nigel Mansell in his final race for Ferrari
  • Eric Thompson, who finished fifth in his only F1 start in the 1952 British Grand Prix for Connaught, was born today in 1919. He died in 2015.
  • Born today in 1953: Jacques Villeneuve Snr, uncle of 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve, who failed to qualify in all three of his F1 appearances

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