Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up.
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On this day in motorsport
- 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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