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Happy birthday!

Happy birthday to Matt and Lalit Palaparthy!

On this day in motorsport

• 25 years ago today Juan Pablo Montoya scored a spectacular victory on the thunderingly fast Michigan superspeedway by 0.04s from Michael Andretti
• 30 years ago today Jacques Villeneuve scored his final IndyCar win at Cleveland
• 75 years ago today Louis Rosier won the non-championship Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort ahead of two Ferraris; the dominant Alfa Romeo team did not attend
• 30 years ago today Ricardo Rosset won the Formula 3000 round at Enna-Pergusa ahead of his future Formula 1 team mate Vincenzo Sospiri