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I'm surprised he didnt faint after that. Surely that must have almost ended his life

Also, didnt he book an early flight because he figured he would be out after a few laps anyways?

turns out it wasn't a race he shouldn't had won haha

another funny thing happened at post race interview, since Gugelmin finished 3rd he was there to answer questions but the journalists didn't bothered. He simply gave a vague look and said "does somebody have any questions?"

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How good was Gugelmin actually? He was ok in CART later, but mostly just an also-ran. Did he have more potential than what his results suggests?

He had that massive crash at Texas in CART where he hit the wall with the front compromised

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"Big Mo" was a front runner in CART during 1997, with a win at Vancouver, runner up at Long Beach and that famous victory near miss at Detroit when he ran out of fuel, but I put that mainly down to him driving what was the best car combination (Reynard-Mercedes-Firestone).
After 1997 he had the odd stand out qualifying / race result , including a 2nd place finish at Nazareth in 2000 and a shock Pole Position at the 2001 Burke Lakefront Airfield event, but rarely troubled the top runners onwards.

And there was the tragedy of losing his young son in 2001.

From what I know of Gugelmin in F1, he had a few decent results at Leyton House but was in Capelli's shadow a lot of the time. Would have scored a lot of points under the current system. But then he put Modena in the shade at Jordan

he wasn't that bad, his luck is that when he was racing several companies were willing to sponsor F1 and that gave him a good spot at Leyton House, and then Hollywood cigarettes landed him a good deal with Bruce McCaw

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Detroit 1987

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Moreno, Piquet and Suzuki. 30 years ago
also one of the fewest races not counting the Indianapolis 500 that didn't had europeans on the podium

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I was intrigued as to how many there actually were. Apparently there have been 17 in total - here's the full list:

i. 1961 Italian GP at Monza
1) Phil Hill (USA) - Ferrari
2) Dan Gurney (USA) - Porsche
3) Bruce McLaren (NZL) - Cooper-Climax

ii. 1962 French GP at Rouen
1) Dan Gurney (USA) - Porsche
2) Tony Maggs (RSA) - Cooper-Climax
3) Richie Ginther (USA) - BRM

iii. 1967 German GP at Nurburgring
1) Denny Hulme (NZL) - Brabham-Repco
2) Jack Brabham (AUS) - Brabham-Repco
3) Chris Amon (NZL) - Ferrari

iv. 1967 Canadian GP at Mosport (back-to-back races!)
1) Jack Brabham (AUS) - Brabham-Repco
2) Denny Hulme (NZL) - Brabham-Repco
3) Dan Gurney (USA) - Eagle-Weslake

v. 1968 Canadian GP at Mont-Tremblant
1) Denny Hulme (NZL) - McLaren-Ford
2) Bruce McLaren (NZL) - McLaren-Ford
3) Pedro Rodriguez (MEX) - BRM

vi. 1972 South African GP at Kyalami
1) Denny Hulme (NZL) - McLaren-Ford
2) Emerson Fittipaldi (BRA) - Lotus-Ford
3) Peter Revson (USA) - McLaren-Ford

vii. 1972 Austrian GP at Spielberg
1) Emerson Fittipaldi (BRA) - Lotus-Ford
2) Denny Hulme (NZL) - McLaren-Ford
3) Peter Revson (USA) - McLaren-Ford

viii. 1975 British GP at Silverstone
1) Emerson Fittipaldi (BRA) - McLaren-Ford
2) Carlos Pace (BRA) - Brabham-Ford
3) Jody Scheckter (RSA) - Tyrrell-Ford

ix. 1977 Argentine GP at Buenos Aires
1) Jody Scheckter (RSA) - Wolf-Ford
2) Carlos Pace (BRA) - Brabham-Alfa Romeo
3) Carlos Reutemann (ARG) - Ferrari

x. 1977 Spanish GP at Jarama
1) Mario Andretti (USA) - Lotus-Ford
2) Carlos Reutemann (ARG) - Ferrari
3) Jody Scheckter (RSA) - Wolf-Ford

xi. 1978 US GP at Watkins Glen
1) Carlos Reutemann (ARG) - Ferrari
2) Alan Jones (AUS) - Williams-Ford
3) Jody Scheckter (RSA) - Wolf-Ford

xii. 1978 Canadian GP at Montreal (back-to-back races!)
1) Gilles Villeneuve (CAN) - Ferrari
2) Jody Scheckter (RSA) - Wolf-Ford
3) Carlos Reutemann (ARG) - Ferrari

xiii. 1979 US GP West at Long Beach
1) Gilles Villeneuve (CAN) - Ferrari
2) Jody Scheckter (RSA) - Ferrari
3) Alan Jones (AUS) - Williams-Ford

xiv. 1980 British GP at Brands Hatch
1) Alan Jones (AUS) - Williams-Ford
2) Nelson Piquet (BRA) - Brabham-Ford
3) Carlos Reutemann (ARG) - Williams-Ford

xv. 1980 Italian GP at Imola
1) Nelson Piquet (BRA) - Brabham-Ford
2) Alan Jones (AUS) - Williams-Ford
3) Carlos Reutemann (ARG) - Williams-Ford

xvi. 1981 US GP West at Long Beach
1) Alan Jones (AUS) - Williams-Ford
2) Carlos Reutemann (ARG) - Williams-Ford
3) Nelson Piquet (BRA) - Brabham-Ford

xvii. 1990 Japanese GP at Suzuka
1) Nelson Piquet (BRA) - Benetton-Ford
2) Roberto Moreno (BRA) - Benetton-Ford
3) Aguri Suzuki (JPN) - Larrousse Lola-Lamborghini

Yes, it's not happened in 30 years. Since then we've had several instances of 2 out of 3, so here's a bonus selection of those:

- 1991 US GP - Senna-Prost-Piquet
- 1991 Belgian GP* - Senna-Berger-Piquet
- 2001 Spanish GP - M Schumacher-Montoya-Villeneuve
- 2001 German GP - R Schumacher-Barrichello-Villeneuve
- 2001 Italian GP - Montoya-Barrichello-R Schumacher
- 2002 Austrian GP - M Schumacher-Barrichello-Montoya
- 2002 Belgian GP - M Schumacher-Barrichello-Montoya
- 2003 European GP - R Schumacher-Montoya-Barrichello
- 2003 British GP - Barrichello-Montoya-Raikkonen
- 2003 Italian GP - M Schumacher-Montoya-Barrichello
- 2004 Brazilian GP - Montoya-Raikkonen-Barrichello
- 2007 European GP - Alonso-Massa-Webber
- 2008 German GP - Hamilton-Piquet Jr-Massa
- 2009 Spanish GP - Button-Barrichello-Webber
- 2009 German GP - Webber-Vettel-Massa
- 2012 Japanese GP - Vettel-Massa-Kobayashi
- 2015 Hungarian GP - Vettel-Kvyat-Ricciardo
- 2016 Monaco GP - Hamilton-Ricciardo-Perez
- 2017 Azerbaijan GP - Ricciardo-Bottas-Stroll

(*this was the only one with a non-European in 4th, namely Moreno)

So that all being said, I'm now hoping for a Racing Point double-podium with Albon or Ricciardo up there as well

damn that's a good stat

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back then was way more common to happen given the amount of americans and australasians

the good ones all diverted to IndyCar now

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Trying to remember who had that as their avatar for forever - @

RtN maybe?

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Not me. Maybe Jason? Or BrainPain?

Very good photo, anyway.

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Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

25 years ago - Adelaide's last GP

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I think it was a non-Finnish member...but it might have been BrainPain too...who kinda is not Finnish, because he's from autonomous Åland (I hope I'm not insulting him by saying this. People from Åland seems to be proud of their roots to me and I respect that as I'm a Laplander).

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A nice tidy car, that one. I always forget that it didn't start the season white:

Didn't this car have a "trick" suspension system which turned out to be a massive fail?

Yes, the 'Hydralink' suspension that every team now uses some variation of. I suspect they had the idea but not the budget for it.