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“F1 in 1982 boasted a larger cast of leading characters than usual”

FORTY YEARS ON, REMEMBER THE tumultuous F1 season of 1982? It boasted a larger cast of leading characters than usual – almost anyone could win. Any team which did not couldn’t amount to much.

Initially it promised to be the great crunch season – the last gasp – for the atmospherically aspirated engines from Cosworth, Talbot-Ligier and Alfa Romeo. The turbos were coming, Ferrari and Renault nearing full song, BMW and Alfa Romeo threatening

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