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With Fangio retired, Mike Hawthorn in a Ferrari took the 1958 Drivers' Championship–becoming the first English driver to earn a title. The first was the arrival of unrestricted sponsorship, which the FIA decided to permit that year after the withdrawal of support from automobile related firms like BP, Shell and Firestone. When Hawthorn was threatened with disqualification at the finish of the Portuguese Grand Prix for going in the wrong direction (to restart his car following a spin), Moss argued to stewards on Hawthorn's behalf. The P34 was a good car, often finishing third or fourth and winning the Swedish Grand Prix, but it was not superior to the best 4-wheeled cars. Ken Tyrrell bought March 701 chassis as an interim solution while developing his own car for the next season.

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Rubens Barrichello, Jenson Button's teammate, was second in the Drivers' Championship for the whole season until he had a problem at the Brazilian Grand Prix and was overtaken (in points) by Sebastian Vettel, a Red Bull driver, who won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to finish eleven points behind Button. The Finn was nearly untouchable as he took his first title while Schumacher and Villeneuve could only watch. They were an emerging technology and so they were difficult and expensive to develop and build and make reliable. e. if a make finished 1st and 2nd they would receive only eight points and the 3rd placed car would receive 4 points. Team Gunston, a South African privateer team, was the first Formula One team to paint their cars in the livery of their sponsors when they entered a private Brabham for John Love, painted in the colours of Gunston cigarettes, in the 1968 South African Grand Prix.

The Italian front-engined red cars were not only being effectively beaten by the British teams but thoroughly outclassed- the British rear mid-engined cars had considerably better road holding than the front-engined cars. Jackie Stewart fronted his own team from 1997 to 1999 with backing from Ford but even then sold out as the team transformed into Jaguar. The total number of races run to Formula One regulations remained about the same as it had been before the introduction of the World Championship. Cooper turned to a development of an otherwise obsolete Maserati V12 that was originally designed for the Maserati 250 F in the late 1950s, while BRM made the choice to design an incredibly heavy and complex H-16. Villeneuve was out of the picture at the brand-new BAR but Schumacher was in contention when he crashed and broke his leg at Silverstone.

Formula 1: The Official History by Maurice Hamilton

The 1974 season went to pre-season favourites McLaren and Fittipaldi but was a far closer result than expected. Like the Repco the Cosworth was light and compact but it was a real racing engine using 4-valve DOHC heads and delivered much more power. Coventry-Climax, formerly supplier to much of the field, pulled out of the sport leaving teams like Lotus to struggle with enlarged versions of obsolete Climax engines. One statistic proved the two teams' dominance: they together won all but one of the races, the controversial U.After Rindt's death, the Lotus team had a desultory 1971 season with its two new and inexperienced drivers– Emerson Fittipaldi and Reine Wisell.

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