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Today in Racing: 29 April

Emerson Fittipaldi drove a great race to climb from seventh on the grid to win the Spanish Grand Prix in his Lotus 72E Cosworth on this day 1973. He won by 42 seconds from Francois Cevert’s Tyrrell and George Folmer, who started 14th in his Shadow after pole man Ronnie Peterson’s gearbox broke. Patrick Depailler’s Ligier JS11 Cosworth won the 1979 Spanish GP from Mario Andretti’s Lotus and Gilles Villeneuve in a Ferrari at Jarama. Michele Alboretto was then the first Italian to for Ferrari since Ludovico Scarfiotti in ’66 when he converted his first pole position into a race win in his 126C4 in the 1984 Belgian GP ahead of Derek Warwick in his best ever F1 finish in a Renault...
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