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Today in Racing: 31 May

Still busy as end-May always is in racing, there were four grands prix on this day over the years. Jo Bonnier scored his only ever GP win in the 1959 Dutch Grand Prix in the Owen BRM team’s first victory ahead of Cooper-Climax pair Jack Brabham and Masten Gregory. The other here races were all in Monaco, the first being when Gilles Villeneuve kept out of trouble to win in 1981 after Nelson Piquet crashed late in race to hand the lead to Alan Jones, who then suffered a fuel problem. Villeneuve’s Ferrari 126CK ultimately won from Jones’ Williams Cosworth and Jacques Laffite’s Ligier Matra. Ayrton Senna took the first and fifth of his six Monaco wins aboard a Lotus 99T Honda, 33...
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