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Charles Bradley

Why Detroit GP nostalgia isn’t what it used to be

Thirty five years after Ayrton Senna drove his McLaren to victory in the last Formula 1 Detroit Grand Prix, the event returned to the city's downtown streets.

IndyCar raced thrice more on a modified version of the track used by F1 from 1982-88, but this run ended infamously after 1991, when Mario Andretti crashed into a recovery truck and son Michael then shunted into Dennis Vitolo’s stranded car that the wrecker was trying to tow. Its time was up.

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