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Tuesday, 15 October 2019

New Motorsport Week article: Formula 1’s only ‘cancelled’ race – the 1985 Belgian Grand Prix

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It looked fleetingly last weekend like the Japanese Grand Prix could be called off, with the impact of Typhoon Hagibis.

But the race went on. As in Formula 1 it always does in the end. Literally, as it may surprise to learn that never once in F1 history has a race been scratched after the meeting has got underway.

Well, apart from one time. Sort of. Then the race did happen, but some three months after the Friday running.

This was the Belgian Grand Prix in 1985. In my latest for Motorsport Week I tell the story:  https://www.motorsportweek.com/news/id/24833
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  1. joselo24 October 2019 at 21:45

    The only cancelled race thats true. But another honorable mention is the 1982 San Marino GP, where the FISA-FOCA war started getting intense, with the water cooled brakes.

    It was so funny seeing the Ferrari at the US gp in the same year with the side by side wings.

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