Archive: When the French GP almost produced F1’s greatest shock

“You are looking at an astonishing situation,” cried legendary commentator Murray Walker – and he wasn’t exaggerating. Ivan Capelli was holding off Alain Prost’s Ferrari and was just a few laps away from winning the 1990 French Grand Prix for Leyton House, a team that had failed to qualify on half of its attempts in the season’s previous six races. Impossible, surely…
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