10th May 1970: The Streets That Give and Take

Three Formula One races share an exact date — May the tenth — across eleven years. In 1959, Jack Brabham took his first Monaco victory as Stirling Moss’s transmission failed with nineteen laps to run. In 1964, Jim Clark arrived as world champion, led convincingly, and lost the race twice — first to a broken anti-roll bar requiring a pit stop, then to an oil leak in the closing laps — while Graham Hill took his second consecutive Monaco win. In 1970, Brabham led from the moment Stewart’s engine failed until the very last corner of the very last lap, when he braked too late and slid into the barrier. Jochen Rindt, in an obsolete Lotus, won in the car’s last ever World Championship victory.Chequered Past tells all three stories — and connects them through the man who runs through every one.Send us Fan MailMusic by #Mubert Music Rendering