16th May 1976: The Winners That No One Could Touch

Three races. Three decades. Three drivers who were utterly, completely, unreachably dominant on the day — and yet somehow ended up as supporting characters in their own stories.On the sixteenth of May 1976, Niki Lauda produced one of the great forgotten masterclasses of his championship season, leading every lap at Zolder for his only career Grand Chelem. On the sixteenth of May 1999, Michael Schumacher controlled Monaco from the first corner to the last, breaking Niki Lauda’s own Ferrari wins record in the process. And on the sixteenth of May 2010, Mark Webber drove a faultless race from pole to flag in Monaco — and was almost immediately upstaged by a penalty handed down in a stewards’ room.Three winners who couldn’t be touched. Three races where the real drama happened everywhere else. Chris Amon’s wheel departing at Zolder with eighteen laps to go. Mika Häkkinen sliding helplessly down the Mirabeau escape road on someone else’s oil. Jenson Button sitting stranded in a McLaren because of a foam bung the size of your fist. Michael Schumacher going for a gap at the very corner where he’d already written one of the most notorious chapters of his career.Send us Fan MailMusic by #Mubert Music Rendering