25th May 2008: The Day That The Lead Changed

On May the twenty-fifth, across four decades of Formula 1, the world championship changed hands. Four times. Four drivers. One date.In 1975, Niki Lauda drove a controlled, clinical race at Zolder and went to the top of a championship he would never relinquish — while a sport still reeling from the deaths at Montjuïc Park tried to look forward rather than back. In 1986, Nigel Mansell won at Spa and dedicated his victory to Elio de Angelis, killed eleven days earlier in a testing accident that should never have happened. In 1997, Jacques Villeneuve took the championship lead at Barcelona — but the afternoon belonged to a Frenchman on Bridgestone tyres, charging from twelfth, closing a gap that other people kept reopening.And in 2008, Lewis Hamilton turned a puncture at Tabac into the foundation for the most important win of his career. Monaco. Rain. A fuel call that changed everything.Four races. Four new leaders. This is what May the twenty-fifth looked like.Send us Fan MailMusic by #Mubert Music Rendering