2nd May 1976: The Off Track Moments That Changed Formula 1

Chequered Past returns to a date that doesn't announce itself — May 2 has never carried a marquee race — but reveals, on close inspection, a remarkable chain of consequential moments. We open in 2000, at Lyon-Satolas airport, where a McLaren driver crawls through wreckage and two young pilots die. We move to 1994, to the morning after Imola — the first day of the sport's modern safety reckoning, told through Max Mosley's press statement, a Williams factory in shock, and a Brazil entering national mourning. We close in 1976, with James Hunt winning a race he would technically lose that evening and technically win again in Paris eight weeks later — a disqualification that, a single point later, defined a world championship. This is not a date of great races. It is a date of great consequence. Send us Fan MailMusic by #Mubert Music Rendering