8th October 2007, 17:31
When was the last time, without an on-track over-taking move, without pit-stops being a factor, after the opening lap and in the dry and without the leaders crashing into each other, did a driver go from 3rd to 1st in one lap?
I'm in a memory-debate with a friend on this. I say it was Alain Prost at the 1987 Belgian GP when Alboreto & Piquet both retired with engine failures in the space of two corners.
He says it was the 1983 European GP at Brands, when Piquet went past Patrese & De Angelis, but I reckon that was because they crashed into each other.
Can anyone either settle this debate or prove that both of us are senile old feckers who can't remember last week?
I'm in a memory-debate with a friend on this. I say it was Alain Prost at the 1987 Belgian GP when Alboreto & Piquet both retired with engine failures in the space of two corners.
He says it was the 1983 European GP at Brands, when Piquet went past Patrese & De Angelis, but I reckon that was because they crashed into each other.
Can anyone either settle this debate or prove that both of us are senile old feckers who can't remember last week?