Jackie Stewart won the Spanish Grand Prix on this day in 1970, picking up the very first World Championship victory for March in the process. It was a fairytale for the four virtually penniless founders who had built the car in 10 weeks. In today's Great Read, Andrew Frankel revisits the story by taking the very same car on track.
How difficult is it to win in Formula 1? Ask Toyota. For the eight seasons and 140 races that the world's largest car company contested between 2002 and 2009, not once did it manage to place a driver on the top step of the podium. I mention this only because it puts the achievements of the car you see here into some kind of perspective.
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