Happy birthday to six-time GP winner Riccardo Patrese, 69 today. The Italian almost always had decent F1 cars in his career, but as today's Great Read shows, there was one harrowing exception. The Alfa Romeo 185T was slow, heavy, unreliable and failed to score a single point. Not only did it almost finish Patrese's career, it also ended Alfa's once-awesome presence in F1
It was Patrese's good fortune that not only did he finish his career with a top team (Benetton, alongside a certain Michael Schumacher), he also had access to reasonably competitive cars for almost the whole of his long career. But there was one unfortunate glitch, and it occurred on the only occasion he strayed away from a British team...
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