A very happy birthday to Roberto Guerrero, the first Colombian to start an F1 race. Long before compatriot Juan Pablo Montoya rocked Indianapolis, Guerrero was the country's Indy racing hero. Talent helped him shine, but misfortune cast its shadow, as Sam Smith explains in today's Great Read
Perhaps the writing was on the wall. When Roberto José Guerrero turned up for his first Monaco Grand Prix in May 1982, he had to explain to his sponsors that he was unable to participate because his team did not have any tyres. It was perhaps a sign that, for him, Formula 1 was simply never meant to be.
Prior to Monaco, Guerrero had already grown tired of explaining to his backers the often surreal reasons why they would not be seeing the small Ensign team in action. Striking drivers at Kyalami, a boycott at Imola and then the tyre-less indignity of Monaco...
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