James Hunt started on pole for the 1976 Brazilian GP on this day, instantly at one with his McLaren M23. It was an F1 car that improved with age, won races in four consecutive seasons and was setting poles five years after its debut. Yet it's very underrated, writes Paul Fearnley in today's Great Read
Formula 1 in 1973 boiled down to Lotus versus Tyrrell: Lithe and balanced 72 versus stubby and twitchy 005-006. But were either the best car of the season?
Silverstone that year is remembered for the shunt triggered by Jody Scheckter, F1's newest bad boy, whose McLaren M23 slewed in the teeth of the pack. His team-mates, Peter Revson and Denny Hulme, howled through a shrinking gap, while others screeched and squawked into a growing pile of expensive scrap. Revson would win that restarted day, his first GP victory the product of a measured drive in the best car of the year.
Aha! Best by what measure, you ask?
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