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Hello and welcome to and colossally.

That's history with me, Richard Williams.

And me, Matt, this is it, the 10th and final episode of season four. And it's zipped by, hasn't it?

It has. Time flies when you're enjoying yourself, Richard, is what they say, isn't it?

But although the regular series is coming to a close, we've still got one more episode coming, for those of you, in the Race Members Club.

And that'll be our now

traditional end of season Q&A episode. If you want to join us for that and get access to all

of the rest of the bonus content we do at The Race, you need to head to patreon.com forward slash

the race to sign up. But anyway, to get back to head to patreon.com forward slash the race to sign up.

But anyway, to get back to today's episode, we're rounding off season four by looking back

at the crownings of America's two Formula One world champions, because there have

only ever been two, actually.

And more specifically, we're going to

look back at the tragic similarities between those two crownings. Actually, it's all a little bit

eerie, isn't it, Richard? Yes, that might very well be the right word. There were 17 years

between Phil Hill becoming America's first F1 world champion at Monza in 1961,

and Mario Andretti being crowned the second, also at Monza in 1978.

But, as you say, both men found themselves in the same position, by which I mean that rather than being able to celebrate their triumphs unconditionally,

their crowning career achievement was overshadowed by their teammate being involved in a fatal crash

in the very same race, and, as it happens, on the very same date, September 10th. Certainly eerie

in those regards. And also, it's almost

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