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Created: 2025-07-18 18:31:56 UTC

#OnThisDay in 1981.

At Silverstone, John Watson won the British Grand Prix in his McLaren-Ford-MP4/1. It was the first victory for a carbon fibre composite monocoque F1 car.

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