EMILIA ROMAGNA GP

19-21 May 2023 Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari

THE MAIN EVENT As Ben Edwards notes (p 22), 2023 is the 60th anniversary of the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari – then known as the Autodromo di Castellaccis – hosting its first Formula 1 race, a thinly supported non-championship event in which just 13 cars started. While Jim Clark won at a canter in his Lotus 25 (the famous chassis R5, wrecked by Trevor Taylor later that season but restored in the 1980s by Clark’s mechanic Cedric Selzer), Ferrari was a no-show as new recruit John Surtees preferred to test the substantially reworked 156 chassis instead. This year the venerable circuit will have an influence on F1’s future since it has been selected as the trial for the new qualifying format in which drivers will have to use hard-compound tyres in…

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