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... that no American driver has won a World Championship Grand Prix since Mario Andretti (pictured) at the 1978 Dutch Grand Prix?
... that at age ten, former McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton approached McLaren team boss Ron Dennis for an autograph, and told him "one day I want to be racing your cars"?
... that Nigel Mansell cut his hands on the trophy after winning the 1989 Brazilian Grand Prix?
... that the oldest driver to start a Formula One race, Louis Chiron, was aged 55 years, 292 days when he did so?

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