Young drivers need more track time to prepare for Formula 1, so how about bringing back some non-championship races? We’ve put reality aside for a moment to select events we’d like to see return
KEVIN TURNER
1INTERNATIONAL TROPHY
Including a track that already hosts a GP might seem a bit daft, but Silverstone is suited to modern F1 and would allow the efforts of young drivers to be compared to their senior counterparts at the British GP. First run in 1949, the BRDC International Trophy featured fantastic racing over the years (see 1962!) and was won by some of the sport’s greatest exponents. Stirling Moss’s 1956 win for Vanwall pointed to the future.
2MEDITERRANEAN GP
Apart from being a brilliant name that we thought could have been used for F1’s return to Imola, the Mediterranean GP provided some incredible races on the high-speed Enna-Pergusa circuit in Sicily and became a race for F2 and F3000 after its F1 tenure. Ferrari easily won the first two editions, but rising Swiss star Jo Siffert’s epic slipstreamer victories in 1964 and 1965 were both secured by mere tenths over Jim Clark.
3JOCHEN RINDT TROPHY
This has long since been a (very good) historic F2 race, but the inaugural running to commemorate the posthumous 1970 world champion came at Hockenheim in 1971. Appropriately, given his fight with Rindt in the previous year’s German GP, Jacky Ickx won for Ferrari.
