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Fairy tales can come true, and the UK experienced a purple patch early on in the century with two home-grown grand prix title winners.

Matt James looks back at some of the stand-out images and moments of the 10-year period

It was a decade of British success across a turbulent landscape. Matt James picks out some highlights

When I was 16, my life was a strange mixture. I’d just lost my dad [Double Formula One world champion Graham Hill], but at the same time I could get a moped. So everything was opening up for me, but o

Whose team could change four tyres the faster? Ken Tyrrell and McLaren’s Teddy Mayer had £600 riding on it. The former’s crew – a gun guy at each corner, a jack man at either end – was said to have go

THE CREW-CUT of old was gone, as was the desire to race cars. That was his old life. In middle age, Richie Ginther rocked long hair and a Zapata moustache. It’s the mid-1970s and the former Grand Prix