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People who have shaped our world

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

David Addison is your guide to the changing motorsport landscape in the late 1970s and into the 1980s as the battles raged across the globe

Britain topped the world in rallying and in Formula 1, and it was a period of boom and bust across the motorsport world.

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.

Graham Keilloh looks at images capturing the drama and – sometimes – controversy of this decade