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(The morphing of Tamburello into a chicane meant the circuit-defining 20-second period on full throttle between the final corner and Tosa, which included a trip through one of the fastest, thrilling curves in F1, was lost forever.) The 1995 moment of silence observing the one-year anniversary of Senna’s death was especially poignant. It was here that Didier Pironi disregarded Ferrari team orders and passed Gilles Villeneuve in the closing laps of the 1982 race, where Gerhard Berger’s Ferrari exploded in flames after a stunt in 1989 and, of course, Imola will forever be remembered for the dark weekend of the 1994 San Marino GP in which Roland Ratzenberger and triple World Champion Ayrton Senna lost their lives, resulting in a number of changes to the circuit to make it safer - including another chicane before the fearsome Tamburello corner, which had been a flat-out left-hander taken at more than 190mph, with an unforgiving concrete wall situated on the outside. I mola has been the scene of triumph, tragedy and controversy.
Usually it held a special place as the first European race of the season, which meant more media attention as those who couldn’t make it to the flyaway races showed up, while also the first annual appearance of the teams’ trucks and palatial motorhomes. It remains one of a very few European circuits run in a counterclockwise direction and held a World Championship race every year from 1980 to 2006.
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Imola was originally a terrifically fast, flowing circuit with a series of relatively gentle bends and curving straightaways linking the slow Rivazza and Tosa corners interrupted only by the Piratella and Aqua Minerale. Situated just 100km (62 miles) from San Marino itself, the circuit can hold almost twice as many fans as there are people living in the microstate. Monza’s only non-appearance in an F1 season came in 1980 when the Italian GP was held at Imola the success of that event led to the track being given its own race in the form of the San Marino Grand Prix a year later. T here are not many races more sacred on the Formula One calendar than the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, with no other venue having hosted more World Championship events.
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