![]() The Fully Restored 1979 Aston Martin Bulldog Will Attempt to Hit 200 MPH Next Weekįerrari Classiche Just Restored One of the Rarest, Most Collectible Prancing Horses Ever Made Lewis Hamilton Wore a Mysterious New IWC Watch at the F1 Grand Prix-Here's Everything We Know About It Instead, their cars had become fast-moving billboards emblazoned with the colors and graphic design of Gold Leaf cigarette packets. Because on May 26 of that year-18 years after the first ever Grand Prix at Silverstone saw the likes of Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss line up alongside Prince Bira of Siam, Count Carel Godin de Beaufort and Alfonso, Marquis de Portago-Team Lotus cars took to the Monte Carlo Circuit’s grid with their traditional British racing green conspicuous in its absence. Monaco ’68 also ushered in a new era for a sport which these days offers a prize pot of around $2 billion in a commercial sense too. It was the first F1 to see wings and a spoiler fitted to a car, thus introducing downforce and changing motorsport aerodynamics (and, indeed, aesthetics) forever. It was the year Ferrari refused to take part, deeming stricter safety measures such as the tightening of the harbor chicane-the spot in which Italian driver Lorenzo Bandini had his ultimately fatal crash the year previously-to be inadequate. ![]() ![]() The 1968 Monaco Grand Prix was a milestone in motorsport history for several reasons.
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