The fifteenth of May keeps appearing in Formula 1 history, and rarely kindly. 

This episode traces four events on that date across four decades: 

• Keke Rosberg's audacious tyre gamble at the 1983 Monaco Grand Prix, 
• Ayrton Senna's devastating retirement from a race he had dominated in 1988, 
• Max Verstappen's record-breaking debut victory for Red Bull at the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix 
• And the death of Elio de Angelis on 15 May 1986, thirty-nine days before his twenty-ninth birthday, in an accident that exposed everything wrong with how Formula 1 treated safety away from race weekends. 
  
  

Cover Image: By Lala_77 - Verstappen_Spain_2016, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

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