On 18 April 1971, Jackie Stewart won the Spanish Grand Prix at Montjuïc Park, Barcelona — in a car designed at a kitchen table and built in a fifty-pound wooden shed in Surrey. It was Tyrrell Racing's first Grand Prix victory as a constructor, and the race most widely credited as the first F1 championship event run on slick tyres. A

lso: it's Jochen Rindt's birthday — the only man ever to win the Formula One World Championship posthumously. Chequered Past tells the stories behind the results, every day. 

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