We mark the eighth of May with five stories across forty-five years of Formula One.

In 1977, Mario Andretti dominated Jarama while Williams Grand Prix Engineering quietly entered its first race. 

In 1982, Gilles Villeneuve died at Zolder following a qualifying crash with Jochen Mass. 

In 2005, Kimi Räikkönen won the Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona in front of a sea of Renault blue, as Fernando Alonso's first championship began to take shape — and a child was born in Havering who would one day drive for Ferrari. 

In 2022, the inaugural Miami Grand Prix brought Formula One to Hard Rock Stadium with a fake marina and a real winner in Max Verstappen.

And today, Oliver Bearman — born May 8th, 2005 — turns twenty-one while competing in the sport that Villeneuve helped, at great cost, to make safer. 

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