F1: Mika Hakkinen vs Michael Schumacher epic battle - Austria 1998

Hakkinen doesn't get enough credit when looking back at great F1 drivers. The guy was universally fast and an extremely clean driver.

I forgot how thin the driver lineup was in the late 90s. Hakkinen, Schumacher were top-tier drivers and Hill was pretty good but there was a whole lot of average behind them. Still, good times...and V10 engines.

Andrea de Cesaris had a long F1 career because his father handled Marlboro racing advertising in Italy. He decided where $5,000,000 million dollars of Marlboro money would be spent.

That's true... Progress though first time they have gotten smaller in forever

Think we’ll ever see refueling again? It adds another variable in race/pit strategy

IIRC the argument was refueling led to more overtakes happening in the pits instead of on track. There's an overcut when you go longer on lighter fuel and the victim of the overcut can't respond. We traded the refueling overcut for the tire strategy undercut which can be responded to theoretically resulting in more overtakes on track. I dont know if pre and post 2010 overtake numbers support this or not.