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Insight: Gasly ends 24-year wait for France

As the laps ticked down at Monza on Sunday the smattering of French journalists present in the press room could barely keep it together. Every now and then a table slam was accompanied by an ‘Allez!’ and when Pierre Gasly crossed the line it ended a wait of 24 years for the ‘Tricolour' to fly atop the Formula 1 podium. It wouldn’t be such a wait for most nations but France is the home of grand prix competition, the sport’s governing body, and its 80 wins puts it fourth on the all-time list, behind only the United Kingdom, Germany and Brazil.   France’s Formula 1 success peaked with the career of Alain Prost, who won four world titles, the final coming in 1993, after...
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