SILVERSTONE - Many Formula One fans this weekend will be recalling the accidental feat of Jean-Louis Schlesser as Max Verstappen leads Red Bull's assault on one of the sport's oldest records at the British Grand Prix.
As the Dutch driver bids to add to his own sequence of five consecutive wins to boost his runaway lead en route to a third straight drivers' world title, his team will be gunning for an 11th straight win.
If Red Bull succeed, they will equal the record set by McLaren in 1988, when the British team boasted a legendary line-up of Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna.
Many had fancied McLaren to complete the 1988 season unbeaten - as Red Bull bid to be this year - but their ambitions were undone when Senna tangled with a backmarker at the Italian Grand Prix after Prost had retired.
In his only F1 race start, Frenchman Schlesser, deputising for the unwell Nigel Mansell with Williams on the eve of his 40th birthday, collided with the race-leading Brazilian with three laps remaining. It gifted Ferrari an emotional one-two win just weeks after the death of team founder Enzo Ferrari, who was 90.
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