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After two seasons driving for the Wolf F1 team, Jody Scheckter moved to Ferrari and duly won the World Championship, ahead of team-mate and friend Gilles Villeneuve.

Jody Scheckter was the wild man of Formula 1 in his first season. Driving for McLaren he courted controversy before winning his first Grands Prix with Tyrrell.

With only seven points between the first three in the title chase there is everything to fight for in Monaco. McLaren ran way with the race last year.

Rindt wins posthumously, Stewart retires, Lauda survives, Williams victorious at last and Villeneuve makes his mark.

After years of trying Michael Schumacher finally won the Formula 1 World Championship in a Ferrari.

Jenson Button has only failed to win once so far in the 2009 Formula 1 World Championship. His next target is a home victory in the British GP at Silverstone.

Jody Scheckter triggerd a mass pile-up in 1973 while Peter Revson scored his maiden Formula 1 victory.

James Hunt and McLaren were controversially disqualified while Williams scored their first Grand Prix win at Silverstone.

Brands Hatch and Silverstone continued to share the GP during the eighties.

Alan Jones and Williams dominated the second half of 1979, but they were not a threat to Jody Scheckter for the Formula One World Championship.

Andrea de Adamich, like so many F1 drivers from Italy, endured a torrid time at Ferrari. Away from Grand Prix racing he found success in sports car competition.

The seventies and early eighties saw a variety of winners and the arrival of turbos in Formula 1.

Ronnie Peterson just failed to win his home Grand Prix. The six-wheeled Tyrrell and Brabham fan-car both won at Anderstorp.

Trojan appeared to be a Formula One team with serious potential, but its brilliant designer and talented driver struggled in GP racing because of financial limitations.

Lotus and Tyrrell both pushed the boundaries of Formula 1 design in the 1970s. Gas turbines and six wheels were both seen in Grand Prix racing.

Emerson Fittipaldi injured himself at Zandvoort, handing the advantage to Jackie Stewart in the chase for the F1 title. Roger Williamson was killed in the same race.

Jackie Stewart scored victories in the 1973 Belgian and Monaco Grands Prix. Ronnie Peterson was deprived a win on the last lap at Anderstorp but won in France.

The 1974 Formula 1 season was decided in the last race, with Emerson Fittipaldi and McLaren claiming the World Championship.

The 1974 Formula One title battle developed into a fight between Niki Lauda, Clay Regazzoni, Emerson Fittipaldi and Jody scheckter.

Emerson Fittipaldi was the defending champion in 1975 but Niki Lauda and Ferrari were the class of the F1 field.

Niki Lauda scored the maiden win for the Ferrari 312T in the 1975 Monaco GP. It was the first of several F1 victories for the Austrian and Ferrari.

The 1976 F1 season was arguably the most exciting in history. Niki Lauda and James Hunt fought for the title in a year filled with controversy and intense racing.

Niki Lauda and his Ferrari 312 T2 seemed unstoppable, until the Formula 1 title race reached Germany. Lauda crashed and suffered life threatening injuries.

Unless they broke down, Andretti and Peterson seemed unstoppable in their Lotus 79s. Reutemann managed to win at Brands Hatch but the JPS cars were soon back on top.

The 1978 F1 season was dominated by Lotus and their ground-effect cars. Brabham produced the BT46 fan-car but it was banned. Mario Andretti became World Champion.

Ligier dominated the first two Formula One races of 1979, but the next two Grands Prix went the way of Gilles Villeneuve and Ferrari.

Jody Scheckter won the 1979 Formula One World Championship at Monza. His Ferrari team-mate Gilles Villeneuve won the final race of the year at Watkins Glen.

While Ligier and Ferrari continued to win races a third force was emerging in the shape of Alan Jones, Clay Regazzoni and Williams.

Alan Jones pipped Nelson Piquet to the Formula One World Championship after a controversial Canadian GP.

Defending champions Ferrari were nowhere in 1980, struggling against the better ground-effect technology of other Grand Prix teams.

An era came to an end in August when Enzo Ferrari passed away. Fittingly, his beloved Formula 1 cars finished 1-2 at Monza.

Gilles Villeneuve provided one of F1's most memorable moments at Zandvoort.

The Formula One title battle went down to the wire at the US Grand Prix, where Ferrari and Tyrrell both faltered, leaving the way clear for McLaren's Emerson Fittipaldi.

James Hunt scored a memorable victory at the Dutch GP, the first F1 win for Hesketh. At Silverstone Emerson Fittipaldi won a chaotic British GP.

Niki Lauda made a miraculous recovery from his Nurburgring crash to return to an F1 car at Monza, but it was James Hunt who took the title.

Mario Andretti won the F1 World Championship at Monza, but it came at a terrible cost. His team-mate Ronnie Peterson crashed at the same event and subsequently died.

Ronnie Peterson drove for March, Tyrrell and Lotus during his final three Formula 1 seasons. He died in 1978 after a crash during the Italian GP at Monza.

Patrick Depailler was a mainstay of Formula 1 during the seventies. Tragically he died during a test session in 1980.

Zandvoort was a great setting for a Formula 1 race, but in 1973 it became infamous for the most shameful episode in Grand Prix history.

The Token Formula One car was a tidy design, but the fledgling Grand Prix team never had the money to compete with the big guns in motor racing.

The turbo era, the arrival of Senna, the loss of Bellof and McLaren dominance. The 1980s was a thrilling but turbulent decade in Formula 1 history.

Despite only winning six F1 races Gilles Villeneuve is widely regarded as one of motor racing's greatest ever drivers.

16/03/08 - Lewis Hamilton made his championship bid crystal clear by dominating the Australian GP. Scuderia Ferrari however struggled with a problematic race.