"It was almost impossible to drive," said Lewis Hamilton. "It was so hard."
He'd dominated the race, moved himself into a firm championship lead, and had done so with a damaged car. But this wasn't the 2020 British Grand Prix and Hamilton wasn't driving a Mercedes W11.
This was the opening race of the 2003 Formula Renault 2.0 UK championship at Croft.
Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of technology and motorsport publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer. A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the Magazine Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before switching to cover Formula E work as Autosport.com Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.
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