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Ferrari and Italy's great lost hero Only one Italian - Alberto Ascari - has ever won the F1 drivers' title with Ferrari. Lorenzo Bandini looked like he had a great shot at becoming the second, before one of the most brutal tragedies of a lethal F1 era stopped him. NIGEL ROEBUCK remembers a lost Italian hope 1531612800 F1

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