Between the Lions: the Essential Austrian
It's disconcerting to think it, but there is a generation of F1 fans that never saw Gerhard Berger race an F1 car. As the Austrian prepares to drive a 1983 McLaren in Budapest this weekend, Thomas O'Keefe takes stock of the Toro Rosso team co-owner's career
He has not raced a Formula One car for ten years. And yet on the Thursday prior to this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix, the co-owner of Scuderia Toro Rosso (STR), Gerhard Berger, strapped himself into an historic 3.0 litre V8 Ford Cosworth-powered 1983 McLaren MP4/1C and performed a demonstration run in Budapest, centered around the famous Chain Bridge.
What is so special about the Chain Bridge? It is the 160 year-old stone and steel suspension bridge spanning the Danube between the hilly western Buda side of the river, and the flat terrain of Pest on the eastern side of the bridge.
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