Short but Sweet: the 1991 Australian GP
Seventeen years ago, the final race of the season was in Adelaide, and what made it significant was that it went down in history as the shortest race in grand prix history. Thomas O'Keefe remembers a famous race at the beginning of the Mosley era, and charts the subsequent progress of some of the major players on the day
The day after the season-ending 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix on November 2, 2008 will be the 17th Anniversary of the shortest grand prix in history - the November 3, 1991 Australian Grand Prix, which ended the 1991 season in a deluge.
The official race distance that day on the slick streets of Adelaide, was 32.86 miles travelled at an average speed of 80 mph. A mere 14 laps were scored before Ayrton Senna, with cars spinning everywhere on the track, waved his hands furiously from the cockpit of his McLaren-Honda saying "No Mas!"
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