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Your classic grand prix - race 14

Andrew Benson | 14:25 UK time, Thursday, 2 September 2010

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The latest edition of our classic grand prix series focuses on the Italian Grand Prix, the oldest race still on the Formula 1 calendar.

It was first held at the atmospheric Autodromo di Monza as long ago as 1922, making it the oldest track as well, and in that time it has hosted some of the sport's greatest races.

We have selected four from the event's relatively recent history and are asking you to select which one you would most like to watch here on the BBC Sport website and on the red button on interactive television.

We would like you to leave your views as responses on this blog and we will use them to inform our choice of which race to highlight next week to whet your appetite in the run-up to this year's Italian Grand Prix.

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Singing our way to Spa

Jake Humphrey | 12:52 UK time, Monday, 30 August 2010

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This blog comes to you mid-train journey home. As much as I'm still fascinated by getting a train from Europe to the heart of London, it can't quite beat my outbound journey to the Belgian Grand Prix.

On Thursday morning at 7.30, I was genuinely standing outside the Houses of Parliament hitching a lift to Spa. The slight cheat, of course, was that I knew a certain Martin Brundle would appear at any moment in his E-type Jaguar, looking like Kings Lynn's answer to James Bond. He was a demon on the Brussels bypass!

I've seen plenty of messages on Twitter from you guys saying you enjoyed our little road trip. If you missed it, I've uploaded it onto the blog below, and amazingly, as I write this blog, I've yet to see it myself!

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Hamilton produces 'perfect' display

Andrew Benson | 16:31 UK time, Sunday, 29 August 2010

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Lewis Hamilton produced a drive worthy of the greatest race track in the world to win the Belgian Grand Prix and reclaim the championship lead just one race after losing it.

The spectacular Spa-Francorchamps circuit in the Ardennes mountains tests Formula 1 drivers to the limit, and never more so than in the sort of changeable conditions in which Sunday's race took place.

Two of Hamilton's title rivals, Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel, failed the examination. Hamilton, by contrast, was virtually flawless all weekend and this win will surely come to be ranked among his very best.

"Perfect," was the judgement of three-time world champion Niki Lauda, which seemed about right.

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