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2019 Shock of the Year: Three Untimely Deaths

The Formula 1 community may stretch far across the globe, but it can also be a tight-knit bunch akin to family, and that makes any death tough to stomach. Unfortunately, 2019 had three of them. Charlie Whiting, Niki Lauda, Anthoine Hubert. Three very different figures in the motorsport world, all gone too soon. First it was Whiting, who at 66, fell victim to a pulmonary embolism just days before the first race in Australia. F1’s race director, he had made the near-impossible job of refereeing the sport his own, and even after a full season of Grands Prix, it feels strange to race without him. Then in May, the remarkable story of Lauda came to an end aged 70, nearly 43 years after his...
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