Before a run-off area had been installed at Monaco’s Mirabeau corner, providing a place into which a cynical driver might spin during qualifying to bring out a yellow flag and deny their team-mate a chance at pole position (mentioning no names here), that section was simply bordered by Armco. It was here in the 1975 edition of the Monaco Grand Prix that James Hunt’s Hesketh came to rest after Patrick Depailler stuffed his Tyrrell up the inside line in a literal let-me-through-or-we-crash manoeuvre.
Fortunately the TV cameras stayed rolling for what happened next.
Hunt unbelted and got out but refused to leave the scene, going full Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes on the marshals trying to usher him to safety. Cars continued to roar past. Arms continued to wave. The increasingly animated Hunt would not be denied the opportunity to express his animus.
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