Virgin boss Richard Branson takes to the F1 grid for the first time this year with his own racing team.
But it’s not the first time ‘his’ cars have been ‘in’ F1.
This, as you may suspect, is slightly tenuous. But for Indie/F1/car geeks such as, well, me, it’s curiously neat. And goes like this:
•   Teenage Fanclub released a 1994 album called Grand Prix
•   On the cover was a shot of a contemporary 1994 F1 racer
•   That car was a Simtek
•   Boss of the Simtek F1 team was Nick Wirth
•   Nick Wirth now runs Wirth Research
•   Wirth Research designed the new Virgin F1 racer
It may be a new team, but there’s heritage in that there Virgin setup, not to mention a good dose of jangly guitar musical brilliance. Sort of.
Question is, can you come up with a more brilliantly tenuous link between something random and F1 racing?
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