A winner from the World Championship\u2019s first decade, the 1950s, Tony Brooks took F1 victories for Vanwall and Ferrari. Amazingly he\u2019d studied to be a dentist before becoming a full-time racing driver. On what would have been Tony\u2019s 91st birthday, Tom Clarkson revisits a 2019 conversation about the daring deeds of the first F1 stars.\n
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