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The failed gamble that began an F1 team's downfall

Two small British teams came into 1979 hoping to build on promising grand prix debuts the year before. Where Williams went from strength to strength, Tony Southgate's Arrows A2 was wide of the mark

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Even 40 years on, Gilles Villeneuve versus Rene Arnoux at Dijon in 1979 remains Formula 1's ultimate battle, so you would be forgiven for not noticing much on its periphery that day.

But up the road there was something just as remarkable, appearing like nothing of this Earth. Low, squat, wingless, like a gold bullet with bodywork, the Arrows A2 resembled something from the future.

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