{"id":490617,"date":"2009-04-10T22:52:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T22:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=332401"},"modified":"2025-01-10T21:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T21:31:38","slug":"1993-european-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1993-european-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Greatest Formula 1 Races &#8211; The 1993 European Grand Prix At Donington"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1993 European Grand Prix &#8211; Racing Returns to Donington &amp; We See Some True Senna Magic<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">by Robert S. Butsch<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"bodyText\">Easter Sunday, 1993, saw the first Grand Prix at Donington Park since the immortal Nuvolari&#8217;s win 55 years earlier. The crowd was not spectacular by F1 standards, the weather was dismal in a way that it seems only English weather can be, but the race was a classic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyText\">Traction control was still allowed, and it was never more prominently on display than at the sopping wet 29th European Grand Prix. Gagging engines could\u00a0 be heard often at the exits from slow corners. Traction control was soon to be condemned by the FIA as a computer aid that took the driver too much out of the equation. 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