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F1 helped Hungary tear hole in Iron Curtain
The rain was coming down at the 1983 Monaco Grand Prix and, to pass the time, Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone was telling his friend Tamas Rohonyi about the problems of trying to organise a race in the Soviet Union. 'He said Moscow was depressing and the bureaucracy made it near impossible anyway,' Rohonyi recalled in a telephone interview with Reuters this week. 'I told him, why not try Budapest?' The rest is history. Hungary, at the time firmly behind the 'Iron Curtain' and in the embrace of the old Soviet Union, this weekend celebrates its 30th successive grand prix with every hope of continuing for years to come. Russia, the original target, finally made its F1 debut last year with...
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