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As Formula One recovers from its end-of-term party in Brazil, we look at how innovations in the sport have been employed to benefit road cars.

Innovations made in racing eventually benefit us all as the technology tried in the white heat of top-level motorsport filters down into the cars we drive every day. Perhaps the clearest example is the disc brake, pioneered by Jaguar at Le Mans in 1953.

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