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Mike Hawthorn was at first disqualified during this race, but championship rival Stirling Moss had seen the incident which caused the disqualification and went to the judges to revert the decision since he felt Hawthorn had done nothing wrong. Hawthorn retained his points, clinching the title.

The race was won by Benetton's Michael Schumacher, the first of his record 91 Grand Prix wins. The Benetton B192's win also marks the last F1 win of a Grand Prix car with an H-Pattern manual gearbox.

It was McLaren's first win since Ayrton Senna won the 1993 Australian Grand Prix. You can notice Sir Jack Brabham waving the chequered flag.

The McLaren-Honda pair ran in formation for the most of the race with Senna letting Berger through on the last lap to win his first race for McLaren.

Rubens Barrichello finished in 3rd position for Honda's best finish of the 2008 season. It was also Honda's first podium finish since 2006 and first podium finish for the Brazilian since 2005.

The first F1 podium for Peter Revson came in South Africa, with a 3rd place finish. You can see Ferrari's Jacky Ickx right behind him, and the stopped Brabham of Carlos Reutemann.

At the podium ceremony, all Ferrari team members quietly accepted their awards, and quickly exited. However, Monteiro stayed behind to celebrate his first podium finish, and the first for a Portuguese driver.

Reigning British F3 champion showed flashes of speed but also wild driving, nevertheless the team's faith in Sato was repaid by a fine drive to 5th at his home Grand Prix in Suzuka.

Mastering the wet weather, the race was won by Italian driver Vittorio Brambilla driving a March 751. As Brambilla took the flag, he crashed into the barriers and the March team celebrated a historic victory. Brambilla, the oldest man in the field at 37, had won his first Grand Prix.

Elio de Angelis held off Keke Rosberg and won the race by just 0.050 seconds.

The victory was Raikkonen's first of the season and his first since he returned to Formula One at the start of the year.