Valtteri Bottas makes history by taking the wheel of the 1999 BAR Honda in Melbourne

This weekend in Melbourne, on the sidelines of the Australian Grand Prix, Valtteri Bottas surprised fans by driving the 1999 BAR Honda, the first Formula 1 car produced in Brackley, now the home of the Mercedes-AMG F1 team. This nostalgic moment highlighted a bygone era of F1, marked by the roar of V10 engines and the bold aesthetics of the single-seaters of the late 1990s.