It's nearly 25 years since F1 lost one of its brightest rising stars - Stefan Bellof. His Tyrrell team-mate at the time, Martin Brundle, gives AUTOSPORT a very personal tribute to one of Germany's fastest and most gifted drivers

Stefan Bellof was massively fast, there's no doubt about that. He was an amazing racing driver and his death robbed the sport of a great talent.

We'll never know, but it was entirely feasible that he could have gone on to become a great. Perhaps not an Alain Prost, but maybe a Gilles Villeneuve. I definitely see him more in the mould of Villeneuve than Prost.

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