Formula 1's inaugural visit to the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in 1980 began an unbroken 27-year run on the calendar for Italy's 'other' circuit, before it dropped off the schedule in 2006. But the onset of the COVID pandemic and an increased demand for European venues to meet F1's required quota of events for 2020 prompted a return, with Imola proving a popular addition to the calendar for a generation of drivers that largely missed out on it first time around.
The tragic events of 1994, when Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna lost their lives, are indelibly sketched into Imola's history as the circuit was changed significantly in the aftermath to improve safety. That also changed the character of the track, which previously featured a long flat out blast down to the first braking zone at Tosa - now interrupted by two chicanes.
But both before and after the changes, Imola yielded some entertaining races - perhaps most famously of all in 1982 when Ferrari team-mates Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi bitterly fell out after their duel. After Michael Schumacher took his first Ferrari pole, fittingly, on the Scuderia's home turf in 1996 Damon Hill turned the tables on Sunday to continue his successful title quest, while Ralf Schumacher took his and the Williams-BMW combination's first F1 win in 2001.
Here, Autosport's team of writers pick out some of their favourite F1 races from the circuit.