Nissan legend Yutaka Katayama, the man known as “Mr. K,” has died at the age of 105. Katayama, the first...
Driver Profiles
Profiles of past and present automotive personalities. The drivers who risked their lives in the early days to the engineers who creatively changed the world of automobiles, this is a celebration of the people who played a major role in the world we love.
Antonio Brivio Biography Born in Biella, Italy to an aristocratic family on the 27th of December 1905 the Marchese “Tonino”...
Luigi Bazzi Biography He was called the soul of Ferrari. He had been there from the beginning and Enzo Ferrari recalled his trusted friend as “the founding member of the old guard of collaborators. Working at Ferrari till he was over eighty when health finally forced him to leave Ferrari’s side. Due...
Ferdinando Minoia Biography Ferdinando Minoia was born in Milan on June 2, 1884. Known by his friends as Nando, he...
By Art Evans When you say “Moss” to motorsports aficionados, the name, “Stirling,” or “Sir Stirling” comes to mind. But...
With over 50 years in motorsports – as a driver and team owner – American A. J. Foyt’s remarkable career has seen him make his mark nationally and abroad in at least four countries: Canada, Great Britain, France and New Zealand. His race record includes: winning the Indianapolis 500 four...
Franco Gozzi, a key part of the history of Ferrari, passed away April 23rd, 2013 at the age of 81....
Juan Manuel Fangio (1911 – 1995) was a race car driver from Argentina who dominated the first decade of Formula...
Ronnie Peterson Biography Ronnie Peterson was born on 1944 in Örebro, Sweden, the son of an avid racer of moderate accomplishments. His father’s love for all things mechanical was inherited by his son. When Peterson was only eight years old his father built him a car, or at least the young Ronnie...
Hermann Lang Biography Born in 1909, Lang’s career started like many other drivers, on motorcycles. While the majority of the...
Silver Arrows Grand Prix Drivers The Silver Arrows of Mercedes and Auto Union were formidable to say the least. The...
Alberto Ascari intrigues me – while I can’t claim to know a great deal about him. Like so many of the truly gifted drivers, his eyes were so striking, while his face was almost ordinary in the manner of Fangio, and so unlike the empassioned, almost madly driven men like...
Enzo Anselmo Ferrari, the son of Alfredo and Adalgisa, was born in Modena, Italy on 18 February 1898. As a...
Interview by Will Silk and photos courtesy of Forgotten Fiberglass Chuck Tatum was what you could say “at the right...
Giannino Marzotto Biography He was born at Valdagno on 13 April 1928, the son of the king of the Italian wool industry, Count Gaetano Marzotto. Soon after his 20th birthday he entered his father’s Lancia Aprilia in the Giro di Sicilia and came in second in his class. In 1950...
Interview and photos by Dennis Gray Bruce Canepa has been involved with automobiles in one fashion or another nearly all...
The 48 Best Grand Prix Drivers in Formula One History This website since its inception has covered The history of...
The Best Swedish Grand Prix Drivers Perhaps surprisingly, only ten Swedes have ever driven in Grands Prix. Though, eleven Swedish drivers have entered. Erik Lundgren was the first-ever driver from Sweden to enter a Formula One race, in the 1951 German Grand Prix, but he later withdrew. Here is a...
Michael Schumacher Biography Michael Schumacher was born on the third of January 1969 to Rolf and Elisabeth Schumacher. The family...
Richard Seaman Biography Born on 4 February 1913 to wealthy parents, Seaman fell in love with cars as a schoolboy....
Ex-F1 driver François Cevert was a name Sports Car Digest was not too familiar with until recently when we stumbled across a three-part YouTube video documentary on the Frenchman. The videos are an interesting look at this talented driver that was taken from us just as he really started to...
By Will Silk Belgium is a nation that many will associate with some of the finest racing drivers ever to...
Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss OBE (born September 17, 1929 in London) is a retired racing driver from England. His success...
Whitney Straight Biography Because of modern commercial, testing and fitness demands placed on current drivers many have decried the current crop as shallow and one-dimensional. Whitney Straight an ex-patriot living in England was anything but that. He raced in more Grands Prix than any American before World War II but...
René Dreyfus Biography The story begins in 1914 when René was nine years old. The middle of three children he...
Report by Art Evans and photos as noted On the night of November 10, 2011 a Tribute to Phil Hill...
If you are in any way, shape, or form a fan of Formula One, you were probably as surprised as everyone else after the Hungarian Grand Prix at the end of July. This was when four-time World Driver’s Champion Sebastian Vettel posted a short one minute video to the internet,...
Clemente Biondetti Biography Born in Buddusò, Sardinia, into a working class family with Tuscan father and Venetian mother who found...
The Best Finnish Grand Prix Drivers Since the Formula One championship began in 1950, only nine drivers from Finland have...
Argentine racing driver Jose Froilan Gonzalez passed away June 15th, 2013 at the age of ninety in his native Buenos Aires. Born October 5th, 1922, Gonzalez will be forever linked to capturing Ferrari’s first victory in a Grand Prix counting towards the Formula 1 World Championship, coming at the 1951...