Notable Mille Miglia Drivers – The History In our ongoing series on the History of the Mille Miglia, we take...
Ralph DePalma Biography Before the world knew of the Andretti brothers there was another American of Italian immigrant parents by...
Felice Nazzaro Biography He was called the sport’s first racing super star when in 1925 he retired from frontline racing after two and one half decades. During that time he won all the great races of the day including the Targa Florio, the Kaiserpreise and the French Grand Prix, the...
Hermann Lang Biography Born in 1909, Lang’s career started like many other drivers, on motorcycles. While the majority of the...
The Best Finnish Grand Prix Drivers Since the Formula One championship began in 1950, only nine drivers from Finland have participated. But three of them have won the competition. Kimi Räikkönen most recently won in 2007, adding to Finland’s wins by Keke Rosberg and Mika Häkkinen. Here is a look...
Nelson Piquet Biography Nelson Piquet was born on August 17, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The son of a...
Achille Varzi Biography The mist rose from the wet track as the famous 44 year old racing driver, immaculate both...
Richard Seaman Biography Born on 4 February 1913 to wealthy parents, Seaman fell in love with cars as a schoolboy. He would spend endless hours drawing pictures of racecars including a Seaman Special. As soon as he was old enough to get a license his parents bought him a Riley sports...
Notable American Grand Prix Drivers Michael Andretti The son of a racing legend, Michael Andretti was the Indy Car Champion...
John Surtees Biography The eldest of three children, John was born on February 11, 1934 in Tatsfield, England. His father...
City-to-City Race Car Drivers The great city-to-city races were the origin of motor-racing. Attempts had been made to organize an event back in 1887, but the the Paris-Rouen reliability test of 1894 saw motor-cars take to the roads to compete for the first time. The following decade saw interest in...
Pietro Bordino Biography Bordino was born in Turin, November 22, 1887. The son of a Fiat caretaker he would spend...
Tazio Nuvolari Biography Tazio Nuvolari a legend in his own lifetime, was known as Il Montavano Volante, the Flying Mantuan. He...
Leon Thery Biography Léon Théry was born in 1879. Having started out as a mechanic it was said that his mechanical knowledge helped him to understand the need to drive according to the car’s abilities, often nursing his car home to victory when others had fallen by the wayside. His...
Bernd Rosemeyer Biography On the Frankfurt-Darmstadt autobahn, just beyond the Langen-Morfelden crossing and set back amongst the trees stands a...
Jackie Stewart Biography Jackie Stewart’s early involvement with cars was in the family business, Dumbuck Garage, in Dumbarton, Scotland, where he...
Michael Schumacher Biography Michael Schumacher was born on the third of January 1969 to Rolf and Elisabeth Schumacher. The family move to the town of Kerpin-Manheim, a working class town near Cologne, Germany. It was there that the family became involved with karting. Michael, only four at the time was...
Ettore Bugatti Biography Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti though his family was French was born in Milan on 15 September 1881. He...
Gilles Villeneuve Biography “He’s different from the rest of us, on a separate level …” Jacques Laffite describing Gilles Gilles...
Sebastian Vettel Biography Vettel, one of four children was born on July 3, 1987 in Heppenheim, Germany to Norbert and Heike Vettel. His father was a keen racer competing in various hill-climb events. An indifferent student his childhood heroes were “The three Michaels” – Michael Schumacher, Michael Jordan, and Michael...
Luigi Fagioli Biography Luigi Fagioli was born on June 9th, 1898 to a wealthy family in the small city of...
Camille Jenatzy Biography Jenatzy’s family, originally from Hungary had settled in Schaerbeek, Belgium where where his father Constant established Jenatzy...
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...
Jimmy Murphy Biography Jimmy Murphy was born in 1894 but tragedy soon struck the Murphy family when his mother died...
Juan Manuel Fangio Biography Affectionately known as “bandy legs” by his many fans, Juan Manuel Fangio was born in Balcarce,...
Jochen Rindt Biography Rindt was born in Germany in 1942 of Austrian and German parentage. His parents died under Allied bombing in 1943 and he was taken to Graz in Austria where he was brought up by his grandparents. He took his place in the family spice importing business on...
René Dreyfus Biography The story begins in 1914 when René was nine years old. The middle of three children he...
Giulio Ramponi Biography Giulio Ramponi was born in Milan on 8 January 1902. His father died while he was still...
Denny Hulme Biography Denny Hulme was born on June 18, 1936 in Motueka, on the South Island of New Zealand. His father Clive was a World War II hero who won the Victoria Cross for bravery as a sniper during the bloody battle on the island of Crete. His family...