“Sex – the breakfast of Champions” was the legend on the T-shirt the 1976 Formula 1 World Champion wore under...
John BarnardPhoto: Mike Jiggle In the first two installments of our multi-part interview with John Barnard he discussed his early...
Photo: Pete Austin As a wayward young schoolboy, John Judd found it difficult to find employment in the engineering businesses around his home city of Coventry. Despite having good qualifications and being at the epicenter of the UK car industry, he was rejected first by Jaguar and then initially by...
John Zeitler Nigel Mansell Photo: Maureen Magee 2 Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Penske PC-18, wins the CART Budweiser Cleveland Grand...
Nino Vaccarella Ronnie Peterson 1 Ronnie Peterson wins the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard in a John Player Special...
Richard Petty Carl Haas 1 Chuck Daigh, driving a Lotus 19-Climax, wins the USAC-sanctioned sports car race at Mosport, Ontario, Canada (1963). 2 Henry Seagrave drives a Sunbeam to victory in the French Grand Prix at Tours (1923). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Keke Rosberg was a kind of motor racing Cinderella Man. He went from the drudgery of retiring or not even...
If there is a single quality that best defines Marc Surer it must be determination. When you consider that he...
Nelson Piquet once memorably described driving a Grand Prix car around Monaco as akin to trying to ride a bicycle around your bedroom and certainly, while it is not too difficult to drive a racing car around the circuit, it becomes a totally different animal when it comes to wringing...
By the time this column is read, the second anniversary of the passing of Tom Walkinshaw will have come and...
Nelson Piquet Biography Nelson Piquet was born on August 17, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The son of a...
Nelson Piquet Biography Nelson Piquet was born on August 17, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The son of a government official he spent much of his childhood in the Brazilian capital, Brasília. At the age of 14 he was participating in kart races and was crowned Brazilian kart champion...
Watch this onboard footage featuring Nelson Piquet (threee-time Formula One World Drivers’ champion) driving a Lotus 101 Judd around the...
It’s a dirty job being an automotive and racing writer but, you know, somebody’s got to do it. A couple...
Fon de Portago Michael Andretti 1 Sarah Fisher, the first woman to compete in the Indy Racing League, is born (1980). 2 The first road races are held through the streets of Watkins Glen, New York. They are also the first post-WWII races held in the United States and the...
Nigel Mansell Bernd Rosemeyer 2 PJ Jones drives a Toyota Eagle MkIII to victory in the final IMSA GTP race,...
Antonio Brivio Mario Andretti 1 A.J. Foyt wins the USAC Championship race on the dirt track at Sacramento, California (1967)....
Paul Rosche, the engine wizard who guided BMW to multiple international racing successes, including the Formula One World Championship and victory at Le Mans, has passed away at the age of 82. Joining BMW fresh out of university in 1957, Rosche logged 42 years with the Bavarian company. In 1969...
Although my home was near to the Zandvoort circuit in Holland, my family had nothing to do with the motor...
Three-time Formula One champion Nelson Piquet may be one of the greatest racing drivers to ever emerge from Brazil…however, the...
1983 Tyrrell 012/01-Cosworth The Tyrrell proved to be nimble and responsive around the dunes of Zandvoort. Photo: Pete Austin Since the inauguration of the modern Formula One World Championship in 1950, there have been many occasions when the governing rules of competition have been stretched, or even broken, by entrants. From...
Rene Arnoux learned his trade the hard way, as he fought for the European Formula Two Championship against tough nuts...
Roberto Moreno enjoyed a productive career in the upper levels of professional motor sport even though his accomplishments may not...
Widely experienced chief mechanic and author Sal Incandela has passed away at his home in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson, Nevada. He was 61. During an extensive career in racing as a mechanic, engineer, crew chief and team principal, the Italian-born, French-educated Incandela worked for several championship-winning teams, including...
One of the most memorable events in the history of Donington Park, the rain-soaked 1993 European Grand Prix a quarter-century...
Nelson Piquet Charles Stewart RollsPhoto: Rolls Royce 3 Dario Resta is killed and his riding mechanic, Bill Perkins, is injured...
Bobby Allison Bill Kraus 1 Stefan Bellof dies from injuries sustained in the crash of his Porsche 956 during the World Endurance Championship race at Spa, Belgium. The Martini LC2 of Bob Wolleck, Mauro Baldi, and Ricardo Patrese is awarded the win after the race is stopped (1985). 2 Bill...
The 48 Best Grand Prix Drivers in Formula One History This website since its inception has covered The history of Grand Prix Motor Racing through the lives of its greatest drivers, people and events with a special focus on the history of Formula 1. At its core is the Grand...