Jean Behra Gordon Johncock 2 Jean Behra dies in an accident during the German Grand Prix at Avus (1959). 4...
Alan Jones Tazio Nuvolari 1 Dutch F1 privateer Carol de Beaufort is fatally injured in a practice crash for the...
1971 Tyrrell 002 His friends and racing opponents in F3 called him “Chopper,” not because of his on-track driving style but because of the axe painted on the side of his cars – a symbol representing his occupation as a lumber merchant. However, to racing historians he was known as...
Tyrrell 001, the very first complete racecar built by Ken Tyrrell’s Tyrrel Racing Organisation, was unveiled at the end of...
After some fifty years of automotive racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
The third round of the FIA World Championship for Thoroughbred Grand Prix Cars was held at England’s undulating Donington Park Circuit on May 3rd. The series received a huge shot in the arm with the success of the first round support race for the Bahrain Grand Prix. To ensure close...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Pete Lyons Occasionally here you may notice me express disdain for the twisted state modern Formula One has gotten itself...
I first got acquainted with Jackie Stewart when I went to work as a mechanic for Ken Tyrrell in 1968, when Jackie was first driving for Ken in F1, and from that point, as I got to know him, I learned how he operated. It was clear that he wanted...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
I cannot allow the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve to pass unnoticed but it is, at the same time, both distressing and a pleasure to write about him. I make absolutely no apology for admitting that he was my last “hero” in Formula One racing. Nobody else...
On a bleak day in November 1983, I was at Silverstone. Ken Tyrrell had promised a test drive to the...
1984 Toleman TG184-01 When the Grand Prix circus returned to Europe after the American races in 1984, Ayrton Senna was...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first world drivers’ championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
Jim Clark Frank Williams Photo: Williams F1 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African...
October 2008 The Japanese Grand Prix; Fuji, October 17, 1976. Jody Scheckter dances with the 6-wheel Tyrrell P34 in streaming...
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After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
When I were but a lad, my notion of a perfect Saturday was to walk down to the train station in our suburban village and ride the half hour into New York City, where I would spend hours upon hours wandering the marvel-strewn halls of the American Museum of Natural...
1974 Matra M670B The name Matra became familiar to thousands of motor racing fans from the mid-1960s through the 1970s....
Ken Tyrrell once said that, contrary to what had been written about him, he had no special talent for spotting...
We sprang over the crest of Paddock Hill Bend at 80 or more, the little Lotus Europa cocked way sideways, scrawny tires screaming. I was trying to burrow into the passenger side of the cockpit, jamming my knees against the insides of the legwell, both hands gripping…whatever they could grip....
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the Federation Internationale...
The Car that Made McLaren McLaren In these modern days of disposable everything (or so it seems), one can quickly...
June 2010 Tales from the Toolbox By Michael Oliver Chances are good that one of the reasons you read this magazine is due to the amount of interviews and stories from the personalities who were there in the day. It’s all well and good, to read that “Graham passed Jimmy...
It reads like a plot line no real screenwriter would dare pitch: A little-known transmission engineer who has never designed...
A professional racing driver’s performance is indelibly linked to the performance of a racing car he likes. I have been...
It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw, way down under his bluff bow, was my little white Volvo 122S hustling uphill just as hard. Obviously, both of us were enthusiasts caught up in the joyous rhythm of...