The Williams Formula One Conference Centre, Grove, UK was the venue for the 5th bi-annual reunion of the Grand Prix...
In my time as a racing driver I have had the opportunity of driving many types of racing car. I...
Unlike many racing drivers, none of my family was associated with motor sport or the motor trade. Spain, my country, had its sporting roots in bull fighting, football, and golf. Motor racing was for a minority of people. During the 1960s, I was a spectator at the Rally of Spain,...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the Federation Internationale...
Williams FW14B Car: Williams FW14b / Engine: 670 V10 / Maker: Williams – Renault / Year: 1991 / Capacity: 3,493 cc /...
As I follow the recent political soap opera, which has become Formula One, I can’t help but think of the famous quote by George Bernard Shaw, “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” In case you’ve missed it (or more likely, lost interest in caring), Formula One...
Frank Williams and Patrick Head are probably the best blokes I have ever driven for, so, it should come as...
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...
Pete Lyons News that Formula One is so financially distressed… Wait! Let us savor this! Become a Member & Get...
Nigel Mansell Biography Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE was born the 8th of August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England. His...
Every era has its own greatest racing car. I would like to go back to my boyhood where I have fond memories of a car that made a real impact on me, the Maserati 250F. Nick Mason gave me a wonderful opportunity to drive his 250F. It didn’t let me...
My favorite Williams Formula One car, I designed, is the FW08—the car Keke Rosberg used to win the 1982 drivers...
Jim Clark Frank Williams Photo: Williams F1 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African Grand Prix (1975). 2 First engine ever designed by Ernst Fuhrmann, the Porsche Type 547 (Carrera), runs in Zuffenhausen for the first time (1953). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
I would rather be remembered as somebody who did some work against cancer than the driver who won the Belgian...
1984 Toleman TG184-01 When the Grand Prix circus returned to Europe after the American races in 1984, Ayrton Senna was still a Formula One newcomer. The Toleman team had been struggling for three years and had only begun to get a few results toward the end of 1983. While the...
I cannot allow the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve to pass unnoticed but it is, at the...
Bobby Allison Bill Kraus 1 Stefan Bellof dies from injuries sustained in the crash of his Porsche 956 during the...
Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about his career and motor racing in general. He was very helpful when VR’s European Editor asked him to contribute to his Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 book, and he was just...
1963 Scirocco By the time you read this, a superb collection of famous, bizarre, futile and fantastic Grand Prix cars...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
I must say that I owe a great deal to Colin Chapman. A very charismatic man, who was many things to me. I still miss him, even today. He was the person who brought me into the sport, he became like another father to me. He was my mentor, and...
Bonhams recently announced the purchase by private treaty of the Williams F1 Reserve Collection, ahead of its scheduled auction on...
WilliamsF1 has recently announced that a hand-picked selection of more than 20 of the WilliamsF1’s Reserve Collection of Formula One...
It was really very gratifying to have received so much positive feedback on the “Absent Friends” feature that we ran in the September ’04 issue of VRJ. One never knows how a story like that will be received, as its focus was more on the war and its effects on...
Brazilian Nelson Soutomaior, perhaps fortunately for race commentators, adopted his mother’s maiden name of Piquet when he arrived in Europe...
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