As a team manager my experience of driving racing cars is limited, although at the start of my motor racing...
My favorite Williams Formula One car that I designed, is the FW08—the car Keke Rosberg used to win the 1982...
Ultimately, I wanted to be a fashion designer—a very feminine thing to do—so from school that’s what I did. I was brought up with my father and brother both racing and, yes, as soon as I was 17 years old I wanted to get my driving license, but driving at...
My favorite racing days were with John Jordan. John Jordan was a great man, he was a true enthusiast who...
In my racing career I’ve driven many wonderful cars including works Ferraris, Ford GT40s and those sorts of things. However,...
Seen here at Monaco, Laffite scored two of his six Grand Prix wins in 1981, taking his favorite Talbot Ligier JS17-Matra to victory in Austria and Canada.Photo: Maureen Magee I feel that 1981 was a year where I could have won the F1 World Championship, but we gave silly points away...
Photo: Pete Austin I’m always torn by this, and it rather dates me in a way, but I did start...
1980 Austrian GP, Jabouille leads Jones.Photo: Maureen Magee I choose the 1980 Renault RE23 as a Greatest Racecar with a...
Photo: BRDC Archive My greatest racecar is not a car I actually drove, but it represents a missed opportunity I had to get into Grand Prix racing in the 1960s. The Cooper Car Company, so famous in Formula One in the late 1950s and early 1960s for changing the shape...
Ian Ashley Lola T330 F5000. Photo: BRDC Archive Motor racing is a very expensive hobby, but once you start with...
Gary Pearson stretches his and the D-type Jaguar’s legs during a Goodwood Revival.Photo: Roger Dixon My first open-wheeled car was...
Maserati 250 F Car: Maserati 250 F / Engine: 6-Cylinder In-line / Maker: Maserati / Bore X Stroke: 84 mm X 75 mm / Year: 1957 / Capacity: 2,490 cc / Class: Formula 1 / Power: 270 bhp at 8,000 rpm / Wheelbase: 89.8 inches / Track: 51.2 inches Front, 49.2 inches Rear...
I mean looking at it from a generational aspect and selfishly too because I own it, it has to be...
Photo: Mike Jiggle For me, the 2006 Champ Car season started off with a big bang, winning the first four...
Walkinshaw on his way to victory in the inagrual Silverstone 6hrs in 1976.Photo: Peter Collins While I have had a long reputation of driving with BMW, I have no hesitation about the greatest racecar I ever drove. It has to be the 3.5-liter BMW CSL Group 5 car. It was...
Mark Knopfler driving his Maserati 300S in the Maserati Centenary Trophy race at Donington. Photo: Pete Austin As a boy,...
Marc Surer March-BMW 792 Nürburgring.Photo: BRDC I came from a family of Swiss farmers, which is not really the ideal...
Hans Heyer got his one big chance to race in Formula One with the ATS-run Penske PC4 in the 1977 German Grand Prix at Hockenheim.Photo: Maureen Magee I’ve raced in more than 1,000 races, although my 1,000th was just a bit of fun with Kris Nissen. I’ve driven many, many...
Photo: BRDC My dream, like many racing drivers, was to get to the top of the sport Formula One. Some...
Photo: Maureen Magee In motor racing, Formula One is the paradise that all drivers wish to get to. Some drivers...
Bentley Speed 8 My obvious choice for my greatest racecar has to be the Bentley Speed-8 which I won with at Le Mans in 2003. I was teamed up with Rinaldo “Dindo” Capello and the great Tom Kristensen who has gone on to become such a Le Mans legend with...
Photo: Pete Austin Without a doubt my greatest racecar has to be the Matra 670. Matra worked so much since...
Photo: Roger Dixon I’ve always said that the greatest racecar I’ve ever driven was the Alan Mann Mustang, registration DPK...
Photo: Pete Austin I have many memories of competing in rallies across Europe, but one that really sticks in my mind is the Liege-Rome-Liege event of 1960. Sharing the “big” Healey with Pat Moss, we started the event not really knowing what to expect, as the rally was well known...
1991 Williams FW14 (exPatrese).Photo: Pete Austin When I think back, I have two racing cars I would call great. First,...
Steve Soper has twice been reunited with his greatest racecar. the BMW V12 LMR, at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.Photo: Pete...
Neil Cunningham always excelled in American V8-powered machines. He is seen here hurrying the Embassy Racing Corvette through the Thruxton Chicane on his way to scoring a well-deserved 2nd-place finish in a British GT race.Photo: James Beckett I always loved racing American cars with V8 engines, and I think there...
Patrick Watts in the Peugeot 406 at Donington in 1997.Photo: Pete Austin From my point of view, a great racecar...
The Porsche 962 and 956 generated an everlasting impression in the world of endurance racing, reigning for over a decade...
When considering my greatest racecar, the question seems far too big for me to give a simple answer. I drove some terrific cars in my motor racing history. I suppose the ones that stand out, particularly in terms of those I had the most success in, are the Porsche 956...
