I have been asked, a number of times, which branch of motor sport I enjoyed the most: driving, management, or...
Historic motor racing events and festivals allow former Grand Prix drivers, like myself, to be reunited with racing cars synonymous...
Personally, I have driven some really good machines. I had a 917 Porsche that I thought was a truly remarkable car, and a 962, too. The only Indy car I had wished I had been able to race was the turbine car, because it was so dominant when it ran....
I’ve driven many racing cars during my career and, for me, a great racecar has to have exceptional acceleration and...
Two Ross Brawn designed cars were to play a big part in my racing career, both were formidable contenders and...
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...
In 1981, I set up my own team to do the Indy 500. I bought a McLaren M24 Cosworth and...
In my time as a racing driver I have had the opportunity of driving many types of racing car. I...
Gary Pearson stretches his and the D-type Jaguar’s legs during a Goodwood Revival.Photo: Roger Dixon My first open-wheeled car was a Lotus 22, in fact it was one of the cars used in the filming of Grand Prix. When I first got the car it still had the Jordan BRM...
Mark Knopfler driving his Maserati 300S in the Maserati Centenary Trophy race at Donington. Photo: Pete Austin As a boy,...
The Ferrari Dino was always my favorite racing car, but that was as much to do with the two seasons...
Frank Williams and Patrick Head are probably the best blokes I have ever driven for, so, it should come as no surprise that I chose one of the Williams cars as my greatest racecar. Indeed, too, selecting the Williams FW07 should be no surprise either. In the 1980 ‘B’ spec,...
Hans Heyer got his one big chance to race in Formula One with the ATS-run Penske PC4 in the 1977...
I mean looking at it from a generational aspect and selfishly too because I own it, it has to be...
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...
Photo: Pete Austin I’m always torn by this, and it rather dates me in a way, but I did start...
My greatest racecar has to come from my Formula One experience. Every part of an F1 car is designed to...
I grew up designing on a drawing board, right to the end of my time in motor racing, and I’m still on a drawing board today. I’ve designed a lot of cars from scratch, and when I say from scratch I mean a blank piece of paper. Even in today’s...
I was involved with the E-Type Jaguar right from its inception, initially as an employee under the wing of Lofty...
To be honest, I’ve had a lot of great racecars in my career and it’s very difficult to select just...
Photo: Maureen Magee In motor racing, Formula One is the paradise that all drivers wish to get to. Some drivers are lucky enough to get to a top team and others, like me, were not so lucky and had to be satisfied with a team that was used to being...
Photo: Pete Austin Without a doubt my greatest racecar has to be the Matra 670. Matra worked so much since...
Looking back, I’m tempted to regard the Mo Nunn-designed Theodore N183, as my greatest racecar. It was one of the...
Without doubt, I have to say my greatest racecar is the Jaguar XJR-9 LM that took me, Jan Lammers and Andy Wallace to victory at Le Mans in 1988. The car was designed by Tony Southgate and was ahead of its time using a full carbon fiber monocoque and undercarriage...
In terms of greatest racecars of all time, clearly, Mercedes had some extremely innovative cars like the one Moss drove...
Tyrrell’s Project 34 six-wheel Formula One car was one of those refreshingly radical cars that used to come into Grand...
My greatest racecar has to be the D-Type Jaguar. Of course, when I drove my greatest racecar it was fairly outdated. My father was in the motor business, so naturally when I left school it was assumed I’d do the same. During the 1950s in England, National Service was something...
The prize money for winning the 1972 Formula One “Race of Champions” at Brands Hatch in a BRM P160 allowed...
My favorite Williams Formula One car, I designed, is the FW08—the car Keke Rosberg used to win the 1982 drivers...
When I first started work for Porsche, I was naturally introduced to their ways of working, which I found in later years to become “the Porsche way.” Years later, I discovered that other automobile companies or racing teams did things a little different. The Porsche way wasn’t just talking around,...