One of the things that comes up is a little record I am very proud of that there are only...
Tim Schenken I came from the Brabham team in 1971 into the Surtees team for 1972 to partner Mike Hailwood....
When Ferrari decided to withdraw from the sports car championship for 1974, there were a lot of drivers on the market and Carlo Chiti acted to get some of them for Autodelta and Alfa Romeo. I was signed along with Mario Andretti and Carlos Reutemann. Rolf Stommelen and Andrea DeAdamich...
I first got acquainted with Jackie Stewart when I went to work as a mechanic for Ken Tyrrell in 1968,...
Harry Heuer, whose father was the CEO of the Peter Hand Brewing Company, decided in the late ’50s to go...
Porsche called me and asked if I’d drive a factory car—a cheater 924 Turbo—at Le Mans in 1982. I said, “OK, but what do you mean by cheater?” “Well, you know, there’s not really a class for it—it’s gonna run in the GT class—but they’ve made a really good engine...
I first raced at Monaco in 1955, a famous year for the Grand Prix, when Ascari went into the water....
Our Ed McDonough spoke with Patrick Tambay at the start of this year’s Monte Carlo Historic Rally, followed his progress...
My interest in touring cars goes back to the ’60s when I watched the likes of Jim Clark in a Lotus Cortina. That was a fantastic spectacle you will never get again…that is, Schumacher in a touring car race on the same weekend as a Grand Prix, which is what...
My career started many years ago, in 1974. I was born in 1962, but I did my first racing in...
I drove the McLaren F1 with the Alfa Romeo engine. It had the same problem that the Alfa Tipo 33...
I did 525 races. I had five wheels come off, I’ve had seven or eight brake failures, and I have had the steering shear twice…where I have been driving along and suddenly my arms crossed…that’s when you know something is wrong! The things you remember are the things that are...
Sir Jackie Stewart This Audi TT is a car capable of being driven on or pretty close to the limit....
In 1963, three Willment-run cars were taken to South Africa for the South African season—a Lotus Cortina, a Ford Galaxie...
My racing goes back to before the war when I was driving mainly Maseratis. In 1937, I did quite a few races, mostly voiturette races for 1.5-liter cars, and that year I started at Posillipo in Naples with my Maserati 4CM, I think I finished about 6th, but that race...
I guess I have done most types of motorsport at one time or another…trials, sprints, rallies, hill-climbs and races. I...
I remember the 1968 Oulton Park Gold Cup Race very well because it was my first Formula 1 drive, and...
Back in the early 1950s I was racing my own Cooper 500 fairly successfully. I managed to beat the works team a couple of times, and I got noticed. Colin Chapman was looking for another driver. The people who did most of the sponsorship in those days, probably the only...
My first good job after college was designing suspension bits for Traction-Master Co. Later in 1968, I became a small...
Parnelli Jones By 1973, we had a great Indy car team and had won 53 Indy car races. As a...
The first Chaparral, the front-engine car, wasn’t my design, that was done by Dick Troutman and Tom Barnes. They came to me and said that they wanted to build this car, and that they felt they had learned a lot building the Scarab and wanted to follow on from that...
It was a very difficult decision at the time to go to Audi, which seems strange now. But then I...
Peter Westbury The first circuit I ever went to was Brands Hatch, in the ’50s, when I was still at...
There are so many, what I would call, “Tyrrell moments” in my life. It was a very gradual process. You have to remember that Dad started racing himself, before he moved up to run cars for John Cooper. Subsequently, he made the step to running F2 cars for Matra and...
My involveent with Ford goes back a long way and includes some of their most interesting racing projects. Before I...
You know, I had the experience of working with some great teams and on some “interesting” projects. For example, I...
I was involved in racing in a very interesting time, when a lot of good things happened and a lot of bad things. I was co-driving with Herbert Mueller. After Zeltweg in 1971, we were asked by Rico Steineman, the Porsche racing manager, if we had a car for Pedro...
I drove for Colin Chapman for about four years because I was a junior driver in the Lotus team, so...
Giorgio Pianta started racing in the 1950s, raced and rallied at international levels through the 1970s, and has held important leadership positions in the competition, research and development departments at Alfa Romeo, Fiat and Lancia. He is a Commissioner of the CSAI in Italy, rep to the FIA, and continues...
