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During a demonstration for the sponsor Vodafone in 2011, Jenson Button drove the McLaren MP4/23 on the road circuit of Mount Panorama in Australia, scene of the famous 12 Hours of Bathurst. The 2009 World Champion established that day an unofficial track record of 1’48″8, about 15 seconds faster than the V8 Supercars of the […]

The 1985 San Marino Grand Prix was held at Imola on 5 May 1985. The race was won by Elio de Angelis, driving a Lotus-Renault, after McLaren driver Alain Prost had been disqualified for being underweight. Thierry Boutsen was a fine second in an Arrows-BMW, with Patrick Tambay third in a Renault. Picture above: Tambay’s […]

Alain Prost discovers karting at the age of 14 while on vacation with his family. He soon progresses through the junior formulae, and it becomes obvious to all he’s a very special talent. After winning the French and European F3 championships in 1979, he joins John Watson at McLaren in Formula 1 for the 1980 […]

In 1982, French driver Patrick Tambay was offered a seat at the Scuderia Ferrari after the death of his close friend Gilles Villeneuve during practice for the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder. Tambay won the 1982 German Grand Prix held in Hockenheim, his first Grand Prix victory, after his team mate Didier Pironi was badly injured […]

On the 12th of April 2012, ten years ago only, Charles Leclerc, now a Ferrari driver and leader of the 2022 Formula One Drivers’ World Championship, won the first heat of the WSK EuroSeries kart race at Sarno (picture above). The young Monegasque driver, born 16 October 1997, fast and fearless, had already caught the […]

Born in Phoenix, Eddie Cheever spent all his youth in Italy where his father, Eddie Sr. managed a network of fitness centres in Rome. The young Eddie Jr thus learned the ropes of karting alongside Elio de Angelis and Ricardo Patrese. Brilliant debuts in F3 and then in F2 in Ron Dennis’ Project Four team […]

In his fourth season with the Scuderia Ferrari, French driver Jean Alesi was hoping to finally have a competitive car, that would enable him to fight for podiums and victories. Picture above : Jean Alesi driving the Ferrari 412T1 to the limit, during the 1994 Monaco Grand Prix where he finished fifth. In 1994, the new […]

The 1956 Monaco Grand Prix was held on 13 May 1956. It was race 2 of only 8 in the 1956 World F1 Drivers’ Championship. Juan Manuel Fangio took pole position in his Ferrari, but Stirling Moss took a dominant win in his Maserati 250F (picture above). Moss, starting from the middle of the front row, in […]

The 1976 United States Grand Prix West was a Formula One race held on March 28, 1976, in Long Beach, California. It was the first time the USGP West appeared on the F1 calendar, along with the long-standing autumn race at Watkins Glen, New York. Picture above: James Hunt, Alan Jones, Harald Ertl and Mario Andretti (partially […]

The Scuderia Ferrari was more competitive in 1995 and Jean Alesi, always fast and fearless, achieved better results than the previous years. He is seen here-above before the start of the Spanish Grand Prix 1995. During his spell at Ferrari from 1991 to 1995, his aggressive driving style, his emotions, his passion, combined with the use […]