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The 1971 Nurburgring 1000-kms were held only two weeks after the Targa Florio. As at the Sicilian race, the Porsche factory loaned their 908/3 models to their best customers, the JW (John Wyer) Automotive-Gulf team and Hans-Dieter Dechent’s Martini Racing Team, but whereas the factory had been in charge in Sicily, here at the Nurburgring, […]

Jenson Button won the 2011 Hungarian Grand Prix on his 200th Grand Prix start, at the scene (the Hungaroring) of his maiden victory back in 2006, ahead of Vettel (Red Bull), Alonso (Ferrari) and team-mate Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) in fourth position only. However, by lap 20 Hamilton extended his lead, building a 9 second gap to […]

Jo Siffert (1936-1971) was a Swiss racing driver. Affectionately known as “Seppi” to his friends, he won two Formula One Grand Prix and stood six times on the podium. Sadly, he suffered a fatal accident in a non-championship F1 race at Brands Hatch in 1971. While Siffert’s status in F1 grew slowly, his fame came […]

The Brawn team, formed as a result of a management buyout of the Honda team, won six of the first seven races, their ability to make the most of the new regulations (and finding in the double diffuser a loophole) being a deciding factor in the 2009 F1 championship. It must be said, that the […]

Jody Scheckter qualified his Ferrari 312T4 on pole for the 1979 Monaco Grand Prix, a fraction faster than team-mate and main championship rival Gilles Villeneuve. Third fastest was Patrick Depailler in a Ligier, half a second behind. The South-African led all the way, but it was not an easy victory. Villeneuve pushed hard in the early […]

Before becoming a race driver, Bob Wollek was an excellent skier, a college ski champion and a member of the French olympic team, during the golden era of Jean-Claude Killy. After racing in single seaters up to Formula 2, especially at the wheel of a Rondel fielded by Ron Dennis, the native of French Alsace moved to […]

Denny Hulme (1936-1992) was a racing car driver born in Nelson, New-Zealand. Like journalist Andrew Frankel wrote in Motorsport Magazine, his Formula One career was ‘more successful than stellar’, providing eight wins, one pole position and nine fastest laps in 112 starts over a total of 10 seasons. But he not only claimed the 1967 […]

Bobby Unser (1934-2021) was a legendary American race driver. He was a three-time Indianapolis 500 winner (1968, 1975, 1981), a two-time USAC champion (1968 and 1974) and a ten-time winner of the Pikes Peak Hill Climb. Johnny Rutherford remembers: “Bobby Unser was very good, bless his heart. He and I came together at the Speedway […]

By the late 1960s, Johnny Servoz-Gavin was a rising star. He became French Formula 3 champion in 1966 driving a works Matra MS5, and in 1969 he won the European Formula Two Championship. His performances won Servoz-Gavin the attention of Matra, resulting in his moving to Formula 1. His best season was 1968, when he finished […]

Henri Pescarolo and Stefan Johansson raced this Joest-Porsche 956 to eighth place in the 1984 Nürburgring 1000 km race. A young Brazilian driver joined them on this occasion. Yes, the great Ayrton Senna, in his one and only appearance in endurance racing. One can recognise his yellow helmet on the picture above. The race was […]