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Michael Schumacher led a Ferrari one-two at the 1999 Monaco Grand Prix, after pole-man Mika Hakkinen’s challenge faded away in the McLaren. Eddie Irvine, in the second Ferrari took second place and Mika Hakkinen was third (picture below). By taking his 16th win with Ferrari, Schumacher became the most successful driver the illustrious Scuderia has ever had. Michael […]

Belgian Patrick Nève, really fast in the F3 Safir, leads the two works March 753 of Gunnar Nilsson and Alex Dias -Ribeiro, at Silverstone in 1975. This three hopefuls will later race in Formula One, but only Nilsson will win a Grand Prix.

… cars jump, everybody knows that. Witness this image taken at the 1959 Australian Grand Prix ran at Longford in Tasmania and won by a certain Stan Jones (Maserati 250F), who was none other than the father of future World Champion Alan Jones. Jones Sr. duly won the race (ran according to Formula Libre regulations) […]

The little French Martini team, so successful in the lower formulae, tried to make the big jump into Formula 1 in 1978 with driver René Arnoux. Unfortunately, the Martini MK23 was too conventional, unreliable, and ultimately not quick enough. One should know that Tico Martini started the design of the car mid-1976, but by the […]

With 7 World Drivers’ Championships on his name, 98 Grand Prix victories and 100 (!) pole positions and still counting, Lewis Hamilton has surpassed all expectations. But how great is he? Damon Hill and Fernando Alonso, two World Champions in their own right, express themselves: Damon Hill: “You do realise you are watching one of […]

Earlier this week, Roger Penske (84 years old) tested the 2008 Porsche RS Spyder in preparation for the Goodwood Festival of Speed later this summer! Roger Penske, a former excellent racing driver, and nowadays an exceptional businessman and entrepreneur, has been involved in motor racing and is the chairman of Team Penske, since more than 60 years.

Formula 1 rising star Thierry Boutsen was paired with veteran endurance ace David Hobbs in the John Fitzpatrick entered Skoal Bandit Porsche 956 for the 1984 Nurburgring 1000km. The race was won by the works Rothmans Porsche 956 of Stefan Bellof and Derek Bell, but Boutsen and Hobbs did a tremendous job finishing in the same lap as the […]

Ronnie Peterson joined Mario Andretti and the JPS Team Lotus for the 1978 season. The fast Swede, having suffered at the wheel of the heavy and by now uncompetitive Tyrrell P34/2 six wheeler the year before, gladly signed for Colin Chapman’s team as second driver. His mission, help his American team leader (Andretti) become World Champion. […]

First American Formula One World Champion with Ferrari in 1961, Phil Hill was going to experience a ‘season in hell’ in the Grand Prix the following year, after the departure of some of the most important brains of the Scuderia, which jeopardised the development of the pretty 156 “sharknose”. Only 12th on the grid of the 1962 […]

Its an easy play of words used to evoke Al Pease, who distinguished himself at the 1969 Canadian Grand Prix by being… so slow! Le Canadian driver had miraculously succeeded to qualify his old Eagle-Climax (picture above) but was later disqualified during the race, for having hindered numerous other drivers, even causing an accident to […]