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In his debut season (1984) for Ferrari, Michele Alboreto took victory in the third round at Zolder, becoming the first Italian driver to win a Formula One race for Ferrari since Ludovico Scarfiotti won the 1966 Italian Grand Prix. A fantastic achievement for the discrete Alboreto, who like most drivers, always dreamed of becoming a Ferrari driver, […]

Wilson Fittipaldi, born 25 December 1943 in São Paolo, is a Brazilian former racing driver and Formula One team owner. He participated in 38 Formula One Grand Prix, between 1972 to 1975, for the teams Brabham and Copersucar-Fittipaldi, scoring a total of three championship points. Elder brother of double World Champion and double Indy 500 winner […]

Nigel Mansell’s skill as a test driver, including setting the fastest lap around Silverstone in a Lotus car at the time, impressed Colin Chapman enough to give him a trio of starts in F1 in 1980. Despite being unpopular with sponsor David Thieme of Essex Petroleum, Chapman announced at the start of the 1981 season that the seat vacated […]

Allan McNish (born 29 December 1969) is former racing driver and race commentator from Dumfries in Scotland. He started 16 Formula One Grand Prix for Toyota in 2002, with a best result of 7th, but is one of the greatest ever sports car racers, having won the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times (1998, […]

It’s with an immense sadness that we learned the death of Jean Graton, father of the famous comic strip Michel Vaillant at the age of 98. Jean Graton inspired a whole generation, and our passion for motor racing, we owe it partly to him. Thanks Jean for all these fantastic stories, for the dreams and the […]

Can you name them all? 1992 was the year of Nigel Mansell. Making the best use of his Williams-Renault FW14b designed by Adrian Newey, he dominated the championship, and was crowned as early as the Hungarian Grand Prix in July! It was a well deserved triumph for the Brit, who in 1986 and 1987 came […]

In 1988 Michael Schumacher made his first steps into single-seaters racing by participating in the German Formula Ford and Formula König series, winning the latter. In 1989, Schumacher signed with Willy Weber‘sWTS Formula Three team. Weber, believing in Michael’s talent, funded the team, became his manager and Schumacher rewarded him by winning the German F3 title in 1990 […]

The 1986 German Grand Prix was held at Hockenheim on 27 July 1986. The 45-lap race was won by Brazilian Nelson Piquet, driving a Williams-Honda. Compatriot Ayrton Senna was second in a Lotus-Renault, with Englishman Nigel Mansell third in the other Williams-Honda. Keke Rosberg (McLaren-TAG) had qualified on pole, but ran out of fuel on […]

The Tyrrell 009 was a Formula One racing car that was designed by Maurice Philippe for Tyrrell Racing for the 1979 season. Candy Appliances joined the team as title sponsor. The 009, greatly inspired by the all conquering Lotus 79, had an all aluminium monocoque and was powered by the Ford-Cosworth DFV V8 engine. Uncle Ken’s (Tyrrell) drivers were […]

Racing driver, journalist and excellent technician, Paul Frère raced regularly with success in the 50s, in sports car racing but also in Formula One. The Scuderia Ferrari had entered a 555 Supersqualo for him at the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix where he finished eighth, but this was a ‘one shot’. This happened again the next year at […]