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30 years ago, on this day, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna collided during the Japanese Grand Prix 1989 at Suzuka. This race would become one of the most notorious in Formula 1 history, as the culmination of these two great champions rivalry at McLaren. This collision on lap 46 decided the championship in favor of […]

Alberto Ascari (Ferrari), 1952 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps.

British racing legend Stirling Moss, who turned 90 recently, reflects : “If Lewis (Hamilton) wins a race, he has got to go and speak to the press, to the sponsors. If I won a race, I’d go and chase the girls !”. We love Sir Stirling.

Italian auto sport has lost one of it’s 60’s and 70’s heroes: Nanni Galli, pictured here, his yellow helmet always easily recognisable, in the works Alfa 33/3 at the 1971 Nurburgring 1000 km, passed away at the age of 79. Born in Bologna, his name with always be associated with Alfa Romeo. He was a […]

Niki Lauda (Ferrari 312T) was the clear favorite of the 1975 Dutch Grand Prix on the beautiful and selective track of Zandvoort. Leading the championship, the Austrian dominated qualifying leaving his team-mate Regazzoni and the rest of the field far behind. The start of the race was delayed because of heavy rain fall, and the […]

Picture here-above: Maria Teresa de Filippis, Behra Porsche RSK, Monaco Grand Prix 1959 (did not qualify). Maria Teresa de Filippis (11 November 1926 – 8 January 2016) was an Italian racing driver, and the first woman to race in Formula One. She indeed participated in five World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 18 May 1958, […]

The 1959 Monaco Grand Prix was held on 10 May 1959. The race lasted 100 laps of the three kilometre circuit, for a distance of 315 kilometres. Australian Jack Brabham won the race in his Cooper-Climax. Picture above: Jo Bonnier, BRM P25, Monaco Grand Prix 1959. Qualified 7th and best of three BRM’s, but was […]

In 1985, Alain Prost finally cliched his first the World Drivers’ Championship, after coming very close in 1983 and 1984. The French driver took 5 victories and 6 podium finishes on his way to a very deserved first crown. Niki Lauda, his team mate at McLaren, could not successfully defend his 1984 title, his French […]

Simon Pagenaud, IndyCar driver for Team Penske, was asked to try the Aeroscreen at the Barber Motorsports Park in wet conditions. Here is feedback : “The IndyCar Series and Red Bull have done a fantastic job. We are now fine tuning the concept, for example improving the airflow that goes through the cockpit”. “The visibility […]

Emerson Fittipaldi and Clay Regazzoni, here with Niki Lauda, went into the last race of the 1974 Formula 1 season at Watkins Glen, level on points, but Regazzoni quickly dropped down the field with handling problems, so Fittipaldi’s fourth place gave him his second drivers’ championship. It was also the first world title for McLaren, […]