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Pedro Rodriguez, Yardley-BRM P153, brakes on the very limit at the La Source hairpin, during the 1970 Belgian Grand Prix that he’s going to win, held on the mighty 14.100 km circuit at Spa-Francorchamps. Race winner Pedro Rodriguez had set a 160 miles an hour lap in the sports car race, the 1000 km of […]

The 1968 United States Grand Prix was held on October 6, 1968, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course. The 108-lap race was won by Matra driver Jackie Stewart, not yet a F1 world champion, after he started from second position. This was the debut race of future (1978) World Champion Mario Andretti who was driving […]

Juan Pablo Montoya, born 20 September 1975, is a Colombian  racing driver who has won the North American championship CART in 1999, the Indianapolis 500 in 2000 and 2015, the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2007, 2008 and 2013 and the IMSA SportsCar Championship in 2019. He first drove in Formula One when he joined […]

French ace Patrick Tambay returned to CanAm in 1980, with the Lola team run by Carl Haas, immediately winning early in the season and then taking his second CanAm championship. He then got a call from Teddy Yip, a real estate magnate from Hong Kong, owner of Theodore Racing, and he returned to Formula One […]

Jan Lammers squeezed his Jaguar XJR-9 in between Mauro Baldi’s Sauber C9/88-Mercedes and the pit wall, in the smallest of a gap, at the start of the 1989 1000 km of Spa (picture-above). The brave Dutchman, adrenaline pumping, certainly forgot it was a 70 lap race, took a huge risk and forcefully took the lead […]

Jackie Stewart receives a bottle of Coca-Cola from Tyrrell mechanic Richard Hill after winning the 1971 Monaco Grand Prix (picture-above). This race in the Principality was the 200th World Championship Grand Prix held since it began in 1950. Qualifying was extremely wet and Jackie Stewart (Tyrrell 003-Ford) claimed a stunning pole position over a second […]

Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi (picture-above), the Scuderia Ferrari drivers, and still good friends at the time, walk to their cars on the grid of the 1981 Belgian Grand Prix, while Colin Chapman (white jacket) looks on, and Bernie Ecclestone (in black) is next to Nelson Piquet’s Brabham. The 1981 Belgian Grand Prix was held […]

Wet start at Mosport in 1973 (picture-above). Poleman Ronnie Peterson is already out of sight in his Lotus 72 while Peter Revson (McLaren M23) is leading François Cevert (Tyrrell 006), veteran Denny Hulme far left in the second Yardley McLaren, Niki Lauda showing lots of promise in his Marlboro-BRM, then Jackie Stewart now a three-time […]

Paul di Resta (born 16 April 1986) was a winner in F3, in the DTM and the WEC, but never had the cars to win in Formula One, although he drove some excellent races for Force India in 2012 and 2013, including a fine 4th in Singapore in 2012 ahead of Nico Rosberg’s Mercedes (picture-above). […]

James Hunt is ready to climb into his Hesketh 308B ahead of qualifying for the 1975 Monaco Grand Prix, while team boss Lord Alexander Hesketh watches on (picture-above). The Brit qualified in eleventh, drove a strong race, but lost a lot of time in the pits due to a slow pit stop when he decided […]