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The three works Ferrari 312PB‘s seem to wait patiently for qualifying in front of their pits, ahead of the 1973 24 Hours of Le Mans (picture above), eighth round of the 1973 World Championship of Makes. Ickx and Redman shared #15, Merzario and Pace were in the #16 and Schenken and Reutemann shared the #17. […]

Alex Palou clinched his third (2021-2023-2024) IndyCar Series championship in his Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara-Honda. The 27 year-old from Spain is the first driver since Dario Franchitti to win three IndyCar championships. Palou declared: “I love this sport. I love being in a position to win races and championships. I don’t have the objective of […]

Rupert Keegan, in full attack mode on the curb stone of the Thruxton chicane, in his British Air Ferries Racing Team March 743-Toyota, followed by Bruno Giacomelli in opposite-lock in his works March 763-Toyota Novamotor, or the good old days of the British BP Formula 3 Championship, in 1976 (picture-above). Keegan, who sadly recently passed […]

The 50th Targa Florio took place on 8 May 1966, on the Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie, Sicily (Italy). Nino Vaccarella and Lorenzo Bandini, the winners of the 1965 edition, started as favorites driving the powerful and beautiful, prototype-class Ferrari 330P3 (picture below). Indeed, they were leading, until two laps from the end, a misunderstanding while lapping a […]

After setting the fastest time in practice and leading the 1969 Dutch Grand Prix at the start, Jochen Rindt, once again, has his dream of a first victory, postponed. Less painful than at Montjuic, where a wing failure sent his Lotus 49B violently in the barriers, this time it was the driveshaft, that let him […]

The Porsche 911 Carrera RSR driven by Gijs van Lennep and Herbert Müller at speed in the magnificent scenery of the 1973 Targa Florio, as always held in the mountains of Sicily (picture-above) near the island’s capital of Palermo. The Martini-livered works 911 was well-driven, had a flawless run and took a prestigious victory. The […]

Derek Warwick and Brian Henton, the 1981 Toleman Formula One drivers, were probably discussing their engines poor reliability with Brian Hart, who engineered the Hart 1.5 litre turbo engine that powered their Toleman TG181. It was a disastrous first Formula One season for the new to F1 Toleman team that participated in 12 of the […]

Half a century ago, George Follmer was one of the most eclectic American racing drivers. He developed his skills on the road tracks of the TransAm series, shone briefly in IndyCar in 1969, first by winning the opening race on the oval of Phoenix at the wheel of his Cheetah powered by the stock-block Traco […]

Wolfgang von Trips, in a Ferrari 156, wins the 1961 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort (picture-above), and becomes the first German to win a F1 championship race. Trips, after a race-long battle, narrowly beats his Ferrari team mate Phil Hill, by less than one second on the finishing line. Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips (1928-1961) […]

William “Bill” Brack (born 26 December 1935) is a Canadian former racing driver who raced briefly in Formula One (three entries), and then successfully in the Formula Atlantic Championship. He is seen here-above in the cockpit of his BRM P180 at the 1972 Canadian Formula One Grand Prix, where he retired. Born in Toronto, Brack […]