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Frank Williams Racing Cars was a British Formula One team and constructor, located in the very modest premises in Slough (picture-above), and led, with the means at hand, by the energetic entrepreneur Frank Williams. For the 1973 Formula One season, Williams managed to attract backing from cigarette giant Marlboro and Italian sports car manufacturer Iso. […]

In 1977, the young hopeful Alain Prost, who was dominating the Formula Renault Europe, was called to make his debut in Formula 2 at the wheel of a modest Kauhsen (in fact, an ancient Elf2 J) at Nogaro and Estoril, but the car wasn’t enough competitive for him to shine. The French driver was then […]

The Porsche 917LH of Gérard Larrousse and Willy Kauhsen, and its psychedelic Martini Racing Team livery, a car that was reaching 380 km/h in the Mulsanne Straight, is being taken care of during a nightly pitstop, at the 1970 Le Mans 24 Hours (picture-above). Larrousse and Kauhsen finished in second position, 5 laps behind the […]

The 2nd Race of Champions was a non-championship motor race, run to Formula One rules and held on 12 March 1967 at Brands Hatch in two heats and a final. Real camaraderie is evident on the picture-above taken before the start. We recognise from left to right: Dan Gurney, Jack Brabham (the reigning world champion), […]

The 1984 Formula One season became a duel between McLaren drivers Niki Lauda and Alain Prost. The Frenchman, chasing his first F1 title, was the fastest of the two, winning seven races to Lauda five, including the last two races of the season, but the Austrian eventually prevailed by half a point – the smallest margin […]

In 1970, the Swiss hopeful Clay Regazzoni (picture-above), from Lugano in the Ticino province, was about to win the Formula 2 European Championship with Tecno and make his debut in F1 during the season for Ferrari, before winning his fourth Grand Prix for the Scuderia, in Italy at Monza! During his first European Formula 2 […]

The 26th Daily Express International Trophy was a non-championship Formula One race held at Silverstone on 7 April 1974. The 40-lap race was run in connection with a Formula 5000 event, and was won from pole position by rising star James Hunt, driving a Hesketh 308-Ford, with Jochen Mass second in a Surtees and Jean-Pierre […]

Lola Cars International Ltd. was a British race car engineering company in operation from 1958 to 2012. The company was founded by Eric Broadley in Bromley, Kent in very modest premises (picture-above in 1961), before moving to a new place in Slough, Buckinghamshire and finally in Huntington, Cambridgeshire. Lola Cars endured for more than fifty […]

End of 1970, Swede Reine Wisell entered Formula One with Colin Chapman’s Team Lotus as a late-season replacement for John Miles, who had departed after team leader Jochen Rindt had been killed at Monza on September 5. Wisell’s debut was a month later at the 1970 United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. He performed […]

Pedro Rodriguez is trying to concentrate, despite the crowd surrounding him, sitting on the front-wheel of his BRM (picture-above), minutes before the start of the 1968 Belgian Formula One Grand Prix. The Mexican qualified in eighth position, while Chris Amon (Ferrari) was on pole, on this super fast Spa circuit. The 28-lap race was won […]