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The Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo (picture above) driven by Michele Alboreto and Riccardo Patrese won the 1981 Watkins Glen 6 Hours. Three cars in Martini livery were entered by the Italian marque for this event driven by: Patrese-Alboreto in the #1 (winners), de Cesaris-Pescarolo who finished second in #5, and Ghinzani-Gabbiani in the #4 car, […]

The 1967 Belgian Grand Prix was held on the great Spa-Francorchamps circuit on 18 June 1967. The 28-lap race of the 14,1 km race track was won by Eagle driver Dan Gurney, after he started from second position. Jackie Stewart finished second for the BRM team and Ferrari driver Chris Amon completes the podium (picture-above). […]

End of 1973, Emerson Fittipaldi took the decision to leave Team Lotus and join McLaren. Emerson remembers: “For me it was a very difficult decision for sure. Lotus was a great team and I felt very much at home there, like a family.” At the same time, however he was unhappy about the division of […]

Eddie Irvine and Michael Schumacher with their new Ferrari F399, were surely ready to pounce before the 1999 Formula 1 season (picture-above). Ferrari won their ninth constructors’ title, and their first since the 1983 season, paving the way for the Michael Schumacher era of Ferrari dominance beginning in 2000. However, Schumacher’s participation in the 1999 […]

There has been 25 Formula One drivers from South Africa, with 17 of them starting at least one Grand Prix, and only four having started more than four races. Jody Scheckter is by far the most prolific and successful of them, being the only one to have won a race. Even better, he has won […]

The 1968 Mexican Grand Prix was held at the ‘Ciudad Deportiva Magdalena Mixhuca’ circuit on 3 November 1968. It was race 12 of 12 in the 1968 World Championship. The race was going to determine who was going to become World Champion, between Britons Graham Hill in the Lotus 49B-Ford and Jackie Stewart in the […]

Jochen Rindt signed early 1969 for Colin Chapman’s Team Lotus, where he joined the defending Drivers’ World Champion Graham Hill. Rindt was unsure of the move, owing to the notorious unreliability of the Lotus cars: in a twenty-month period between 1967 and 1969, the team was involved in 31 accidents due to failing components. Picture […]

The 1995 Canadian Formula One Grand Prix produced the only Grand Prix victory for French driver Jean Alesi. This was seen as a popular victory, as Alesi had waited, and came so many times so close, over five years for a victory and was driving the red number 27 Ferrari, as driven by Canadian legend […]

The Renault RS01 was the first Formula One car to be powered by a turbocharged engine. It was also the first to use radial tyres, which were provided by Michelin. Designed by André de Cortanze and Jean-Pierre Jabouille, it first appeared at the 1977 British Grand Prix. Picture above: Jean-Pierre Jabouille at the wheel of […]

“Give a man a Lucky” was written in large letters on the grandstands, at the time where tobacco advertising was allowed. So, this must be the drivers’ briefing (picture above) ahead of the 1973 South African Formula One Grand Prix, at Kyalami. Historically, Lucky Strike was the main sponsor of the event, held early in […]