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Jochen Mass, at full speed through Eau Rouge, in the Rothmans-Porsche 956 #003, on his way to victory with Jacky Ickx, of the 1982 1000 km of Spa, held at the Francorchamps circuit. The Porsche 956 was a Groupe C sports-prototype racing car designed by Norbert Singer (picture-below) and built in 1982 for the FIA […]

Niki Lauda is getting ready for qualifying at the Nürburgring 1000 km in 1973 (picture-above). He shares this Alpina Racing BMW 3.0CSL with Australian Brian Muir, but they didn’t start the race because of a crash in practice. Lauda took out another bank loan to buy his way into the BRM Formula One team in […]

Andrea de Adamich (born 3 October 1941) is a former racing driver from Trieste in Italy. He participated in 34 Formula One Grand Prix for the Ferrari, McLaren, March, Surtees and Brabham teams and scored a total of six championship points. Picture above: Andrea de Adamich (Surtees TS9B Cosworth), during practice for the Monaco Grand […]

Mikko Kozarowitsky,  born in 1948, entered two Formula One races in 1977, the Swedish and British Grand Prix, in a RAM-run March 761. Did not qualify at Anderstorp (picture-above) and did not pre-qualify at Silverstone. He wasn’t a flying Keke or Mika, but he was a Finn and actually the second man from his country […]

Jacky Ickx, born on 1 January 1945 in Brussels, turned 79. The Belgian driver, supremely gifted, won eight Formula One Grand Prix for Ferrari and Brabham between 1968 and 1972, and finished twice runner-up in the Drivers’ World F1 Championship in 1969 and 1970. He also triumphed six times at the Le Mans 24 Hours, […]

This is the Garage Monjoie in Stavelot (picture-above), a few kilometres away from the Spa-Francorchamps race track, a very busy place indeed, ahead of the 1961 Belgian Formula One Grand Prix. Magical view on the “Sharknose” Ferraris 156 of Wolfgang von Trips (2), Phil Hill (4), Olivier Gendebien (8) and Richie Ginther (6) that are […]

The first quiet moment. Rinus VeeKay had to sit down and reflect on not only becoming an NTT IndyCar Series race winner, but on having done it at the most prestigious place, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (picture-above taken on 15 May 2021). Rinus van Kalmthout, born 11 September 2000, is a Dutch racing driver. Since […]

For the 1970 Daytona 24 Hours, Luigi Chinetti’s North American Racing Team (NART) fielded three Ferraris 512S for Dan Gurney-Chuck Parsons in the #25 (picture above, on the banking, notice the modified roof), #24 for Sam Posey-Mike Parkes and #23 for Tony Adamowicz-David Piper. In the race, nothing could stop the works Gulf Porsches 917K […]

Renzo Zorzi (1946-2015) was a racing driver from Italy who participated in seven Formula One Grand Prix between 1975 and 1977, for the Williams, Wolf and Shadow teams. He scored one championship point, in Brazil in 1977, at the wheel of a Shadow. Picture above: Renzo Zorzi, pushing his Shadow DN8-Cosworth  hard during qualifying for […]

Drivers fraternity… before the race only! From left to right: Andrea de Adamich, Nanni Galli, Arturo Merzario, Ignazio Giunti, Pedro Rodriguez and Brian Redman (winner of these 1970 Imola 500 km). Brian Redman, alone at the wheel of his JW Automotive-entered Porsche 917K, dominated the 100 laps race and had a three laps advantage at […]