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Helmut Marko, born 27 April 1943 in Graz, Austria, is the current special advisor to the Red Bull Formula One team, and the feared head of Red Bull’s driver development program. But long before that, he was an excellent professional racing driver. I was lucky to meet him a couple of times, and I can […]

Rupert Keegan, a British race car driver, born 26 February 1955, had a rapid rise to reach Formula One, with his father Mike helping him with backing from the family owned British Air Ferries aviation company, but also with publicity in all British motorsport magazines. A wild, young, good looking man: some saw in him […]

The 1975 French Formula One Grand Prix was held at the Paul-Ricard circuit on 6 July 1975. The race was won from pole position by Austrian Niki Lauda, driving a Ferrari 312T. Lauda led every lap and survived late charges from British driver James Hunt in the Hesketh-Ford and German driver Jochen Mass in one […]

The 1972 24 Hours of Spa were held on the Circuit National de Francorchamps (14.100 km long) on 22-23rd of July 1972. It was round 5 of the European Touring Car Championship. Picture above: the Alpina BMW 2800 CS of Gerold Pankl and Helmut Kelleners at La Source in the pouring rain. It was forced […]

After a disastrous 1993 season, Scuderia Italia withdrew from F1 and merged with fellow Italian team Minardi for 1994. The Minardi cars proved to be mostly uncompetitive and unreliable, with a total of nine retirements from sixteen rounds which was unfortunate for the very capable Michele Alboreto and Pierluigi Martini (picture above). A sixth position […]

Nice era of racing when the F2 cars were lining up four by four, on the front row of the 1968 Eifelrennen ran on the South loop of the Nürburgring, a 7.5 km track situated (as it’s name indicates) south of the great 22 km long race track, for a total of 28 kms. We […]

The 1988 Detroit Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on June 19, 1988 in the streets of Detroit, Michigan. Ayrton Senna’s third win of the season made it six out of six for McLaren in 1988, on the way to an unprecedented 15 wins and ten 1-2 finishes in 16 races. Picture above: Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna […]

The Tyrrell 011 was a Formula One car designed by engineer Maurice Philippe for the Tyrrell Racing Organisation in 1981. It was powered by the 3.0l Cosworth DFV engine. A sound concept, the 011 raced from 1981 to 1983, although its only full season was 1982. Picture above: Italian Michele Alboreto, and behind him, the […]

The first races of the 1980 season proved to be very promising for the Renault F1 team, and for its drivers Jean-Pierre Jabouille and René Arnoux. At the Brazilian Grand Prix, Jabouille took pole and led for 25 of 40 laps. The Renaults were dominant at Interlagos, which was located at 850 meter (2840ft) above sea level, giving the […]

Indianapolis 1969. The first weekend of time trials was rained out. Mario Andretti crashed his Lotus the second week of practice and the other Lotus 64’s were pulled out by Colin Chapman. Mario ended up in the Andy Granatelli-entered Brawner Hawk, and won the race! Unusual: Jochen Rindt in his Lotus 64 Ford, ahead of qualifying for the […]