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The Stuttgart-based constructor has often shined in the USA in Can-Am and IMSA, but never in open-wheel racing. The attempt to participate at the 500 Miles of Indianapolis in 1980 with this spectacular Porsche 940 (picture above), entered by Interscope Racing for Danny Ongais, failed when the scrutineers of the USAC, assigned an inferior turbo […]

Carlos Reutemann, after a difficult year with Lotus, joined the Williams team and Alan Jones for 1980. This move put him back in a competitive car once again – the very quick FW07 car. The stylish Argentinian won the Monaco Grand Prix (picture below), a dream come true, and scored eight podiums throughout the year […]

No less than nine former winners will be at the start of the 107th running of the Indianapolis 500, on May 28 2023. Marcus Ericsson of Chip Ganassi Racing enters the race as the defending winner, while 2013 Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan announced that he will retire after the race. Picture above: Former winners […]

Ferdinand Porsche (1875-1951) was an Austro-Bohemian automotive engineer and founder of Porsche GmbH (later Porsche AG). He is best known for creating the Volkswagen Beetle (although his paternity of this project is contested), the Auto-Union racing cars and Porsche automobiles. Picture above: Ferdinand Porsche at the wheel of an Auto-Union in 1934. Between 1935 and […]

Already a multiple Monaco Grand Prix winner in F1, Graham Hill added a second jewel to his famous “triple crown” (before winning at Le Mans in 1972) by winning the 500 Miles of Indianapolis, at his first attempt in 1966. One year after Jim Clark’s triumph in Colin Chapman’s Lotus, first success of a rear-engined […]

At the 2003 Australian F1 Grand Prix in Melbourne, David Coulthard won a Formula One race for the 13th and last time. The Scot competed in 15 seasons of Formula One between 1994 and 2008, taking thirteen victories and 62 podium finishes. He was runner-up in the 2001 championship (behind Michael Schumacher), driving for McLaren. Picture […]

The 1956 Italian Formula One Grand Prix, held at Monza was the eighth and final race of the 1956 World Championship of Drivers. Coming into the race, Juan Manuel Fangio had an eight-point lead over Ferrari teammate Peter Collins and fearless French driver Jean Behra, driving a Maserati. Picture above by Bernard Cahier: Enzo Ferrari […]

The 98th Indianapolis 500 was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on 25 May 2014. Local boy Ed Carpenter took pole position at 231.067 mph (371.866 km/h), his second consecutive pole at Indy. It was a thrilling race. After going into the grass on the backstretch to gain position, American Ryan Hunter-Reay was able to […]

We think of the usual pictures taken at the swimming pool in Monaco, but Jean-Pierre Jarier did just that, along the wall in Long Beach in 1981, (picture above), at the wheel of the Talbot-Ligier JS17, when he replaced Jean-Pierre Jabouille, still recovering from his accident in Canada, the year before. Less known is this […]

Picture above: Canadian Ferrari driver Gilles Villeneuve and his wife Joann, at the Canadian Grand Prix in 1981. Always at his side, she once said: “Gilles was ruthless as a driver but on track he was very conscious of the dangers. He was a fair and honest driver, everyone saw that with Arnoux in Dijon.” […]