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The Belgian Grand Prix was held at Nivelles on 12 May 1974. It was race 5 of 15 in the 1974 Formula 1 World Championship. This was the second and last Belgian Grand Prix to be held at Nivelles. For most of the next decade, the race would be held at Zolder. Picture above: Emerson […]

The 1975 Swedish Grand Prix was held at the Scandinavian Raceway at Anderstorp on 8 June 1975. It was race 7 of 14 in the 1975 Formula One World Championship. James Hunt, the Hesketh driver, sits on the roof of a modest FIAT 126, during the drivers’ parade lap (picture above). Vittorio Brambilla took the […]

Nelson Piquet dominated the British Formula 3 in 1978 in a Ralt, and Formula One team bosses started to pay attention to this talented Brazilian driver. Piquet made his Formula 1 debut for Ensign in Germany, starting 21st only to retire on lap 31 with a broken engine. He then made a deal with Bob […]

The Indy Japan 300 was the third round of the 2008 IndyCar Series season. Originally scheduled for the afternoon of April 19, at the 1.52-mile (2.45 km) Twin Ring Motegi, the race was delayed by 22 hours until the next morning, due to water sweeping up onto the track, from previous heavy rains. Due to […]

When the rear wing of Arturo Merzario’s Ferrari 312B3 fell off (!) during the 1973 US Grand Prix (picture above), he continued without it; when that gave him loads of oversteer, he made a pit-stop to have the front wing removed too, to balance things out! Aero was a bit basic, back then. He finished […]

The Monaco Formula One Grand Prix was race 1 of 10 in the 1964 World Championship. Jim Clark took pole position in his Lotus-Climax, just one tenth faster than Jack Brabham, in his Brabham-Climax. John Surtees, picture here-above, mastering his beautiful Ferrari 158 in the rain, was a fine fourth, just 0.5s behind the poleman. […]

The Martini boys. That’s how Dutch ace Gijs van Lennep used to proudly call the 6 drivers competing in the 3 Martini Racing entered Porsches, at the 1970 9 Hours of Kyalami. Indeed, two Porsche 908/02 were entered by the Martini Racing for Helmut Marko -Rudy Lins (#5) and for Gijs van Lennep-Gérard Larrousse (#6). […]

Paddocks were quite rudimentary in the 70s, like seen here-above at Oulton Park, where was held the 1972 Gold Cup, a non-championship Formula One race. When rain came, as often in England, things got quite complicated for the teams, here the JPS Team Lotus crew attending Emerson Fittipaldi’s Lotus 72. In this 1972 Gold Cup, […]

The Porsche 908LH of Gerhard Mitter and Udo Schütz, at full speed, during practice for the 1969 1000 km of Spa (picture above). This 908 was entered during practice only, before the pairing was asked to race the new #30 917. The 917 was very unstable at high speeds and lasted one lap only. Mitter […]

Maurice Trintignant is driving his Scuderia Centro-Sud Cooper- Climax to work in 1960 (picture above). In this case, work being the Formula One United Stated Grand Prix at Riverside in Los Angeles! The French driver is easily recognisable by his trademark bobble-hat, “which proves that Frenchmen are actually perfectly capable of dressing badly as everyone […]