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Robert Manzon (1917-2015) was a French racing driver. He started his career as a mechanic and after World War II he went racing.  The French driver participated in 29 Formula One Grand Prix, achieved two podiums, and scored a total of 16 championship points. Picture above: Robert Manzon in his Gordini T16 at the 1956 […]

End of 1978, after the conclusion of his season in the European F3 Championship in the first (Wolf-livered) Dallara, the young Bobby Rahal was given by the opportunity by the Austrian-Canadian oil tycoon Walter Wolf to drive his second F1 car, alongside Jody Scheckter for the last two Grand Prix. Classified twelfth in his debut […]

This is the great Achille Varzi (1904-1948), Italian racing driver, driving like a madman in the Auto Union at rain sodden Monaco Grand Prix in 1936 (picture above), where he finished second behind the Mercedes of Rudy Caracciola. Team mate Bernd Rosemeyer crashed earlier in that chaotic and amazing race, but the great champion held […]

In 1974, Ken Tyrrell gave young (24) Jody Scheckter (picture above) his first full-time drive in F1. Jody rewarded him with a third-place finish in the Drivers’ Championship and a pair of wins in Sweden and in Britain. Jody Scheckter declared: “Right from the start of my career in F1 I was fast, but sometimes […]

Known for his love of motor racing, Lord Alexander Hesketh founded Hesketh Racing in 1972, is remembered for competing in Formula One from 1973 to 1978. He once declared: “Men love women, but even more than that, men love cars.” Picture above: “Le Patron” in front of the Hesketh Racing caravan in a paddock in […]

While his team mate Jacques Laffite finished second in the 1975 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring, the Brit Ian Ashley destroyed the second Williams FW04 during practice, in a delicate section of the race track called Pflanzgarten (it’s not Ashley on the picture above, it’s a marshal picking up his helmet). As seen on this frightening […]

Simon Pagenaud (#22) and Juan Pablo Montoya (#2) were teammates at Penske, but were racing hard against each other on track, like here-above at the 2015 Indianapolis 500. This race saw the debut of unique aero kits from Chevrolet and Honda, respectively fitted on the Dallara DW12 chassis used by all teams. Juan Pablo Montoya […]

Didier Theys at Magny-Cours (picture-above) with his Saulnier Martini, just before the 1985 Formula 3 Monaco Grand Prix and just before the Belgian decided to try his luck across the Atlantic Ocean. Journalist Pierre Van Vliet remembers: “I made the deal for him with “Monaco sponsoring”. Didier Theys went on to win the Super Vee […]

In the 60s, most F1 drivers, the stars of the moment, did not hesitate to race in selected F2 races, against the talented hopefuls. For them, these were good opportunities to race fast cars, to have fun… and to make a few quids. The Formula 2 race called Eifelrennen, raced in April 1967 on the […]

For the 1980 season, the promising Irishman David Kennedy (27 years old) joined Shadow in the F1 World Championship but it proved a disappointing time with the (very much) underfunded team, as he failed to qualify the DN11 in five races. The Shadow team (now in partnership with Teddy Yip’s Theodore Racing) clearly didn’t have […]