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At the 1981 US Grand Prix West at Long Beach, Riccardo Patrese sensationally scored his first and Arrows’ only Formula One pole position. It was a huge surprise, although Patrese pace was known, but the Williams’ were considered to be a much better package than the Arrows. Talent showed. In the race, the Italian led until […]

Tazio Nuvolari with Floyd Roberts, the winner of the 1938 Indy 500.

For 1979 James Hunt decided to leave the McLaren team. Despite a lacklustre season in 1978, James was still in demand. He was the 1976 World Champion after all, and a very charismatic one. He opted to move to the initially very successful Walter Wolf Racing team. The team’s first ground effect car, the Wolf WR7 designed […]

Rudolf ‘Rudy’ Caracciola, the original Regenmeister, driving the Mercedes W25K to victory in a rain soaked 1936 Monaco Grand Prix.

Belgian Didier Theys (at the wheel, picture above), Swiss Fredy Lienhard and former F1 driver Dutchman Jan Lammers shared this superb Porsche Spyder RS Evo entered by the Horag Lista Racing in the 2008 12 Sebring 12 Hours. They finished in 7th position overall, and fifth in LMP2.

For the 1977 season, Lotus retained Swede Gunnar Nilsson alongside Mario Andretti and the pair worked on developing the new ground-effect Lotus 78 imagined by Colin Chapman and Peter Wright. At the Belgian Grand Prix held at Zolder, seventh round of the season, Andretti took pole with a massive 1.5 sec advantage on John Watson […]

Peter Collins (6 November 1931 – 3 August 1958) was a British racing driver. He started his career as a 17-year old in 1949, impressing in Formula 3 races and then advancing into Sports Car racing and Formula 1. He won three Formula One Grand Prix for Ferrari from 32 starts and stood 9 times on […]

In 1978, the beautiful Fittipaldi F5A, modified to implement the principles of ground effect demonstrated to excellent effect by Lotus, allowed the former World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi to score several good results. The best of these being a competitive second place at the Brazilian Grand Prix. Fittipaldi finished the year with 17 points and the Fittipaldi […]

The Tourist Trophy or TT originated in 1905 on the Isle Of Man as a race for touring cars, but the best remembered period in its history is the seven years span between 1958 and 1964 when the venue was the Goodwood circuit in West Sussex. The 1963 Tourist Trophy was the last one held […]

For the 1979 season, Frank Williams was looking for a solid second driver alongside Alan Jones. He wisely chose Swiss Clay Regazzoni who came from the Shadow team. The Williams FW07, designed by Patrick Head and Frank Dernie, proved to be very competitive, especially in the final part of the season, with the FW07s winning […]