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The 1955 British Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Aintree. British driver Stirling Moss led a Mercedes 1-2-3-4 domination of the race, to win his first F1 Grand Prix ahead of his illustrious Argentine teammate, Juan Manuel Fangio. Picture above: Fangio leads Moss (Mercedes) in the early stages of the 1955 British […]

On the 6th of October 1973, a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria attacked the small State of Israël on Yom Kippour, the holiest day in Judaism. As a 12 year-old, with my camarades, I was listening to the news on the radio, hour by hour, worried for the well-being of friends […]

Philippe Streiff (picture above) won the 1980 European Formula 3 round held at Zolder in Belgium. The French driver, driving an Écurie Motul Nogaro Martini MK31-Toyota Novamotor, started from pole position and led from the start to the checkered flag. He finished ahead of Philippe Alliot (on the right of the picture above) in an […]

In April 2005, with Juan Pablo Montoya injured, Alex Wurz drove for McLaren in the 2005 San Marino Grand Prix (picture above), finishing fourth in the race. He was awarded third place after both BAR-Honda drivers were disqualified. The Austrian, who was McLaren test driver since 2001, knew the MP4-20 perfectly, qualified seventh, albeit 1.7 […]

Argentinian Onofre Marimón (1923 – 1954), Juan Manuel Fangio’s protégé, talented and popular, pictured here-above in a works Maserati 250F at Reims in 1954, 4 weeks before he lost his life in this car at the Nürburgring, at the age of just 30. He participated in 11 Formula One Grand Prix, achieved two podiums, and […]

Eddie Cheever, here at the wheel of his Project 4-entered Ralt RT1-BMW, claimed pole position and victory on the fast circuit of Rouen-les-Essarts in 1977. At the end of a solid season, the American finished second in the 1977 European F2 Championship, behind René Arnoux in a Martini. The level of drivers was very high […]

Nico Hulkenberg impresses everyone by putting his Williams on pole position for the 2010 Brazilian Formula 1 Grand Prix held at Interlagos. A fabulous qualifying session on Saturday in wet and drying conditions, saw a young Hulkenberg, 23 years old, take his first and so far only, Formula 1 pole of his career. Williams’ Hulkenberg […]

It was raining during qualifying for the 1976 German Formula 1 Grand Prix, held at the 22 km long Nürburgring. Vittorio Brambilla (picture-above), usually quite at ease in these conditions, struggled to find grip and qualified his orange March 761-Cosworth in 13th position. The March 761 was a Formula One racing car designed by Robin […]

One of Gordon Murray’s most controversial designs was the 1978 Brabham BT46B which featured a variable ride height and a large propeller at the rear (picture above), which he claimed, was for cooling the engine, but which coincidentally acted as a fan to suck the car down onto the asphalt. Though the idea was not […]

The Tyrrell P34, this revolutionary Formula One six-wheeler designed by Derek Gardner, was first ran at the Spanish GP in 1976, and proved quite competitive in the capable hands of Patrick Depailler and Jody Scheckter. Interestingly, while Depailler (picture above) praised the car concept and potential continually, Scheckter was unimpressed. When leaving Tyrrell at the […]