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The 1973 Austrian Formula One Grand Prix was held at the fast and hilly Österreichring (Zeltweg), and was won by Swedish driver Ronnie Peterson, driving a Lotus 72, after he started from second position. Scotland’s Jackie Stewart (picture above) achieved the final podium finish of his fantastic career, coming second in his Tyrrell 006, while […]

There was still a lot of guess work concerning the multiple fixing points of the wings during the 1968 season: in the picture above at Mont Tremblant (Canada), we recognise Jack Brabham talking to Goodyears’ Leo Mehl while his chief mechanic Ron Dennis was busy on the left rear tire. A year later, at Montjuic, […]

Team McLaren dominated the 1970 Can-Am season, that had started a few days only after the death (while testing at Goodwood) of 1969 champion and team founder Bruce McLaren, by winning nine out of ten races. For 1971, a new model, the M8F was built for Denny Hulme, the reigning champion, and his teammate Peter […]

Dr. Helmut Marko is well-placed to compare the prodigious Max Verstappen who nowadays dominates the F1, with Sebastian Vettel, a four-time Formula One World Champion (2010-2013) for Red Bull Racing . (Picture above taken in Bahrain in 2022). “They are both great drivers, Verstappen and Vettel. It’s fantastic that we have had two such great […]

The 1961 Monaco Grand Prix was held on 14 May 1961. It was the first Formula One World Championship race under the new 1.5 litre engine regulations. Ferrari fielded the elegant 156, designed by Carlo Chiti, soon to be called ‘Sharknose’ for its distinctive front end, for Americans Richie Ginther and Phil Hill and for […]

Monza 1956: In a perfectly controlled drift from 6th on the starting grid, Stirling Moss takes his Maserati 250F to the checkered flag at Monza, to win the 1956 Italian Formula One Grand Prix (picture above). Sir Stirling Moss (1929-2020) was an extraordinarily talented driver. The Brit raced from 1948 to 1962, winning 212 of the 529 […]

Ludovico Scarfiotti became the first Italian in 15 years to win the Italian Grand Prix, when he drove his Ferrari to a track record speed of 220.2 km/h average at the 1966 event held at Monza (picture above and under). Scarfiotti is also the last Italian to win it. Scarfiotti, driving a Ferrari 312 in his only […]

“An adversary but also a friend” – Sir Jackie Stewart, the three-time F1 World Champion, remembers his on-track battles in 1969 and 1970 with Lotus driver Jochen Rindt, who had hit his prime. “Across my career, it was Jochen Rindt who was the toughest, the most competitive of my opponents.” Stewart continues: “In 1969 we […]

Graham Hill, at the wheel of a Lotus 49, on his way to victory, at the 1968 Monaco Grand Prix (picture above). Notice the photographer on the apex… The Brit was a two-time Formula One World Champion (1962 and 1968) from Hampstead near London, in an era where cars and circuits were at their most […]

The 1962 United States Formula One Grand Prix was held on October 7, 1962, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was race 8 of 9 in the 1962 Formula 1 Drivers and Constructors World Championship. Picture above: Hap Sharp, who had qualified 15th in his Cooper-Climax, but who […]