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After the Le Mans drama, the glorious Mercedes team entered exceptionally a fourth car in the summer of 1955 in Formula One,  next to their regular drivers: Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss and Karl Kling. Hans Hermann and André Simon had earlier been called up at Monaco, then the veteran Piero Taruffi ensured a quadruple […]

For the 55th edition of the Targa Florio in 1971, Porsche brought the fast and agile 908/3, specially developed for this specific race. As usual, the factory was represented by the John Wyer Automotive Engineering – Team Gulf who entered two cars. One for Pedro Rodriguez and Herbert Müller and the other one for Jo […]

The McLaren M7A, powered by the Cosworth V8 engine, had proven to be a competitive car in 1968, enabled Bruce McLaren to win the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa. The New-Zealander finished in a promising fifth place in the Drivers’ standings. Expectations were high then for Bruce McLaren and his team, the Bruce McLaren Motor Racing, […]

The 1946 Nations Grand Prix was held on 21 July 1946 on the Circuit of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The race, on the 2.986 km circuit consisted in three heats of 32 and 44 laps. Picture above: Tazio Nuvolari – The great Italian finished third in the second and fourth in the third heat – […]

In 1974, at the Italian Formula One Grand Prix was held at Monza and the drivers were driven around the circuit for the parade lap, sheered by the Italian fans, the tifosi, in a very glamorous… Fiat 126! (picture-above). Ronnie Peterson and Jacky Ickx, the two JPS Team Lotus drivers seem to appreciate the view, […]

Harry O’Reilly Schell (1921-1960) was an American racing driver, who lived in Paris. He was the first American driver to start a Formula One Grand Prix and participated in 57 F1 Grand Prix between 1950 and 1960. Superb picture here-above of Harry Schell in his Maserati 250F at the German Grand Prix held at the […]

Sergio Pérez had achieved three podium finishes for Sauber in 2012, so when Lewis Hamilton decided to leave McLaren for Mercedes in 2013, Pérez was subsequently confirmed as Hamilton’s replacement next to Jenson Button. This also ended Pérez’ association with Ferrari, as he was released from its driver academy. Picture above: Sergio Pérez in the […]

“Sex, breakfast of champions” was the slogan that James Hunt had knitted on his immaculate (so to say!) race suit, when he raced for Lord Hesketh in 1974 (picture above, with his fiancé at the time, and future wife Suzy). Three years later, once a World Champion with McLaren, Hunt was very much in demand […]

Rookie Alex Zanardi won his first Champ Car Series race at Portland (Oregon) in 1996, leading 88 of the 102 laps. About 30 laps into the race, a rain shower swept over the track, but Zanardi elected not to switch to rain tires. Picture above: Alessandro Zanardi, in his Chip Ganassi Racing Reynard 96i, has a quick prayer […]

The ADAC 1000 km of the Nürburgring took place on May 19, 1963 and was the seventh round of the Sports Car World Championship. Picture above: The works Ferrari 250P of Willy Mairesse (at the wheel) and John Surtees, takes a convincing victory at the 1961 ADAC 1000 km of the Nürburgring. The Ferrari works […]