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The circuit of Reims-Gueux was a Grand Prix racing road course, located in Gueux, west of the city Reims. The triangular layout of public roads formed a race track of 7.8 km (4.85 miles). The circuit became known to be among the fastest of the era for its two long straights of about 2.2 km each, allowing […]

Rising star Danny Sullivan had scored one victory in the Can-Am Series in 1981 and made his debut in the PPG IndyCar series in 1982. He then was recruited by the Tyrrell Formula One Team for the 1983 season at the request of their main sponsor Benetton, who wanted an American driver in their team. Danny Sullivan, […]

Riccardo Patrese recalls the 1982 Monaco Grand Prix where he scored his first Formula One win in “a race nobody wanted to win”. Patrese: “On lap 75, I was very cautious when I came to Loews, but I couldn’t control it and I spun. Afterwards someone objected that the marshals had pushed me. I didn’t […]

The 1980 British Grand Prix held at Brands Hatch was won by Alan Jones in a Williams FW07B. It was Jones’ third victory in a row, as he built his charge towards becoming the 1980 World Drivers’ Champion. Nelson Piquet (Brabham) finished second and Carlos Reutemann (Williams) third. The day before, the top 5 qualifiers automatically […]

For the 1969 season, Jochen Rindt signed for Colin Chapman’s Team Lotus, where he joined the defending Drivers’ World Champion Graham Hill (picture above). Rindt had been very affected by Jim Clark’s death, his great friend and best driver of the era, a few months earlier at Hockenheim, in a F2 race. He was telling: “If Jim Clark is […]

End of 1977, Porsche had decided to retire from both World Endurance Championships, the Groupe 5 (with their 935) and the Groupe 6 (with the 936), a programme centred around star driver Jacky Ickx, who temporarily had put an end to his Formula 1 career. The great Belgian accepted any interesting drive that came along, […]

An elegant orange Porsche 917K entered by the Team Gunston for Dick Attwood (who, a few months earlier, won the 1970 Le Mans 24 Hours) and local star John Love, seen here at speed during the 1970 9 Hours of Kyalami (picture above). The race was won by the works Ferrari 512M of Jacky Ickx […]

Bruno Giacomelli seems to be looking for something or someone, on the starting grid of the US Grand Prix West 1981, held at Long Beach. The likeable Italian had qualified his Alfa Romeo 179c in ninth position, his team mate Mario Andretti being in sixth position on the grid. The American finished an excellent fourth […]

Ronnie Peterson (1944-1978), known by the nickname “SuperSwede”, began his motor racing career in kart racing (picture above), traditionally the discipline where the majority of racing drivers begin their journey into motor racing. After winning a number of karting titles, including two Swedish titles in 1963 and 1964, he moved up to Formula 3, where […]

René Arnoux joined Jacques Laffite at Ligier for the 1986 Formula One season (picture above). The Ligier JS27 had a carbon-kevlar monocoque and was powered by the 1.5 litre Renault V6 turbo engine. The car was initially driven by the French pairing of Ligier mainstay Laffite and René Arnoux. The latter had missed all but the first race of […]