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In 1957 was held the only Italian Grand Prix at Pescara, on the longest race track (25,579 km) in the history of the Formula One World Championship. It went through the city before continuing into the superb green and hilly countryside as seen on this beautiful image (above) of the Maserati 250F of Juan-Manuel Fangio […]

Swede Ronnie Peterson made quite an impression when he won the 1969 Formula 3 Monaco Grand Prix and later that year when he convincingly won the European F3 Championship. His performances enabled him to move up into Formula One in 1970, racing first for the works-supported Colin Crabbe Racing privateer team and then for the […]

Bernard de Dryver (picture-above) in his Bob Salisbury Racing March 782 at Vallelunga, sixth race of the 1978 European Formula 2 Championship. The Belgian DNQ. The race was won by Derek Daly in a ICI Chevron, but the championship was dominated by Bruno Giacomelli in his works March 782-BMW.

Mario Andretti was never meant to win the Daytona 500 in 1967. The young Italian, just 26 at the time of his win, had become an American citizen, embraced everything about his new country, including its love affair with oval racing, and arrived at Daytona with the momentum of being IndyCar’s rising star. Fred Lorenzen, […]

Engineer Ray Jessop had designed the Formula 2 Motul M1 (codename RJ01) in 1973 at the request of Ron Dennis, as well as the pretty F1 Token RJ02 seen in 1974 in the hands of Tom Pryce. One year later, he modified this single seater, that was then named Safir, that never really raced in […]

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In June 2015, Porsche claimed their 17th overall victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. A fantastic achievement for a constructor dedicated to endurance racing since the 60’s. The race was won by the No.19 Porsche 919 Hybrid of Nick Tandy and Le Mans rookies Earl Bamber and Nico Hülkenberg, followed by the the red and […]

In 1994, the Driver’s Formula One World Championship was fought between Damon Hill and Michael Schumacher till the very last race in Australia. Ultimately, the German driver prevailed in the Benetton, after the two collided in controversial fashion (Schumacher went off the track and ran into Hill’s Williams) in the last round at Adelaide. Many years later, Damon Hill compared […]

Chris Amon Racing, was a Formula One team established by New Zealand driver Chris Amon. It competed as a constructor in its own right with Kiwi Chris Amon and Australian Larry Perkins (picture above, at the Nürburgring) in the 1974 Formula One season. The Amon AF101-Cosworth, designed by Gordon Fowell and Tom Boyce, followed the Lotus 72 in some […]

In his debut season (1984) for Ferrari, Michele Alboreto took victory in the third round at Zolder, becoming the first Italian driver to win a Formula One race for Ferrari since Ludovico Scarfiotti won the 1966 Italian Grand Prix. A fantastic achievement for the discrete Alboreto, who like most drivers, always dreamed of becoming a Ferrari driver, […]