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Chico Serra is a racing driver from Brazil. When he won the 1979 British Formula 3 championship, many observers were convinced he was a champion in the making. Ron Dennis certainly thought he was the real deal and gave Serra a lot of support. But he never got the breaks to make it big in Formula […]

Altfrid Heger, Dieter Quester and Roberto Ravaglia won the 24 Hours of Spa 1988 in a BMW Motorsport-entered BMW M3. The trio finished 3 laps ahead of the Ford Sierra RS 500 of Klaus Ludwig, Pierre Dieudonné and Thierry Boutsen.

Belgian aces Éric van de Poele, Jean-Michel Martin and Didier Theys won the 1987 24 Hours of Spa for BMW.

For 1973, FIAT imposed a new technical staff and engineer Forghieri was transferred to another department, his role being taken by Sandro Colombo coming from Innocenti and Lancia. The chassis was built in England by John Thompson. It was going be a disaster, the car being slow, heavy and unreliable. During the summer, Forghieri was […]

In 1977, BMW Motorsport and Jochen Neerspasch launched the legendary BMW Junior Team and signed three up and coming talents. By their strong performance and youthful enthousiasme l-r Manfred Winkelhock, Eddie Cheever and Marc Surer caused a stir in the world of motorsport.

Ken Tyrrell had given the promising Patrick Depailler drives at Charade and Watkins Glen in 1972. Using one of the older cars, Depailler did a good job finishing in seventh place in the latter race. So, in January 1974, Depailler (with the support of French petrol company ELF) was chosen to drive for Tyrrell (with […]

Belgian Jacky Ickx, a Scuderia Ferrari driver, won three Formula One Grand Prix in 1970 – Austria, Canada, Mexico – on his way to runner-up in the Drivers’ Championship, behind the regretted Jochen Rindt.

American Swede Savage (1946-1973) set the fast times during qualifying for the 1973 Indy 500, he even broke the track record and ended up starting from fourth on the grid (picture-above). Sadly he died at the age of 26 from complications while recovering from injuries suffered in a crash during the 1973 Indianapolis 500.

In 1931, Louis Chiron won the Monaco Grand Prix, the first and to date the only Monegasque to do so. He drove a Bugatti Type 51.

Fernando Minoia, #36 Bugatti T35C, Targa Florio 1929.