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Goodwood, Festival of Speed 2019. Scroll through the photo album and enjoy the beauty, the nostalgia of seeing the ancient race cars and their racing drivers.

Charles Leclerc’s look tells the whole story. The young driver from Monaco shows his determination not to let this happen again and he’s most probably thinking something like: “Next time buddy, you’ll be at the receiving end”. These two great racers will most probably often meet each other on track in the coming years. We […]

Lando Norris will start from the second row of the 2019 Austrian Grand Prix. It’s been a while since we’ve seen a McLaren so high on the grid. Granted, he benefited from Lewis Hamilton’s penalty, but nevertheless he qualified in Q3 for the 5th time in 8 races. Well done for a rookie.

Monza, Italian Grand Prix 1971. This race featured the closest finish in Formula One history. Peter Gethin (BRM) beat Ronnie Peterson (March) by 0.01 seconds on the finish line. It was to be the only Grand Prix victory in Gethin’s career. The top five were covered by just 0.61 sec, with François Cevert (Tyrrell) finishing […]

Argentinian Juan Manuel Fangio was born on the 24th of June 1911. He was very much admired by his peers, they called him “The Maestro”. He dominated the first decade of Formula One racing, winning the World Drivers’ Championship five times. In 1957, Fangio returned to the Maserati team, that was still using the iconic […]

Antonio Giovinazzi, who since the beginning of the championship was discreet behind Kimi Raikkonen, seems to come up to speed lately. The Alfa Romeo driver has out-qualified his very experience team-mate for the second Grand Prix in a row, reaching the Q3 and will start the fifth row. A first championship point today for the […]

French racing driver Philippe Alliot is best remembered for his performances in Sports Cars with Peugeot. In Formula 1, he sometimes showed great one lap speed, like at the 1989 French Grand Prix, where he qualified his Lola LC89-Lamborghini 7th on the grid, amongst 30 cars. In the race, he was easily in the top […]

Le Mans 2019. The Dragonspeed Gibson BR1 #10, featured Gulf colors, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Jacky Ickx’s legendary 1969 win.

Jean-Pierre Jabouille made his first appearances in Formula One in 1974, failing to qualify an Iso-Marlboro at the French Grand Prix, and a Surtees at the Austrian Grand Prix. He finally made his full Grand Prix debut, at the 1975 French Grand Prix held on the Le Castellet circuit finishing 12th in a works Tyrrell […]

Eddie Jordan founded Jordan Grand Prix in 1991, with engineer Gary Anderson as chief designer. The first Jordan 191 was a beauty and remains to this day one of the prettiest race cars ever. The team quickly gained respect in the paddock and punched above their weight on several occasions in the team’s debut season. […]