Post Type Archives: Events

Chris Amon pushes hard in the Tecno FA123 at the 1973 Monaco Grand Prix (picture-above) He qualifies in twelfth position, which is a great performance in a car that is not known for its speed and in a field of 26 entrants. Unfortunately, he is forced to retire on lap 22, with an overheating engine. […]

Carlos Reutemann made his official Formula One debut on 22 January 1972, in a works Brabham BT34-Ford (picture-above). The F1 returned to Argentina after 12 years of absence, and what a debut it was for the popular Argentinian, who captured pole position! By doing so, Reutemann became the second driver in history to claim pole […]

The Leyton House-March Racing Team, with its drivers Mauricio Gugelmin (far left) and Ivan Capelli talking to their engineers, hard at work around their March 881-Judd, ahead of qualifying for the 1988 Monaco Formula One Grand Prix. Brazilian Gugelmin did well to qualify in fourteenth position while team mate Italian Capelli was 22nd on the […]

In 1976, Jacques Laffite and his very distinctive dark-green helmet (picture-above in the cockpit of the Ligier JS5-Matra) moved to the new French Ligier team. Guy Ligier had succeeded to convince French tobacco company SEITA and its Gitanes brand to fund his F1 project and he recruited some of Matra Sport’s best staff so successful […]

François Cevert at the wheel of the Matra MS670 that he shares with Jean-Pierre Beltoise and Henri Pescarolo at the 1973 24 Hours of Daytona (picture-above). Only one sports-prototype Matra is entered, with the objective to prepare for Le Mans and eventually try to beat a great number of Porsches, Ferraris and Corvettes. This Matra […]

On lap 12 of the 1992 Monaco Grand Prix, Michael Schumacher (Benetton) tried to pass Jean Alesi (Ferrari) for fourth place in the Loews Hairpin… the two collided (picture-above), and an electrical box was damaged in Alesi’s car. The French ace continued in fifth for another 16 laps with Schumacher now ahead of him, before […]

Carlos Reutemann took his helmet off to salute the massive crowd that came mostly for him, after passing the finishing line in his Ferrari 312T2, at the 1977 Argentina Grand Prix held at the Autódromo Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Buenos Aires. The popular Argentinian, nicknamed “Lole” had joined Ferrari in the second half of the 1976 […]

Lorenzo Bandini and Ludovico Scarfiotti won the 1963 24 Hours of Le Mans aboard their Ferrari 250P (picture-above). Despite good weather throughout the race, attrition was high, leaving only twelve classified finishers. This was the first win for a mid- or rear-engined car, and the first all-Italian victory – with F1 drivers Ludovico Scarfiotti and […]

Riccardo Patrese (Arrows A1-Cosworth) and Jacques Laffite (Ligier JS7-Matra) battle it out at the 1978 South African Formula One Grand Prix held at Kyalami (picture-above). Patrese and his new Arrows were instantly competitive, qualified seventh and led the race comfortably, till the engine blew. The Italian remembers: “The first Arrows was built in seven weeks, […]

Mario Andretti and Paul Newman (picture-above) lean against the latter’s Datsun 280ZX turbo at Riverside in 1981. From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, Paul Newman drove for the Bob Sharp Racing team, racing mainly Datsuns (later rebranded as Nissans) in the Trans-Am Series. Newman was a frequent and competent competitor in Sports Car Club […]