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Presentation of the 1996 Ferrari F1 car, the F310 and its drivers Michael Schumacher (already a two-time world champion with Benetton), Eddie Irvine and reserve driver Nicola Larini, with Jean Todt (Team Principal), Luca di Montezemolo (Ferrari) and Gianni Agnelli (FIAT). The F310 and its evolution F310B were  designed by a formidable group of engineers […]

The first-ever Detroit Grand Prix in 1982 was an often chaotic but highly memorable event, as Formula 1 got its lucrative second race in the United States (sounds familiar, isn’t it?) – a late replacement for Watkins Glen – to complement Long Beach, way out west. John Watson remembers: “My colleagues turned up at the […]

After an extraordinary performance during the night by Belgian Jacky Ickx, this Martini-Porsche 936 won the 1977 Le Mans 24 Hours and defeated the works Renaults and the Mirages. Jürgen Barth (picture-above) is nurturing the wounded car to the finishing line on Sunday afternoon. Ickx’s #3 Porsche 936 that he shared with Henri Pescarolo and […]

Eddie Cheever, Osella FA1-Ford, is 23rd on the grid of the 1980 South African Grand Prix held at Kyalami. Next to him, one can spot the yellow ATS of Marc Surer. Both will retire in the race. For the 1979 European F2 championship, Eddie Cheever left Ron Dennis’ Project Four team and joined Enzo Osella […]

At Philip Island, Vince Johnson captured the Ferrari 250 LM chassis 5909 for us in great detail, and so we did some research. Along with a truly great history with participations at Sebring and Le Mans, we found that it was once owned by Sonny Bono, of Sonny and Cher. Well they had a lot […]

Ronnie Peterson, March 721G-Ford, in a perfectly controlled slide during the 1972 Austrian Grand Prix, held at the Österreichring (also called Zeltweg at the time). The Swede, known for his sublime car control, fought his ill-handling car all through the race, and finished in 12th, two laps down on Emerson Fittipaldi (Lotus 72-Ford). Sir Jackie […]

Jacques Laffite tries to concentrate in the cockpit of his Talbot Ligier JS17-Matra ahead of the 1981 Canadian Grand Prix held at Circuit Île Notre-Dame, in Montréal. Nelson Piquet (Brabham) is on pole, with title rival Carlos Reutemann (Williams) alongside him on the front row. Laffite is tenth on the grid, but remains confident. The […]

At the end of the 1950s, the first successes of rear-engined single-seaters shook the front-engined “dinosaurs”, as illustrated by this image from the 1959 Monaco Grand Prix where Jack Brabham (Cooper T51) won, beating Tony Brooks (Ferrari 246) by 20 seconds after completing 100 laps in just under 3 hours at an average speed of […]

The 1960 Targa Florio: The Porsche 718 RS 60 of future winners Hans Herrmann and Jo Bonnier, is being attended during a pitstop and a change of driver (picture-above). The pairing is solid and fast on the twisty Sicilian roads. Ferrari had entered three of their latest 250 TR 60 and Dino 246S for their […]

John Cannon, McLaren Elva Mk. IIB, at speed in the rain at the Laguna Seca Raceway, on his way to victory in the 1968 Monterey Grand Prix (picture-above). Cannon would attribute his victory to his confidence in a set of rain tires that he exhaustively tested the year prior. “Not only was it amazing to […]