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The two Brabham BT44’s of Carlos Reutemann and Carlos Pace (picture-above) are being readied for the US Grand Prix, last race of the 1974 Formula One season, held on the challenging and dangerous Watkins Glen circuit. Three drivers can still be crowned: Regazzoni (Ferrari), Fittipaldi (McLaren) and Scheckter (Tyrrell). Carlos Reutemann won from the pole, […]

Andrea de Cesaris, very much of a Marlboro man thanks to his fathers’ connections with the American brand, switched back to Alfa Romeo in 1982. He’s seen here-above quite agitated (or was he just cold) while well-known ex-Ferrari mechanic Ermanno Cuoghi attends his car. Again, the Italian showed his one-lap speed when he became the […]

Mario Andretti and Pedro Rodriguez (at the wheel) shared this beautiful Ferrari 365/P2, chassis #0838, at the 1966 12 Hours of Sebring. Look at this very fragile-looking roll bar! The car had some transmission problems during the race and was forced to retire. Knowledgeable reader Luc Ghys remembers: “Near Webster Turn, Andretti missed a gear, […]

Austrian Gerhard Berger (picture-above) qualified his Benetton B186-BMW in sixth for the 1986 Australian Grand Prix held at the Adelaide Street Circuit, while his teammate, Italian Teo Fabi, could not do better than 13th. On Sunday, both Benettons were forced to retire with engine trouble. The race decided a three-way battle for the Drivers’ Championship […]

The first to have driven a race car with the engine behind the driver at Indianapolis is none other than Jack Brabham: then a double F1 world champion in the little Cooper T51, a car that had revolutionised Grand Prix racing with it’s 4 cylinder Climax engine placed behind the driver. Indeed, he had convinced […]

Niki Lauda (Ferrari 312B3) and Carlos Reutemann (Brabham BT44) align side by side, on the front row of the 1974 Austrian Formula 1 Grand Prix at Zeltweg. Note the beauty of the cars of the 70s, with very few visible sponsors and different design philosophies that made these easily recognisable, one from the other. Niki Lauda […]

In the middle of the 60’s, two feature movie about car racing were competing: “Grand Prix” directed by John Frankenheimer (produced by the MGM) and “Days of the Champion” (Warner Bros). This second film would never be completed, despite the  start of the shoot in 1965, one year before Grand Prix, by director John Sturges […]

At the 1992 British Grand Prix held at Silverstone, Damon Hill (Brabham-Judd) qualified for a Formula One Grand Prix for the first time: in 26th position. Damon’s Friday time got him on the grid by 0.080 sec only, just edging out Alessandro Zanardi’s Minardi-Lamborghini. Sunday afternoon, Hill crossed the line in 16th position, 4 laps […]

1961, the first year of the 1.5-litre formula, was dominated by a well-prepared Ferrari team who fielded for the first time a mid-engined car – the legendary 156 “Sharknose”– going against team boss Enzo Ferrari’s dislike of mid-engine cars and his old-fashioned belief that race cars should be powered by front-engines. The contest for the […]

John Colum Crichton-Stuart (1958-2021), 7th Marquess of Bute, was a Scottish racing driver, best known for winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1988 alongside Dutchman Jan Lammers and Englishman Andy Wallace (picture-above) and for being Senna’s team mate in 1986 at Lotus in F1. As a racing driver he was known as Johnny […]