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Gianclaudio “Clay” Regazzoni (1939-2006) was a Swiss racing driver. A very nice and popular character, he competed in Formula One from 1970 to 1980, winning five Grand Prix – four for Ferrari and one for Williams. His first F1 win was the 1970 Italian Grand Prix at Monza in his debut season, driving for Ferrari. […]

At 44,  Jack Brabham (Brabham BT33) leads the 1970 Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix, (picture above), a race thrilling till the very end. The Australian three-time F1 world champion (1959-60-66) had decided to retire at the end of the 1969 season, and years later, told the story: “We finished second in the drivers’ championship with […]

Jochen Mass, born 30 September 1946, is a German former racing driver. He secured one win (the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix) and eight podiums in Formula 1, and won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1989, driving a Sauber Mercedes C9. Rivals in Formula 3, Jochen Mass and James Hunt (picture above) forged a […]

For the 1981 Formula One season, Ferrari had replaced the retired Jody Scheckter with Didier Pironi and introduced the new turbocharged 126CK. The French driver, won his first Grand Prix in Belgium in 1980 for Ligier, and his performances had triggered Enzo Ferrari’s interest. Ferrari recalled: “As soon as Pironi arrived in Maranello, he won […]

Jochen Rindt, the 1970 Formula One World Champion and winner of  six Grand Prix, here-above with Lotus boss Colin Chapman, once declared: “Maybe I will not reach the age of 40. But until that time, I will have experienced more things in life than anybody else.” He added: “I plan to go racing as long […]

The 1961 Belgian Formula One Grand Prix was held on 18 June 1961 at Spa-Francorchamps. The organisers of the race invited 25 entries, but were only going to pay starting money for 19: sixteen pre-selected cars plus the three fastest of the remaining nine. Picture above: John Surtees in his Cooper-Climax, at La Source Hairpin, […]

South African Jody Scheckter left Tyrrell and its six-wheeler for Walter Wolf‘s new team in 1977, and gave Wolf a sensational win in its maiden race in Argentina. He won twice more that year, like here (picture above) at Monaco and was regularly on the podium, but finished runner-up in the drivers’ championship, a great […]

In 1969, Cosworth developed its own Formula One four-wheel drive chassis, but this project, entrusted to the talented Robin Herd (ex-McLaren and soon founder of March), crouched on the picture above, never went further than private testing. It was the designer Mike Costin himself (the “Cos” of Cosworth, founded with Keith Duckworth) who first took […]

Three immaculate Ferrari 312 PB‘s, still without any sponsors’ stickers, wait patiently in the Maranello misty morning, to be transported to the Fiorano track, and being tested at full speed, ahead of the 1971 endurance season (picture above). In 1971, Ferrari focused on a new 3.0L endurance project, based around the Tipo 001 flat-12 engine […]

An excellent second place at Monaco (picture above) in 2008 for Robert Kubica (BMW-Sauber), just 3.064 seconds behind Lewis Hamilton’s winning McLaren. The Brit will be crowned at the end of the season. What could Kubica have achieved in F1, if he’d not been badly injured in a rallye accident? We’ll never know. A lot, […]