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The 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix was held on 13 November 2016 at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace, in São Paolo, Brazil. Mercedes was dominant, and Lewis Hamilton took pole position, in front of his team mate Nico Rosberg. Young (19) Max Verstappen was fourth on the grid in a Red Bull, and was going to […]

The 1975 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One race, held at Circuit Zandvoort on 22 June 1975. It was race 8 of 14 in the 1975 World Championship of Drivers. Picture above: Three champions are in good spirit ahead of the race, held in the dunes of Zandvoort. From left to right: reigning F1 […]

Bob Wollek (1943-2001) brilliance in endurance racing was such that he easily deserves to stand in my ‘Le Mans legends’, even though he never succeeded to win the legendary race. Picture above: Bob Wollek in the works Porsche 936 he shared with American Hurley Haywood in 1979. They were forced to retire. In 30 participations, […]

The 1986 Monaco Grand Prix was won from pole position by Frenchman Alain Prost, driving a McLaren Tag Porsche. This was Prost’s third consecutive Monaco win. His teammate Keke Rosberg finished second and Ayrton Senna was third in a Lotus-Renault. Alain Prost recalls: “I’ve got only good memories of Monaco, in particular this fabulous 1986 Grand […]

Le Mans 1968. A fire marshal in full gear, is ready for action while watching the turbine-powered Howmet TX of Richard Thompson and Ray Heppenstall pass (picture above). The Howmet TX (Turbine eXperimental) was an American sport prototype car designed in 1968, to test the competitive use of a gas turbine engine in sports car […]

Canadian racing legend Gilles Villeneuve contested his maiden Grand Prix at Silverstone in 1977, driving a McLaren M23. Leading McLaren Formula One driver and reigning world champion James Hunt, spoke very highly of the young Canadian after the 1976 Formula Atlantic race at Trois-Rivières and recommended Marlboro and McLaren to give him a chance. “From […]

The 1993 Canadian Grand Prix was held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montréal on 13 June 1993. The 69-lap race was won from pole position, his seventh in a row, by Alain Prost driving a Williams FW15-Renault, with Michael Schumacher second in a Benetton-Ford, and Prost’s teammate Damon Hill third. Picture above: Two immense champions, […]

Jim Clark was a Scottish racing driver who won two F1 World Championships in 1963 and 1965. His name is always associated to Team Lotus and its founder, Colin Chapman. In 72 Grand Prix starts, he took 25 wins, 32 podiums and 255 points. His speed and his silky style and car control were legendary […]

The Italian Formula One Grand Prix was held at Monza, on 7 September 1958. It was race 10 of 11 in the 1958 World Championship of Drivers and for Formula One Manufacturers. Picture above: American Phil Hill, one of four Scuderia Ferrari drivers, seemed confident ahead of practice, although he suspected that the Vanwall cars, […]

The first IndyCar Lotus-Ford appeared at the 200 Miles of Milwaukee in 1963, in the hands of Jim Clark and Dan Gurney: the marque with the oval logo became hereby involved, for the first time, in single seaters in this American competition, with a V8 engine of 4.2 litres. Clark was then going to win […]