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The career of Kimi Raikkonen in Formula One spanned over a 20 years period, from 2001 to 2009 and from 2012 to 2021 with a total of 21 victories and one world title (2007). After a two years break, he returned to Lotus first and then to Ferrari in 2014 where he first partnered Fernando […]

For the 1996 Formula 1 season, David Coulthard left the Williams team to join McLaren, so Frank Williams and Patrick Head replaced him with promising Canadian Jacques Villeneuve, who had won the CART Series title and the Indianapolis 500 in 1995. Damon Hill remained one more year with the team, well decided to have another go at […]

The 1982 Detroit Grand Prix 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 Detroit Grand […]

Australian Will Power won his first IndyCar title back in 2014. Since then, he won many races in this exciting series and was a title contender several times, but mistakes and some bad luck prevented him to do so. Now aged 41, and with the experience acquired through the years, Power conceded a different approach. […]

For the 1993 Formula One season, Michael Andretti, son of the legendary Mario and a very successful IndyCar driver, signed for the Marlboro McLaren team, to partner with the three-time World Champion, Ayrton Senna. Team Principal Ron Dennis declared: “I think Michael can win Grand Prix and become World Champion. It’s not a question of […]

The 24 Hours of Le Mans, was held on 11 and 12 June 1977. The second year of the FIA Groupe 5 and Groupe 6 regulations, it produced an exciting race right up the end. It was a magnificent battle between Renault, who had decided, before their move into Formula 1, to put all its […]

Price Cobb is an American race car driver. He won the 1990 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Jaguar XJR-12 and was for years a star of the IMSA Series. In his early 20’s, he attended F5000 races as a spectator and fondly remembers these spectacular races exclusively for the Human Side of Racing: […]

Kyalami 1979. René Arnoux and Jean-Pierre Jabouille (who captured pole) are pictured next to the Renault RS 01, introduced in 1977, that was the first Formula One car to be powered by a turbocharged engine. Designed by André de Cortanze and Jean-Pierre Jabouille, it first appeared at the 1977 British Grand Prix. The rules of […]

The British Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on 14 July 1951 at the Silverstone circuit in England. It was race 5 of 8 (what a difference with the current 22+ races in todays F1 calendar), in the 1951 World Championship of Drivers and was contested over 90 laps. José Froilán González (Ferrari) […]

Robin Widdows (born 27 May 1942) is a British former racing driver from England. He raced in Formula One (once), Formula Two, Formula Three and sports cars with Matra, including Le Mans. Picture above: Robin Widdows in a Cooper T86 BRM, at the British Formula One Grand Prix 1968 in Brands Hatch, at the very […]