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But what was Jacky Ickx doing in the small category for 1600cc cars at the 1978 24 Hours of Spa? He was driving alongside Brian Redman, a VW Scirocco entered by well known VW importer D’Ieteren. Unfortunately, suspension problems repeatedly caused punctures that damaged the body work, which forced the mechanics to “borrow” body parts […]

Daniel Ricciardo in his McLaren MCL35-Mercedes, flirts with the barriers during the 2021 Monaco Grand Prix. The Australian finishes the race in 12th, a lap down on winner Max Verstappen (Red Bull), while his young team mate Lando Norris, secures an excellent podium finish, just behind the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz. After two years at […]

The 1971 1000 km of Spa-Francorchamps was an endurance race held at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium on 9 May 1971 and promised to be a fantastic battle between Porsche and Ferrari. This was the first race I attended, I was not yet 10 years old. Picture-above: The Gulf Porsche 917K of Jo Siffert and […]

The 1967 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Mosport Park in Ontario. This was the first Canadian Grand Prix to have World Championship status. Australian Jack Brabham won this very first official Canadian Grand Prix in his Brabham-Repco, by lapping all except his Brabham teammate Denny Hulme. On the podium “Black Jack”  declared: […]

Wins in the Italian Formula Three championship and a European Formula Three championship crown in 1980, five wins between the two series, paved the way for Michele Alboreto’s entrance into Formula One with the Tyrrell team. At the age of 24, Alboreto made his Formula One debut at the 1981 San Marino Grand Prix for […]

Jack Brabham here at the wheel of his works Cooper T53-Climax 2.5L, at the 1960 Argentinian Grand Prix (Bernard Cahier picture), first race of the 1960 F1 season, where he retired on lap 42 with a broken gearbox. In 1959, there were doubts among critics about whether Jack Brabham deservedly became the World Champion, as […]

Jacques Laffite climbs out of his Ligier JS 11 (pictured above) after qualifying for the 1979 Canadian Grand Prix at the Île Notre-Dame circuit in Montreal. The Frenchman set the fifth fastest time and will start from the third row, while the second Ligier driven by Jacky Ickx is a distant 16th. During practice, Niki […]

The Andretti’s arrived in America in 1955, and started racing a souped up ’48 Hudson at Nazareth in 1959, remembers Jim Cooke. Mario Andretti’s passion and burning desire had him doing more than 100 races by 1963, including 3rd place at Thompson, CN Speedway. He’s seen here-above next to his Curtis Craft chassis. Mario Andretti began […]

Lewis Hamilton’s success in the 2006 GP2 championship where he was ho so impressive, coincided with a vacancy at McLaren-Mercedes following the departure of Juan Pablo Montoya to NASCAR and Kimi Raïkkonen to Ferrari. Hamilton was given nearly 8000 km of testing in the McLaren MP-21 to acclimatise himself to Formula One, alongside test drivers […]

Didier Pironi at speed in his Équipe Renault Elf Martini MK22 at the Nürburgring during the Eifelrennen in 1977 (picture-above). At the end of the season, Ken Tyrrell signed the French hopeful in his F1 team. Jochen Mass won this Formula 2 race in a works March 772P-BMW, but being a Formula One driver, he […]