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The 1969 Sebring 12 Hours were held on 22 March 1969 on the Sebring International Raceway and were won by the Ford GT40 No. 22 driven by Jacky Ickx and Jackie Oliver. New-Zealander Chris Amon, seen here jumping into his Ferrari at the start, and American Mario Andretti battled all the way in their works […]

French racing driver Patrick Gaillard, born 12 February 1952 in Paris, raced in the European Formula 3 Championship in a works Chevron, finishing the 1978 season in third position, with two victories at Imola and Nürburgring. He then occasionally raced in the European Formula 2 Championship, in a works Chevron B48-Hart in 1979, but he […]

The Monaco Formula One Grand Prix was held on 30 May 1965. The 100-lap race was won by BRM driver Graham Hill from pole position, Lorenzo Bandini finished second for the Scuderia Ferrari and Hill’s teammate Jackie Stewart came in third. Lorenzo Bandini (picture above), who qualified fourth, on his way to a fine second place, […]

Happy 102nd birthday to the world’s oldest living F1 driver, Kenneth McAlpine. Born into the British McAlpine civil engineering giant, he started seven Grand Prix in the ’50s for Connaught, which team he eventually financed. Picture above: en route to 13th in his Connaught Type-A at the Nürburgring in 1953.

Jacques Villeneuve began kart racing at age 14 before progressing to open-wheel car racing in the Italian Formula 3 Championship, which he raced in between 1989 and 1991. He then tried his luck in the Toyota Atlantic Championship and finishing third in 1993. Nothing extraordinary for the son of Gilles, but great things were to come. […]

Ferrari came well prepared at the 1960 24 Hours of Le Mans with 13 entries, from the works and privateer teams. Their main competition would come from Maserati, Aston Martin and Jaguar. The race was barely three hours old when torrential rain hit the circuit causing a number of accidents and issues as water got into the […]

The Canadian Grand Prix was held on 8 June 2008 at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montréal. The 70-lap race was won by Polish driver Robert Kubica for the BMW Sauber team after starting from second position. To this day, it is Robert Kubica’s only Grand Prix victory, he remembers: “We were strong all week-end, not as strong as […]

In 1979, Jacky Ickx won 5 of 10 races of the Can-Am series, driving a Carl Haas entered Lola T333CS. Haas was the importer of Lola for North America. Amongst the races won by the Belgian was one held at Watkins Glen (picture-above). The car was based on the F5000 Lola T332, which explains the central position […]

Dan Sexton Gurney (1931-2018), was an American racing driver, race car constructor , and team owner. Gurney is the first of only three drivers to have won races in Formula One, Sports cars, NASCAR, and IndyCars, the two other being Mario Andretti and Juan Pablo Montoya. In 1967, after winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans for […]

François Cevert, in a beautifully controlled drift (picture above), aboard his Tyrrell-Ford 006, during the 1973 French Formula 1 Grand Prix at the Paul-Ricard circuit. The French ace and crowd favourite qualified fourth (albeit one second slower than pole man and team mate Jackie Stewart), drove a strong race and finished second, 41 seconds behind […]