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The 1974 World Endurance Championship was meant to go to the Matra Sport team. Ferrari had withdrawn from the championship at the end of 1973 and the French team only faced Alfa Romeo and Gulf Ford for the outright victory. The Matra 670C was a beautiful machine with it’s 3l V12 engine, and what a […]

Alain Prost driving a Williams-Renault won the 1993 Spanish Grand Prix, with Ayrton Senna second in a McLaren-Ford and Michael Schumacher third in a Benetton-Ford. The only time those 3 all-time greats shared a Formula One podium together (picture above). You’re looking at 14 World Drivers’ titles, 183 Grand Prix wins, 166 pole positions and […]

The Can-Am Shadow cars always featured audacious technical choices and original aerodynamics, as this MKI driven by Jackie Oliver and George Follmer in 1970. The rule book stated that the Groupe 7 race cars had to be two-seaters, therefor the second seat visible next to the driver’s seat. Note the width of the tyres and […]

The 1971 Daytona 24 Hours was won by Pedro Rodriguez and Jackie Oliver in the J.W. Automotive Engineering-entered Gulf Porsche 917K. Second were Americans Bucknum and Adamowicz in a NART-entered Ferrari 512S, one lap behind. Picture above: This is what remains of the Sunoco Penske Ferrari 512M of Mark Donohue and David Hobbs in the closing stages […]

The 1987 Austrian Grand Prix was held at the fast and curvy Österreichring on 16 August 1987. The race was plagued with accidents. One of them being when Stefan Johansson hit a deer with his McLaren MP4/3. Johansson was not hurt, but sadly the deer died instantly. The powerful Williams-Honda FW11B’s dominated the event with […]

After entering F1 by sponsoring the Tyrrell team, Luciano Benetton bought end of 1984 the Toleman team and Spirit’s Pirelli contract that he transferred to his newly owned team. The Benetton-sponsored Toleman TG185-Hart of 1985, designed by Rory Byrne, was never truly reliable, but Teo Fabi‘s (picture above) one-lap speed lead to the marque’s only pole […]

Siegfried Stohr is a former racing driver from Rimini, Italy. A race winner in F2, he participated in 13 Formula One Grand Prix for the Arrows team in 1981. On his web page, Siegfried Stohr (Official), he recently posted some fond memories of his time in the F2, in particular at Enna-Pergusa in 1980, where he […]

John Watson’s most successful year in Formula One was 1982, when he finished third in the Drivers’ Championship, winning two races: the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder and the Detroit Grand Prix, where he worked his way from 17th on the grid, charged through the field and scored a memorable victory. Picture above: John Watson (McLaren […]

The 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 30th edition of the great race, and took place on 23 and 24 June 1962. Belgian Olivier Gendebien and American Phil Hill took overall victory in their works Ferrari 330 TRI/LM. Pierre Noblet and Jean Guichet (picture above) improved from their third place from the previous […]

The Brabham BT45 was a Formula One car designed by South African engineer Gordon Murray for the 1976 Formula One season. The car was the first Brabham to use the Alfa Romeo type 115-12 flat 12 cylinder engine that produced 500 horsepower. Picture above : Carlos Pace, Brabham BT45 Alfa Romeo, trying hard in a rain-sodden Belgian […]