Happy New Year, dear followers and friends of our website the ‘Human Side of Racing’. Picture above: Team Tyrrell drivers, Jackie Stewart and François Cevert, in charming company and in joyful mood. Our community keeps growing, so thank you so much for following us, for sharing the posts and for your comments. Let’s make it […]
Year Archives:
Graham Hill
Graham Hill is the only driver who’s earned the nearly impossible “Triple Crown” of motorsport: winning the Indianapolis 500, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix. By the time he retired, he’d won the nickname “Mr Monaco” by winning the race five times, a record later only beaten by Ayrton […]
François Cevert
‘Always missed, never forgotten.’ François Cevert was a French racing driver born in Paris, who competed in 47 Formula One Grand Prix for the ELF Team Tyrrell, achieving one win, 13 podium finishes and 89 career points. He was a fantastic character, loved by everyone in the paddock. Sadly, he was killed on the 6th […]
Alain Peltier
Alain Peltier, born 30 November 1948, here at the Coupes de Spa 1972, where he finishes second in his Precision Liégeoise-entered BMW 2800 CS, was a Belgian racing driver, essentially in touring cars and in sports-prototypes. His career spanned from 1971 to 1983, during which he was mostly seen in BMWs, but also in a […]
Nanni Galli
Italian auto sport has lost one of it’s 60’s and 70’s heroes: Nanni Galli, pictured here, his yellow helmet always easily recognisable, in the works Alfa 33/3 at the 1971 Nurburgring 1000 km, passed away at the age of 79. Born in Bologna, his name with always be associated with Alfa Romeo. He was a […]
Jacky Ickx
F1: twice finished as championship runner-up, 1969-1970. 8 wins – 25 podiums – 13 pole positions, 14 fastest laps – 181 points. Endurance : twice world endurance champion, 50 + victories. 6 times winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours. Canam champion 1979.
Vic Elford at the Targa Florio.
Vic Elford takes us on a practice lap of the 1972 Targa Florio in the Alfa Romeo T33/TT/3 he shared with Gijs van Lennep.
Helmut Marko in the Monaco rain
Nice image of Austrian Helmut Marko in the Tony Southgate designed BRM P160 seen here in Monaco 1972. His team-mate Jean-Pierre Beltoise qualified on the second row of the grid and famously won the race in front of ‘rain master’ Jacky Ickx, but for the Austrian it was a race to forget, he qualified 17th […]
Matra at Le Mans, 1972.
Le Mans 1972, seen from the inside of the victorious Matra team. Winners: Henri Pescarolo – Graham Hill, Matra 670.
Indianapolis 1972, the first win
Roger Penske sits next to his driver Mark Donohue and the Penske- McLaren M16 at Indianapolis, in 1972. In May 2018, Will Power delivered to Roger Penske his 17th Indy 500 win as a team owner, I was there (!), but when did it all start for ‘The Captain’ ? Team Penske’s maiden triumph at the […]