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21 years ago, Mike Salo was leading the 1999 German Grand Prix for Ferrari, while standing in for the injured Michael Schumacher. Then came a radio call from the pits...
1954 brought the return of Mercedes to grand prix racing. In a story familiar to the hybrid era, its W196 was the class of the field. Peter Higham tells the story in an extract from Formula 1 Car by Car 1950-59
The sign reads: "International Donington Grand Prix Car Race" but some of the pictures are more reminiscent of a country drive, with farm buildings, rolling fields and hedgerows lining the…
James Hunt's finest race? From start to well beyond the finish, controversy dogged the 1976 British Grand Prix but the Brands Hatch display was a great drive from the home favourite
65 after Stirling Moss won the 1955 British Grand Prix, his first World Championship victory was commemorated at Aintree
Enzo Ferrari could be mulish: who on Earth would think it logical to place a prancing horse behind its cart? So surmised a man basking (from July 1960) in the…
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From the first loose-surfaced tracks of 1931 to staging four grands prix, Donington Park’s expansion in just a few years was astonishing. The unlikely but formidable partnership of John Gillies…
Ten years. That’s how long Tom Hartley Jnr tracked Ferrari 312T no023, featured here in our pictures, before he finally landed one of the most prestigious deals of his career.…
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To Mr Ferrari, the only Formula 1 car that mattered was his current one; retired grand prix cars were redundant. But that’s not how many of us may see it.…
Forty-five years ago today, a privately funded Formula 1 team notched up its only grand prix victory by the Dutch coast. We look back at James Hunt's winning drive with its patron, Lord Hesketh
Fifty years after the death of Bruce McLaren, we remember his remarkable accomplishments from a life cut tragically short
The huge crowd stood as one. Never before had two drivers battling for the lead of an Indianapolis 500 made their final pitstops simultaneously. Onboard air-jacks plugged in – these…
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Rudi Uhlenhaut, the engineer behind the stupendous W196 Mercedes, described the Lancia D50 Formula 1 machine as “the only car we really feared”. Although the W196 and Maserati 250F were…
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Jack Brabham clinched the 1959 F1 championship by pushing his car over the line; the story of how he got there is one of meticulous planning, determination and a dose of craftiness
While there had been grands prix before and after the Second World War, a sunny May 13, 1950 at Silverstone marked the start of the modern era. Roads into the…
Stirling Moss reflects on his life and career in this previously unseen video interview, recorded before his retirement from public life
