It’s an unfortunate fact that rather more Formula 1 drivers are better remembered for misfortunes than achievement. For me 30 years ago the Japanese hopeful Taki Inoue fitted this bill.…
Barcelona, March 21-23 The Peter Auto season opener, four cars in five races, all with John Emberson. John achieved his first outright pole position – at night, in the rain…
Try to imagine your ideal street track, and the only limits are your imagination. It would be fast and challenging; a touch daunting. It would have sharp gradient changes –…
March 3, 1973 Kyalami, South Africa Back row, from left: Peter Revson, Jackie Stewart, François Cevert, Emerson Fittipaldi, Niki Lauda, Carlos Pace, Andrea de Adamich, Clay Regazzoni, Jean-Pierre Jarier and…
The four men who lost their lives were: Antonio Ballarri, a 28-year-old Barcelona journalist; Joaquín Morera Benaches, a 52-year-old fire marshal, also from Barcelona; Mario de Roia, a 31-year-old Italian-Canadian…
Can it really have been 50 years ago? I remember the events of April 25-27, 1975 almost as if they happened yesterday. They are scarcely believable, especially when judged against…
Chip Ganassi has a one-word answer when asked what keeps him coming back to motor racing year after year... “Winning.” Now entering his 37th season as a team owner, Ganassi’s…
“Some years ago there was a popular ballad entitled Trees and the last line ran, ‘…but only God can make a tree,’” wrote our man to begin his report of…
Stirling Moss’s first experience of Italy’s tremendous classic road race came in 1951, upon his debut as a works Jaguar driver. He was only 21. He still had a head…
The greatest story ever told,” we proclaimed in 2005 on the 50th anniversary of Stirling Moss’s epochal victory on the Mille Miglia, and its subsequent capture – in neat long-hand,…
Our late little bearded mate Jenks obviously features prominently in this issue’s Mille Miglia pages, but I’m also reminded of his regular Continental Notes column, which in many ways fuelled…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2jpFtWH2i0 1 Porsche (19 wins) Jo Bonnier delivered Porsche its first Sebring 12 Hours win in 1960 with a 718 RS60 entered by the Swede for Hans Herrmann and Olivier…
10. Fangio Five-time world champion who set the benchmark for the professional F1 driver “He was the greatest of them all,” said Stirling Moss. Who are we to argue? Especially…
It’s a hot Thursday in late 1985, and the sleepy city of Adelaide is about to be changed forever. Nineteen eighty world champion Alan Jones, only the second Australian to…
Webber’s ‘podium’ (2002) A Minardi on the podium? Well, not exactly. But fifth place was a near-miracle for home hero Mark Webber on his Formula 1 debut. Protocol be damned:…
It was a clear, crisp summer morning and I was walking the dog across a deserted Cornish beach when my phone rang. The number was Italian. No one likes these…
