75 years ago today the Monaco Grand Prix made its F1 world championship debut, but an unusual incident on the opening lap resulted in over half the grid retiring – so what happened?
This is the story of how two-time F1 champion Alberto Ascari ended up in the Monaco harbour, in what would be his last-ever Grand Prix
September 8, 1923 Shelsley Walsh, Worcs Around 100 years ago, Vauxhall’s 30-98 was regarded as one of Britain’s finest sports cars and was a regular on the slope at Shelsley…
Goodwood is a glorious place to be on a bright spring day, and its 82nd Members’ Meeting was warm enough to roll up the shirt sleeves. Here are our highlights…
Where do you start when your task is to interview a Formula 1 driver who is also a friend? To be clear, having worked in F1 for a third of…
Much has been written about the McLaren F1 road car; it is now 30 years since five McLaren F1 GTRs finished first, third, fourth, fifth and 13th at Le Mans…
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,…
