Is Silverstone a better circuit now than when you won the British Grand Prix? DAMON HILL: What drivers like is not always what the sport requires, but look, there were…
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The Hamilton phenomenon has rewritten the Formula 1 record books. But Lewis’s meteoric progress doesn’t diminish the achievements, 37 years ago, of a Brazilian tyro called Emerson Fittipaldi. Emerson was…
He may not have been the most famous driver in the sport's history, but when the news came through that Michele Aboreto had been killed testing an Audi R8 at…
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United States GP (East), Watkins Glen, October 5th 1980 From start to finish, the 1980 season was an unbelievable one for me. It was an amazing year because I won…
Riccardo Patrese is one of those racing drivers who ages well, I thought again when I saw him in Monaco a few weeks ago. Greying a little, and strolling around…
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No racing driver has ever survived such a big accident. And it’s unlikely that a grand prix car will ever again be allowed to run flat out into an earth…
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Appropriately, it is November 29 as I write, and – just as in 1975 – there is a thick crust of frost on the windscreen of my car. That evening,…
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Once again the Grand Prix teams of cars and drivers came together to pit their skill and endurance against the fabulous Nurburgring, for the German GP is seldom a split-second…
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How would a 1906 Renault or a 1939 Mercedes fare against last year's McLaren MP4-21? How would they relate to each other? Would a current car have as big a…
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In the end, it is just a car. You sit with a steering wheel in your hands. You change gear by shifting a lever fore and aft, working your way…
When we started Williams Grand Prix Engineering, for 1977,” said Patrick Head, “I think we had eight employees at the start of the season, and 11 at the end of…
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Whenever I am in Italy, I visit my old friend Romolo Tavoni at his home outside Modena. Tavoni is now 85, in poor health and in receipt of hospital treatment,…
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When the 1985 season started I didn't have an F1 drive. I was still looking at F1, hoping to get back in. In the middle of the season I got…
Barcelona, October 24th. After being abandoned for the past two years the Spanish Grand Prix was held this year and was the last round in the 1954 World Championship series.…
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Kids can be so greedy. Surely the spectacle of Gilles Villeneuve dragging half his Ferrari around Zandvoort and Alan Jones notching up a third straight win in the new-fangled Williams…
Ferrari's F1 Finest 5th, 246 Dino << Ferrari 126 C3: Power politics >> Ferrari 641: V12 furore The Dino was defiantly front-engined: carburettors gasping for breath from a hole within a long, mean bonnet, fronted by…
