The newspapers didn't sensationalise; the facts were hideous enough. 'Grand Prix Ace in Helicopter Crash' read the headlines. 'Life not in danger' they assured, in smaller type. But then phrases…
Friday evening at Monaco, and a drink or two on Keke Rosberg's boat, moored near the chicane. The host, as usual, was chattering away about this, that and the other,…
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Just as it finally seemed within his reach, a broken titanium component crushed Peter Revson's F1 dream Peter Jeffrey Revlon Revson had it all. Good looks, breeding, an attractive personality…
If you were drawing up a list of the best-looking Formula One cars, Williams' FW11B would be passed over in an instant. Williams cars, despite their huge success over the…
On the face of it, Bob Anderson's third place in the 1964 Austrian GP was not very special. He finished three laps behind winner Lorenzo Bandini, and only a handful of…
Damon Hill gives it to you straight. “I’m getting sick of hearing what I have to say about things. But since this is Jacques…” Immediately you get the picture. Both…
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It is early afternoon on Saturday November 1, 1980. A call is placed to the Brabham headquarters in Chessington, Surrey. The conversation goes something like this: “’Allo?” “Ah, hello. Could…
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Some-time, back in the early sixties, shortly after Piers Courage decided that motor racing was going to be his life, his father took him to one side and asked why…
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Karl Kling, who died recently, may never have been a great racing driver but he was certainly one who had his days. I interviewed him only once, appropriately close by…
Back in June 1980 I interviewed Patrick Depailler at Brands Hatch. He was a lovely fellow, a man out of his time, I always felt, very much a throwback to…
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If a racing driver has to die young, there is an almost gladiatorial rightness that he do so in his element on the track. Gunnar Nilsson was denied even that,…
This was one of those moments Spa seems to produce. It ranks with Mika Hakkinen's move on Michael Schumacher last year, or the first lap of the 1963 GP when…
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When we speak of legendary partnerships in motor racing, perhaps the one that would spring first to most minds is that of Colin Chapman and Jim Clark: throughout his eight-year…
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With his dark features and thick, curly, slightly receding hair, Gabriele Tarquini looked not unlike American comedian John Belushi during his time in Formula One. Sadly, the Italian's machinery often…
After leaving BRM at the end of the 1970 season, Jackie Oliver had joined Don Nichols’ Shadow racing organisation in the USA to race its Can-Am sports-racing cars. Jackie was…
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When I say there will never be another track test like this, I say so with a confidence inspired not simply by the subject's unique, six-wheeled selling point. It's also…
