It was the one time I needed not to get into a bad car. It was 1972 and I'd bought my way into Formula 1 with March; I'd agreed to…
When a driver has raced at the highest level for more than a quarter of a century, choosing his least favourite car is not easy. But Emerson Fittipaldi ponders our…
From his very early days in the sport Jackie Stewart made sure he always had good machinery at his disposal, and not just in Formula 1. Even when moonlighting in…
"I drove some bad grand prix cars," says Martin Brundle, "but I don't want to waste a whole article talking about the 1987 Zakspeed! Then there was that '85 Tyrrell-Renault,…
Mario Andretti has raced so many cars, over a career that stretches back four decades, that you might expect him to hesitate over the question of which was the worst.…
In 1978 I was still driving from Brabham as team-mate to Niki Lauda but was already thinking of moving on for 1979. There was a little incident on the eve…
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It was the beginning of 1988 and I'd done a total of about six F3000 races and a handful of F3 races before that. I hadn't done a full season…
When the steering wheel came off, it still steered from the rear...John Davenport hears about a saloon with an attitude problem. Ove Andersson is now best known as the President…
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Most of the drivers who've related the tale of their 'Worst Racing Car' can now look back on the experience with a smile. It may have been awful at the…
Untried, untested and unloved, Datsun's entry for the 1973 Tour of Britain was Tony Fall's nemesis. John Davenport remembers why With the Tour of Britain, shortly to be revived for…
When the Beatrice Formula 1 team ground to a halt at the end of 1986, Alan Jones welcomed the chance to spend more time at home in Australia. But he…
Ari Vatanen – Ford Escort RS 1800 reg. no. RRK 425 W Ari Vatanen was the first Finn to win the World Rally Championship, no thanks, he tells John Davenport,…
The worst car I ever drove Perry McCarthy Andrea Moda-Judd S192 In the first of a new series, Shaun Campbell looks into life at the wrong end of the…
Johnny Herbert – 1986 Quest SF86 Formula Ford 2000 While some of his Formula One seats have left a bit to be desired, Johnny Herbert tells Adam Cooper about his…
At the end of the 1977 season Jochen Mass found himself edged out of McLaren, who replaced him with Patrick Tambay. After three and a bit seasons with the British…
Bruno Giacomelli 1990 LIFE F190 Italy's economy boom threw up some strange F1 outfits, but none stranger than life, whose bizarre W12 engine gave 440BHP less than the Honda unit…
