This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring a championship win for Jack Brabham – on foot
1946: Emerson Fittipaldi is born. In profile
1959: Bruce McLaren becomes the youngest winner of a Grand Prix, and Jack Brabham pushes his Cooper to the World Championship. Report
2010: Racer and team owner Tom Walkinshaw passes away of cancer, aged 64. In profile
1918: Indy great Bill Vukovich is born. In profile
1977: World champion sports car racer Romain Dumas is born. In profile
2006: Clay Regazzoni is killed in a car accident. In profile
1920: Jazz musician turned racer ‘Les Leston’ is born. In profile
1932: Bobsleigh racer and Grand Prix starter Henry Taylor is born. In profile
1980: Peter Gregg commits suicide in Florida aged 40. In profile
1982: Colin Chapman dies of a heart attack. In profile
1968: Paul Tracy is born. In profile
2010: Two-time Grand Prix starter Dick Gibson dies at the age of 92. In profile
1991: Hersham and Walton Motors co-founder George Abecassis dies. In profile
Laurent Mekies arrives as Red Bull F1 team principal with a series of immediate challenges to solve and long-term issues to tackle. He'll either sink or swim, says Mark Hughes
Former McLaren F1 team-mates Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard are set to renew old rivalries in a new Evening with... tour – they told James Elson all about it
In Formula 1, driver contracts may look iron-clad on paper, but history shows that some of its biggest stars have made dramatic early exits
Former McLaren F1 ace told James Elson about his private audience with The Beatles' George Harrison, who played an unreleased grand prix-themed song