This week in motor sport – August 15
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring first-time winners, final wins and a Formula 1 world championship title. August 15 1905: Manfred von Brauchitsch is born. In profile…
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A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Jacky Ickx, arguably the greatest wet-weather driver, had seen enough. Twelve years on from finishing second…
Sir Stirling Moss won the Pescara Grand Prix 59 years ago today, a gruelling three-hour encounter over 18 laps of the 16-mile road circuit. Moss took victory by more than three…
Jackie Stewart won the Oulton Park Gold Cup today in 1968, and, remarkably, you can go back to that day courtesy fo this five-minute super 8 film. There’s no sound,…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). It had been 12 months since Rudi Caracciola wagged a finger, the established ace considering his…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Winning as slowly as possible was not Gilles Villeneuve’s usual modus operandi. He had no option…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). It almost didn’t happen. Angered by its disqualification from the lead of the supporting 12-hour sports…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring one of the greatest Grand Prix drivers ever, Hungarian and Austrian Grands Prix and much more. August 8 1904: Tazio…
The greatest win for one of the greatest ever Grand Prix drivers, Tazio Nuvolari at the Nürburgring in 1935. It’s 63 years to the day since the Italian died of a…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring first-time winners, final wins and a Formula 1 world championship title. August 15 1905: Manfred von Brauchitsch is born. In profile…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Jacky Ickx, arguably the greatest wet-weather driver, had seen enough. Twelve years on from finishing second…
Sir Stirling Moss won the Pescara Grand Prix 59 years ago today, a gruelling three-hour encounter over 18 laps of the 16-mile road circuit. Moss took victory by more than three…
Jackie Stewart won the Oulton Park Gold Cup today in 1968, and, remarkably, you can go back to that day courtesy fo this five-minute super 8 film. There’s no sound,…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). It had been 12 months since Rudi Caracciola wagged a finger, the established ace considering his…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Winning as slowly as possible was not Gilles Villeneuve’s usual modus operandi. He had no option…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). It almost didn’t happen. Angered by its disqualification from the lead of the supporting 12-hour sports…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring one of the greatest Grand Prix drivers ever, Hungarian and Austrian Grands Prix and much more. August 8 1904: Tazio…
The greatest win for one of the greatest ever Grand Prix drivers, Tazio Nuvolari at the Nürburgring in 1935. It’s 63 years to the day since the Italian died of a…
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