Peter Revson: There but for fortune
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…
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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…
“Geentair! Alors, un nouveau record du tour pour Reeshi Geentair!” May 14 1961, Monaco, by common consent the greatest drive of Stirling Moss’s life. In Rob Walker’s old Lotus 18,…
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…
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…
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…
It’s hard to think of a recent equivalent to the Matra racing regime. In one glorious decade, from 1965 to 1974, Matra fielded victorious Grand Prix cars and Le Mans…
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…
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…
“Geentair! Alors, un nouveau record du tour pour Reeshi Geentair!” May 14 1961, Monaco, by common consent the greatest drive of Stirling Moss’s life. In Rob Walker’s old Lotus 18,…
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…
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…
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…
It’s hard to think of a recent equivalent to the Matra racing regime. In one glorious decade, from 1965 to 1974, Matra fielded victorious Grand Prix cars and Le Mans…
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…
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