Kieft F1: Resurrecting the ultimate unraced grand prix car
What has a gestation period of 50 years? Cyril Kieft’s grand prix car. Conceived in 1953, part-built in ’54, abandoned by ’55, the incomplete car was forgotten by the racing…
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A couple of years ago Roberto Moreno was asked to be the subject of a Worst Car I Ever Drove for Motor Sport. He refused. The reason? He wasn’t sure…
By Robert Kubica’s standards the answer was short, albeit tinged with the Pole’s slightly off-beat humour, which has endeared him to the rallying fraternity since he took up the sport…
Ron Dennis used to be based next door, during his Project Four days. His still-under-construction hi-tech temple to hi-tech, Paragon, lies only a few miles down the road, but it…
Standing on a piece of dull Aberdeenshire countryside, shivering against the wind as it blasts off the North Sea, you might not at first realise that there was anything of…
Going through some old tapes recently, I came across an interview with James Hunt in the early ’80s. It was typical James, forthright but well-reasoned, and I smiled often as…
After spending a great deal of money last year rebuilding the pits and paddock and modifying the circuit considerably, easing corners, removing bumps, widening the road and re-surfacing, all the…
Jacques-Bernard Ickx is a complicated man. The thinking man’s racing driver, the thinking woman’s idol. Here is a man who is many things to many people. An emotional, soulful and…
In a few months’ time comes the 25th anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve. Tragedies of this kind are mercifully rare these days, but during my first year of…
What has a gestation period of 50 years? Cyril Kieft’s grand prix car. Conceived in 1953, part-built in ’54, abandoned by ’55, the incomplete car was forgotten by the racing…
A couple of years ago Roberto Moreno was asked to be the subject of a Worst Car I Ever Drove for Motor Sport. He refused. The reason? He wasn’t sure…
By Robert Kubica’s standards the answer was short, albeit tinged with the Pole’s slightly off-beat humour, which has endeared him to the rallying fraternity since he took up the sport…
Ron Dennis used to be based next door, during his Project Four days. His still-under-construction hi-tech temple to hi-tech, Paragon, lies only a few miles down the road, but it…
Standing on a piece of dull Aberdeenshire countryside, shivering against the wind as it blasts off the North Sea, you might not at first realise that there was anything of…
Going through some old tapes recently, I came across an interview with James Hunt in the early ’80s. It was typical James, forthright but well-reasoned, and I smiled often as…
After spending a great deal of money last year rebuilding the pits and paddock and modifying the circuit considerably, easing corners, removing bumps, widening the road and re-surfacing, all the…
Jacques-Bernard Ickx is a complicated man. The thinking man’s racing driver, the thinking woman’s idol. Here is a man who is many things to many people. An emotional, soulful and…
In a few months’ time comes the 25th anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve. Tragedies of this kind are mercifully rare these days, but during my first year of…
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