Didier Pironi: Driven to destruction
Rene Arnoux stood in the Dijon pit lane, listening. Listening to the throttle applications and braking points of an old friend performing a secret test in Rene’s Ligier. What he heard made…
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Andrea de Cesaris was much maligned during a Formula 1 career that stretched from 1980 to 1994, but he didn’t deserve to retire without a victory to his name. Alas,…
Bravery in a racing car does not necessarily translate into the bravery of the battlefield. In the case of Robert Benoist, William Grover (‘Williams’) and Jean-Pierre Wimille, it did. When…
My worst car? To be honest there’s a bloody long queue of them. In there would certainly be the March 792 — a diabolical car — the Renault RE60 from…
A strange thing, the Honours List. Given poor behaviour is apparently something to be celebrated these days, perhaps we should not have been surprised to note the name of Mr…
Neil Davis was one of Ken Tyrrell’s most trusted and loyal employees, preferring to down tools rather than move to Brackley when BAR took over the team. “I wasn’t terribly…
You’d never have guessed you were witnessing the start of something big. It was an inauspicious debut by anyone’s standards. Smoke and steam poured from the stubby, strange-looking machine that…
The competition aligned against him was the toughest our hero had yet faced, but he gave a performance to crystallise his outstanding season and enable his legendary step into Formula…
I knew nothing of Denis Jenkinson until I published a letter from him in Motor Sport, but when we met at the RAF during the war, he as an engineer…
Rene Arnoux stood in the Dijon pit lane, listening. Listening to the throttle applications and braking points of an old friend performing a secret test in Rene’s Ligier. What he heard made…
Andrea de Cesaris was much maligned during a Formula 1 career that stretched from 1980 to 1994, but he didn’t deserve to retire without a victory to his name. Alas,…
Bravery in a racing car does not necessarily translate into the bravery of the battlefield. In the case of Robert Benoist, William Grover (‘Williams’) and Jean-Pierre Wimille, it did. When…
My worst car? To be honest there’s a bloody long queue of them. In there would certainly be the March 792 — a diabolical car — the Renault RE60 from…
A strange thing, the Honours List. Given poor behaviour is apparently something to be celebrated these days, perhaps we should not have been surprised to note the name of Mr…
Neil Davis was one of Ken Tyrrell’s most trusted and loyal employees, preferring to down tools rather than move to Brackley when BAR took over the team. “I wasn’t terribly…
You’d never have guessed you were witnessing the start of something big. It was an inauspicious debut by anyone’s standards. Smoke and steam poured from the stubby, strange-looking machine that…
The competition aligned against him was the toughest our hero had yet faced, but he gave a performance to crystallise his outstanding season and enable his legendary step into Formula…
I knew nothing of Denis Jenkinson until I published a letter from him in Motor Sport, but when we met at the RAF during the war, he as an engineer…
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