Peter Revson and the wheel of fortune
He was the Grand Prix driver straight from the Hollywood A-list. An offspring of one of modern America’s icon dynasties, this handsome, debonair sophisticate would kiss goodbye to any one…
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Few Grand Prix marques have produced a range of cars as technically diverse and innovative as that designed and built by the Brabham team over its 30 years of participation…
Most of the drivers who’ve related the tale of their ‘Worst Racing Car’ can now look back on the experience with a smile. It may have been awful at the…
I first met James back in 1971 when I joined the March team for my first season of international Formula Two racing. In those days I was living in London,…
I met Pedro Rodriguez de la Vega just once, although I watched him with huge enthusiasm from the spectator areas for the last couple of years of a career that…
For many of us, grand prix racing entered a fallow period after the death in May 1982 of Gilles Villeneuve, and none felt that more keenly than Denis Jenkinson. Even…
John Miles beckons me over with a crook of a gloved index finger. He points to a smear of blue paint on the inside of the monocoque. “See that? This…
John Surtees was always destined to become a constructor. At least that’s how it appeared from the outside. For he absolutely knew his own mind – how a team ought…
Only four Indianapolis 500 rookies in 100 years have started from pole: Teo Fabi in 1983 is one. Prematurely balding and softly spoken, his puppy-ish face often apparently bemused, occasionally…
He was the Grand Prix driver straight from the Hollywood A-list. An offspring of one of modern America’s icon dynasties, this handsome, debonair sophisticate would kiss goodbye to any one…
Few Grand Prix marques have produced a range of cars as technically diverse and innovative as that designed and built by the Brabham team over its 30 years of participation…
Most of the drivers who’ve related the tale of their ‘Worst Racing Car’ can now look back on the experience with a smile. It may have been awful at the…
I first met James back in 1971 when I joined the March team for my first season of international Formula Two racing. In those days I was living in London,…
I met Pedro Rodriguez de la Vega just once, although I watched him with huge enthusiasm from the spectator areas for the last couple of years of a career that…
For many of us, grand prix racing entered a fallow period after the death in May 1982 of Gilles Villeneuve, and none felt that more keenly than Denis Jenkinson. Even…
John Miles beckons me over with a crook of a gloved index finger. He points to a smear of blue paint on the inside of the monocoque. “See that? This…
John Surtees was always destined to become a constructor. At least that’s how it appeared from the outside. For he absolutely knew his own mind – how a team ought…
Only four Indianapolis 500 rookies in 100 years have started from pole: Teo Fabi in 1983 is one. Prematurely balding and softly spoken, his puppy-ish face often apparently bemused, occasionally…
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Two consecutive victories from pole for McLaren’s Lando Norris to bring him within 83 points of Kimi Antonelli’s championship lead with half the season still to go had Mercedes’ Toto…
The Dutch Grand Prix was an exciting way to kick off the second half of the season after the summer break. Following on from Lando Norris’s dominant victory in Budapest…
Monaco Lewis Hamilton Many had written off Lewis Hamilton in F1 – too long in the tooth at 41, a poor fit with Ferrari, the rise of rivals, and so…
October 7, 1978 Montreal, Canada With the 1978 F1 title already in the bag for Lotus’s Mario Andretti, the final round of the season saw the American finish the race…
There are some drivers whose careers can be measured easily in statistics, their achievements neatly catalogued in tables of wins and championships. There are others whose contribution to motor sport…
Pembrey in March is never a suntrap. The fifth of that month was no exception. Through the spray came John Watson’s 1981 McLaren MP4/1, with McLaren Heritage test driver Rob…
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