Lotus 18 track test: Power behind the throne
Their laughter fills the place. Morning in the Goodwood pitlane. Keith Duckworth and Mike Costin are a couple of shop floor boys, trading gentle insults. Dick Scammell feels as easy…
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Ferrari SpA Sefac should have been deep into a comfort zone by 1972. Almost three years had elapsed since Fiat’s 40% buy-in, a move meant to engender confidence and clear…
Gerhard Berger chose Jean Alesi without hesitation. Very Berger, no messing about, things to do, people to see, a Grand Prix team to run. “Sure, I give you 15 minutes,…
As symbolic gestures go, it was hardly subtle. At the 1980 United States Grand Prix, reigning World Champion Jody Scheckter hauled himself out of his Ferrari, trod purposefully down its…
Gerard Ducarouge, exhausted by months of off-season toil and the heat of an Argentinian afternoon, was only vaguely aware of the two Lotus engineers looking at his car as the…
Ferrari team-mates they were, and always on the best of terms, professionally and personally. Forty years on, Mario Andretti and Jacky Ickx came to London for Motor Sport’s inaugural Hall…
At the 1990 French GP, Ivan Capelli was within three laps of one of the biggest upsets in the sport’s long history but, as is so often the case in…
This is it, probably his last chance. Michael Schumacher has been staring at the rear wing of the McLaren for the first 37 laps of the Japanese Grand Prix. His…
Even at the height of summer, Snetterton can be a bleak and chilly place, so imagine how it must have been for members of Team Lotus on December 17, 1982…
Their laughter fills the place. Morning in the Goodwood pitlane. Keith Duckworth and Mike Costin are a couple of shop floor boys, trading gentle insults. Dick Scammell feels as easy…
Ferrari SpA Sefac should have been deep into a comfort zone by 1972. Almost three years had elapsed since Fiat’s 40% buy-in, a move meant to engender confidence and clear…
Gerhard Berger chose Jean Alesi without hesitation. Very Berger, no messing about, things to do, people to see, a Grand Prix team to run. “Sure, I give you 15 minutes,…
As symbolic gestures go, it was hardly subtle. At the 1980 United States Grand Prix, reigning World Champion Jody Scheckter hauled himself out of his Ferrari, trod purposefully down its…
Gerard Ducarouge, exhausted by months of off-season toil and the heat of an Argentinian afternoon, was only vaguely aware of the two Lotus engineers looking at his car as the…
Ferrari team-mates they were, and always on the best of terms, professionally and personally. Forty years on, Mario Andretti and Jacky Ickx came to London for Motor Sport’s inaugural Hall…
At the 1990 French GP, Ivan Capelli was within three laps of one of the biggest upsets in the sport’s long history but, as is so often the case in…
This is it, probably his last chance. Michael Schumacher has been staring at the rear wing of the McLaren for the first 37 laps of the Japanese Grand Prix. His…
Even at the height of summer, Snetterton can be a bleak and chilly place, so imagine how it must have been for members of Team Lotus on December 17, 1982…
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I raced in Formula 1 for five years at a dangerous time when you knew that at least one driver on average would probably be killed or maimed each year.…
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