Denny Hulme Biography Denny Hulme was born on June 18, 1936 in Motueka, on the South Island of New Zealand....
Villeneuve won four races, including Indy, on his way to the 1995 CART Indycar crown. Photo: John Zimmermann Collection This...
Sullivan’s best GP came in the tight and twisty streets of monaco where he started at the back of the grid, but drove through to finish a creditable 5th. Photo: Maureen Magee My drive with the Tyrrell F1 team came due to the close relationship my mentor, Dr. Frank Faulkner,...
I mean looking at it from a generational aspect and selfishly too because I own it, it has to be...
1985 Lola T711-Chevrolet Photo: Kary Jiggle Most sports go through periods of change for whatever reason. Sometimes, these changes are to liven things up when things get a little stale, or as a response when it is perceived that the public is losing interest. Other times it’s driven by sponsors...
Giulio Ramponi Biography Giulio Ramponi was born in Milan on 8 January 1902. His father died while he was still...
René Dreyfus Biography The story begins in 1914 when René was nine years old. The middle of three children he...
Sir Jack Brabham AO, OBE, triple Formula 1 World Champion, has died at the age of 88. Sir Jack passed away peacefully at his Gold Coast, Australia, home on Monday 19th May 2014. Formula 1 World Champion in 1959, 1960 and 1966 and double Constructors’ Champion (1966 and 1967), Sir...
Jochen Rindt Biography Rindt was born in Germany in 1942 of Austrian and German parentage. His parents died under Allied...
Juan Manuel Fangio Biography Affectionately known as “bandy legs” by his many fans, Juan Manuel Fangio was born in Balcarce,...
Adrian Newey Biography Newey was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom on December 26th, 1958. His father was a veterinary surgeon and his mother a former ambulance driver. His older brother left home while Adrian was young and hew grew up more or less and only child. His father was a...
Jimmy Murphy Biography Jimmy Murphy was born in 1894 but tragedy soon struck the Murphy family when his mother died...
Ronnie Peterson Biography Ronnie Peterson was born on 1944 in Örebro, Sweden, the son of an avid racer of moderate accomplishments....
Mauro Forghieri Biography In 1961, following an internal upraising, the infamous Laura Affair, Enzo Ferrari fired the entire management team of his company, including top engineers Carlo Chiti and Giotto Bizzarrini who promptly set up what they hoped to be a rival teo Ferrari, Automobili Turismo e Sport (ATS). They build not only...
Black Jack and his Brabham biplane are evidence of the aerodynamic wilderness in which the Grand Prix teams found themselves...
Camille Jenatzy Biography Jenatzy’s family, originally from Hungary had settled in Schaerbeek, Belgium where where his father Constant established Jenatzy...
Luigi Fagioli Biography Luigi Fagioli was born on June 9th, 1898 to a wealthy family in the small city of Osimo, in the Marche region of central Italy. His family was in the business of manufacturing pasta which allowed him to pursue a racing career though he studied accounting just...
Sebastian Vettel Biography Vettel, one of four children was born on July 3, 1987 in Heppenheim, Germany to Norbert and...
Gilles Villeneuve Biography “He’s different from the rest of us, on a separate level …” Jacques Laffite describing Gilles Gilles...
Karl Kling Mark DonohuePhoto: Hal Crocker 1 Ronnie Peterson drives a Tecno to victory in the F3 race at Skarpnack in Stockholm, Sweden (1968). 3 Paul Tracy wins the CART Champ Car race through the streets of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2000). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
The name Guy Griffiths may not be familiar to many motorsports enthusiasts in the United States but in the United...
A new mark has been established for automobiles sold at auction, as an ex-Fangio Mercedes-Benz W196 Grand Prix car has...
Ettore Bugatti Biography Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti though his family was French was born in Milan on 15 September 1881. He...
Entering the 1974 season, a pair of fresh, new faces began exerting significant influence upon Ferrari, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo...
Alberto Ascari Ayrton SennaPhoto: Maureen Magee 1 The Ford Sierra Cosworth is homologated for Group A Touring Car racing (1987). 2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus 72-Ford to victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim (1970). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
holman-moody: The Legendary Race Team By Tom Cotter and Al Pearce This second edition of a book originally published more...
Photo: Alejandro Ibanez The man who scored Ferrari’s very first Formula One World Championship victory, Argentinian Jose Froilan Gonzalez, has...
Former F1 and endurance racer Howden Ganley has received his homeland’s highest motor racing honor, joining former inductees Bruce McLaren, Denny Hulme, Chris Amon and others on MotorSport New Zealand’s Wall of Fame. Ganley arrived in England in 1961 and was employee number three hired at the fledgling Team McLaren...
