Unlike those of Jim Clark, Mario Andretti and Michael Schumacher, not a name at the forefront of all our minds....
April 2010 Racing for Mercedes-Benz By Hartmut Lehbrink With the re-entry of Mercedes-Benz into Grand Prix racing as a factory...
Whatever the 2010 Formula One season holds in the way of drama, scandal, and controversy, there will be one point of genuine interest, and that is whether Michael Schumacher can still cut it. Schumacher is the ideal yardstick. He retired on top of his game and there was no driver...
Both my father and my grandfather had raced, so racing was in my genes. Like most modern drivers my early...
Many car enthusiasts appreciate and collect fine watches. This should not be surprising as it mirrors their passion for both...
No one reveres their heroes like the Brits (well, maybe the Italians). Whether it’s a perpetual race winner like Stirling Moss, an intrepid explorer like Ernest Shackleton, or a political icon like Winston Churchill, true British, full-frontal, hero-dom is a level of reverence bordering on the fanatical—or perhaps the divine....
St. Chamond in the Loire Valley of France was once known as a production center of ribbon and rayon, as...
There was something missing from the recent Olympics—motor sport. I can think of no good reason why, when we have...
I cannot allow the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve to pass unnoticed but it is, at the same time, both distressing and a pleasure to write about him. I make absolutely no apology for admitting that he was my last “hero” in Formula One racing. Nobody else...
This son of a German garage owner had never raced a car until May 26, 1935, at the superfast Avus...
In the summer of 1980, I was at Goodwood for a test session. Before I reached the pits, I bumped...
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