You might well ask “Who the hell’s he?” when you read the name at the top of the page. Well,...
I have a Minichamps model of the legendary Lancia Stratos HF rally car in Alitalia’s green and white colors sitting...
Louis Delage may have been born to a humble assistant station master and his wife in Cognac, France, in 1874, but he rose to become a dominator of world motor sport. Yet he died in poverty, in 1947, at the age of 73, bankrupt, swamped by mountainous debts and destitute....
Bob Wollek was a champion many times over before he even got into motor racing. He won no fewer than...
The boys from Brazil just keep on coming: Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna and, since 2002, Felipe Massa. The others won eight Formula One World Championships between them, but even with 11 GP victories to his credit, Felipe hasn’t made it yet. He almost did in a 2008 mind...
They say that, from 1933, not a single racing engine left the Ferrari factory without Luigi Bazzi designing it or...
Johnny of the ready smile and blonde hair was a motor racing shooting star who might have aspired to becoming...
That was Mario Andretti’s comment after the drive of his life…an impossible dream. He said so after he had just won the 1970 12 Hours of Sebring for Ferrari in the most incredible nail-biter of a race, which had more than 57,000 spectators exploding with excitement, especially during the last...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1...
Saying someone is/was the world’s greatest racing driver is a mug’s game. So many circumstances —not least of all technology—change...
Derek is the epitome of the driver who should have won the Formula One World Championship, but was just about always with the wrong team at the wrong time. He drove for some of the great names in the sport, like Renault and Lotus, but not when they were on...
As I sat quietly in a pleasant house in Woking, England, in the winter of 1970, I watched and listened....
Not only did Rubens win 11 Grands Prix, competing in more of them than any other driver, came 2nd in...
When he was a kid in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Patrick Depailler’s idol was French motorcycle champion and racing driver Jean Behra. The two were alike in more ways than one, as they shared a living-for-the-moment attitude that didn’t always pay off. Surprisingly, though, Patrick’s devil-may-care lifestyle didn’t really do his motor...
The Mille Miglia is, of course, a historic Italian over-the-road event that originally covered the 1,000 miles referenced in its...
Women drivers in Formula One are rare indeed. Since the start of the F1 World Championship in 1950, only five...
That’s some ride from West Lothian, Scotland to winning the great Indianapolis 500 three times, not to mention four IndyCar Series Championships. It’s a ride Dario Franchitti took from 1996 until 2013. On the way Dario, born in Bathgate, West Lothian on May 19, 1973, and whose family has profound...
What kind of racing driver is it who forgets how many times he’s won? One of the most successful, of...
Dozens of books and thousands of articles have been written about Enzo Ferrari and the Scuderia he founded in 1929,...
It took a racing department of 240 people and a huge budget to put Michael Schumacher on top of the world and make him the third millennium’s first Formula One champion driver. A department bursting at the seams with people who receive little outside recognition of their efforts, while the...
Today, Franco Cortese is, perhaps, one of motor sport’s forgotten stars—and he shouldn’t be. He was the driver who put...
Eddie Irvine has been a shrewd operator for most of his adult life. He carefully maneuvered himself into the second...
If he lasted long enough—that is, if he didn’t get killed in the process—canny observers thought this young South African could become a Formula One World Champion. Not even their crystal ball, though, could have predicted how: it was when driving a Ferrari 312T4 at Monza, the holiest of holies...
Born to a Paris butcher and his wife in April 1937, the late Jean-Pierre Beltoise had won the incredible number...
Like his uncle Gianni Agnelli, Ludovico Scarfiotti was a suave, well-mannered gentleman who was no stranger to the privileges of...
Few would argue with the notion that Tazio Nuvolari was one of the five greatest racing drivers of all time; some would even say the greatest. As the years pass, however, the number of people who saw him race diminishes, so how can we really know? It is easy to...
A silver-haired, 85-year-old man walked slowly into a room full of revellers during a party I was attending in the...
Really, this column should be called “Heroine” this time, because it’s about one of the greatest stars of post-war world...
He was the kind of fighter Enzo Ferrari adored. Another of those Tazio Nuvolari types, who wouldn’t rest until he had wrung the absolute maximum out of a car or crashed it in the process—and he often did. Before he was shoe-horned into Maranello in 1960 with the help of...
