Having driven and built many racing cars in my time, the first car that comes to mind is the Ford...
I’m sure, like many other racing drivers, the first race victory is an indelible moment in time and a memory...
Toyota-Eagle GTP MkIII I truly believe a good car does not have to do only with good performances, but also its opportunities to be right on the money, even if you go sometimes a little away from the good changes. Of course, the big secret to any good car is...
While not the greatest racecar of all time, the Cooper 86B-Maserati was that for me, as it gave me a...
The 1988 season was one of those years when I was truly up against it, my wife was pregnant with...
Ron Harris was a wealthy man who had a company distributing 16-mm films, obviously prior to the days of video, who was running his own Formula Junior team. Apart from my initial experience of driving a racing car for the first time, this is the only other thing I distinctly...
Two Ross Brawn designed cars were to play a big part in my racing career, both were formidable contenders and...
Winning the 1970 Monaco Formula Three race was seen as my ticket to a Grand Prix future. I’d made my...
I have raced and rallied all over the world during my long career and am still actively involved in motorsport, but with historic cars now. Looking back, the rally that gave me the most personal satisfaction was the Spa-Sofia-Liege Rally in 1964, when I was paired with Tony Ambrose. I...
When I first started work for Porsche, I was naturally introduced to their ways of working, which I found in...
Looking back, I’m tempted to regard the Mo Nunn-designed Theodore N183, as my greatest racecar. It was one of the...
I have certain fond memories of the first single-seater racing car I drove, which was a Vanwall. Tony Vandervell gave me a wonderful opportunity of driving it at Goodwood. There are a number of single-seater racing cars that I would have liked to have driven, throughout my career. It could...
Although my passion and love of motor racing was born in Italy—at Monza during the 1969 Italian GP—my first real...
I served my apprenticeship with Jaguar, initially working on the last models of the E-Type, then the XJS, the XJ6...
Racing Honda cars in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) is pretty special to me. I’ve won three BTCC titles and countless races with them. Of course, I hold my first British Touring Car Championship win quite close to my heart. It was at the wheel of the 2005 Integra...
Being a driver for Scuderia Ferrari, I must say, is the most amazing job any driver can have. The opportunity...
Having a father interested in motorsport, and him taking me to watch Tazio Nuvolari race at the 1938 Donington Grand Prix, directly led to my lifetime of involvement in the sport. Nuvolari really left an indelible impression on me. Initially, as a young boy, I emulated Nuvolari in my mind,...
There have been so many great cars in my life and they have all been such fun. The wildest racecar...
I think, like most drivers, the pre-requisite of a great racecar is having a big engine and lots of power—so,...
I’ve been fortunate to have driven a lot of racecars, both those I’ve raced and those I’ve driven to try to teach them manners, to shake them down for people who own them and have maybe just had them put together. So, I would have to say Alfa Giuliettas are...
I’ve been fortunate to race Bentleys for 25 years. Indeed, most of my earliest memories involve sitting in the back...
When I was young, growing up in Spain was very difficult for lovers of motor racing. The Spanish were then...
I grew up designing on a drawing board, right to the end of my time in motor racing, and I’m still on a drawing board today. I’ve designed a lot of cars from scratch, and when I say from scratch I mean a blank piece of paper. Even in today’s...
I didn’t think it was a very good thing for a woman to drive those open and powerful cars of...
I worked for Jaguar from 1952 to 1986 as Chief Test and Development Engineer. Throughout that time I drove some...
The 1982 Porsche 956 was a car that we started with a clean sheet of paper. Everything was new, the monocoque, aerodynamics—which included “ground effect” completely different to that of a Formula One car, the gearbox, everything except the engine, which had proved to be very reliable and no need...
Tyrrell’s Project 34 six-wheel Formula One car was one of those refreshingly radical cars that used to come into Grand...
Beating Peter Gethin for the European Formula 5000 champion-ship was something really special. I had a great car and tremendous...
The 1987 season was my first year in Formula One. I had sponsorship from Lois jeans and Mr. Minardi offered me a drive in his team alongside Alessandro Nannini in the new Minardi M187. I appreciated that the Minardi wasn’t too competitive, but it was a start. The car was...
