A flashback to my first Autosport cover photo published back in 1984, as a 22-year-old photographer based in Johannesburg, living 15-minutes from Kyalami, venue of the South African Grand Prix on 20 occasions - I attended my first one there...
Yet another tragic day in racing when, in 1982, Gilles Villeneuve died aged 32 following a high-speed accident in Formula 1 qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder. In other Grands Prix on this day, Mario Andretti’s Lotus-Cosworth won...
A busy and, sadly, tragic day in Formula 1 and racing history when Denny Hulme‘s 1967 Monaco Grand Prix victory for Brabham-Repco over Graham Hill Lotus-BRM and Chris Amon came under a cloud as Amon’s Ferrari teammate Lorenzo Bandini fought...
Elio de Angelis was an Italian Formula 1 driver who raced between 1979 and 1986, for teams including Shadow, Lotus and Brabham. On 15 May 1986 he was killed during testing at the Paul Ricard circuit at Le Castellet. De...
70 years after old man Ferdinand Porsche died, his grandson and great grandson take us for a spin in two of his finest. Ferdinand Porsche passed away today, 70 years ago. We take a spin over one of his favourite...
For whatever reason, the letter A is peculiarly popular in race history today. Mario Andretti for instance got his 1978 season off to a cracking start when he took Colin Chapman’s revolutionary Lotus 78 Cosworth wing car (above) to another...
Colin Chapman had a penchant for discovering an F1 advantage. It led to several bouts of Lotus domination beyond the Clark era After a shocking and tragic two seasons for the team, Lotus started the 1970 Formula 1 season with...
The Audi Quattro, Lancia 037 and the Peugeot 205 T16 [tee sixteen] - some of the most iconic names in rallying.
In October 1971 the works Ford Capris and Escorts went to Jarama with the chance of winning the European Championship for both manufacturers and drivers.
FIA president and former Ferrari team principal Jean Todt revealed that Ayrton Senna expressed interest in joining Ferrari in 1994 and that talks between the two did take place. "He wanted to come to Ferrari and Ferrari wanted him," he...
Racing addict,Hollywood star Steve McQueen would have turned 90 this year The congratulations from Zuffenhausen arrived by airmail: “Dear Mr. McQueen,” the letter dated March 1970 began. “It is a great pleasure to extend my warm congratulations to you on...
Ferrari Dream Team Boss Todt believed Michael's records would never be broken They were the first real Formula 1 dream team, Ferrari built around Michael Schumacher led by Jean Todt with the likes of Ross Brawn and Rory Byrne all...
