Team Lotus Singled out as champions
What do mechanics usually do on their day off? Take their partners out to dinner, or stay at home, put their feet up, and watch a bit of TV perhaps? ...
What do mechanics usually do on their day off? Take their partners out to dinner, or stay at home, put their feet up, and watch a bit of TV perhaps? ...
As far as sponsors on F1 cars go, we've had cigarettes, beer, men's top shelf mags, and condoms, to telecoms, airlines, banks, and pharmaceuticals. We've had every type of company ...
An F1 car with a camo paintjob? It happened back in 1983, as Brabham sought to keep the design of their new racer a closely-guarded secret.
'Well young man,' Enzo Ferrari asked, 'how much do you need to be content?' This was the question posed to a surprised Gilles Villeneuve in his first meeting with Enzo, ...
Music and Formula 1 are an exciting mixture that have come together most memorably with Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain,' which has had a successful marriage with the BBC title sequence ...
Often when we are presented with difficulties in life, we dig deep and rise to the challenge. Such a philosophy was adopted by The Theodore team in 1981. ...
Up until 1980, Formula 1 cars with more than 4 wheels (generally 6!) had been tried and tested with varying degrees of success. Ken Tyrrell had ...
Jackie Stewart stands waiting under an umbrella (though we can't see the canopy, it's odds on that it is an umbrella!). He waits for 4 minutes 3.2 seconds to be ...
'Just mind where you are putting your fat feet James!' These could have been the very words from Niki Lauda's lips as James Hunt stepped into the cockpit of Lauda's Ferrari 312T2, at Zolder, Belgium in May 1976. Getting so ...
It's the year 2000, and Mika Hakkinen is having problems overtaking a certain Mr Michael Schumacher. Michael was the sort of guy who really doesn't like to be overtaken, and is quite good at making his car as wide as ...
In 1986/87 F1 entered a new era! Cameras were allowed on the cars during the races! Technology had evolved, and so a small and rather smart TV camera could now be mounted on the car, without the need of scaffolding...
It's Jackie Stewart in a Tyrrell 008 at Monaco in 1978. Many of you will be thinking -Jackie Stewart wasn't racing in 1978! Well he wasn't, he retired in 1973. But he would sometimes guest drive Ken's cars, as this ...
Since the dawn of F1 in 1950, people who love the sport could only dream of hitching a ride from their favourite driver and the idea of having an onboard camera recording footage throughout the actual race was the stuff ...
