On this day…. 16th August 1992 Today is the day Nigel Mansell finally won the world driver’s championship at the Hungarian Grand Prix after finishing second in the race to Ayrton Senna’s […]
With the news on Tuesday that Fernando Alonso will quit F1 for 2019, speculation of his ultimate destination immediately shifted over to the states and the Indycar series. Certainly you […]
Manfred von Brauchitsch at Donnington in 1937 On this day… August 15th 1905 Manfred von Brauchitsch, who died aged 97, was the nearest thing to royalty in the legendary Mercedes-Benz grand […]
Amid the news today that wasn’t unexpected but no less sitting up there at the highest point of the Richter scale, already speculation is rife as to the Spaniards plans […]
So the big news today isn’t much of a surprise – Fernando Alonso will quit Formula One as of next year. The likely destination will be Indycar in the USA, […]
On this day… August 14th 1977 We recently looked at the most unlikely F1 win which almost occurred – Damon Hill in his 1997 Arrows at the Hungaroring. Well on this […]
Red Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey drives two F1 cars he designed: a 1990 Leyton House-Judd CG901B and a 2010 Red Bull-Renault RB6. Back in 2012, the BBC had […]
Red Bull’s Christian Horner recently revealed that “We would have even been willing to give Daniel Ricciardo a one-year contract – to give him a chance at Ferrari or Mercedes from […]
On this day… August 13th 1978 Along with Sir Stirling Moss, Ronnie Peterson is considered one of the best F1 drivers never to win a championship, and he won his last […]
In the wake of the news this weekend that we may actually see Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen stay with the team for another year (again), it’s interesting news to see that […]