On This Day in F1: December 26, 1959 – The Debut of Jim Clark and Ford-Cosworth
Four entwined exhaust pipes emerged in the wake of the front left wheel, melded themselves into one entity, and purposefully snaked their way along the side of the car.
Category Archives: On this day
America’s F1 dreams in tatters?
Brought to you by TJ13 contributor Charlie White On this day… August 28th 2008 On this day in 2008, Phil Hill, the only American-born Formula-1 World Champion died at his home in […]
The Silver Arrows gets F1 banned in Switzerland
On this day… 22st August 1954 Juan Manuel Fangio won what was to be the final Swiss Grand Prix for Mercedes-Benz at Bermgarten in Berne. The Mercedes domination continued as Fangio […]
Johnny Herbert huge accident
On this day…. 21st August 1988 In July 1988 Johnny Herbert signed to drive for the Benetton Formula 1 team. He was competing in Formula 3000 at the time and […]
Ferrari gets it badly wrong, again
Brought to you by TJ13 contributor OddBall On this day… 20th August 2009 2009 saw the introduction into F1 of KERS (Kenetic Energy Recovery System) and the four teams using the […]
Red Five finally makes it over the line
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 […]
Modern F1 drivers are “overpaid pimps”
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 […]
An unlikely F1 tale
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 […]
1400bhp, 200mph, Zero runoff – Incredible footage
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 […]
How can backmarkers win F1 races
On this day…. August 10th 1997 In the history of Formula One there have been some highly unlikely race victories. The only championship upset – similar to the 2016 Leicester City […]
