Imagine, your hired to race for a small Formula One team in the 1980s. On forehand, you’re aware that points are not the goal. Only with a crazy race or plenty of retirements, you could perhaps score a point. Then this crazy dream is becoming reality your racing and driver after driver is retiring. Eventually […]
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While the list of drivers that entered, at least one Grand Prix during the last 74 years is long. There is also the group of drivers that were to appear on the grid however for whatever reason never appeared on the grid or had their contract terminated like Jos Verstappen with Arrows for 2002. I […]
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While the list of drivers that entered, at least one Grand Prix during the last 74 years is long. There is also the group of drivers that were to appear on the grid however for whatever reason never appeared on the grid or had their contract terminated like Jos Verstappen with Arrows for 2002. I […]
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While the list of drivers that entered, at least one Grand Prix during the last 74 years is long. There is also the group of drivers that were to appear on the grid however for whatever reason never appeared on the grid or had their contract terminated like Jos Verstappen with Arrows for 2002. I […]
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While the list of drivers that entered, at least one Grand Prix during the last 74 years is long. There is also the group of drivers that were to appear on the grid however for whatever reason never appeared on the grid or had their contract terminated like Jos Verstappen with Arrows for 2002. I […]
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You might say that the Turbo era in the 1980s meant the downfall to some of the best teams the Formula One had at that point. Team Lotus is a good example, winning the championship in 1978, to only three podium finishes in 1988. Besides them, also Tyrrell is an example of the downfall of […]
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While going through some old magazines on the attic i came across some random article about US Formula Won Series. The article felt a bit weird to see in the British Autosport magazine. Similar to the British Formula One Championship that evolved from the Group 8 Shellsport Championship in the late 1970s, it was a […]
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It is a cold day in February when rumours appear about John Watson and Toleman. Sacked by McLaren at the end of 1983 in favour of Alain Prost he moved in 1984 towards the World Sportscar Championship with the Rothmans Porsche. For 1985, it seemed to be the World Sportscar Championship again. However, in early […]
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In a time when you could simply buy yourself a seat within a team, there were drivers that left the grid quicker then they appeared on. There are drivers you probably never heard of, drivers with dreams of Formula One. Some of them fulfilling their dream in the British Formula One Championship (Shellsport Championship). However, […]
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One of the most underrated drivers in the history of Formula One is Giovanni Lavaggi. Many of you know him as Johnny Carwash and remember him for the burning Minardi at Hockenheim. I personally know him as the last gentlemen driver in the Formula One, and remember him for his willpower to reach what he […]
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