In the early 1990s there seemed to be two countries with countless drivers ready to race in the Formula One. At that time in France, the government was heavily involved with supporting French drivers. In Japan at that time, there was the highly competitive Japanese F3000 championship, which later better known as the Formula Nippon. […]
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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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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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If you’re from my generation or older you are probably aware of former Formula One driver John Newhouse. In 1997, Jacques Villeneuve won the World Championship for Rothmans Williams Renault. He had a contract for 1998 as well. However, it seemed that Jacques took a sabbatical from Formula One. That’s why Williams hired John Newhouse […]
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Only a few hours left before we enter 2023, it will be our sports 73th birthday. A sport that saw hundreds of drivers crossing the finish flag. Some of them only drove a handful of races in one season, other are still driving in the Formula One for over twenty years. Our beloved sport, there […]
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Laurent Delahaye born in Perpignan the 6th of January 1977 had a promising career in karting. Together with Patrice Gay and Christophe Ravier it seemed they had a great future in the autosport. However, after some seasons of autosport Delahaye disappeared from the scene. What has been long forgotten is the fact that Delahaye was […]
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We write the 28th of October 1996 when Minardi arrives at Misano for a youngster test. Andrea Boldrini (1996 Italian F3 champion), João Barbosa (1996 runner-up champion Italian F3) and Esteban Tuero are the drivers that will take place behind the wheel of the Minardi M195B. Two years later Esteban Tuero would debut for Minardi […]
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There are drivers and stories linked with the Formula One most of us have forgotten while time passes by. This is one of these stories. About the Argentinian, rally driver Carlos Menem Jr, the son of former president of Argentina Carlos Menem. Who was to test with the Minardi M193 in October 1993. However, the […]
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It felt difficult to write the story about Alan Berkov and his Formula One test that never happened. Berkov was probably one of the few drivers from the Russian Federation after the fall of the USSR that popped up in Europe. Around 1998 he was in speaking terms with the Arrows team of Tom Walkinshaw, […]
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There were decades in the Formula One that there were more teams and drivers than places on the grid. Forty entrants for a Grand Prix was no exception, it was the reality in the 1980s and 1990s. While we all known the ill-fated teams as Pacific, Coloni, Osella, EuroBrun, Zakspeed and so on. There is […]
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