The roaring twenties an era of economic prosperity the years when the sky was the limit. People started dancing on Jazz music, the fashion become more exciting and modern. People started enjoying life in a modern way, as we have today. The era that evolved motorsport to a new standard, professional and serious. Car manufacturers […]
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The roaring twenties an era of economic prosperity the years when the sky was the limit. People started dancing on Jazz music, the fashion become more exciting and modern. People started enjoying life in a modern way, as we have today. The era that evolved motorsport to a new standard, professional and serious. Car manufacturers […]
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The further you go back in time, the harder it becomes to uncover and found information about unraced projects. While the 1930s sounds in my mind as 70 years ago, it is practically 90 years ago. It is a deep dive into my own archive, online archives, old magazines and what not. Therefore, the lists […]
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In any optic, the year 1939 was an interesting year. The year all madness would merge after Nazi Germany would invade Poland after a false flag operation. The first signs were clear in 1939 also in the motorsport. While there was a Grand Prix Season going on there were only Auto Union and Mercedes who […]
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The Unraced Projects during World War II is an interesting era. Especially in the early days of the war! While in Europe Grand Prix racing stopped abruptly after German invaded Poland. Organisations kept on organising races in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Argentine and even Great Britain. Prior the invasion, Mercedes and Auto Union were […]
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Jean-Paul Driot and René Arnoux founded DAMS that stands for Driot-Arnoux Motorsports in 1988. From the early stages of their existence, in 1988 their drivers Erik comas and Éric Bernard finished second and third in the International Formula 300 Championship. A year later Comas would win the championship title. A result Olivier Panis equalled in […]
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Keith Wiggins establish Pacific Racing a successful team in the International F3000, won the title with David Coulthard and finalised his dream. The dream to enter the Formula One, in a time with worldwide financial struggles. The very first talk about this was already in 1991 when Wiggins was linked in a take-over of a […]
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The late 1980s and the early 1990s is filled with stories about investment groups and individuals with money who were keen to appear on the grid with their own team. Some even managed to appear on the grid like Eddie Jordan. Many, obviously, never made it to the grid in these years. Some appeared on […]
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Since the early days of Grand Prix racing many attempts were made to enter the Formula One and pre-war Grand Prix era. The period 1885 – 2023 contains over 650 Unraced projects. Every now and then new projects appear on the surface. To share with you all the stories i decided to summarize the stories […]
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Since the early days of Grand Prix racing many attempts were made to enter the Formula One and pre-war Grand Prix era. The period 1885 – 2023 contains over 650 Unraced projects. Every now and then new projects appear on the surface. To share with you all the stories i decided to summarize the stories […]
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