High hopes at Simtek before the start of the 1995 season. With a decent driver line-up and their new challenger S951, the team was ready to push forward. The first signs were indeed positive. Jos and Domenico showed the potential of their car. However, the team was struggling financially therefore unable to update their car. […]
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I personally always liked the small Larrousse team. Besides their colourful liveries and sponsors like Kronenbourg/Tourtel, it are also the results on the circuits. Larrousse is one of those teams that came in the Formula One after the Turbo engines were forbidden. Their best year was 1990 when Aguri Suzuki managed to finish third during […]
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Hurray, 1995 arrived! A new year, a new season, and the second year for Pacific Grand Prix on the grid. The team begins the team with new hope, a new car and with an alliance with Team Lotus. Indeed, Team Lotus did not appear completely from the grid this year. No, they are now with […]
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Around this year thirty years ago, many in the Formula One were reflecting on an insane and deadly season. The horror weekend at Imola will be remembered for eternity. That weekend Rubinho miraculous survived his horror crash with his Jordan 194. Sadly, Ronald Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna left their lives at Imola. More happened during […]
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Before Max Verstappen, there was Jos Verstappen. Jos came, saw and left the Formula One at the end of 2003 with Minardi. However, there was a time that experts pointed out that Jos had the potential to become the next World Champion in the years that were coming. He showed his raw talent during his […]
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While the title of this article may sounds sarcastic to your ears. It was the reason the Formula Classic Championship got canned after the second race at Donington park. Tom Wheatcroft came up with the idea of a Championship that echoed the best of Pre-War Grand Prix cars. All the cars on the grid would […]
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Of the 1997 MasterCard Lola Formula One Team and the introduction of the MasterCard Lola T97/30 car. What would you have done in early February 1997 when this invites falls on your doormat? Would you ask yourself what you have done wrong to receive this invite? Or would cancel all your appointments on the 20th […]
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There was a time in the Formula One when teams tried anything to earn some extra money. Best example is Minardi who appeared with the F1X2 (M026T), better known as the 2-seater, driving around VIPS at a track to let them experience, for an amount of money, the Formula One. In the early days, they […]
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Taki Inoue, once a marshal in Hungary, is what you would call an absolute cult hero. He is one of the drivers that once drove around in the Formula One that everyone knows. It doesn’t matter which generation you ask, they all know Taki. Because Taki is the ultimate GOAT, the one that made the […]
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Its 1994 when DAMS announced their plans for their own Formula One Project. In Collaboration with Reynard DAMS would start working on their car. The plan was to debut in the Formula One in 1996 with their own team. From the beginning on the French team struggled with the financial picture, as well the renewed […]
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