The Erzherzog Johann BORG is a boarding school in Bad Aussee, a small town in the Austrian state of Styria. The school has two chief reputations. It owes the first to its 1952 foundation by Wilhelm Höttl, a former Austrian member of the Nazi SS.
The British Touring Car Championship celebrates its sixtieth year in 2018. From its humble beginnings as the British Saloon Car Championship in 1958, the championship has passed through many iterations, including the Ford Sierra RS500 monsters of the 1980s, through the exotic and expensive Super
Peter Sauber’s eponymous racing team became synonymous with midfield competency during their years in Formula One, notwithstanding a brief BMW-assisted detour to the front of the grid in the late 2000s. After Bavaria withdrew its factory support in 2009 as a result of the global
Former Team Lotus driver John Miles has passed away Sunday morning aged 74. The son of character actor Sir Bernard Miles, John Miles was a student of engineering who began his racing career in 1963. Nicknamed ‘Diva’, after the Ford-engined sportscar in which he achieved
It’s that time of year again; excitement is building within as we draw closer to seeing 20 of the best drivers on the planet take up arms and do their talking on the tarmac. Formula One is upon us once. The F1 fanbase will be hankering over
In Formula One’s formative seasons, the Alfa Romeo name provoked fear into their competitors. By 1985 the Italian team were little more than a laughing stock in the F1 paddock. What went wrong? The first powerhouse of Formula One, the works Alfa squad swept the first two seasons of the championship with
Every category has its jewel in the crown. Formula One has the glittering, glamourous Monaco Grand Prix, the World Endurance Championship has the gruelling 24 Hours of Le Mans, and IndyCar boasts the grandiose Indianapolis 500. They’re all fantastically unique events, and plenty of racing drivers have
Nationality British Years in F1 1952 Team Principal Bill Aston Races Entered 4 Races Started 2 Best Result DNF (twice) Throughout the 1950s and the early 1960s privateer manufacturers began emerging from Britain, entering Grands Prix around the world. Some of them had their fair share
The 1990s are often considered to be the heyday of the “pay driver” in Formula One, with such luminaries as Giovanni Lavaggi, Taki Inoue and Jean-Denis Deletraz thrilling audiences worldwide in their quest to drive F1 cars as slowly as possible. Pedro Paulo Diniz was
Another season of Formula One has entered the record books, but before 2017 can be laid to rest there’s a rather prestigious award to hand out. That’s right, it’s Reject of the Year time once again. The new aero regulations for 2017 gave us a genuine
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