-
Profile – Ricardo Zunino
•
Ricardo ‘El Colorado’ Zunino is as known for the events transpiring around him as he is for his own sake. Like Harald Ertl, he happened to be at the right place at the right time, regarding the very same man: Niki Lauda. Zunino’s last-minute replacement of Lauda at the 1979 Canadian Grand Prix gave…
-
Profile – Corrado Fabi
•
While it is unlikely that racing ability is something that passes along in genetics, there are the occasional moments, be it the Schumachers, Rosbergs or Villeneuves, where more than one member of a racing family can possess boatloads of talent. One such example which is seldom mentioned is Corrado Fabi, younger brother of Teo.…
-
Profile – Hideki Noda
•
Hideki Noda’s career is a strange one. Often grasping at the many opportunities which came his way, the Japanese driver was able to effectively buy his way through the junior ladder into a Formula 1 seat for a few brief races. Finishing none of them, he rests as a Grand Prix Reject, though that…
-
Profile – Giorgio Pantano
•
When it comes to Formula 1 and any other sport, not everyone is a Boris Becker or a Max Verstappen. Some are indeed late bloomers and take unusual paths on their way to the top. The following reject, the Italian Giorgio Pantano, was one of the most gifted karting drivers of his, and any…
-
Profile – Charles Pic
•
Anonymity is a hard thing to achieve when you’re a racing driver in the premier motorsport series in the world. It’s a little easier when your career sees you shuffling between two backmarker teams without a single point to your name. With an average stint in Formula 1, a semi-decent junior career, and a…
-
Profile – André Testut
•
André Testut is a driver little-remembered among the Formula 1 community, for his exploits in the series were hardly moments of legend. Monied and enthusiastic, Testut was a staple of the French racing scene outside of Formula 1 throughout most of the 1950s, though he did enter two of his home grands prix. As…
-
Profile – Nino Vaccarella
•
“Calm and staid on the outside, you could feel that within him burned the fire and passion of his native land” Enzo Ferrari on Nino Vaccarella Winning one’s home race is on the bucket list of every professional racing driver. Nino Vaccarella did just that, only his home race was the Targa Florio, the…
-
Profile – Helmut Marko
•
Respected F1 drivers rarely ever leave the world of motorsport. Even after they hang up the racing gloves, there are many opportunities open to a retired driver: commentating, advising, representing, managing teams and drivers. The subject of today’s Driver Profile, Helmut Marko, falls into almost all these categories. Known to the younger motorsport viewer…
-
Profile – Justin Wilson Part 2
•
In Part 1 we traced Wilson’s career from karting all the way to his Minardi days in F1. We pick the story back up in the summer of 2003 as Justin embarked on his Jaguar odyssey. Link to Part 1 >> At the point of the actual team swap, Wilson had been aware that Jaguar…
-
Profile – Justin Wilson Part 1
•
Hailing from Sheffield, England, Justin Wilson waged an admirable fight against the power of wallet using determination as his weapon. Having finally faced defeat at the Formula One level, the lanky Yorkshireman took his skills across the pond instead and ended up building a long, respectable American open wheel career, which was tragically cut…
A tribute to the heroic failures of Grand Prix racing