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Profile – Adrián Campos
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Perhaps the quintessential reject, the life and times of Adrián Campos saw him rub shoulders with the bright and beautiful people of motorsport just as much as the backmarkers. His F1 career saw him race for Minardi for a little more than a year. After a tenure in touring car and sportscar racing, he…
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Profile – Jan Magnussen
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Some people are born with great natural talent, and as a result success comes easily to them. Where others hone their efforts with great commitment, others can go without putting in the long hours needed to gain that extra tenth and still be the best – at least for a time. Unfortunately without trial and discipline, great…
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Profile – Sébastien Bourdais
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Racing drivers, both from Formula 1 and CART/IndyCar, occasionally attempt one of the most difficult feats of motorsport: switching continents and succeeding. For every Mario Andretti who crosses the Atlantic and wins a world championship, there is an Alex Zanardi who struggles dreadfully, either through motivation, environment, or simple experience. While drivers like Nigel Mansell…
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Profile – Bruno Senna
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The expectations of being a Formula One driver are not easily met. You have the press constantly asking you questions on your form and future, and you have the fans constantly wanting you to put up a good performance on the racetrack. Sometimes, that pressure is doubled by carrying on your shoulders the weight of…
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Profile – Lance Reventlow
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Nationality American Date of Birth February 24th 1936 Date of Death July 24th 1972 Teams Scarab, Rob Walker Racing (1960) Races Entered 4 Races Started 1 Best Result DNF (Belgium 1960) Trying to join the ranks of Formula 1 without money is akin to tackling white-water rapids clutching nothing more than an errant piece…
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Profile – Harald Ertl
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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. Höttl had switched allegiance to the OSS in 1945,…
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John Miles: 1943-2018
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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 his early successes, Miles deceived his bespectacled and soft-spoken…
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Profile – Tony Brise
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Nationality British Date of Birth 28th March 1952 Date of Death 29th November 1975 Teams Frank Williams Racing Cars, Embassy Hill (1975) Races Entered 10 Points 1 Best Result 6th (Sweden 1975) The Embassy Hill mechanics were weary. After a long week’s testing in late November at the Paul Ricard circuit, the team clambered…
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Profile – Ken Richardson
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Nationality British Date of Birth 21st August 1911 Team BRM (1951) Races Entered 1 Races Started 0 Best Result DNS (1951 Italian GP) Part 1: The beginning of an E.R.A. William Kenneth Richardson was never destined to be a racing driver. Already, his early life wasn’t the kind you’d expect a racing driver to…
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Profile – André Lotterer
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It’s not uncommon for Formula 1 drivers to turn their attention to sportscars, especially when they’ve been displaced from their drive by someone younger, richer or more talented. Even the most cursory glance at the World Endurance Championship entry list will yield a number of familiar names to those who have followed F1 in…
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