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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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Team Profile – Aston Butterworth
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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 of success in Formula One. You might recognise names such…
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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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Profile – Leslie Marr
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Nationality British Date of Birth 14th August 1922 Car Connaught (1954-55) Races Entered 2 Races Started 2 Best Result 13th (GB 1954) Driving is an art form. At least that’s what the common metaphor claims. Graham Hill claimed to be an artist, the track serving as his canvas. Garth Stein’s 2008 best-selling novel ‘The…
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Profile – Miguel Ángel Guerra
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Nationality Argentinean Date of Birth 31st August 1953 Team Osella (1981) Races Entered 4 Races Started 1 Best Result Ret (San Marino, 1981) There is an oft-discussed obscure Formula One record: who had the shortest Formula One racing career? The driver most often cited for this record is Marco Apicella, the Italian driver who…
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When stand-in Winkelhock stood out in the rain
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If you like your Formula 1 seasons to be packed with more stories than a bookworm’s Kindle, then the 2007 season is for you. It had everything: a young upstart embroiled in an increasingly toxic championship battle, subterfuge, politics and plenty of on-track drama; at times, it resembled a plotline not dissimilar to a…
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Profile – Peter Ryan
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Nationality Canadian Date of Birth 10th June 1940 Date of Death 2nd July 1962 Car Lotus (1961) Races Entered 1 Races Started 1 Best Result 9th (USA 1961) Canadian driver. Young. Inexperienced. Prone to errors. Rich parents. Father owns property in Mont Tremblant. Lance Stroll, right? Normally, yes. On March 26, he made a…
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Lola Cars: A Retrospective
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It has been twenty years since Lola entered its works team into the 1997 Australian Grand Prix, and was a spectacular failure which resulted in collapse just prior to the following race in Brazil. Curiously, this was a once-upon-a-time large, successful race car manufacturer, building challengers for multiple categories including Formula 3, Formula 3000…
A tribute to the heroic failures of Grand Prix racing