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It was the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort on June 21, 1970, that changed everything for Jochen. It was the race where the Lotus 72 finally came good, and where…

Were someone to achieve something similar today, their accomplishment would likely be obscured by a blizzard of hype. But it was different then. Taken out of context, Eric Thompson’s World…

For sheer driving satisfaction there are three races I'll always remember above the rest. The first was in 1988 at Delmar, California, in an IMSA Jaguar, when I was nerfed…

What has a gestation period of 50 years? Cyril Kieft's grand prix car. Conceived in 1953, part-built in '54, abandoned by '55, the incomplete car was forgotten by the racing…

Ron Dennis used to be based next door, during his Project Four days. His still-under-construction hi-tech temple to hi-tech, Paragon, lies only a few miles down the road, but it…

Australian GP, Longford March 1st, 1965 as told to Adam Cooper It might come as a surprise to some people, but the race I enjoyed most in my career was…

Going through some old tapes recently, I came across an interview with James Hunt in the early '80s. It was typical James, forthright but well-reasoned, and I smiled often as…

Jacques-Bernard Ickx is a complicated man. The thinking man’s racing driver, the thinking woman’s idol. Here is a man who is many things to many people. An emotional, soulful and…

The hamlets of Chirnside and Duns nestle into the mellow countryside of Scotland's Border region, mere miles from the northernmost boundary of England. The homesteads have names such as Mill…

In a few months’ time comes the 25th anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve. Tragedies of this kind are mercifully rare these days, but during my first year of…

"I can't believe I'm in England," said Gary Bettenhausen at Goodwood, "driving this race car my dad used to drive 53 years ago..." Bettenhausen's father Tony, whom Denis Jenkinson described…

In terms of finding a decent place to stay, Magny-Cours is not the best grand prix venue in the world. Thus, when we discovered, some years ago, a quite exceptional…

Twenty years ago this month, found myself a week before Christmas in a place to which ordinarily wild horses would not drag me. Sao Paulo I find about the least…

As conversation meanders towards Super Aguri's debut at this year's Bahrain F1 opener, Tony Trimmer starts chuckling: "They did a great job. Really good. I'd drive for them. Love to.…

Purity of line is the first thing that strikes you. Every time the Formula 1 rules shift, it takes only a matter of laps to accept a new look as…

Tony Gaze was at the Australian Grand Prix this year, tall and distinguished and unrecognised in the paddock of the modern professional business that he knew as a sport 50…

Stirling Moss Inaugural Goodwood Meeting, September 1948   The place was pretty bleak, but it was a lovely meeting. We went with our Cooper 500 in a horsebox, me, my…