These days, communications between F1 drivers and their pitcrews are detailed and convoluted to the point of being unintelligible to anyone else. Which is the point, of course. Before the…
Bob Sheppey had a friend working for TV-am at the 1988 Monaco GP who got him tickets, allowing him full access during practice. That was the year of Ayrton Senna’s…
April, 1963 East Africa Greetings from Maasai onlookers as the Ford Anglia of Peter Hughes – the son of a Ford distributor in Kenya – and Billy Young tackles the…
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As you might imagine, compiling a top-30 list of motor racing’s pivotal happenings was a headache of formidable proportions. Through a whittling-down process that involved much scribbling in notepads, email…
Fate has a reputation for moving in mysterious ways, but can sometimes be unexpectedly productive. When watchmaker and motor sport aficionado Richard Mille visited the DPPI archive to seek bygone…
Not quite the BBC, perhaps, but this was typical of the Brazilian broadcasting art in 1987. Apart from his attire to cope with the searing heat at Jacarepaguá, the intrigue…
IT WAS HARD TO ENVISAGE A DAY WHEN Brands Hatch might ever be scratched from the Formula 1 schedule. In 1972 it was the Kent circuit’s turn to host the…
Kim McCullough sent us photos her father Ed McNeilly took on his regular trips to scenic Watkins Glen in New York state, long-time home of the US Grand Prix, and…
November 3,1991 Adelaide, Australia Blast from the past: the class of ‘91 line up for an end-of-season photo, top from left: Johnny Herbert, Mark Blundell, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Emanuele…
I had the pleasure of interviewing Tony Brooks more than once. It was impossible not to be struck by a gentleness and humility that gave no indication of his standing…
René Arnoux’s victory in the 1983 Canadian Grand Prix was his first in a season that had seen six different winners in the previous seven races. Having claimed three pole…
As Goodyear’s technical director, Peter Bradbury arrived early at Silverstone for the 1987 Grand Prix “to help the Stringfellow F3 team settle in, and somehow we overstayed our tickets…” But…
May 19,1957 Monaco Tony Brooks proved that his Vanwall VW 5 could last the distance at the first European Grand Prix of 1957, finishing second at Monaco behind Juan Manuel…
An enthusiast since watching Jim Clark in a Cortina in 1966, David Simpson especially liked Brands Hatch because of the great shots its elevation gave. Here’s a selection of his…
June 13-14 1970 Le Mans, France While the cameras of Steve McQueen’s Solar Productions rolled, torrential rain made a substantial impact on racing at La Sarthe this year. Only seven…
The photo shows Ayrton Senna typically getting down to detail with his engineer, Steve Hallam (soft cap) and the Lotus crew in the Detroit pitlane in 1985. The man I…
