Obituaries

Colin Chapman 1928-1982 Lotus chief Colin Chapman died at his home in Norfolk during the night of December 15th/16th at the age of 54 years, bringing to an end an…

Gerard 'Jabby' Crombac Flat-cap wearer, pipe smoker. Anglophile and incurable motor racing addict. this Frenchman was the doyen of Formula One journalists. Crombac died in November. having notched up an…

The Hon Patrick Lindsay Patrick Lindsay died on January 9th at the age of 57 after an illness of several months. Known to the public most of all in his…

He may not have been the most famous driver in the sport's history, but when the news came through that Michele Aboreto had been killed testing an Audi R8 at…

Roger Clark MBE, Britain's greatest rally driver of the pre-four-wheel drive era, and arguably its finest ever exponent of the art, died on January 12, following a stroke. He was…

Roland Ratzenberger typified the spirit that takes men to the highest echelon of motorsport. He was born in Salzburg in 1962 and began to establish his unusual name in the…