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Video: Jack Brabham Documentary
When We Were Racers is about a legend of motor sport, Jack Brabham. Originally broadcast on the ABC in 2009 , Jack tells his stirring story with the help of other motor racing icons …
Video: Schumacher and Rosberg drive the Mercedes W196 at the ‘ring
57 years ago Juan Manuel Fangio drove the legendary W196 Silver Arrow to victory in the Eifel mountains. Last week, Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher got the chance to drive the old Nurburgring in …
Best of The Cahier Archive: John Surtees
John Surtees, massive legend, winner of six motorcycle World Championships and the 1964 Formula 1 World Drivers Championship. The only person to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels.
Surtees drove for Lotus, …
Henri Toivonen: Racing driver!
People often say that rally drivers are the most talented in the sport, and very few have succeeded at both levels: You are either a rally driver or a road racer. Gerard Larrousse and Vic …
Legends: Gary Hocking
“Meteoric”. That was Gary Hocking’s international motorcycle career. Aged 20, he first ventured onto the Continent in mid-1958 and within a month finished third in the West German 500 GP.
Shocked by the death of Australia’s …
Best of The Cahier Archive: Alain Prost
Alain Prost, “The Professor”. The French superstar started 199 Grand Prix, won 51 of them and took four world Championships along the way.
Prost’s silky smooth style was in contrast to that of his fierce rival …
Bernd Schneider: “The DTM cars at that time were very impressive”
What do Formula 1 World Champion Mika Hakkinen, F1 race-winner Mark Webber and Indycar champion and Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti have in common? Answer: All of them have been team mates to a driver …
Illustration: Mario Andretti’s Ferrari 126 Turbo
Mario Andretti started on pole position in his first and second to last Formula 1 Grand Prix. Mario set the racing world alight when he put his Lotus 49 on pole, on debut, at the …
One off Grand Prix winners: Lorenzo Bandini Austria 1964
For many people Lorenzo Bandini represented the ultimate Italian GP driver with his matinée idol good looks and shock of black hair, but he was actually born in Libya on December 21st 1935 (Libya being …
Best of The Cahier Archive: Juan Manuel Fangio
El Maestro, “The Master”, Juan Manuel Fangio. The Argentinian legend would have celebrated his 100th Birthday this week. What can you say about the guy? Five world titles with four different teams. Brave, passionate, quick, …
Days of Thunder is the best racing movie of all time.
So, then, the Senna movie has gone down a storm – and rightly so. Not to put too fine a point on it, things were simply more exciting then. The circuits were bumpy, the cars …
Illustration: Dieter Quester BMW 3.0CSL
Austrian ace Dieter Quester made a return to the European Touring Car Championship in 1977 and dominated proceedings by taking the title and five wins.
It was Quester’s third ETCC Championship, following his his triumphs in …
San Marino Grand Prix, Imola 1994 – The worst weekend, part four
The worldwide release of Senna – The Movie has opened up a lot of memories, and it made me dig out a story I wrote a few years ago that ended up not being published. …
San Marino Grand Prix, Imola 1994 – The worst weekend, part three
May 1: Last year’s worldwide release of Senna – The Movie opened up a lot of memories about Ayrton Senna, in the build-up I dug out a series of stories I wrote a few years …
Video: The Jochen Rindt Opera
It is not often you see an opera set in the Formula 1 pitlane of 1970, but back in 2009 the Salzburg Rallye Club and the artists’ network lawine torrèn produced an opera about the …
