Articles in Features
One off Grand Prix winners: Peter Gethin, Monza 1971
Some say that winning your first Grand Prix is one of the most difficult aspects of being a successful GP driver, but over the next few weeks we will showcase seven drivers from the 1970’s …
Legends: Luigi Taveri
Luigi Taveri was the antithesis of today’s teenaged tear-away 125 GP racers – technically savvy, immaculately presented and cool headed.
An Italian-Swiss, born near Zurich in 1929, Taveri won the first of his three world 125 …
Auto Legends Descend on Chelsea
It was with great anticipation that we descended on the magnificent buildings & grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea to see some of the legendary cars of the great Le Mans 24 Hours races.
Right from …
Legends: King Kenny Roberts
It’s 32 years since Kenny Leroy Roberts hit the world 500 championship, shaking it from its previous Euro-centric axis.
Roberts was 26 — a cocky, race-savvy, mentally tough twice AMA national champion from a dusty part …
AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix 2010: Photo Gallery
Check these wonderful photos from Karsten Arndt taken at the 38th AvD-Oldtimer-Grand-Pri from the 13th – 15th August.
60.000 spectators and many professional and well-known drivers flew into the Eifel for the 38th AvD-Oldtimer-Grand-Prix.
The Nürburgring transformed …
Legends: Max Deubel
What do Max Deubel and Mike Hailwood have in common? From 1961 to ’65 both men won four successive world GP championships — Deubel in sidecars with Emil Hoerner, Hailwood in 500 GP. They were …
1970: Finland wins the World Cup
Imagine trying to organise a six-week rally that took 100 crews on a 16,000-mile route from London to Mexico City, via most of Europe and the Americas, and that comprised the most inhospitable and torturous …
Red and White Mini’s Return to Rallying
Well it had to happen, I suppose: the words ‘Mini’ and ‘rally’ are to come into close contact for the first time since Monte Carlo in 1968, when the teeny tearaway’s reign of terror in …
