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Abecassis, George Edgar

Acheson, Kenneth Henry

Adamowicz, Tony

Adams, Philippe

Agabashian, Fred

Ahrens, Jr., Kurt Karl-Heinrich

Albers, Christijan

Alboreto, Michele

Alderman, George

Alguersuari, Jaime

Alliot, Philippe

Allison, Henry Clifford

Alonso, Fernando

Amati, Giovanna

Amick, Richard (Red)

Amon, Christopher Arthur

Anderson, Robert (Bob)

Andersson, Conny

Andretti, Mario Gabriele

Andretti, Michael Mario

Apicella, Marco

Armbruster, Fred

Arnoux, René Alexandre

Arundell, Peter

Ascari, Alberto

Ashdown, Peter Hawthorn

Ashley, Ian Hugh Gordon

Ashmore, Gerald

Aston, William (Bill)

1952 Aston-Butterworth NB41

William 'Bill' Aston's life was filled with excitement and the thirst for new adventures. This quest for new adventures and experiences would lead Aston to entering the World Championship in 1952. It .....

Attwood, Richard James David (Dickie)

Baghetti, Giancarlo

Balsa, Marcel Lucien

Marcel Balsa: 1952 Formula One Season

There is a saying, 'You can't teach an old dog new tricks'. Marcel Balsa wouldn't subscribe to that saying. Born in Creuse, France on the 1st of January in 1901, Balsa would live a rather quiet and un.....

Bandini, Lorenzo

Barbazza, Fabrizio

Barber III, John (Skip)

Barrichello, Rubens Gonçalves (Rubinho)

Bartels, Michael

Erwin Bauer: 1953 Formula One Season

Some of the most memorable moments in motor racing are those when a driver has to make due with inferior equipment, even talent, and goes on to score an incredible finish. Erwin Bauer would provide mo.....

Baumgartner, Zsolt

Bayardo, Asdrúbal Esteban Fontes (Pocho)

Bayol, Élie Marcel

Elie Bayol: 1952 Formula One Season

So many things of life are cut off or cut short by war. Promise and talent is often the greatest casualty in war. Its end fosters new hope and belief in a brighter future. Life seems more precious tha.....

Elie Bayol: 1953 Formula One Season

Elie Bayol's racing career began rather late. Though born in 1914 Bayol would take part in his first race until 1950. Starting out in sportscars, Bayol was very respectable despite his little racing e.....

Beauman, Donald

Bechem, Karl-Günther

Karl-Gunther Bechem: 1952 Formula One Season

In post-World War II Germany there were a number of amateur drivers that would end up living out their racing careers in relative anonymity. In the case of Karl-Gunther Bechem, racing career was threa.....

Karl-Gunther Bechem: 1953 Formula One Season

Sometimes our own identity is the most dangerous threat to our existence. Many grand prix history books list the rather innocuous name 'Bernhard Nacke' as having taken part in the German Grand Prix du.....

Behra, Jean Marie

Bell, Derek Reginald

Belmondo, Paul Alexandre

Beltoise, Jean-Pierre Maurice Georges

Beretta, Olivier

Berg, Allen Bernard

Berger, Georges

Georges Berger: 1953 Formula One Season

During the golden era, and in the years after World War II, grand prix racing was very much a very patriotic affair. Constructor nations had their own colors to identify themselves with the spectators.....

Georges Berger: 1954 Formula One Season

In the waning days of September and of the First World War, in the area of Molenbeek, Saint-Jean near the heart of Brussels, Belgium a young man would be born. And after the interruption of a Second W.....

Berger, Gerhard

Bernoldi, Enrique

Bertaggia, Enrico

Bertocchi, Guerino

Bettenhausen, Melvin E. (Tony)

Bhanudej, Birabongse (B. Bira)

Prince Bira: 1954 Formula One Season

Ever since the early 1930s the evening dress-inspired blue had adorned the cars of Prince Birabongse. And from those very first moments Prince Bira had proven himself as a competent racer. In many a r.....

Bianchi, Lucien

Bianco, Luigi Emilio Rodolfo Bertetti

Biondetti, Clemente

Blanchard, Harry

Bleekemolen, Michael

Blokdyk, John Trevor

Boesel, Raul de Mesquita

Bondurant, Robert

Bonetto, Felice

Bonnier, Joakim (Jo)

Bonomi, Roberto Wenceslao

Bordeu, Juan Manuel

Borgudd, Karl Edward Tommy (Slim)

Botha, Lukas (Luki)

Bottas, Valtteri

Bouchut, Christophe

Boullion, Jean-Christophe (Jules)

Bourdais, Sébastien Olivier

Boutsen, Thierry Marc

Thierry Boutsen: Another Cool Belgian

Over the course of a 24 hour race, like that of Le Mans, there will be many moments that will test the nerve and patience of a driver and a team. There will also be those moments that will tempt, caus.....

Brabham, Sir John Arthur (Jack)

Jack Brabham: 1956 Formula One Season

Jack Brabham would arrive in England in 1955 and would become like that younger brother that was just always hanging around. Those whose company he longed to keep were the people at the Cooper Car Com.....

Brambilla, Ernesto (Tino)

Brambilla, Vittorio

Branca, Antonio (Toni)

1951 Formula One Season

Antonio Branca was one of a number of private entrants in grand prix racing during the late-1940s and during the early years of Formula One's existence.

The Swiss driver first appeared in a F.....

Brancatelli, Gianfranco

Brezinka, Rainer

Bridger, Thomas (Tommy)

Bridger, Thomas (Tommy)

Brise, Anthony William

Brooks, Charles Anthony Standish (Tony)

Brown, Alan Everest

Brown, William Archibald Scott

1952 Formula One Season

There have always been those sports considered to be for rich men and nobility. Part of the allure of motor racing was the common man's ability to rub shoulders with nobility, should they be fast enou.....

Brundle, Martin John

Bruni, Gianmaria (Gimmi)

Bryan, James Ernest

Bryden-Brown, Louise

Bucknum, Ronnie

Bueb, Ivor Léon John

Buell, Temple Hoyne

Buemi, Sébastien Olivier

Bueno, Luiz Pereira

Burti, Luciano Pucci

Bussinello, Roberto

Button, Jenson Alexander Lyons

Cabianca, Giulio

Caffi, Alessandro (Alex)

Campbell-Jones, Michael John

Campos Suñer, Adrián

Cantoni, Eitel Danilo

Capelli, Ivan Franco

Castellotti, Eugenio

Cecotto, Alberto (Johnny)

Cevert Goldenberg, Albert François

Chaboud, Eugene

1951 Formula One Season

There are many mysteries in life; many things that pass by that catch one's attention for a moment and then are gone. All that is known about that 'thing' is what was seen or experienced in that one m.....

Chamberlain, Jay

Chandhok, Karun

Chapman, Anthony Colin Bruce

Chaves, Pedro António Matos

Cheesbourg, Bill

Cheever, Jr., Edward McKay (Eddie)

Chimeri, Ettore Muro

Louis Chiron: 1953 Formula One Season

Louis Chiron was born in 1899 in Monte Carlo. Holding dual citizenship, Chiron would enlist in the French Army and would serve in World War I. In spite of being the son of a wealthy French hotelier, C.....

Christianson, Paul

Clark, Jr., James (Jim)

Collins, Peter John

Collomb-Clerc, Bernard Marie François Alexandre

Colombo, Alberto

Comotti, Gianfranco (Franco)

Constantine, George

Coulthard, David Marshall

Courage, Piers Raymond

Couture, Jacques

Craft, Christopher

Crawford, Jerry

Crespo, Alberto Augusto

Crichton-Stuart, John Colum (Johnny Dumfries)

1952 Formula One Season

After spending the war years behind the controls and on the edge of life and death as a pilot for the Royal Air Force, Tony Crook decided to turn in the fast-paced life for a slower one—just slightly......

Tony Crook: 1953 Formula One Season

From out of the Bristol Aeroplane Company would come Bristol Cars. In much the same way, Manchester's Anthony 'Tony' Crook would come out of World War II as a pilot in the Royal Air Force. Born in 192.....

Crossley, Geoffrey

da Matta, Cristiano Monteiro

Dalmas, Yannick

dAmbrosio, Jérôme

DaMota, Candido

Danner, Christian

Jorge Daponte: 1954 Formula One Season

Among the few great names throughout Formula One's history there would be the many that would make their appearance, and then, disappear just about as fast as they came in. Jorge Daponte's role in the.....

Dattner, Alfred

1952 Formula One Season

Once racing is in the blood, it is very infectious. Once infected, it is practically impossible for those having been part of it to walk away. One of those addicted to racing was Alfred Dattner.
.....

Davidson, Anthony Denis

Davis, Colin Charles Houghton

de Adamich, Andrea Lodovico

de Angelis, Elio

de Araújo Cabral, Mário Veloso

de Beaufort, Carel Godin

de Cesaris, Andrea

de Changy, Alain Carpentier

de Dryver, Bernard

de Filippis, Maria Teresa

de Graffenried, Emmanuel (Toulo)

Baron de Graffenried: 1953 Formula One Season

Baron Emmanuel de Graffenried had started out the 1952 World Championship at his home grand prix and would end up enjoying a good result despite driving a much older car that had just been revised to .....

Emmanuel de Graffenried: 1954 Formula One Season

Baron Emmanuel de Graffenried had a racing career that spanned decades including before the outbreak of the Second World War. However, 1953 had seen him earn his best result in the World Championship .....

de Klerk, Peter

de la Rosa, Pedro Martínez

de Portago, Alfonso

de Riu, Giovanni

Giovanni de Riu: 1954 Formula One Season

In the early days of the Formula One World Championship there were great opportunities for privateers and small teams to make their mark on World Championship history. Some would go on to have pages a.....

de Tomaso, Alejandro

de Tornaco, Charles

de Villota Ruíz, Emilio

Délétraz, Jean-Denis

Depailler, Patrick André Eugène Joseph

DePasquale, Eno

di Grassi, Lucas Tucci

Diniz, Pedro Paulo

Dochnal, Frank J.

Dolhem, Louis José Lucien

Donnelly, Hugh Peter Martin

Donohue, Jr., Mark Neary

Doornbos, Robert Michael

Downing, Kenneth Henry

Kenneth Downing: 1952 Formula One Season

Money cannot buy talent. However, money can buy talent opportunities to express itself. Many gentlemen racers that had money had some amounts of talent. The disproportionate amount of money and talent.....

Drolsom, George

Piero Dusio: 1952 Formula One Season

While it wouldn't be true in every case, it seemed everything Piero Dusio 'quello che toccava si traformava in oro'. While Dusio's life would start out with an injury, he would turn just about everyth.....

d^Orey, Frederico J C Themudo (Fritz)

Eaton, George Ross

Ecclestone, Bernard Charles (Bernie)

Edwards, Guy Richard Goronwy

Elford, Victor Henry (Vic)

Estéfano, Nasif Moisés

Etancelin, Philippe

1951 Formula One Season: Philippe Etancelin

Philippe Etancelin was one of grand prix's famous privateers (see Philippe Etancelin article). His talent behind the wheel was undeniable from his very first race back in 1926 when he won his first ti.....

Evans, Robert (Bob)

Fabi, Teodorico

Facetti, Carlo Giovanni

Fangio, Juan Manuel (El Chueco)

Farina, Giuseppe (Nino)

1948 Monaco Grand Prix: Prelude to a Championship

The streets of Monaco would host its first ever grand prix in 1929. The first edition of the race would be an immediate hit with drivers and spectators alike, and therefore, would only grow from then .....

1950 Italian Grand Prix: A Misfortunate Fortune

The outbreak of World War II had seemingly stolen away the best years of Giuseppe Farina's racing career. And now, heading into the Italian Grand Prix during the inaugural season of the Formula One Wo.....

Emilio Giuseppe ^Nino^ Farina: The Stiff-Armed Champion

Through what was nearly the first-third of the Italian Grand Prix of 1950 it would be Juan Manuel Fangio running up near the front with the championship within his grasp. However, on the 34th lap of t.....

1953 Spa 24 Hours: A Methodical Operation

Right from the very beginning of his racing career, Giuseppe Farina would enjoy considerable success in endurance sports car races but would never manage to come through on the top step of the podium......

1953 German Grand Prix: Farina^s Curtain Call

On the 28th of October, 1951 a very poignant moment in Formula One would unfold. Alfa Romeo would take its 159 Alfetta, a car more than a decade old and stretched to its absolute limits, to victory in.....

Ferguson, Willie

Fingleston, Alfred Lazarus (Les Leston)

Firman Jr., Ralph David

Fischer, Ludwig

Ludwig Fischer: 1952 Formula One Season

Germany during World War II and after was a study in contrast. Hitler was determined to rule. His Blitzkrieg tactics overwhelmed the nations and swept into the Middle East, North Africa and almost all.....

Fischer, Rudolf (Rudi)

Fisichella, Giancarlo

Fitch, John Cooper

Fittipaldi, Christian

Fittipaldi, Emerson

Fittipaldi Júnior, Wilson

Fitzau, Theodor

Flaherty, Jr., George Francis (Pat)

Flinterman, Jan

Follmer, George

Fontana, Norberto Edgardo

Fotheringham-Parker, Philip

1951 Formula One Season

In the grand scope of grand prix racing history Philip Fotheringham-Parker appears to be nothing more than a small-role player; one who had been given a couple of lines, but mostly remained in the bac.....

Foyt, Jr.,, Anthony Joseph (A.J.)

Franchi, Carlo (Gimax)

Francia, Giorgio

Frederick, Chuck

Frentzen, Heinz-Harald

Friesacher, Patrick

Fushida, Hiroshi

Gabbiani, Giuseppe (Beppe)

Gachot, Bertrand

Gaillard, Patrick

Galica, Divina Mary

Galli, Giovanni Giuseppe Gilberto (Nanni)

Galloway, Richard

Gálvez, Oscar Alfredo

Ganley, James Howden

Gaze, Frederick Anthony Owen

Tony Gaze: 1952 Formula One Season

Ask just about any British citizen who Douglas Bader was and he or she would be rather quick to recall who he was. However, ask who Bader's wingman was and it would be almost certain to receive some b.....

Gendebien, Olivier

Gerard, Frederick Roberts (Bob)

1951 Formula One Season

Bob Gerard overcame struggles, physical and otherwise, to earn a number of victories in grand prix racing throughout the late 1940s. At the beginning of the 1950s decade Formula One came into existenc.....

Bob Gerard: 1953 Formula One Season

Frederick Roberts 'Bob' Gerard's entire life had been surrounded by automobiles. Growing up with his family automotive business, Parr's Ltd., Gerard was well acquainted with automotive manufacturing. .....

Bob Gerard: 1954 Formula One Season

Garage owner known as Mr. Bob, Bob Gerard had become well known for his impeccable car preparation during the years following the end of the Second World War. Driving ERAs, Gerard would often earn res.....

Bob Gerard: 1956 Formula One Season

Even by the end of the 1955 season, Gerard was still challenging the front-runner with his 2.3-liter Cooper-Bristol. His tenacity and determination seemed to defy reality. However, heading into the 19.....

Gethin, Peter Kenneth

Ghinzani, Piercarlo

Ghinzani, Piercarlo

Giacomelli, Bruno

Gibson, Richard

Ginther, Paul Richard (Richie)

Giraud-Cabantous, Yves

1951 Formula One Season: Marius Aristide Yves Giraud-Cabantous

Throughout the annals of grand prix history, both written and legend, Yves Giraud-Cabantous is something of a mystery, but his talent and ability was undeniable. His personal life is all but unknown. .....

Giunti, Ignazio

Glöckler, Helm

Goethals, Christian

Goldsmith, Paul

González, José Froilán

González, Óscar Mario ^Bocha^

Gould^s Garage: 1954 Formula One Season

In the minds of many, life of a Formula One racing driver is already larger than life. Driving the best cars on the absolute limit seems like the ultimate adventure but it requires a commitment, a des.....

Gounon, Jean-Marc

Greenville, Ross

Gregg, Peter Holden

Gregory, Masten

Dora Greifzu: 1953 Formula One Season

Had he survived the tragic accident at Dessau, Paul Suhler Greifzu, the beloved motor racing driver from Suhl in East Germany, likely would have been present with his self-built Greifzu-BMW Eigenbau l.....

Grignard, Georges

1951 Formula One Season

So many names of Formula One drivers live on only in history. Georges Grignard would take part in, and, help to preserve and maintain pieces of Formula One's past.

Born in Villeneuve-Saint-G.....

Grim, Robert (Bobby)

Grosjean, Romain

Grouillard, Olivier

Guerra, Miguel Ángel

Guerrero Isaza, Roberto José

Gugelmin, Maurício

Guldstrand, Dick

Gurney, Daniel Sexton

Hailwood, Stanley Michael Bailey

Hakkinen, Mika Pauli

Bruce Halford: 1956 Formula One Season

The area of Devon consists of lofty cliffs and broad, hilly rural lands filled with fertile soil. This pastoral setting would certainly seem the perfect place to get away from the stresses of urban li.....

Hamilton, Duncan

1951 Formula One Season

Grand prix drivers are known for living life to the fullest. The feeling could have been one of invincibility, or, merely a lust for the things of this life while facing death. No matter the reason, t.....

Hamilton, Lewis Carl Davidson

Hampshire, David

Harrison, Dennis

Harrison, J Frank

Harrison, Thomas Cuthbert (Cuth)

Hartley, Leslie (Gene)

Hasemi, Masahiro

Hawkins, Robert Paul

1952 Formula One Season

It is human nature that we do things because we like to do whatever it is that we are doing. Rarely do we think about how our decisions will impact others. Often we think what we like must be for ours.....

Mike Hawthorn & the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans: The Cause and the Effect

Amidst the darkest day in motor racing history, a day that would forever change just about everything in the motor racing world and beyond, Mike Hawthorn, until his World Championship in 1958, would e.....

Hayje, Johan (Boy)

Haywood, Hurley

Willi Heeks: 1952 Formula One Season

The fighting spirit dies hard. Even in the midst of a ravaged, worn-torn and divided Germany, the post-war years would see a number of individuals and small manufacturers make some impressive car desi.....

Wilhelm ^Willi^ Heeks: 1953 Formula One Season

Ever since he came onto the scene in 1952, Heeks had proven himself to be a very competitive and competent racing driver. Many good results in sportscars were a tribute to his talent. In many ways Hee.....

Heidfeld, Nick Lars

All Hail Heidfeld!

While all eyes have been on the renewed battle between Ferrari and McLaren-Mercedes, there is another team quietly pushing ever closer toward achieving victory. At Australia, a white and blue car snag.....

Heimrath, Ludwig

Theo Helfrich: 1952 Formula One Season

Unfortunately, circumstances usually end up influencing promise instead of promise overcoming circumstances. Post-war Germany, throughout the 1940s and onward, was in shambles. Industry had been cripp.....

Theo Helfrich: 1953 Formula One Season

Theo Helfrich's career seemed incredibly bright as he began racing sportscars in the late 1940s and early 1950s. And yet, while he showed tremendous promise he would suffer from what just about every .....

Herbert, John Paul (Johnny)

Johnny Herbert: Rational Nonsensical Expectations

The very thing that makes the great motor racing drivers great is the simple fact there are only a very few with the talent and ability that truly deserve to be considered among the very best. There h.....

Hans Herrmann: 1953 Formula One Season

It takes the right ingredients and correct ratios to make bread and any other pastry. The same could be said of just about any other career, but especially in motor racing. Although there is the drive.....

Hesnault, François

Hill, Damon Graham Devereux

Hill, Norman Graham

Hill, Jr, Philip Toll

Hobbs, David Wishart

Hollinger, George

Hoshino, Kazuyoshi

Hulkenberg, Nicolas (Nico)

Hulme, Denis Clive (Denny)

Hunt, James Simon Wallis

Ickx, Jacques Bernard (Jacky)

Iglesias, Jesús Ricardo

Ireland, Robert McGregor Innes

Irvine, Jr., Edmund (Eddie)

Jabouille, Jean-Pierre Alain

1951 Formula One Season

Auto racing is a large, but still rather small and close, community. However, even amidst the smallest community there are those that come and go. Motor racing has continued to be one of those express.....

Jarier, Jean-Pierre Jacques

Jarvilehto, Jyrki Juhani (JJ Lehto)

Johansson, Stefan Nils Edwin

Johnson, Leslie

Jones, Alan Stanley

Jones, Parnelli

Oswald Karch: 1953 Formula One Season

During the 1st century B.C., the area that would become known as Ludwigshafen would be conquered by the Romans and would be absorbed into the empire. From those very early days and onward, Ludwigshafe.....

Karthikeyan, Kumar Ram Narain

Kavanagh, Thomas Kenrick Kavanagh (Ken)

Kazato, Hiroshi

1951 Formula One Season

Joe Kelly was an entrepreneur with a very expensive hobby. Automobiles had always been very special to Kelly. Selling them was his life's work. Racing them was the result of his life's work. Known in .....

Kinnunen, Leo Juhani (Leksa)

Hans Klenk: 1952 Formula One Season

While single-seater grand prix racing focuses on the effort of an individual, sportscar racing demonstrates the necessity of being able to share and work together toward a common end. In the years fol.....

Hans Klenk: 1954 Formula One Season

1954 would see a new dawn for Formula One. However, its return would signal the waning of a special time of motor racing in post-war Germany. 1954, then, would see the last bit of evidence of a time w.....

Klien, Christian

Ernst Klodwig: 1952 Formula One Season

Amidst the ruin and the rubble of war-torn Nazi Germany, a new hope began to spring. Out of the ashes arose the first evidences of Germany's automotive might. But it was not the massive manufacturers .....

Klodwig Eigenbau Heck-BMW

The empire of the Third Reich lay in ruin. Amidst the rubble and the destruction a new Germany was beginning to emerge. This new Germany would arise from the efforts and the talents of the individual......

Ernst Klodwig: 1953 Formula One Season

In the years after World War II, Germany was in shambles. Its motor racing scene was in a state of disarray itself. Many of the main automotive manufacturers had to take time to get back up to product.....

Kobayashi, Kamui

Koinigg, Helmuth

Kovalainen, Heikki Johannes

Koveleski, Oscar

Kozarowitzky, Michael (Mikko)

Willi Krakau: 1952 Formula One Season

The psychological approach to top levels of competitive sport is similar to that of entering a battle, or, going to war. A top fighter ace had to have the desire to do what he or she was doing, and th.....

Rudolf Krause: 1952 Formula One Season

Amidst the ruin and the rubble of war-torn Nazi Germany, a new hope began to spring. Out of the ashes arose the first evidences of Germany's automotive might. But it was not the massive manufacturers .....

Kubica, Robert Józef

Kuwashima, Masami

La Caze, Robert

Laffite, Jacques-Henri

Lagorce, Franck

Lammers, Johannes (Jan)

Lamy, José Pedro Mourão Viçoso

Landi, Francisco Sacco (Chico)

1951 Formula One Season

Brazilians are very proud and patriotic. One visit to a football game will convince even the toughest skeptic of Brazilian patriotism. Everywhere they go, no matter what they do, their flag figures ve.....

Langes, Claudio

Larrauri, Oscar Rubén

Larreta, Alberto Rodriguez

Larrousse, Gérard

Larson, Clarence Walter (Jud)

Lauda, Andreas Nikolaus (Niki)

Lavaggi, Giovanni

Lawrence, Christopher J.

Lawrence, Graeme

Leclère, Michel

Lederle, Neville

1952 Formula One Season

While great innovations and inventions may involve only one or a few people, it takes many times more people to take the innovation and invention to make it truly take off. Arthur Legat was one of tho.....

Arthur Legat: 1953 Formula One Season

By the time the World Championship entered its fourth season of existence, Arthur Legat was already 54 years old. The man had been an ambassador for Belgian motor racing for nearly for nearly thirty y.....

Leoni, Lamberto

1951 Formula One Season

True athletes can step onto the field, the court or the track and make a descent showing at whatever he or she is doing, whether it is their specific sport of expertise or not. Many don't understand o.....

Lewis-Evans, Stuart Nigel

Liuzzi, Vitantonio (Tonio)

Lombardi, Maria Grazia (Lella)

Londoño-Bridge, Ricardo

Ernst Loof: 1953 Formula One Season

Ernst Loof's contribution to automotive and motor racing history is truly not a small one. In many ways, his work before the start of World War II would help Europe to rebuild as quickly as it did aft.....

Loong, Alexander Charles Yoong (Alex Yoong)

Love, John Maxwell Lineham

Lovely, Gerard Carlton (Pete)

Lucienbonnet, Jean

Lunger, Robert Brett

MacDowel, Michael George Hartwell

MacKay-Fraser, Herbert

Macklin, Lance Noel

Maggs, Anthony Francis O^Connell (Tony)

Magill, Charles Michael (Mike)

Maglioli, Umberto

Mairesse, Willy

Maldonado Motta, Pastor Rafael

Mansell, Nigel Ernest James

Mantovani, Sergio

Marimón, Onofre

Onofre Marimon: 1954 Formula One Season

Onofre Marimon seemed to have all of the necessary elements to be truly successful in Formula One. Mentored by Juan Manuel Fangio and close to all of the other Argentineans in the paddock, this easy-g.....

Marko, Dr. Helmut

Marques, Tarso Anibal Santanna

Leslie Marr; 1954 Formula One Season

Located in the North East region of England, the picturesque setting of Durham, with its Norman cathedral dominating the skyline overlooking the River Wear, it would not at all be unlikely that such a.....

Marsh, Anthony Ernest (Tony)

Martin, Eugène

Martini, Pierluigi

Mass, Jochen Richard

Matchett, Steve

Mayer II, Timothy A.

Mazet, François

Mazzacane, Gastón Hugo

McAlpine, Kenneth

McCarthy, Perry

McCluskey, Roger

McLaren, Bruce Leslie

Menditeguy, Carlos Alberto

Merkel, Harry Erich

Harry Merkel: 1952 Formula One Season

Almost everything, especially motor racing, in Germany after World War II could be described by a single word—improvisation. Germany's industries were slowly beginning to rebuild. Transportation was i.....

Merzario, Arturo Francesco (Little Art)

Miaskiewicz, Rick

Mieres, Roberto

Roberto Mieres: 1954 Formula One Season

Throughout the late 1940s and well into the 1950s, Argentina would produce some of the most talented race car drivers sportscars and Formula One would ever see. And while Juan Manual Fangio would head.....

Migault, François

Milhoux, André

Mitter, Gerhard Karl

Modena, Stefano

Montagny, Franck

Monteiro, Tiago Vagaroso da Costa

Montermini, Andrea

Montgomerie-Charrington, Robin (Monty)

Montoya, Juan Pablo

Morbidelli, Gianni

Moreno, Roberto Pupo

Morrow, William

Moss, Sir Stirling

Equipe/A.E. Moss: 1954 Formula One Season

In an age where it was common to have a World Champion in his 40s, Stirling Moss would be one of a new breed of racing drivers that would help the first decade of the new Formula One World Championshi.....

Motschenbacher, Lothar

Müller, Herbert

Müller-Perschl, Hans

Nakajima, Kazuki

Nakajima, Satoru

Nalon, Dennis (Duke)

Nannini, Alessandro (Sandro)

Naspetti, Emanuele

Natili, Massimo

Naylor, John Brian

Needell, Timothy (Tiff)

Nelleman, Jacob (Jac)

Nicholson, John

Niedermayr, Helmut

Helmut Niedermayr: 1952 Formula One Season

All of life is full of blessing and tragedy. The trick is to turn tragedy into blessing.

Like many other talented drivers from Germany after World War II, the tragedy in Helmut Niedermayr's li.....

Helmut Niedermayr: 1953 Formula One Season

The 1952 season had been one of incredibly highs and tragic lows for Niedermayr. The highs would lift the spirits, but the low would be so terrible, so gruesome as to shake Niedermayr to his very soul.....

Niemann, Ambraüsus (Brausch)

Nilsson, Gunnar

Rodney Nuckey: 1953 Formula One Season

Born in 1929 in Wood Green located in London, England, Rodney Nuckey would be just ten years old when his family engineering firm Nuckey, Scott & Co. engineered important parts in use in British aircr.....

Oliver, Keith Jack

O^ Brien, Robert

1952 Formula One Season

The years after the end of World War II were still very dangerous. Suspicion abounded; nations were split. And then there are people like Robert O'Brien.

Born in Lyndhurst, New Jersey in 1908.....

Pace, José Carlos

Paletti, Riccardo

Palmer, Dr. Jonathan Charles

Paltrese, Riccardo

Pantano, Giorgio

Papis, Massimiliano (Max)

Parkes, Michael Johnson

Parnell, Reginald (Tim)

Parnell, Reginald (Tim)

Parnell, Reginald Harold Haslam

Parsons, Johnnie

Patrese, Riccardo Gabriele

Patrick, Scooter

Pease, Victor (Al)

Penske, Roger S.

Perdisa, Cesare

Pérez Mendoza, Sergio

Perez-Sala Valls-Taberner, Luis

Perkins, Larry Clifton

Perrot, Xavier Roger

Pescarolo, Henri

Pesenti-Rossi, Alessandro

Petermann, Horst

Josef Peters: 1952 Formula One Season

At about the time the German advance came to a standstill in the First Battle of the Marne, a young German boy was born in the city of Dusseldorf. Some thirty-eight years later, and after another Germ.....

Peterson, Bengt Ronnie

Petrov, Vitaly Aleksandrovich

Vitaly Petrov Joins Caterham F1 Team

Caterham F1 Team has today announced that Vitaly Petrov has joined the team as race driver, replacing Jarno Trulli with immediate effect. The Russian was at the Anglo-Malaysian team's factory in Hingh.....

Picard, François

Pieterse, Ernest (Ernie)

Motor-Presse-Verlag: 1952 Formula One Season

Rarely does an individual get to make a career of something he or she loves. Even rarer still is the opportunity to do it for all of one's life. There is a time and a season for everything. Those who .....

Pilette, André

Pilette, Theodore (Teddy)

Luigi Piotti: 1956 Formula One Season

Even by the mid-1950s manufacturers still needed large amounts of funding to keep its Formula One interests alive and well, Maserati would be no exception. Therefore, there would still be a place for .....

Piquet, Nelson Souto Maior

Piquet, Jr., Nelson

Pirocchi, Renato

Pironi, Didier Joseph-Lovis

Pirro, Emanuele

Pizzonia Jr., Antonio Reginaldo

1951 Formula One Season

The real draw, or flavor, of any sport, even of life, is that individual or team that exists day-in and day-out with very little attention by the masses or other, more dominant, individuals or teams. .....

Pollet, Jacques

Pon, Bernardus Marinus

Poore, Roger Dennistoun (Dennis)

Pozzi, Carlos (Charles)

Pretorius, Jacobus (Jackie)

Prinoth, Ernesto

Prost, Alain Marie Pascal

Pryce, Thomas Maldwyn

Purley, David Charles

Quester, Dieter

Rafferty, Wedge

Rahal, Robert Woodward (Bobby)

Raikkonen, Kimi-Matias

Ramos, Hernando João da Silva

Raphanel, Pierre-Henri

Ratzenberger, Roland

Raubenheimer, Brian

Rebaque, Héctor Alonso

Redman, Brian Herman Thomas

Regazzoni, Gianclaudio Giuseppe (Clay)

Reutemann, Carlos Alberto

Reventlow, Lance

Revson, Peter Jeffrey

Ribeiro, Alex Dias

Ricciardo, Daniel

Richardson, William Kenneth (Ken)

Fritz Riess: 1952 Formula One Season

The hero usually has a sidekick that fails to get much of the credit, but usually is the one that helps the hero when all hope is gone. Fritz Riess is one of those men in racing history that most fail.....

Rindt, Karl Jochen

Riseley-Prichard, John Henry Augustin

Robarts, Richard

Rodríguez, Pedro

Rodríguez, Ricardo

Rollinson, Alan

Rosberg, Keijo Erik (Keke)

Rosberg, Nico Erik

Rosset, Ricardo

Rothengatter, Hubertus (Huub)

Rudaz, Jean-Claude

Russo, Giacomo (Geki)

Sachs, Jr, Edward Julius

Said, Boris (Bob)

Salazar Valenzuela, Eliseo

Salo, Mika Juhani

Salvadori, Roy Francesco

Roy Salvadori: A Co-Driver to the Very End

Of all of the famous names that had come and gone throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s, one name that many may recognize, and yet, would agonize as to try to remember where, when and how would have.....

1959 24 Hours of Le Mans: Confirmation of a Great

When it came to success in motor racing, Salvadori was blessed behind the wheel of a sports car. Throughout the 1950s, there really weren't too many drivers more successful. However, at Le Mans, Salva.....

Sanesi, Consalvo

Sarrazin, Stéphane

Savage Jr., David Earl (Swede)

Saville-Peck, David

Scarfiotti, Ludovico

Scarlatti, Giorgio

Giorgio Scarlatti: 1956 Formula One Season

While outwardly appearing the same, there are some very important differences between grand prix and endurance racing. Yes, each requires speed and a driver certainly has to be talented to be successf.....

Scheckter, Jody David

Harry Schell: 1954 Formula One Season

Over the previous couple of seasons Harry Schell had continually demonstrated his talents and his pace, but had been doing so in inferior cars. And despite his obvious talents there was very little he.....

Schenken, Timothy Theodore (Tim)

Scherrer, Albert

Schiattarella, Domenico

Schiller, Heinz

Schlesser, Jean-Louis

Schlesser, Joseph

Schneider, Bernd

Schoeller, Rudolf

Schroeder, Robert

Schumacher, Michael

1990 480km of Mexico City

Perusing the career of Michael Schumacher, it is easy to become enamored with all of the records and years of dominance in Formula One. However, it would be good to remember that his path to the pinna.....

2000 Italian Grand Prix

The entirety of Michael Schumacher's career, its highlights and record-setting moments, would make it nearly impossible to highlight just one race as significant for there were so many that would like.....

The Technical Champion

Despite the occasional intrigued photographer, an undisturbed red prancing horse rests patiently amidst the pandemonium of victory and the all-too familiar 'leap'. Lost in all the records Michael Schu.....

Schumacher, Ralf

Schuppan, Vernon (Vern)

Schwelm Cruz, Adolfo

Seidel, Wolfgang

Wolfgang Seidel: 1953 Formula One Season

Wolfgang Seidel would first make his racing debut in sports cars during the early 1950s. Born in Dusseldorf, Germany in 1926, Seidel was only 19 years of age at the end of the Second World War. Six ye.....

Seiffert, Günther

Serafini, Teodoro (Dorino)

Serra, Francisco (Chico)

Serrurier, Doug

Servoz-Gavin, Georges-Francis (Johnny)

Settember, Tony

Sharp, James (Hap)

Shawe-Taylor, Brian

1951 Formula One Season

There are two options for any career: either the individual has to be one of the best at what he or she does, or, the person needs to know someone, or be someone, of importance. Of course, if the pers.....

Shelby, Carroll Hall

Siffert, Joseph

Andre Simon: 1956 Formula One Season

In the early years of the Formula One World Championship Andre Simon would be an integral part of Equipe Gordini's grand prix efforts. By the mid-1950s, however, Simon would be something of a substitu.....

Solana Arciniega, Moisés

Soler-Roig, Alex

Sommer, Raymond

Sospiri, Vincenzo

Speed, Scott Andrew

Spence, Michael (Mike)

Starrabba di Giardinelli, Prince Gaetano

Stewart, Ian Macpherson M

Stewart, James Robert (Jimmy)

Stewart, Sir John Young

Stoddard, Spencer

Stohr, Siegfried

Stommelen, Rolf Johann

Streiff, Philippe

1952 Formula One Season

Alex von Falkenhausen had risen from the ashes after World War II. Though not as famous as other smaller ventures like Veritas, Alex von Falkenhausen Motorenbau (AFM) would create a number of truly re.....

Hans Stuck: 1953 Formula One Season

Hans Stuck already had an illustrious grand prix career before the World Championship was formed and inaugurated in 1950. He would win numerous races for Auto Union during the era of the 'Silver Arrow.....

Stuck, Hans-Joachim

Stuppacher, Otto

Sullivan III, Daniel John (Danny)

Sutcliffe, Andy

Swaters, Jacques

Takagi, Toranosuke

Takahara, Noritake

Takahashi, Kunimitsu

Tambay, Patrick Daniel

Taramazzo, Luigi

Tarquini, Gabriele

Taylor, Michael

Teague, Marshall

Templeman, Clark (Shorty)

Thackwell, Michael

Thiele, Alfonso

Thomson, Johnny

Tinglestad, Bud

Titterington, Desmond

Treischmann, Ralph

Trintignant, Maurice Bienvenu Jean Paul

Tunmer, Percival Guy

Ulmen, Anton (Toni)

1952 Formula One Season

World War II destroyed many lives. Like all wars, it also destroyed a number of careers. So much potential is lost as the result of war. Due to World War II, the racing world lost the opportunity to f.....

Unser, Alfred (Al)

Unser, Robert William (Bobby)

Unser Jr., Jerry

Unser, Jr., Alfred (Little Al)

Alberto Uria: 1955 Formula One Season

Many nations have failed to produce even a single Formula One driver throughout the history of the series. There would be many other nations that would just have one obscure participant. However, duri.....

Alberto Uria: 1956 Formula One Season

At the end of the 1954 season Jorge Daponte would decide to sell his Maserati A6GCM Interim chassis to a man from just across the Rio de la Plata in South America. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Alberto.....

Vaccarella, Nino

van de Poele, Eric

van der Garde, Giedo

van der Lof, Dries

van Lennep, Jonkheer Gijsbert

van Rooyen, Basil

Vergne, Jean-Eric

Verstappen, Johannes Franciscus (Jos)

Vettel, Sebastian

Sebastian Vettel 2012 Formula One World Champion: The Better Buck Rider

When around either bulls or stallions watching where one's walking is always very important. There is, of course, the danger of being kicked, but then, there is also the danger of stepping into someth.....

Villeneuve, Jacques

Villeneuve, Joseph Gilles Henri

Villeneuve Sr., Jacques

Villoresi, Luigi

Volonterio, Ottorino

von Opel, Frederick (Rikky)

von Trips, Wolfgang

Vonlanthen, Joseph

Ward, Rodger M.

Warwick, Derek Stanley Arthur

Watson, John Marshall (Wattie)

Webber, Mark Alan

Weidler, Volker

Wendlinger, Karl

Westbury, Peter

Wharton, Kenneth

Ken Wharton: 1953 Formula One Season

Though born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Ken Wharton would go on to prove that he was a competitive and competent racing driver. He was also quite adept at engineering his own racing cars as he w.....

Whiteaway, Edward N. (Ted)

E.N. Whiteaway: 1955 Formula One Season

Edward Norton 'Ted' Whiteaway's journey would encompass thousands of miles of earth, and that would be even before he would be born. Therefore, this journeyman, of sorts, would become just one of thos.....

Whitehead, Graham

Whitehead, Peter

Peter Whitehead: 1951 Formula One Season

For some, to take on the family business is the ultimate of privileges and desire. For others, the family business, while maybe very rational, is nothing desirable at all. Instead, it is only a means .....

Peter Whitehead: 1952 Formula One Season

There is the euphemism 'living in high cotton'. This literally means to live prosperously, or, to feel happy. In the case of the British racing driver Peter Whitehead, not much cotton grows in England.....

Peter Whitehead: 1954 Formula One Season

By the start of the 1954 season, Peter Whitehead had already been grand prix racing for nineteen years. However, after his near miss at victory in the World Championship at the French Grand Prix in 19.....

Whitehouse, Bill

Bill Whitehouse: 1954 Formula One Season

Rising out of the ashes of World War II, Great Britain's industry was in almost as bad a shape as Germany's. Wartime production had reduced levels of materials and other necessary materials. This woul.....

Widdows, Robin Michael

Wietzes, Egbert (Eppie)

Williams, Jonathan

Williamson, Roger

Wilson, Dempsey

Wilson, Desiré Randall

Winkelhock, Manfred

Winkelhock, Markus

Wonder, William

Wunderink, Roelof

Wurz, Alexander

Wyatt III, John M

Yamamoto, Sakon

Zanardi, Alessandro (Alex)

Zapico, Emilio Rodríguez

Zonta, Ricardo Luiz

Zunino, Ricardo Héctor

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