Brazilian Grand Prix 1991
After the dramatic inflation of recent months, and the manner in which most of them drive on what pass for roads in Sao Paulo, the local populace is used to scrapes and close escapes....
SENNA: Still tears after 10 years
10th anniversary of the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix
The statue is touching in its simplicity. The bronze figure of Ayrton Senna is sitting, as if on the pit wall, head down in contemplation. Around...
Thomas Gronvold: San Marino Grand Prix 94
My name is Thomas Grønvold, I am now 43 years old and I live just south of Oslo, in a small town called Ski.
I started putting some small Youtube projects up a little under...
Racing: Drivers fitness program
A race driver's fitness routine was once rather simple: running, cigarettes and alcohol (the running being optional). Call it the James Hunt exercise program, if you will, but it had been commonplace long before...
Senna’s crazy weekend
Ayrton Senna – rally driver. Now there’s a cover line any magazine editor would covet. It happened too, on a blustery, grey Welsh hillside in 1986. Ayrton Senna and five rally cars in a...
Formula 1 Review: Estoril 1985
For many of us, Grand Prix racing entered a fallow period after the death in May 1982, of Gilles Villeneuve, and none felt that more keenly than Denis Jenkinson. Even though, with his love...
Senna’s last duel with Alain Prost
Elf Masters Kart, Paris Bercy 1993
The first edition of Masters Elf took place on 18 and 19 December 1993. Two races were held each evening, a relay of three drivers (a Formula 1 driver,...
Jackie Stewart vs Ayrton Senna
I had done my homework and Ayrton Senna, at that time, had been involved in more collisions with other drivers than the combined total of all the world champions since 1950. He was agitated,...
McLaren History: 1963-2013
McLaren, the small yet mighty UK boutique auto house that has given the planet some of its most brilliant Formula 1 and production cars, turned fifty this year. Here's Gizmag's look at the company's...