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Exclusive Interview - Bobby Rahal: Rahal talks about Jaguar

Bobby Rahal becomes chief executive and team principal of the Jaguar Racing Formula 1 team in just two months from now. It will be a big change for Rahal and his family but Bobby says he is not worried about that. "I think the family is looking forward to it," he says. "I think it will be a wonderful experience for them. My wife lived in England for several years in the late 1970s and we enjoy visiting England so I really don't think it is going to be that difficult."Full Story

Big Al - A first-timers guide to F1 at the Brickyard

As you motor along Georgetown Drive one moment you are in leafy suburbia, the next in the shadows of the massive steel and concrete permanent grandstands of the Indianapolis motor speedway which suddenly appear just beyond the curb. Not for nothing is this otherwise quiet suburb of America's tenth largest city called Speedway, Indiana.Full Story

Historical - "Williams" - the forgotten hero

A solitary RAF bomber swept low across the English Channel late on the moonless night of May 30 1942. It carried no bombs but, huddled inside the fuselage, were two of what were referred to among the Special Duty Squadron pilots as 'Joes' -- secret agents.Full Story
Historical - Rickenbacker - Ace of the Speedway

There are people who don't belong in the real world. They are comic book heroes and their life histories are so unlikely that they just have to be true. Eddie Rickenbacker was oneFull Story
Historical - The 1921 French Grand Prix

Formula 1 thinks itself superior to other forms of motor sport -- particularly Indycar racing. Such arrogance is not new. In 1921 it was much the same...Full Story
Historical - The 1933 Monza Grand Prix

Sunday, September 10 1933 will always be remembered as a black day in the history of motor racing, and a day on which Enzo Ferrari's view of racing drivers changed irrevocably.Full Story
Historical - The history of Magny-Cours

It used to be called the Circuit Jean Behra. It was a tumbledown kind of place with a rudimentary pitlane and a few basic garages. Today, in its new guise as the Circuit Nevers Magny-Cours, it is the future home of the French Grand Prix. A quite remarkable transformation has taken place -- thanks to a little help in the corridors of power.Full Story
Historical - How Monaco got a Grand Prix

In motor racing nothing is impossible. The history of the sport is littered with amazing feats - and not always involving the drivers...Full Story
Historical - Monaco 1933 - The greatest Grand Prix of them all?

Bitter rivalries are nothing new in motor racing. Today everyone talks of Alain Prost versus Ayrton Senna, but 60 years ago, it was a case of Tazio Nuvolari against Achille Varzi.Full Story
Historical - The Spanish Grand Prix - a history

It is 80 years since the first Spanish Grand Prix and much has changed in the world. It is unlikely that this year's race will be won, as was the first, by a Rolls Royce and unlikely also that second place will go to a marquis, but there will still be the essential excitement which exists at every motor race.Full Story
Historical - Happy birthday Monza

Today (Thursday) marks the 70th anniversary of the first Italian Grand Prix at the Autodromo Nazionale at Monza, in the northern suburbs of Milan.Full Story
Historical - Nuvolari - the legend lives on

Tazio Nuvolari was born 100 years ago this November. Some say he was the greatest driver who ever lived. Certainly he was a legend in his own lifetime.Full Story
Historical - How to cheat in F1 - 1933 style

In April 1933 Tazio Nuvolari and Achille Varzi were both at the height of their powers as racing drivers. The race at Monaco was a classic battle and at Tripoli they finished two-tenths apart.Full Story
Historical - Australia: The Walkabout Grand Prix

The Australian Grand Prix has never had a permanent home in the same way that Italy has Monza, Germany the Nurburgring or Belgium Spa. In fact the race has been held at 24 different locations. It would take a book just to list them, let alone to tell all the stories. It is one of the world's most enduring Grands Prix. At the time of the first event in 1928, many of the great Grands Prix of the modern era had not even started: Italy had only had a national GP since 1921; Germany since 1926 and Monaco wwould not to begin until the following year. And it has been a colourful history with the race moving from circuit to circuit around the country. Being so far from Europe, the centre of the racing car industry back to even the earliest days of the sport, the supply of competitive cars to Australia has always been limited. The Australians always had to make do with what was available.Full Story
Historical - "Georges Philippe" - Baron Philippe Rothschild

"Georges Philippe" appeared in motor racing in 1928. Like the other famous pseudonymous driver of that era "Williams", no-one knew much about him.Full Story
Historical - Famous Belgian racing drivers

It is now a quarter of a century since Jacky Ickx became the first Belgian to win a Formula 1 World Championship Grand Prix. Ickx was 22 years old, younger even than Michael Schumacher was when he won his debut victory at Spa last year, and it was only his ninth GP. A new star was born.Full Story
Historical - The Bugatti Family

Carlo Bugatti was born in Milan in 1856. The son of a sculptor and inventor who spent his life trying to discover perpetual motion, Carlo studied at the Brera Academy in Milan and later at the Ecole des Deaux Arts in Paris. He chose furniture making. In 1880 he married Therese Lorioli. In the years that followed his furniture became wellknown. In 1902 he exhibited at the International Exhibition in Turin and his fame spread worldwide. He quit his job with the De Vecchi company and moved with his family to Paris. He opened a workshop in the 13eme arrondissement and began to experiment in gold and silver. Full Story
Historical - The history of Donington Park

Donington Park last played host to Grand Prix racing 55 years ago, when the Tazio Nuvolari, probably the greatest racing driver of all-time, gave the British fans a victory to remember.Full Story

News Feature - Safety in F1 - an ever-moving target

FIA president Max Mosley's avowed intent to exorcise the spectre of death from Formula One racing received a tragic setback during the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, following the accident that took the life of a fire marshal.Full Story

Exclusive Interview - Attack is always the best form of defence or why FIA president Max Mosley is hardly quaking at F1's latest attempt at a palace coup

Max Mosley was born into controversy. Eleven days after making his appearance in the world in 1940 in war-torn London his mother, Diana Mitford, was incarcerated in Holloway Prison. His father was the notorious politician Sir Oswald Mosley, busy at the time stirring up pro-Nazi feelings in the East End of London as his Black Shirts marched against the Jews. It was not the most propitious time to be a sympathiser with Adolf Hitler.Full Story

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