Obituaries

I remember an early 1978 argument over the chassis of the RS10 and the use of the engine,” said Renault Formula 1 team driver Jean-Pierre Jabouille. “Whether to put a twin turbo in it and modify the c

Your feature Great Lost Circuits reminds me each month of the Marlboro Motor Speedway in the States, right. This compact 1.8-mile track had nothing to do with the famous brand of cigarettes, but was s

It had seemed just a temporary setback for Williams when its engine partner Renault withdrew from F1 at the end of 1997. Yes, it meant a couple of seasons as a customer team, but the link with BMW had

Unless some knowledgeable C&SC reader can correct me, Daphne Arnott is surely the only female racing-car manufacturer, ever. For a brief period in the 1950s, she turned out Formula Three single-seater

If you had to name the most prolific racing-car designer of all time, Mike Pilbeam would have to be a candidate. His CV covers more than 100 projects spanning six and a half decades. Some of these wer

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