Hans Joachim Stuck. Firstly apologies to Hans Joachim Stuck for missing his birthday which fell on January 1 of this year. Hans celebrated his 70th birthday after a long career in motor sport originally in the shadow of his father’s successes driving for Auto Union in the 1930s. However Hans Joachim quickly developed a successful career…

This month we celebrate the 90th birthday of David Piper on December 2 who started racing in the early 1950s and went on to race his own Lotus 16 Formula 1 car and followed that with a successful career in international sports car racing with Ferraris and his own Porsche 917. The other birthday is the…