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Author: Graham Gauld

Fritz, Colotti and the Tec-Mec

By Graham GauldOctober 1, 2020October 3, 2020 Categories: Hide from News, Into the Gauld Mine Leave a comment

Last month we lost another grand prix driver of the 1950s with the passing of Fritz d’Orey the Brazilian driver best known – one might say only known – by the fact that he was the only person to actually race the Tec-Mec Maserati Formula 1 car. To the present day generation the Tec-Mec is…

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Remembering Phi Phi

By Graham GauldOctober 1, 2020October 3, 2020 Categories: Articles, Hide from News, Members' Articles Leave a comment

I never met Philippe, “Phi Phi” Etancelin, the French grand prix driver who died in 1981 at the age of 84, but I think we could have had a fascinating conversation. He did not have any plans to become a racing driver when, to celebrate the birth of Jeanne-Alice, his first child he bought his…

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Ferrari 2231GT photographed in the Brandone workshops in Cannes, France with its new nose. (Graham Gauld Archive)

How Ferrari 250GT SWB 2231GT got its nose

By Graham GauldAugust 1, 2020August 1, 2020 Categories: Hide from News, Into the Gauld Mine Tags: 250GT, Ferrari Leave a comment

Here in the South of France we will be starting the olive picking in three month’s time. There is  a small olive group in the village run by retired engineer Robert Barbetti so  whilst you tease the olives from the trees you talk and I almost fell out of a tree when Robert told me…

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Meet Mauro

By Graham GauldJune 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Categories: Articles, Hide from News, Members' Articles Leave a comment

To anyone who has the slightest interest in Ferrari, whether in grand prix racing or sports car racing, the name Mauro Forghieri is not only familiar but one to be praised as one of the finest engineers in the entire history of Ferrari. He was thrown into the deep end in 1961 when Enzo Ferrari…

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Sir Stirling Moss 17 September 1929 – 12 April 2020

By Graham GauldApril 13, 2020April 13, 2020 Categories: News Leave a comment

Stirling Moss, the name conjures up so many memories for all of us who saw him race.  He was one of the truly great racing drivers of all time. Above all, he was versatile, a word you cannot confidently use when talking about today’s grand prix drivers.  Stirling could drive anything and yet, back in the…

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Remembering Cliff Allison

By Graham GauldApril 3, 2020April 3, 2020 Categories: Hide from News, Members' Articles Leave a comment

Forty years ago,  meeting Cliff Allison you could be forgiven for thinking he was a quiet young farmer from “up north” and would probably never guess that not only was he a racing driver but raced in Formula 1 Grand Prix events for Team Lotus, Ferrari and UDT-Laystall. Cliff’s father, Frank, ran a garage in…

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