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…

It seems incredible but today it is fifty years since Peter Sauber, an honorary member of the Grand Prix Drivers Club, launched PP Sauber AG, later to become Sauber Motorsport AG. Peter Sauber started out with sports cars in the 1977s and the team made their debut in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in…

The Grand Prix Drivers Club have reason to celebrate the 90th birthday of Bernie Ecclestone who has been a long time member of the club and has provided much helpful advice to the club over the years. It is often forgotten that he was early into the British motor racing scene back in the late 1940s…

Vitaly Petrov, who raced in Formula 1 for three seasons was the nominated driver steward for the Portuguese Grand Prix at the Portimao circuit at the weekend. However, he stood down and dashed back to St Petersburg in Russia following the death of his father Alexander Petrov. The Grand Prix Drivers Club offers condolences to…