It is hard to believe that Damon Hill is sixty years of age today, September 17. It seems like yesterday he was being photographed at the age of about four, running round in the garden with his father and mother along with other racing driver friends. Though his father, Graham Hill, really did fight his…

Portugal has not produced many famous International racing drivers but Mario Veloso de Aruja Cabral, a member of the Grand Prix Drivers Club, was one of them. He was the first Portuguese driver to race in Formula 1 grand prix racing. Mario, normally called by his nickname “Nicha”, died yesterday ( August 17) at the…

One of our newer members of the Grand Prix Drivers Club is the Spanish born Adrian Campos who will be 60 years of age on June 8. It seems like yesterday that Adrian – who had his own Formula 3 car built, the Avidesa, but quickly moved forward for the 1984 racing season by buying…

Thirty five kilometres south west of Zurich lies Hinwil, an unlikely place to find the birth of a motor racing team fifty years ago when motor racing had been banned in Switzerland in 1955 but it was the home of Peter Sauber who this month celebrates half a century since he formed his original company…

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…