Last week our Grand Prix Drivers Club member Giancarlo Minardi was elected President of one of the important organisations within the FIA.
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There was a surprise outcome during the recent Australian Grand Prix when Grand Prix Drivers Club Vince-President Tim Schenken was honoured by Scuderia Ferrari. It is not well known that Tim was a member of the Scuderia Ferrari and this year celebrated the 50th anniversary of his 1972 season racing for the factory in sports cars. […]
Some grand prix drivers cultivate a high profile for themselves but others, like one of our loyal Grand Prix Drivers Club members Richard Attwood, are extremely modest about their own achievements even though he raced for most of the leading teams, BRM, Lotus, and Brabham not to mention his sports car racing and his present […]
During 2021 there was naturally very little activity within the Grand Prix Drivers Club to write about save that we recently appointed Stefano Domenicali as our latest Membre d’Honneur. There is probably nobody better to join our club than Stefano who, apart from his remarkable success within motorsport all his life, has an engaging personality […]
Racing car designers are something special, sometimes quirky but always fascinating people with minds that tend to look outwards rather than inwards. Take Gordon Murray and Colin Chapman, for example, two of the more extreme members of the profession – for it truly is a profession – their designs came from nowhere and in the […]
Kazuki Nakajima is one of the youngest members of the Grand Prix Drivers Club and on Sunday, August 22 2021 he finished second at Le Mans sharing the Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota GR010 Hybrid with Sebastien Buemi and Brendon Hartley