Recently on Television Jackie Stewart was interviewed about the early days of his racing career and I was quite amazed at his comments. I later looked out a transcription of a taped chat I had with him in late January 1965 a few weeks after he had competed in his first ever Formula 1 race […]
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Members’ Articles
Articles and stories about members of the F1 Grand Prix Drivers Club
The Grand Prix Drivers Club has many members from Formula 1 World Champions to drivers whose careers in Formula 1 were short for many different reasons. However, there is one member whose racing career covered twenty years and was the first young driver since 1953 to be given his chance to race a factory Mercedes […]
Gabriele Fabbri featured large at our recent General Assembly at his hotel and spa, The Promenade in Riccione on the Adriatic coast, and he has been a good and close friend of the Grand Prix Drivers Club for a number of years. What is less known about him is that he was an active and […]
There was a time when it was normal for the gentleman racing driver, to buy his own car with no commercial support, race it, enjoy the experience and then retire; but the concept of sponsorship changed all that. The private entrant of old, and as described here, still exists, but he is much harder to […]
The Grand Prix Drivers Club has always embraced a number of honorary members who, though not grand prix drivers, have been deeply involved in grand prix racing. For example the late Enzo Ferrari was an early honorary member and last year his son Piero Ferrari was made an honorary member. All of those members have […]
Grand Prix Drivers Club president Howden Ganley has a regular column in the American historic magazine “Vintage Racecar Journal” and we acknowledge this in order to publish what Howden wrote in his most recent column about the origins – and the pronunciation – of the racing car he and fellow member Tim Schenken were involved […]