Adrian Campos, one of the newer members of the Grand Prix Drivers Club died on January 27 of what appears to have been a heart attack at the young age of 60. Adrian, however, had a disappointing driving career in Formula 1 but was to become a team owner and was one of the people…

Dear friends, Last year, in our editorial, I wrote that we were facing a great season with the celebrations of the 70 years of Formula One. Unfortunately, I could not be more wrong! We faced a year where the keyword was “survive”. How crazy is this world, isn’t it? We, as racing drivers should be…

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…