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Welcome to the latest news, stories, notices and events from the Grand Prix Drivers Club.

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Our New Home: Silverstone

For the past three years, Grand Prix Drivers Club President, Emanuele Pirro, Club Secretary, Theo Huschek and vice-Presidents Mario Theissen…

Our New General Secretary: Tanya Gilbert

Tanya Gilbert is very familiar with motor club affairs as she is Head of Membership at Silverstone and responsible for…

New Member: Jan Magnussen

These days an active Grand Prix driver is not as flexible in his choices as drivers once were. The reasons…

Theo Huschek: Honorary Member

At the General Assembly of the club at Silverstone the attending members were introduced to our new General Secretary Tanya…

King Constantine II    June 2 1940 – January 10 2023

On Tuesday, January 10 the death of former King Constantine II of Greece was announced following a fatal stroke. He…

Philippe Streiff 26/6/1955 – 23 December 2022

On December 23, just two days before Christmas, Philippe Streiff died at the age of 67. He had been confined…

Welcome to F1GPDC Ross

Our latest Honorary member of the F1 Grand Prix Drivers Club is multi-talented Ross Brawn whose career path in motor…

Patrick Tambay 25/06/1949 – 04/12/2022

Patrick Tambay was a long-time member of the Grand Prix Drivers Club and supported our events until the onset of…

Mauro Forghieri 13 January 1935-November 2 2022

Throughout the history of Ferrari, there have been a number of notable engineers who have contributed towards the remarkable racing…

A Sad Week

International motorsport lost two remarkable men last week ( October 15-21) whose contributions to motorsport, could truly be said, transformed…

Maria’s New Maserati Model

Our beloved former President of the Grand Prix Drivers Club, Maria Teresa de Filippis, has been honoured by Maserati, the…

Happy Birthday Mario

On August 17, Mario Theissen, our Grand Prix Drivers Club vice-president and former Director of BMW Motorsport, celebrated his 70th birthday….

Happy Birthday, Teddy!

Congratulations to our former Vice-President Teddy Pilette on his 80th Birthday today. Born in Brussels, he is the third member…

Happy Birthday Jo

Last weekend our Swiss member Jo Vonlanthen celebrated his 80th birthday. Jo is always the life and soul of the party…

Two Anniversaries for Peter

The Grand Prix Drivers Club sends best wishes to our favourite Grand Prix racing photographer Peter Nygaard on his sixtieth…

Tony Brooks 25 February 1932 to May 3 2022

The Grand Prix Drivers Club lost one of its staunchest members with the passing of Tony Brooks on Tuesday of…

Giancarlo for President

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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