Tag Archives: Allan McNish

Early Mika Hakkinen

Thirty years ago, Thruxton, Allan McNish and Mika Hakkinen first and second in the inaugural Formula Vauxhall Lotus Championship race

I recently mentioned the General Assembly of the Grand Prix Drivers Club held in Italy and on the morning everyone arrived there was the sound of a performance car arriving outside the hotel and true enough Mika Hakkinen stepped out of his black McLaren to join the members for the Annual General Meeting. In my […]

Jackie Drives Clark’s Lotus

Recently Historic Club Lotus held an event in the little town of Duns in the Scottish Borders, this year celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Jim Clark’s finest racing season, 1965, when he won the European Formula 2 Championship, the Formula 1 World Championship (his second) and the Indianapolis 500. [Row][Column] It was appropriate therefore that […]