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Unraced 1990 - 1999
Patrizio Cantù and his Formula One dream
The late 1980s and the early 1990s is filled with stories about investment groups and individuals with money who were keen to appear on the grid with their own team. Some even managed to appear on the grid like Eddie Jordan. Many, obviously, never made it to the grid in these years. Some appeared on […]
Unraced 2000 - 2009
Arrows just simply announced their return for 2003
The 2002 season was obviously a bizarre year for Orange Arrows, or better said for Tom Walkinshaw. Prost retired after the 2001 season and Walkinshaw with his buddy Nickerson were after the assets of the team to form a “new” team named Phoenix Grand Prix. During the year it became clear that Orange Arrows was […]
Laura's Stories
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER ENTRA NELLA STORIA
Io me la ricordo molto bene quella notte fra il 7 e l’8 ottobre. Credo che molti di noi non dormirono per quanto agitati e tesi. Eravamo in attesa, sperando in un miracolo, di una vittoria che ci avrebbe fatto scoppiare il cuore dalla gioia. Con una vittoria, in terra giapponese, Michael Schumacher, finalmente, poteva […]
Dutch Autosport
Formula never happened
Max Mosley: F3000 teams to fill the grid
Back in 2002, the smaller teams on the grid like Minardi, Arrows and Jordan were struggling to gain enough money. Paul Stoddart saved Minardi just weeks before the start of the 2001 season. Prost Grand Prix was bankrupt during the 2001 season. While Arrows was in a strange situation with the Phoenix Grand Prix thingy […]
Jos Verstappen declined a Ferrari test contract
Jos Verstappen made it’s debut in 1994 in the Formula One, after showing pure speed during his test for Footwork and McLaren. Eight years later Jos Verstappen had still the speed, though due to bad decisions making he was not on the hotlist anymore for many teams. It seemed the Honda project would finally give […]
Book Reviews
Dwars door de tarzanbocht – Hans van der Klis
Dwars door de Tarzanbocht, de dertien Nederlandse Formule 1-coureurs vermeerderde en herziene editie. Dit is de officiële titel van het boek echter begint google te steigeren als ik de gehele titel pak. Er is inmiddels nog een uitgave van het boek waarin de 15 Nederlandse coureur worden besproken. Echter is het concept hetzelfde. Een prachtig […]
Old Rumour Mill
Leyton House Racing / March F1
Giovanni Lavaggi’s first Formula One test with March
One of the most underrated drivers in the history of Formula One is Giovanni Lavaggi. Many of you know him as Johnny Carwash and remember him for the burning Minardi at Hockenheim. I personally know him as the last gentlemen driver in the Formula One, and remember him for his willpower to reach what he […]
March 921 / March CG911C / March M93
While March (nee Leyton House) was in 1990 positively about their future in the Formule One, this would change only a season later. When in September 1991 Akira Akagi was implicated in a financial scandal involving the Fuji Bank and his Marusho Kosan Company. Therefore, Akagi was arrested and Leyton House moved rapidly into bankruptcy. […]
Gaming
EA Sports forgotten F1 1999 title
In 2021, EA Sports purchased Codemasters and re-acquired again the rights to design Formula One games. Indeed, re-acquired because EA Sports is well known by a lot of gamers from the past. In 2000, the company published their first F1 2000. The game was buggy and after a couple of patches they started working on […]
