Born Patrick Marie Ghislain Pierre Simon Stanislas Nève de Mevergnies (try getting that on a passport application form!) in Liege, Belgium on 13th October 1949, a young Patrick Nève left the continent to work as a driving instructor for the Jim Russell driving school in Britain. His job with Jim Russell and Read more…
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Building on an interest in cars from an early age, the racing career of Robert Kubica began at the age of ten when he entered the Polish karting championship. Following enormous success domestically, winning six titles in three years, he made the switch to the Italian championship which was significantly more competitive Read more…
After making his debut with Jordan in 1991 having tested for Footwork, he made guest drives for Minardi in 1992, then moved to Lotus for 1993 and 1994, where, thanks to an enormous crash at Spa in practice for the Belgian Grand Prix he was unable to complete either season. Read more…
Finn Valtteri Bottas made his Formula 1 debut for Williams at the 2013 Australian Grand Prix, having spent the previous two seasons as test driver with the team, taking part in Friday practice sessions at Grands Prix. He arrived at Williams having been Formula Renault Champion, British Formula 3 Champion and GP3 Champion Read more…
After showing promise in a number of sports as a child, including skiing and swimming, Riccardo Patrese started karting at the age of 9, going on to win the 1974 karting World Championship. From there, he graduated to Formula Italia, Formula 3, Formula 2 and then to Formula 1 in Read more…
After graduating from karting, Montoya moved to Formula Renault, where he competed alongside his participation in other series: a multi-discipline approach that would guide him to a long and varied career across a wide-range of motor-sports. After much success in south and central America, and then junior formulae in Europe, Read more…
After a short career in tennis, Nelson Piquet began racing cars in the Brazilian Super Vee championship. This led to his graduation to European Formula 3, and then to the British Formula 3 championship in 1978, where he won 13 races over the course of the season. This dominance led Read more…
What is there to write about Ayrton Senna that hasn’t already been said? Was he the most gifted Grand Prix driver of all time? Possibly. Was he the most ruthless and determined? Probably. Was he the most divisive? Definitely. If you haven’t seen the 2010 film ‘Senna’ then I suggest Read more…
Keke Rosberg’s racing career was borne from a failed ambition to study dentistry. After being denied a place at Helsinki University, his thoughts turned elsewhere, and having been karting for a number of years, racing became his main focus. After switching to Formula Vee in 1972, stints in Formula Atlantic Read more…
Gianclaudio ‘Clay’ Regazzoni came to motor racing relatively late, when at the age of 24 he began racing his Austin Healey Sprite in Italy, across the border from his native Switzerland where they’d banned motor racing after the 1955 Le Mans disaster. Instant success encouraged him to move up a Read more…
