Curva Grande Bravery
Sebastian Vettel’s brilliant pass of Fernando Alonso on the outside of the Curva Grande during the 2011 Italian Grand Prix at Monza (video). Read More …
Tag: memories
F1A&G posts tagged memories
When F1 Was Really Life or Death
Fifty years ago, when “Taffy’ von Trips died during the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in 1961, nobody had thought of stopping the race. Were people more callous back then? Read More …
Michael’s 20th Anniversary Helmet
Michael Schumacher marked the 20th anniversary of his first F1 start, at Spa-Francorchamps, with a special gold liveried helmet. Courtesy of Zip250 via Flickr. Michael Schumacher 20th Anniversary Helmet — Mercedes GP Spa-Francorchamps 2011.
It Was 20 Years Ago
Michael Schumacher will be celebrating his 20th anniversary in Formula One at the next venue, the Belgium Grand Prix at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in ten days time. Read More …
Senna in Australia 1989
An absolutely fabulous amateur shot of Aryton Senna in perhaps his most beautiful racecar, the McLaren Honda MP4/6, Australian GP at Adelaide, 1989. Courtesy of © .Stpuix via Flickr. Read More …
Monaco Grand Prix 1976
A wonderful vignette “not as a record of historical fact, but an impression of the speed and sound that is the Monaco Grand Prix.” Niki Lauda won in the Ferrari 312-T2. Read More …
Senna & Mansell—Brands Hatch 1985
Nigel Mansell leads from Aryton Senna’s Lotus heading into Paddock Hill in the 1985 European GP at Brands Hatch. Read More …
Senna Film Online
It surely won’t last long, but embedded below via StreetFire.net is a pre-release version (with Spanish subtitles) of the excellent Senna film, due for release in the U.S. on August 19. Read More …
The Killer Years
An appropriately named, four-part documentary by the BBC on the 1960s and early 1970s in Grand Prix racing. Watching this will enlighten newer Formula One fans why F1A&G’s profile of the Six Best F1 Crashes starts with one essential criterion — that the driver walked away (relatively) unharmed — a result all too infrequent in the tragic early decades of F1. Read More …
Button’s Dark Days Behind Him Now
Jenson Button spoke about how he almost quit Formula One in 2008 but went on to win the championship the following year Read More …