Scrapbook – Team Lotus Singled out as champions

What do mechanics usually do on their day off? Take their partners out to dinner, or stay at home, put their feet up, and watch a bit of TV perhaps? Well, neither as it happens, because Team Lotus in 1972, put down their spanners, and decided to have a good ol’ sing song!
The Lotus mechanics [...]

SCRAPBOOK – ABBA Take a chance on F1

As far as sponsors on F1 cars go, we’ve had cigarettes, beer, men’s top shelf mags, and condoms, to telecoms, airlines, banks, and pharmaceuticals. We’ve had every type of company or organisation under the sun. Anybody who pays ready cash and who wants to go racing is a welcome sight to any team owner. Having [...]

SCRAPBOOK – Camo Brabham Revealed

Blimey, is that car covered in dirt or what?! Has it had an almighty ‘off’ and found its way back onto the circuit through a mud bath?! On another day maybe, but not on this day. The car here has been intentionally caked in dirt, or chocolate, or more likely paint.
The car in question is [...]

SCRAPBOOK – Gilles: Enzo’s Favourite Entertainer

‘Well young man,’ Enzo Ferrari asked, ‘how much do you need to be content?’ This was the question posed to a surprised Gilles Villeneuve in his first meeting with Enzo, after he’d been summoned by phone from his home near Quebec, Canada. Who knows what financial deal was done, but here started a relationship that [...]

SCRAPBOOK – F1 Beatle, Yeah Yeah Yeah

Music and Formula 1 are an exciting mixture that have come together most memorably with Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain,’ which has had a successful marriage with the BBC title sequence for quite some time now. However, ‘The Chain’ was never specifically written to go with moving pictures of fast racing cars, and around the same [...]

SCRAPBOOK – Theodore left out in the cold

Often when we are presented with difficulties in life, we dig deep and rise to the challenge. Such a philosophy was adopted by The Theodore team in 1981. At the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort that year, teams often felt like they were left out in the cold -literally! 30 cars were entered for the [...]

SCRAPBOOK – A Roar of 12 wheels

Up until 1980, Formula 1 cars with more than 4 wheels (generally 6!) had been tried and tested with varying degrees of success. Ken Tyrrell had shocked the motor racing fraternity with his Project 34 six wheeler during the ’70’s, scoring a win and several podiums. Also, March, Ferrari and Lotus experimented on the test [...]

SCRAPBOOK – Stewart Winnin' & Waitin' While it's Rainin'

Jackie Stewart stands waiting under an umbrella (though we can’t see the canopy, it’s odds on that it is an umbrella!). He waits for 4 minutes 3.2 seconds to be precise, for second placed driver Graham Hill to finish the 1968 German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring! This is the longest winning margin in modern [...]

SCRAPBOOK – "Mind if I drive Mr Lauda?"

There’s no “Grand Prix POP” this week because Tess Tarossa is out of the office, so instead we’d like to treat you to the first installment of our brand new column where every week we’ll treat you to a clipping from Badger’s “Scrapbook” – Enjoy, thanks – Ed

‘Just mind where you are putting your fat [...]