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Gunnar Nilsson (20 November 1948 (Helsingborg) – 20 October 1978) entered 32 Formula One Grand Prix races, qualifying for all of them. He won once, at the 1977 Belgian Grand Prix. He participated in Formula One during 1976 and 1977 for John Player Team Lotus. Gregarious Gunnar was a relative latecomer to motor racing, but […]

Torsten Palm (born July 23, 1947 in Kristinehamn) participated in two Formula One World Championship Grands Prix with a rented Hesketh in 1975, the Monaco and Swedish GP. Like Roos, Palm’s sole F1 appearance came on home soil when he hired a Hesketh 308 to contest the 1975 Swedish Grand Prix. After failing to qualify […]

Bertil Roos (born October 12, 1943) participated in a single Formula One Grand Prix, his home race in 1974, from which he retired with transmission failure. Having made a name for himself in both European Formula Two and Formula Atlantic, Roos was invited to contest his home Grand Prix with Shadow in 1974. But the […]

Reine Wisell (born September 30, 1941) participated in 23 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, between 1970 and 1974. He drove for Lotus, BRM and March. He achieved 1 podium, and scored a total of 13 championship points. A contemporary of Peterson, Wisell lived somewhat in the shadow of his more illustrious countryman, even though […]

Bengt Ronnie Peterson (14 February 1944 – 11 September 1978) participated in Formula One between 1970 and 1978. Known by the nickname ‘SuperSwede’, he was a two-time runner-up in the FIA Formula One World Drivers’ Championship. Peterson drove for March, Tyrrell and Lotus. A quiet man off the track, Ronnie Peterson favoured letting his driving […]

Joakim “Jo” Bonnier (31 January 1930 – 11 June 1972) participated in Formula One during 1956 and 1971 for various teams, with Maserati, BRM, Porsche, Cooper, Brabham, Lotus and McLaren. Stockholm-born Joakim Bonnier – better known as Jo – honed his skills ice racing in his homeland before going on to carve out a Formula […]

New for the 2014 Formula One season will be that every driver will have his own number on his car. This number will stay with the driver through his entire Formula One career (with the exception that the Wordl Champion will be using number 1). I was already confused when I saw Alonso’s F14-T with […]

1982 FIA Formula One Round 9 – Dutch Grand Prix Zandvoort, 1-3 July, 1982 (Report by Tom Prankerd & photography by Guido Fijen) The series returned to Europe, effectively home ground for all the competing teams as they were now operating within easy range of their bases in England, Italy and France. With a wide […]

1984 FIA Formula One Round 13 – Dutch Grand Prix Zandvoort, 24-26 August, 1984 (Report by Tom Prankerd & photography by Guido Fijen) Attention at the Dutch Grand Prix was diverted from the closely-balanced Lauda versus Prost fight by the news that Brazilian starlet Ayrton Senna had been tempted away from Toleman and signed by […]

At Jalopnik.com, a great discussion was started about which were the most beautiful Formula One cars, the best F1 liveries. This made me think about my favourites: On october 8, Speedmonkey.com had an article about my Formula One pages with the title ‘Every f1 car livery ever in one place’. Their comment: It shows the […]