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Former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone's private collection of race cars is up for sale. The cars include the first Ferrari to win a Formula 1 race and the Brabham "fan car" that inspired the GMA T.50 ...
The initial 1987 March F1 car, the March 87P, was a March 86B F3000 chassis modified to accommodate a bigger fuel tank and with revised aerodynamics, mated with a Ford Cosworth DFZ engine. At the first race, the 1987 Brazilian Grand Prix , March had a team of just 17 people, including Akagi, his girlfriend, his translator and Capelli's father ...
In November 2012 private equity firm Bluewaters Communications Holdings filed a £409m lawsuit against the 2005 sale of Formula One, alleging it was the sport's rightful owner. [ 65 ] In May 2013, Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that the Munich prosecutors' office had charged Ecclestone on two counts of bribery after a two-year investigation into ...
The Mercedes-Benz W196 (sometimes written as the Mercedes-Benz W 196 R [1]) was a Formula One racing car produced by Mercedes-Benz for the 1954 and 1955 F1 seasons. Successor to the W194, in the hands of Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss it won 9 of 12 races entered and captured the only two world championships in which it competed.
Only 106 examples exist, meaning it's news every time one comes up for sale. And this car, chassis 059, is the most unique F1 of all. It only takes one look at the front end to understand why ...
The car has competed in recent years in historic races. The P99 was later the inspiration for the AWD Ferguson P104 Novi Indycar, which Bobby Unser drove in the Indy 500 in 1964 and 1965. The car was damaged beyond immediate repair in the horrific crash in 1964, and was retired from regular competition in 1965 with engine problems.
In a YouTube video posted on his channel in June 2023, Doherty revealed that the McLaren cost $202,850, and he had since wrapped the car in a custom, blue paint-splattered design.
The wrecked Renault R28 car driven by Nelson Piquet Jr. at the centre of the controversy. The Renault Formula One crash controversy, dubbed as "Crashgate" by some in the media, [1] [2] was a sporting scandal caused when Renault F1 driver Nelson Piquet Jr. deliberately crashed during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix to give a sporting advantage to his Renault teammate, Fernando Alonso.