My tribute to Schumacher

My particular vision about Michael Schumacher' s statistics after his "second life" in F-1.
He really spoiled his numbers when you consider percentages (most important than "raw numbers" for me)

23 August 1987-2012: Remembering Didier Pironi

25 years ago Didier Pironi left our world to became a legend, the man who got Villeneuve angry and could have been world champion in 1982 if he hadn`t suffered the accident in Hockenheim when crashed Prost from behind preventing him to race again.
He would be ´82 runner-up.
In 1986 he tested a new F-1 french make, the AGS.

1952-2012: 60 years of helmets in Formula 1

In 1952 was the first time drivers must wore rigid helmets instead of textile ones.
From the open versions of the 50s to jet to the sixties, in 1968 Dan Gurney was the first driver to introduce the integral helmet from Bell.
In XXI century we have the hyper tech helmets with radio, drinks and oxygen connections to ease driver´s life.
Here we illustrate Fangio´s and Schumacher´s helmets from 1952 and 2000 respectively.

15th august 1982 - 30 years later

This is the Lotus 91 driven by Elio De Angelis to win the Austrian GP.
Last time Colin Chapman made his cap flying to the sky...

Canadian GP 1982 - Tribute to Riccardo Paletti

30 years ago the italian Riccardo Paletti in his second race crashed from behind the Pironi´s Ferrari and died at the start of the Canadian Grand Prix. He was only 23 years old.

1962- 50 years ago, the Lotus 25 monocoque.

50 years ago made its debut the first Formula 1 with a monocoque chassis.
It was at the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort on 20th May. Jim Clark qualified third but finished only 9th. The following race in Monaco he would start from Pole Position.
The 1963 British Grand Prix is shown here.

Gilles Villeneuve: 30 years ago in Zolder...

Celebrating a tribute to the Great Gilles I have chosen his firsts F1, the McLaren M23 at his debut at the British GP 1977 and the Ferrari 312 T-2 when he replaced Niki Lauda at the Canadian Grand Prix 1977.

May: Black month for motorsport fans

This month we remember anniversaries of the days they left us to become myths.
Ayrton Senna, Gilles Villeneuve, Lorenzo Bandini, Mike Spence, Elio de Angelis.

Lella Lombardi (1941-1992)

On March 3rd 1992 Lella Lombardi left us and here it goes my tribute to the only woman driver to score points in the F1 World Championship.
This is the chapter of my book where I tell about her and other women-drivers to celebrate the International Woman Day on 8th/03.

Patrick Head leaves Williams after 35 years!

Our tribute to Patrick Head with his most brilliant design, the Williams FW07 of 1979.

From 1979 and 1982 this single-seater achived 3 world championships (1 driver, 2 constructors).
Here we can see the Regazzoni´s FW07 which the Swiss driver got the first Williams win with.

Bye Bye Rubens Barrichello

Our tribute to the most experienced F1 driver in history who hasn´t got any seat for 2012.

Here it is the Brawn BGP001 which Rubens won twice with, at the European GP in Valencia and Italian GP 2009 in Monza.