Serene concentration & total control: #OnThisDay 70 years ago Juan Manuel Fangio won the #GermanGP at Nürburgring, in this Lancia-Ferrari D50, from the pole, with fastest lap, leading all the way: a grand chelem. #AnorakFact: the German GP was also held #OnThisDay in ’73 & ’84.

Remembering Richie Ginther, born #OnThisDay in ’30. He competed in #F1 for Ferrari, Scarab, BRM, Honda, Cooper & Eagle, winning one GP, Mexico ’65, for Honda. Pic: Ginther, Ferrari 246P, Monaco, ’60, making his F1 GP debut at 29; he was classified 6th.

Remembering Roger Loyer, born #OnThisDay in 1907. A successful motorcycle racer - he won the 2-wheeled #FrenchGP in ’37 (Montlhéry; 175cc) & ’38 (Reims; 250cc) - he entered one 4-wheeled #F1 GP, Argentina ’54, in a Gordini. #AnorakFact: in later life he ran a car dealership in Paris.

A brilliant #F1 win shaded by Niki Lauda's dramatic Nürburgring crash. Don't miss @thebishf1.bsky.social with another almost-forgotten moment from history: go.motorsportmagazine.com/3UatrnE

Lauda nearly died in a fiery shunt at Nürburgring 50 years ago (on 1 August ’76). Hunt’s superb #GermanGP win was largely ignored therefore, for as he crossed the line Lauda was fighting for his life. Click to read my new @motor-sport.bsky.social column. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

'It was the day Niki Lauda almost died. Who remembers a frightened James Hunt’s brilliant win?'

Niki Lauda's blazing Ferrari cast a pall over the 1976 German Grand Prix, so it's easy to overlook what happened in the F1 race. Matt Bishop recognises James Hunt's masterful and brave victory at the ...

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It's 50 years since Niki Lauda's horrifying Nürburgring crash began F1's greatest comeback story. But the tale of what happened in the race is also one of remarkable courage, as @thebishf1.bsky.social details: go.motorsportmagazine.com/3UatrnE

'It was the day Niki Lauda almost died. Who remembers a frightened James Hunt’s brilliant win?'

Niki Lauda's blazing Ferrari cast a pall over the 1976 German Grand Prix, so it's easy to overlook what happened in the race. Matt Bishop recognises James Hunt's masterful and brave victory at the Nürburgring

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The #GermanGP has been run #OnThisDay 5 times. #OnThisDay in ’74, at Nürburgring, Clay Regazzoni led every lap in this stunning Ferrari 312B3 to win by 50.7sec over 2nd-placed Jody Scheckter’s Tyrrell 007. After the race Regazzoni led the championship chase, 3 points up on Scheckter.

Remembering Graham McRae, who died #OnThisDay 5 years ago, aged 81, a clever driver-engineer who raced in one #F1 GP, Silverstone ’73 (Iso-Marlboro: lap-1 DNF), & excelled in #TasmanSeries & #F5000. Pic: at Riverside, USA, in ’74, in his own McRae GM2 F5000 car.

Remembering John Cooper Fitch, born #OnThisDay in 1917, who raced 2 #F1 GPs, won the #MilleMiglia, took 3 class wins at Le Mans, won races all over the world, & whose #NewYorkTimes obit (written by Douglas Martin; see screengrab) starts with about the best intro I’ve ever read.

Celebrating 100 years since the first British Grand Prix at Brooklands 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🗓️ In the latest edition of our client @racingpride.com's monthly GRANDPRIX247 column, CEO Matthew Harriet-Randall discusses the LGBTQ+ community's intrinsic link to British motorsport 👇 www.grandprix247.com/f1-history/r...

Racing Pride celebrating 100 years since the first British Grand Prix by Matthew-Harriet Randall

Celebrating 100 years since the first British Grand Prix and how the LGBTQ+ community is tied to the milestone anniversary.

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My husband Angel & I attended a lovely wedding yesterday, after which we spent the night at nearby Barnett Hill Hotel, Surrey. It’s a beautiful building in wonderful grounds but brekkie this morning was spoiled by 2 couples on a nearby table loudly braying in praise of Nigel Farage & Enoch Powell.😤

Hey, get in line behind *millions* of people, including Native Americans driven from their land and slaughtered, kidnapped Africans who were enslaved and lynched, women treated like property, LGBTQ people demeaned and treated like they didn’t matter, you crybaby, self-indulgent loser.

#OnThisDay in 2008 the #HungarianGP was won by Heikki Kovalainen: lovely guy, great to work with when we were at McLaren together (2008 & 2009) & the subject of a @motor-sport.bsky.social column I wrote 3 years ago. ICYMI then, click below to read it now. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

Heikki Kovalainen: F1 'real deal' who had to accept being No2 to Hamilton

Entering F1 together in 2007, Heikki Kovalainen and Lewis Hamilton were both tipped as hot prospects. Many races later, Matt Bishop remembers the Finn's only grand prix victory

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The #GermanGP has been run #OnThisDay (3 August) 5 times: ’52, ’58, ’69, ’75 & 2003. The ’75 race was won by Carlos Reutemann (Brabham BT44B). If you want to know what a beautiful & beautifully driven #F1 car looks like, here you go (pic taken by Rainer Schlegelmilch).

Chris Amon, who died #OnThisDay 10 years ago, aged 73, was not only the unluckiest #F1 driver of them all but also the finest never to have won a world championship-status F1 GP. Click below to read a @motor-sport.bsky.social column I wrote about him. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

Chris Amon: 'No-one raced so magnificently but he was so freakishly luckless'

His rivals rated him among the best of his generation; he could have won multiple grands prix and at least one title. But, writes Matt Bishop, Chris Amon ended his F1 world championship career with ju...

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Remembering Jules Bianchi, born #OnThisDay in ’89. Pic: congratulated by Eddie Jordan in the paddock hospitality unit of his tiny Marussia team, at Monaco, in 2014, after he’d driven superbly to 9th, scoring the team’s only points. Had Bianchi lived, we’d have seen great things.

#AnorakFact: 6 drivers born in the 19th century competed in the #F1 world championship: Philippe Étancelin (born in 1896), Arthur Legat (1898), Clemente Biondetti (1898), Luigi Fagioli (1898), Adolf Brudes (1899) & Louis Chiron (born #OnThisDay in 1899; pic).

The #GermanGP has been run #OnThisDay 6 times. #OnThisDay in ’81 Nelson Piquet (Brabham) won at Hockenheim, moving to within 8 points of #F1 drivers’ world championship leader Carlos Reutemann (Williams; pic), who DNF’d with engine failure.

Here are 2 new cartoons that are doing the rounds on social media today, & sadly there’s a lot of truth & wisdom in both of them. 😔

The #GermanGP has been run #OnThisDay 5 times - including #OnThisDay 50 years ago, at Nürburgring, which race is most famous for Ferrari’s Niki Lauda’s fiery death-defying accident but also featured a faultless drive to victory from McLaren’s James Hunt (pic).

Can it really be 46 years since we lost Patrick Depailler? Yes, it was #OnThisDay in ’80, during a Hockenheim test, that his Alfa flew over the guardrail at the Ostkurve, & that was that. Pic: but I prefer to remember him in a 6-wheeled Tyrrell, as shown in this gorgeous Monaco ’76 pic.

Jean Behra was killed in a minor sports car race at superfast Avus #OnThisDay in ’59. Robbed of his best racing years by WW2, he was fiery & fast, &, although he won no #F1 GPs, he won no fewer than 12 non-championship F1 races. Pic: Behra (Ferrari) leads Stirling Moss (Cooper), Monaco, ’59.

Remembering Raymond Mays, born #OnThisDay in 1899, one of the first racing drivers who was known to be gay. #AnorakFact: this wonderful pic shows him attempting to hurl his suddenly 3-wheeled Bugatti up the #CaerphillyHillclimb in 1924.

Check out the Merriam-Webster post below. It’s good fun. Try it. I was born in ’62. Do these 5 new-in-’62 words sum me up?! 😬😉🤣 - artsy-fartsy - body-count - business-class - ground-effect - one-liner

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Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

Remembering talented #F1 & #IndyCar driver Justin Wilson, born #OnThisDay in ’78. He was a fine racer - &, which is more, a truly lovely guy, much missed still by family, friends & fans.

Thomas Pitt Cholmondeley-Tapper was born #OnThisDay in 1910 - a truly extraordinary, highly talented, incredibly brave & indomitably principled pre-WW2 GP racer about whom I’ve devoted my latest @motor-sport.bsky.social column. Click below to read it. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

'The Germans said if I raced, they'd kill me': the GP driver who defied Hitler

A New Zealand farm boy turned Cambridge law student turned grand prix driver - Matt Bishop tells the quietly remarkable story of a man history nearly forgot

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Yesterday was Fernando Alonso’s 45th birthday. Earlier this year I wrote a @motor-sport.bsky.social column that heralded that bitter-sweet milestone. He’s still a magnificent #F1 driver, despite his advancing age. Click below if you’d like to read it. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

Matt Bishop: 'Alonso has begun his final act in F1. Don't expect a fairytale ending'

Two decades ago Fernando Alonso looked set to rule F1 for years. But in the twilight of his GP career he has taken on the role of tragic hero: still razor-sharp but burdened with a car that's farcical...

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The #GermanGP has been run #OnThisDay 6 times. #OnThisDay in ’78 Jody Scheckter drove a truly brilliant race, storming from last to 2nd in this Wolf WR5 - a glorious charge through the Hockenheim field - beaten by only the gorgeous Lotus 79 of Mario Andretti.

#OnThisDay in ’79 Alan Jones won the #GermanGP at Hockenheim. It was the 2nd consecutive #F1 GP win for the Williams team, following Clay Regazzoni’s triumph at Silverstone 2 weeks before. How many cars/drivers can you name in this lap-1 pic? 🤔

The ’73 #DutchGP was won #OnThisDay 53 years ago by Jackie Stewart (Tyrrell 006; pic). #AnorakFact: it was his 26th #F1 GP victory - surpassing Jim Clark’s all-time record of 25 - but the race is remembered for the tragic death of Roger Williamson in a gruesomely fiery crash.