EMILIO DE VILLOTA

McLaren M23 de Iberia Airlines F1 conducido por Emilio de Villota en Jarama, 1977

Emilio de Villota: The Spaniard Who Won the British F1 Championship When Spain Couldn’t Win Anything In April 1980, a thirty-three-year-old Madrileño walked into Frank Williams’ workshop in Didcot, Oxfordshire, and bought a Williams FW07. Not a sponsored deal. Not a lease. He bought the car, paid for it, took it back to the Spanish-funded … Read more

ALEX ZANARDI

alex zanardi

Alex Zanardi is gone. And we have nothing left to ask of him. The man rebuilt himself twice. Three times if you count the kid in Castel Maggiore who built his first kart out of scrap metal because his parents wouldn’t sign off on what he wanted to do with his life. Alex Zanardi died … Read more