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A South American face-off and Colombia's first F1 victory, On This Day 25 years ago. 🇨🇴Williams arrived at the 2001 Ital...
16/09/2026

A South American face-off and Colombia's first F1 victory, On This Day 25 years ago. 🇨🇴

Williams arrived at the 2001 Italian Grand Prix having already shown the power of their BMW engines with a win for Ralf Schumacher at Hockenheim, and looked to make hay at the Temple of Speed in Monza; Ferrari, meanwhile, having already taken both the Drivers' and Constructors' titles, were out to secure second in the standings for Rubens Barrichello.

Ferrari turned to a two-stop strategy to battle Williams pole-sitter Juan Pablo Montoya for the win with lighter fuel loads and caution over brakes, but their challenge was blunted by a faulty refuelling rig on Barrichello's first stop. ⛽️😩 Still, he pushed Montoya hard, the two spending the race swapping the lead and Barrichello only five seconds back at the chequered flag. Montoya was delighted to take his first Grand Prix win in his rookie year, though the podium ceremony was muted - no champagne was sprayed in light of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, rounding off a bittersweet weekend for the Williams team as they, and the paddock, awaited news of critically injured former Williams driver, Alex Zanardi.

📸, all 2001 Italian Grand Prix:
1. Juan Pablo Montoya celebrates in parc ferme. | LAT Images

2. Rubens Barrichello on track in his sponsorless Ferrari F2001, bearing a black nose as a mark of respect following the September 11th terrorist attacks. | Steve Etherington/LAT Images

3. Colombian fans celebrate Juan Pablo Montoya's maiden Grand Prix victory. | Sutton Images

4. Juan Pablo Montoya on track in his Williams FW23, leading Rubens Barrichello in his Ferrari F2001. | LAT Images

5. L to R: second placed Rubens Barrichello, race winner Juan Pablo Montoya and third placed Ralf Schumacher stand together on the podium. | Steve Etherington/LAT Images

A gloomy weekend turned tragic, 25 years ago.In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, CART's German 500 at the Lausi...
15/09/2026

A gloomy weekend turned tragic, 25 years ago.

In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, CART's German 500 at the Lausitzring was renamed the American Memorial, with a series of pre-race tributes lined up and a $500,000 donation to the World Trade Center Relief Fund. Championship challenger Michael Andretti was among those caught in the global travel disruption, only arriving into Germany the day before the race; a number of paddock personnel, including Roger Penske and Chip Ganassi, were unable to attend at all.

Rain limited practice on an unfamiliar circuit, leading CART to cancel qualifying and set the grid by championship order; 1998 CART champion Alex Zanardi - a series returnee after a bruising 1999 in Formula One - started 22nd. Zanardi worked his way up into the top five, showing his times in practice and warm-up were no fluke; later, he and Mo Nunn team-mate Tony Kanaan ran 1-2 as they sought to pull away from the field on an alternate strategy.

After a late fuel stop, Zanardi lost control of his car accelerating back onto the track, and was struck broadside by Alex Tagliani at an estimated 200mph. The impact severed Zanardi's legs and caused him to lose 75% of his blood volume; thanks to fast medical intervention, he survived - and by early 2002 he was hard at work on rehabilitation, designing his own prosthetics along the way. He completed those final Lausitzring laps in an adapted Champ Car in 2003, returned to racing full-time in 2005 and, almost four years on from his near-fatal accident, took his first win as an amputee...in Germany. Ciao, Alex. 🌟

📸:
1. Alex Zanardi gives a thumbs up on the podium. 2005 WTCC Race of Turkey. | Sutton Images

2. A pineapple sticker on the side of Olivier Panis' BAR Honda for the critically injured Alex Zanardi. 2001 F1 United States Grand Prix. | LAT Images

3. Alex Zanardi on the pitch at the pre-race charity football match. 2002 F1 Monaco Grand Prix. | LAT Images

4. Alex Zanardi bends on his crutches to see the work of the Ravaglia Motorsports mechanics on his modified BMW 320i. 2003 ETCC Testing, July. | Sutton Images

5. The Race 2 podium, L to R: winning team boss Dr. Mario Theissen, second placed Andy Priaulx, race winner Alex Zanardi, third placed Jörg Müller, Independent's Cup winner Tom Coronel. 2005 WTCC Race of Germany. | Sutton Images

One of the greatest comebacks in the history of sport, 50 years ago. 🥹Passed fit by specialists, Niki Lauda was back a...
12/09/2026

One of the greatest comebacks in the history of sport, 50 years ago. 🥹

Passed fit by specialists, Niki Lauda was back at the 1976 . With Friday written off by heavy rain, Saturday was his first time driving in anger since the crash; one big fright from a skid was enough to make him work through his fears, ending the day as lead Ferrari on the grid in fifth with his intended substitute Reutemann in seventh and Clay Regazzoni back in ninth. 😤

Jacques Laffite took Ligier's first pole in their debut season, benefitting from the previous week's Monza test at a reconfigured circuit - the maligned chicane by pit exit was gone, replaced by the Rettifilo double chicane and Della Roggia chicane, bookending Curva Grande. But late on Saturday, drama: McLaren and Penske had their day's times disallowed over alleged fuel irregularities - as Friday was a washout, James Hunt, Jochen Mass and John Watson were sidelined - only through the withdrawal of other cars did they make the grid! 😰

At race start, Lauda waited for a ten second board that never came and thus was slow away, dropping back to midfield; Ronnie Peterson - eighth on the grid with a storming first few laps - took the lead on lap eleven and was never headed, despite several cars snapping at his heels throughout, including second-placed Clay Regazzoni. What of championship challenger Hunt? A weekend to forget - from spinning off on his first Friday lap in front of a hostile crowd, to Saturday's fuel drama and finally, on race day, coming off worse in a battle with Tom Pryce over twelfth, spinning off into the sand. 😵‍💫

Lauda worked his way forward, pushing hard enough to briefly take fastest lap more than once, and beat Jody Scheckter over the line by a tenth despite a drop in oil pressure and a last lap error at Ascari to take a magnificent fourth, six weeks after being read his last rites. The Tifosi were jubilant at Regga's podium, but they were chanting one man's name: Lauda, Lauda, Lauda... 🗣️

📸, all 1976 Italian Grand Prix:
1. Niki Lauda is pushed out of his pit box in his Ferrari 312T2. | David Phipps/Sutton Images

2. Niki Lauda (right) listens as Carlos Reutemann (left) speaks in the Ferrari garage. | LAT Images

3. The top three celebrate on a crowded podium; L to R: third-placed Jacques Laffite, race winner Ronnie Peterson and second-placed Clay Regazzoni, who sprays champagne. | Autocar/LAT Images

4. James Hunt walks back to the pits after spinning out of the race. | LAT Images

5. Niki Lauda and Ronnie Peterson in discussion on pit lane. | Autocar/LAT Images

6. Fans fill makeshift grandstands and advertising hoardings beside the track. | Autocar/LAT Images

7. Pole sitter Jacques Laffite on track in his Ligier JS5. | LAT Images

8. Scrutineers take a sample of the Penske team's fuel. | LAT Images

9. Cars head into the Variante Rettifilo at the start. | David Phipps/Sutton Images

A joyless victory on F1's darkest day, 65 years ago On This Day. 🖤Championship leader Wolfgang Von Trips had taken his, ...
10/09/2026

A joyless victory on F1's darkest day, 65 years ago On This Day. 🖤

Championship leader Wolfgang Von Trips had taken his, and Germany's, first F1 pole position at the Italian Grand Prix ahead of his three Ferrari team-mates - guest driver and debutant, 19-year-old Ricardo Rodríguez, Richie Ginther and title rival Phil Hill, running a new engine in his sharknose 156 after a litany of issues in practice. 🛠️ Virtually guaranteed their first Constructors' Championship with two rounds left, Ferrari looked set to wind down a very successful 1961 with another win at home. 🏆

At the end of lap one, a leading pack of seven had already developed, jostling closely for position in a typical slipstreaming battle on the 10 kilometre, half-oval, half-road circuit. Approaching the Parabolica on lap two, Jim Clark and von Trips made contact under braking; the Ferrari was turned across the nose of the Lotus and speared unabated up the grass bank into the low wire fence and packed spectator area. The car rolled and spun upside down through the air, throwing out von Trips and coming to a halt in the middle of the track, leaving a scene of devastation - von Trips and eleven spectators had been killed, with a further four succumbing to injuries later on in what remains the worst disaster in F1 history.

With the rest of the circuit unaware of the tragedy, the race continued, and Phil Hill would carefully cruise to the win as others dropped out with mechanical trouble. Hill had become the first American Formula One World Champion; when he arrived into the pits, the expression on designer Carlo Chiti's face told him his team-mate was dead.

📸, all 1961 Italian Grand Prix unless noted:
1. Wolfgang von Trips sits in the cockpit of his Ferrari Dino 246. 1960 Monaco Grand Prix. | LAT Images

2. Tony Brooks tackles the banking in his BRM P48/57 as fans watch from the road below. | Autocar/LAT Images

3. Wolfgang von Trips (left) drinks from the winner's trophy alongside Laura Ferrari (centre) and second-placed Phil Hill (right). 1961 British Grand Prix. | LAT Images

4. Phil Hill takes the chequered flag in his Ferrari 156, winning the race and becoming World Champion. | David Phipps/Sutton Images

5. Spectators watch over a low fence as Gaetano Starrabba passes by in his Lotus 18. | Autocar/LAT Images

The sky's the limit! 🚀 thirty years ago, Michael Schumacher took Ferrari's first win in eight years, and his first ...
08/09/2026

The sky's the limit! 🚀

thirty years ago, Michael Schumacher took Ferrari's first win in eight years, and his first of five victories at Monza. 🤩 While tyre stacks marking out chicanes caused chaos for many - including championship leader Damon Hill 🤕 - Schumacher would leapfrog race leader Jean Alesi in the pit stops to take his third win of the season.

1996's Ferrari F310 was revived at last weekend's Italian Grand Prix, as the Scuderia paid tribute to Michael Schumacher with an F310 inspired livery on their SF-26s. 🎨

📸, all 1996 Italian Grand Prix unless noted:
1. Race winner Michael Schumacher leaps into the air on the podium. | Ercole Colombo/Studio Colombo/Getty Images

2. A sea of fans watch the podium ceremony. | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

3. Michael Schumacher on track in his Ferrari F310. | Ercole Colombo/Studio Colombo/Getty Images

4. Charles Leclerc on track in his Ferrari SF-26 during practice. 2026 Italian Grand Prix. | Sam Bagnall/Sutton Images

Sensation, 50 years ago - just thirty eight days on from the fiery Nürburgring crash that almost took his life, Niki L...
08/09/2026

Sensation, 50 years ago - just thirty eight days on from the fiery Nürburgring crash that almost took his life, Niki Lauda announced his return to the championship fight. 😤

Lauda had reported to his Ferrari team and, after applying extra padding to his crash helmet for his badly burned ear, climbed into a Ferrari F1 car for the first time since his accident, running forty laps at Ferrari's Fiorano circuit; satisfied, he held a press conference in Salzburg to announce his intention to race at that weekend's Italian Grand Prix. 🎤 The press were astounded, and the conference was fraught with questions about his psychological state and the strength of his marriage. For Lauda however, it was straightforward - he felt fit, so he would race. 🤷‍♂️

A perplexed Ferrari, meanwhile, had already signed Brabham's Carlos Reutemann as Lauda's replacement - and would have to run three cars if Lauda were to be passed fit by specialist doctors. 🫣

📸: Niki Lauda's charred crash helmet from his Nürburgring accident. 1976 Italian Grand Prix. | Autocar/LAT Images

It's , and we're about to see the first held outside of Catalonia since 1990, and the first street race Grand Prix ...
07/09/2026

It's , and we're about to see the first held outside of Catalonia since 1990, and the first street race Grand Prix on Spanish soil since 2012! 🔙 Madrid's Jarama and Andalusia's Jerez held sixteen championship Spanish and European Grands Prix between them across two decades, while Valencia's marina had the honour of hosting the European Grand Prix for five years - here are some of our favourite shots and rare picks from each 🇪🇸

📸:
1. Race winner Rubens Barrichello taps his crash helmet's tribute to hospitalised compatriot Felipe Massa in parc ferme. 2009 European Grand Prix, Valencia. | Daniel Kalisz/Sutton Images

2. In his March 701, Jackie Stewart drives between the flaming wrecks of Jackie Oliver's BRM P153 and Jacky Ickx's Ferrari 312B, extinguishant spilling over the track surface. 1970 Spanish Grand Prix, Jarama. | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

3. Cars pass Gilles Villeneuve in his Ferrari 312T4 as he spectacularly veers off the track into the dirt. 1979 Spanish Grand Prix, Jarama. | LAT Images

4. An aerial view of new champion Jacques Villeneuve celebrating in parc ferme. 1997 European Grand Prix, Jerez. | LAT Images

5. Championship rivals Michael Schumacher (Ferrari F310B) and Jacques Villeneuve (Williams FW19) sensationally collide at Curva Dry Sac. 1997 European Grand Prix, Jerez. | LAT Images

6. Arturo Merzario stands with his arms folded in pit lane. 1977 Spanish Grand Prix, Jarama. | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

Ending under a cloud, 90 years ago.The four-wheeled RAC Tourist Trophy had lapsed since its last running on the Isle o...
05/09/2026

Ending under a cloud, 90 years ago.

The four-wheeled RAC Tourist Trophy had lapsed since its last running on the Isle of Man in 1922, but thanks to a concerted effort from journalist Wallace McLeod and inventor Harry Ferguson the race returned in 1928 on closed streets east of Belfast, taking in Dundonald, Newtownards and Comber to make up the Ards Circuit - and the Ulster TT.

Regularly attended by hundreds of thousands of spectators, Ards would see the likes of international stars Caracciola, Nuvolari and Varzi battle British talents like Earl Howe, Richard Seaman and Tim Birkin; former motorcycle and sidecar racer Freddie Dixon took his second Tourist Trophy win alongside Charles Dodson in a Riley TT Sprite in 1936. Tragedy overshadowed the race when Jack Chambers lost control of his Riley and went into a crowd of spectators, killing eight and seriously injuring ten; Ards would not host a race again, and in 1937 the RAC TT moved to the private roads of Donington Park.

📸, all Ards Circuit:
1. Sir Henry "Tim" Birkin navigates Conway Square in his Bentley. 1930 RAC Tourist Trophy. | LAT Images

2. Hundreds of spectators line the road, watching W. T. McCalla (Ford) lead Sammy Newsome (Riley Ulster Imp 9). 1934 RAC Tourist Trophy. | Autocar/LAT Images

3. A.S. Wright (Ford) passes the burning Bugatti of T43 of Malcolm Campbell. 1928 RAC Tourist Trophy. | Autocar/LAT Images

4. Charles Brackenbury (Riley) leads E.R. Hall (Bentley) through a narrow street. 1934 RAC Tourist Trophy. | LAT Images

5. Race winner Tazio Nuvolari is carried on the shoulders of his Alfa Romeo team with third-placed Achille Varzi (centre left) and second-placed Giuseppe Campari (right) also present. 1930 RAC Tourist Trophy. | LAT Images

Two feats never repeated, 60 years ago. ✌️ Despite retiring early on from the 1966 with an oil leak, Jack Brabham be...
04/09/2026

Two feats never repeated, 60 years ago. ✌️ Despite retiring early on from the 1966 with an oil leak, Jack Brabham became the first and only World Champion in a car bearing his own name thanks to a formidable four race wins in a row. Two rounds earlier in Zandvoort, the usually low-key Brabham had taken exception to the press focusing on his age, hobbling onto the grid with a cane and beard - what better way to silence any doubters than seizing the title two rounds early in a field of comparative whippersnappers? 😤

Taking the win that day was Ludovico Scarfiotti, Ferrari's sportscar ace on only his fourth F1 championship start in four years; he remains the last Italian driver to win the Italian Grand Prix in an Italian car. Will Kimi Antonelli tick two of those boxes this weekend...? 🇮🇹

📸, all 1966 Italian Grand Prix unless noted:
1. Jack Brabham walks away from his Brabham BT19 in pit lane. | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

2. Ludovico Scarfiotti on track in his Ferrari 312. | LAT Images

3. Jack Brabham (Brabham BT19) leads team-mate Denny Hulme (Brabham BT20) and Ludovico Scarfiotti (Ferrari 312/66) into Parabolica. | LAT Images

4. Ludovico Scarfiotti pulls on his racing gloves in the cockpit of his Ferrari 312/66. | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

5. Jack Brabham's Brabham BT19 trails oil smoke on the main straight. | David Phipps/Sutton Images

A frightening accident, 25 years ago.On the fifth lap of a chilly and damp 2001 , former team-mates Eddie Irvine and ...
02/09/2026

A frightening accident, 25 years ago.

On the fifth lap of a chilly and damp 2001 , former team-mates Eddie Irvine and Luciano Burti made contact at the high-speed Blanchimont corner; the left wheels of Burti's Prost touched sodden grass and Irvine's Jaguar shattered the Prost's front wing, sending Burti spearing off track through a four-deep tyre wall at around 150 mph. The 111g impact broke the front of Burti's crash helmet and left him with bruising and a severe concussion; he was placed in an induced coma for two days and took two years to fully recover, suffering from short-term memory loss and requiring anti-seizure medication for months after the crash. It was Burti's second enormous accident in little over a month after barrel-rolling at the start of the German Grand Prix, and he would not race in again.

It could have been far worse, however - the car's nose remained intact and, crucially, the impact-absorbing headrest likely saved Burti from serious, even fatal, injury. In response to the crash, the FIA would mandate covers for all tyre walls and ban the practice of drilling holes in the front of crash helmets for drinking tubes or radio wires. Much later, Burti's accident would serve as a case study for the introduction of the Halo. 😇

📸:
1. Luciano Burti's heavily damaged Prost AP04 is returned to the pits. 2001 Belgian Grand Prix. | Sutton Images

2. Luciano Burti. 2001 Belgian Grand Prix. | Lorenzo Bellanca/LAT Images

3. Luciano Burti (left) and Eddie Irvine (right) head out for the drivers' parade. 2001 Belgian Grand Prix. | Rainer Schlegelmilch/Getty Images

4. Eddie Irvine clips a corner marker in his Jaguar R2. 2001 Belgian Grand Prix. | Steve Etherington/LAT Images

5. Luciano Burti flies upside down in his Prost AP04 after hitting the slow Ferrari F2001 of Michael Schumacher (far right) at the start. | LAT Images

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