- Timo Glock
Timo Glock (born March 10, 1982 in Lindenfels, Germany) is a motor racing driver. At the 2004 Canadian Grand Prix, standing in for Giorgio Pantano who had a contract dispute with Jordan Grand Prix, he joined a select group of drivers who have scored a World Championship point in their first Formula One race. - Johnny Herbert
John Paul Herbert (born June 25, 1964 in Romford, England) is a British former racing driver from England. He competed in Formula One, where he won three races, and more recently in sports cars. He enjoyed much success in lower-level motor racing but never managed to achieve the same level of performance at the top level of motorsport. During the mid-1980s, Johnny Herbert was widely regarded as a coming man of motor racing, likened by some to the Scot Jim Clark. - Peter Brock
Peter Geoffrey Brock <small>AM</small> (26 February, 1945 – 8 September, 2006) otherwise known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain" or simply as "Brocky" was one of Australia's best-known and most successful motor racing drivers. Brock was most often associated with Holden for almost 40 years, although he raced vehicles of other manufacturers including BMW, Ford, Volvo, Porsche and Peugeot. He won the Bathurst 1000 endurance race nine times, … - Martin Brundle
Martin Brundle (born June 1, 1959 in King's Lynn, Norfolk) is an English motor racing driver known chiefly as the man who ran Ayrton Senna close in British Formula Three, a journeyman Formula One driver and as an ITV Sport F1 commentator. Brundle never really got the breaks at the top level of single seaters, but when offered opportunities in other disciplines, he took them. He was the 1988 Worlds Sportscar Champion, with a record points haul, … - Craig Lowndes
Craig Lowndes (born June 21, 1974 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian motor racing driver, currently competing for Team Vodafone/Triple Eight Race Engineering in the V8 Supercar series. - Chris Amon
Christopher Arthur Amon MBE (born 20 July 1943 in Bulls, New Zealand) is a former motor racing driver. He was active in Formula One (F1) racing in the 1960s and 1970s and is widely regarded to be one of the best F1 drivers never to win a championship Grand Prix. His reputation for bad luck was such that fellow driver Mario Andretti once joked that "if he became an undertaker, people would stop dying". - Franck Montagny
Franck Montagny (born January 5, 1978) is a French motor racing driver. He is currently in Formula One, serving as third driver for the Toyota F1 team after briefly racing for the Super Aguri F1 team in 2006. - Maurice Trintignant
Maurice Trintignant was a motor racing driver and vintner from France. He competed in the Formula One World Championship for fourteen years, between 1950 and 1964, one of the longest careers in the early years of F1. During this time he also competed in sports car racing, including winning the 1954 24 Hours of Le Mans race. Following his retirement from the track Trintignant concentrated on the wine trade. - Darren Manning
Darren Manning (born April 30, 1975) is a motor racing driver from Yorkshire, England. He currently races in the Indy Racing League series for A.J. Foyt Enterprises. - Johnny Servoz-Gavin
Georges-Francis "Johnny" Servoz-Gavin (born 18 January 1942 in Grenoble, France - died on 29 May 2006 at the same place) was a motor racing driver in both sportscars and single seaters. Johnny was a rising star, becoming French Formula Three Champion in 1966 and the European Formula 2 Champion in 1969, following in the footsteps of Jacky Ickx and Jean-Pierre Beltoise. Servoz-Gavin participated in 12 F1 Grand Prix between 1967 and 1970, failing to qualify in one. - John Bowe
John Bowe (born 16 April, 1954 in Devonport, Tasmania) is an Australian racing driver, currently driving for Paul Cruickshank Racing in the V8 Supercar series. Bowe is a multiple Australian Champion, having twice won the Australian Drivers' Championship during the Formula Pacific era, before winning the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1995. - Richard Williams
Richard Williams is a British motor racing competitor, born June 1 1977, and living in Tunbridge Wells. After coming 4th overall with a single race win the Renault Clio Cup in 2004, he entered the 2005 BTCC in a Lexus, ran by SpeedEquipe and sponsored by Friends Reunited. He came 14th overall in a small field, with a best result of 7th. In 2006 he contested the Porsche Carrera Cup, with a best result of 3rd, … - Hermann Tilke
Hermann Tilke (born December 31, 1954 in Olpe) is a German architect, designer of Formula One motor racing circuits and auto racer. - Will Hoy
Will Hoy, born in Royston, Hertfordshire, was a British racecar driver and the 1991 British Touring Car Championship, the highlight of a 20-year career in motor racing. He did not begin racing until his late 20s and first raced at international level in 1985, taking on the full World Sportscar Championship including Le Mans. Over the next few years, he raced in an assortment of championships and one-off races, … - Hans Stuck
Hans Stuck (sometimes called Hans Stuck von Villiez was a German motor racing driver. Despite many successes in Grand Prix motor racing for Auto Union in the early 1930s, during the era of the famous "Silver Arrows", he is now mostly known for his domination of hillclimbing, which earned him the nickname "Bergkönig" or "King of the Mountains". - Innes Ireland
Robert McGregor Innes Ireland, was a Scottish military officer, engineer, and motor racing driver. He was a larger-than-life character who, according to a rival team boss, "lived without sense, without an analyst and provoked astonishment and affection from everyone." Ireland was born June 12, 1930 in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, England, the son of a Scottish veterinary surgeon. His family returned to Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, in Scotland during his youth, … - Kay Petre
Kay Petre, born May 10, 1903 - died August 10, 1994, was an early motor racing star. Born Kathleen Coad Defries in Toronto, Canada but raised in England, Petre was a star at the legendary Brooklands track. The exploits of this 4'10" lady caused a media sensation at the time. The abiding image of Kay is a tiny woman seated in a huge 10.5 litre V12 Delage. - Michèle Mouton
Michèle Mouton is a former French rally driver. She is the most successful and well-known female rally driver of all time, as well as arguably the most successful female in motor racing as a whole. She was the first (and so far the only) woman to win a round of the World Rally Championship, in Sanremo in 1981. She went on to finish a close second overall in the 1982 WRC after wins in Portugal, Brazil and Acropolis, … - Mo Nunn
Morris 'Mo' Nunn is a motor racing team owner and engineer from England. He ran the Ensign Formula One team in the late 1970s and early 80s, and later worked for Chip Ganassi's highly successful Champ Car team, before striking out on his own again to found Mo Nunn Racing. The relative lack of success Ganassi have had since his departure is a testament to the contribution Morris' know-how made to the team. Running his own team did not prove so successful. - John Taylor
John Taylor (b. 23 March 1933, Leicester - d. 8 September 1966, Koblenz, Germany) was a motor racing driver from England. He participated in 5 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on July 11, 1964. He scored 1 championship point. He also participated in several non-championship Formula One races. Taylor died following an accident at the 1966 German Grand Prix, when his Brabham collided with Jacky Ickx's Matra on the first lap of the race. - Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson (born 2 September 1974) is an Australian V8 Supercar racing driver. He is the son of former racer and now team-owner Dick Johnson. He has competed full-time for Dick Johnson Racing since 2000. Johnson's best season result was in 2001, where he led the championship for 2 rounds and took 2 wins, including the last-ever Canberra round win, where he made a pole to win in the 1st race, before finishing the rest of the races in the top 5. Near season's end, … - Carel Godin de Beaufort
Count Carel Pieter Antoni Jan Hubertus Godin de Beaufort was a motor racing driver from the Netherlands. He competed in Formula One between and. He participated in 31 World Championship Grands Prix, becoming the first Dutchman ever to score points in the Formula One World Championship, and numerous non-Championship Formula One races. He was one of the last truly amateur drivers in F1, … - Richard Attwood
Richard "Dickie" Attwood (b. 4 April 1940, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire) is a British former motor racing driver. During his career he raced for the BRM, Lotus and Cooper Formula One teams. In his whole F1 career he achieved one podium and scored a total of 11 championship points. He was also a successful sports car racing driver and won the 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans race, driving a Porsche 917. - Alex Lloyd
Alex Stewart Lloyd (born 28 December, 1984 in Manchester, England) is a Manx motor racing driver. He currently takes part in the Indy Pro Series. - Ed Hinton
Edward Talmage "Ed" Hinton (b. July 21 1948, Laurel, Mississippi) is one of the most well-known and respected motor racing sportswriters in the United States and around the world. Hinton graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1970 and began working for the Orlando Sentinel covering the NASCAR racing circuit. Hinton moved to Atlanta, Georgia and married his current wife, Snow, in 1983. In the late 1980s, Hinton joined the new sports daily newspaper, … - Lorenzo Bandini
Lorenzo Bandini (born 21 December 1935 - died 10 May 1967, Monaco) was an Italian motor racing driver who raced in Formula One for the Scuderia Centro Sud and Ferrari teams. - Grant Denyer
Grant Denyer (born September 12, 1977 in Avoca Beach, New South Wales) is an Australian motor racing driver and TV reporter. - Karl Kling
Karl Kling (b. 16 September 1910, Giessen - d. 18 March 2003, Lake Constance, Switzerland) was a motor racing driver and manager from Germany. He participated in 11 Formula One grands prix, debuting on July 4, 1954. He achieved 2 podiums, and scored a total of 17 championship points. It is said, that he was born too late and too early. Too late to be in the successful Mercedes team of the '30s and too early to have a real chance in and. - Mike Spence
Michael "Mike" Spence was a motor racing driver from England. He participated in 37 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on September 8, 1963. He achieved 1 podium, and scored a total of 27 championship points. He also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races, as well as sports car racing. - Martin Donnelly
Hugh Peter Martin Donnelly (born in Belfast, 26 March 1964), is a former motor racing driver from Northern Ireland. After promising runs at Formula 3 and Formula 3000, in which he won 3 races and was a championship contender, Donnelly stepped up to F1 with Arrows in 1989. In he continued in F1 with Lotus, but after a season of no points, but very promising performances, he suffered a terrible crash during qualifying at the Jerez circuit that crippled him for life. - Al Pease
Victor "Al" Pease (born 15 October 1921, Darlington, England) is a former motor racing driver from Canada. He participated in 3 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on August 27, 1967. He holds the unfortunate distinction of being the only competitor ever to be disqualified from a World Championship race, the 1969 Canadian Grand Prix, for being too slow. Despite the brief duration of his Formula One career, … - Steve Parrish
Steve Parrish (born February 24, 1954 in Douglas) is a former motorcycle and truck racer, who now commentates for various British television channels on motorsport. Parrish turned professional at the age of 22 in 1976, winning the ACU Solo title in the British Motor Cycle Championship, as well as being team mate to Barry Sheene on a Suzuki in the 1976 500cc world championship. Parrish finished fifth in the 1977 500cc world championship, … - Win Percy
Winston "Win" Percy (b. 28 September 1943, near Tolpuddle, Dorset) is a former motor racing driver from England. He competed in many classes of motorsport during his long career, but is perhaps most famous as one of the greats of touring car racing. Joe Saward of Autosport magazine once described him as being "often regarded as the World's Number One Touring Car Driver". Percy was British Touring Car Champion three times, … - Jo Ramirez
Jo Ramirez is an author and retired employee of several motor racing teams. From 1984 to 2001 Ramirez was coordinator of the McLaren Formula One team, including during the infamous Prost / Senna clash of the late-1980s. The third of eight children, Ramirez was born in Mexico City and studied engineering at the university. He dropped out in 1960 to follow his friend Ricardo Rodriguez to Europe. - Dorothy Levitt
Dorothy Levitt was a race car driver in the early part of the 20th Century. Levitt was a renowned pioneer of motor racing, the most successful female competitor in Great Britain, victorious speedboat driver, holder of the Ladies World Land speed record, motoring writer, journalist and activist. - Peter Whitehead
Peter Whitehead (born 12 November 1914, Menston - died 21 September 1958, Lasalle, France) was a British racing driver from England. He participated in 12 World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on July 2, 1950. In his career he achieved a single podium, and scored a total of 4 championship points. He also drove in several non-Championship Formula One races. In addition to his Formula One career he shared victory in the 1951 24 Hours of Le Mans race with Peter Walker, … - Walter Wolf
Walter Wolf is an Slovenian-born Canadian oil-drilling equipment supplier who in the early 1970s made a fortune from the North Sea oil business and decided to join the world of Formula 1 (F1) motor racing. At first his funds helped prop up Frank Williams' fledgling F1 team before Williams left in 1977 to form a new team ("Williams Grand Prix Engineering", which went on to become the highly-successful WilliamsF1 team). - Joachim Winkelhock
Joachim Winkelhock (born October 24, 1960), is a German motor racing driver. The younger brother of the late Manfred Winkelhock, Winkelhock was born in Waiblingen, near Stuttgart. The youngest brother Thomas Winkelhock as well as Manfred's son Markus Winkelhock are racers, too. After the death of his brother interrupted his career in 1985, he resumed later on, winning the 1988 German Formula Three championship as well as that year's European Cup, … - Giancarlo Minardi
Giancarlo Minardi (often spelt as Gian Carlo) (born 18 September, 1947) is the founder and former Managing Director of the Minardi Formula One team. Minardi was born in Faenza (Ravenna), Italy and has spent his life with cars. As a young boy, his family managed a Fiat dealership and an Agip fuel station, and currently manages Iveco and Selenia dealerships. His father, Giovanni Minardi, who died when Giancarlo was young, was also heavily involved in motor racing. - Eric Thompson
Eric Thompson (b. 4 November 1919, Ditton Hill, Surbiton, Surrey) is a book dealer and former insurance broker and motor racing driver from Great Britain. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, scoring 2 championship points, but found the main part of his track success in sports car categories. Although earning the majority of his living as a broker at Lloyd's of London, …
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