FRANÇOIS FLAMAND / DPPI Dakar Rally, Arequipa For its arrival in Peru, the Dakar 2012 saw Cyril Despres win his 4th stage of this year’s rally and gain extra time over Marc Coma, with a lead of now 2’22†in the general standings. More significantly, this 11th stage has genuinely proven that the confrontation between […]
FREDERIC LE FLOCH / DPPI Dakar rally, San Juan Despres, already a winner in San Juan on the Dakar’s last visit in 2010, won again today, taking advantage of a major navigational error by Coma to take the lead in the general standings. Nani Roma won his 15th stage on the Dakar and his 3rd […]
Off season is a good time to go thru this edition again. Here are some interesting moments that I would like to share with the F1 Weekly familia. The Fifties: The Autopsort magazine is started by Gregor Grand in 1950, and I have been loving and reading this magazine, and the British racing green Motorsport […]
Folks, cage rattling is nothing new in Formula 1. Just like Peggy Lee’s Fever cage rattling started long ago. And some drivers did sizzle out. We start with the 1963 season when Monte Carlo was the season opener. Jim Clark won the first of his two championships, winning seven of the ten races, and scoring […]
The 6th edition of the Le Mans Classic will be held on the 6th, 7th and 8th July 2012. Renault Classic will once again be present at this meeting of enthusiasts, by taking part in the race with, for the first time, three cars – the A442 B, the M65 and one A110 1300 – […]
Renault returns to Retromobile After the 50th anniversary of the 4L, Renault Classic will once again be present at the 2012 edition with, this time, 3 anniversaries: 110 years of engine excellence, the 50th anniversary of the A110 and the 40th anniversary of Renault 5. Visitors will be able to see over 700 […]