In a relatively quiet day in racing history, Italian Dario Resta raced his Peugeot to victory in the 1915 American Grand Prize, while Ralph DePalma steered his Mercedes to win the 1921 Beverly Hills Grand Prize.
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The 26 February is remembered for some interesting records over the years. It started 1903 when Alexander Winton drove his 13-litre 4-cylinder Bullet to the first ever 68.1 mph speed record at Daytona Beach, a year after Winton famously took on Ransom Olds in the first motor race, also at Daytona.
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Paddock Legends has been accepted by @MsportXtra to be part of their partner network which will trigger exciting social media projects as well as some cool competitions to engage fans in a regular and entertaining manner.
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Superfast in spectacular Ayrton Senna’s hands, the Lotus-Renault 98T was too thirsty, too brittle in the end. Some say that had the Lotus 98T not been so brittle and its potent Renault turbo V6 so thirsty, Ayrton Senna would have been Formula 1 World Champion already in 1986.
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Rich in racing history, 25 February saw Jimmy Murphy steer his Dusenberg to victory in the 1923 Beverly Hills Grand Prixe race; in 1934, Per-Viktor Widengren drove his a Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 Monza to win the Norwegian Grand Pix at Mjosa and Joe Weatherly won the 1962 NASCAR Grand National at Daytona.
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24 February will be remembered for many a good racing reason, starting with Harlan Fengler racing to vitory in the 1924 Beverly Hills Grand Prize race, eight years before Malcolm Campbell steered his Napier Railton Blue Bird to another new 253.9 mph World Land Speed Record at Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Motorsport’s leading merchandiser, Paddock Legends is preparing for an outing at Europe’s leading driving culture fair as it prepares to go all-out at Retro Classics at Stuttgart from 27 February to 1 March 2020.
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23 February is a dramatic and varied day in racing and motoring history. On this day, Rudolf Diesel received a German patent for the diesel engine in 1893, Baroness Mercedes Adrienne von Schlosser Weigl nee Jellinek, after whom Mercedes cars were named, died in aged 39 in 1929 and submachine gun-toting communist guerrillas led by Castro henchman Manuel Uziel kidnapped multiple Argentine F1 world champion Juan Manuel Fangio on the eve of Cuba's Havana Grand Prix...
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Smoke, mirrors and deception as F1 gets down to first 2020 business in Catalunya? In German, wass ist das quite literally means: what is that? Makes us wonder if Mercedes deliberately called its new suspension invention DAS — for Dual Axis Steering. Whatever its roots,
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The Formula 1 world came alive this past week as teams fired up their new cars for preseason testing at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya with teams beginning their 2020 campaigns, at the same time the paddock was buzzing with new developments and partnerships forged during the winter break.
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Today in history will be remembered for American speed king Barney Oldfield asking in 1917, "If deflecting planes will drive an airplane up and down, why won't a deflecting plane on a car going more than 100mph help drive it down to the ground and add weight for traction?”
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