Jody Scheckter was born on January 29, 1950, in East London, South Africa, where his father owned a Renault dealership. Jody worked there as an engineering apprentice and learned to drive when he was
His father Stan Jones, an affluent car dealer, was one of Australia’s top racers who in the mid-1950s was good enough to be offered tryouts in Europe (with BRM and Ferrari) but declined them in
Born Nelson Sautomaior, on August 17, 1952, he used his mother’s surname Piquet to hide his early racing adventures from his disapproving parents. His father, a prominent Brazilian government mi
Keijo Erik Rosberg – he later called himself Keke to make it easier for the media to remember his name – was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 6, 1948, where his Finnish parents were
Alain Prost was born on February 24, 1955, near Saint Chamond in the Loire region of central France, where his father Andre manufactured kitchen furnishings. Alain was a busy little boy with a boundle
Ayrton Senna da Silva was born on March 21, 1960, into a wealthy Brazilian family where, with his brother and sister, he enjoyed a privileged upbringing. He never needed to race for money but his deep
Born on 8 August, 1953, near Birmingham, Nigel Ernest Mansell first drove a car in a nearby field at the age of seven. That same year he watched Jim Clark in a Lotus win the 1962 British Grand Prix at
The most extraordinary driver’s origins were most ordinary. He was born on 3 January, 1969, near Cologne, Germany, six years before his brother Ralf, who would also become a Formula One driver o
Damon Graham Devereux Hill was born on September 17, 1960, two years before his father Graham won his first driving title. The Hills lived comfortably in a large London house where from an early age D
He was certainly to the manner born, on 9 April, 1971, in Canada’s French-speaking province of Quebec, from where Gilles Villeneuve took the racing world by storm – and took his family wit
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