Johnny Servoz-Gavin: F1's hippie racer whose career was ended by a twig

Johnny Servoz-Gavin: F1's hippie racer whose career was ended by a twig

Motor sport has always attracted romantics, rogues, and rebels, and Johnny Servoz-Gavin managed to embody all three archetypes simultaneously. He looked less like a racing driver than the bassist of a psychedelic rock band.  He was a French F3 champion, a European F2 champion, a multiple Le Mans entrant, and a Matra works driver. Already, before his F1 story had properly begun, his CV was formidable. Servoz-Gavin had climbed the racing ladder correctly, and a glorious destiny appeared to be beckoning him. Hear the full story in this podcast, and read more from Matt Bishop at Motor Sport: https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4dyvlGg ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Intoxicating screams, howls and thunder of F1's greatest age

Sixty years ago, Formula 1 entered the finest era in the history of the world championship: that of the naturally aspirated 3.0-litre engine formula. No other F1 engine formula has endured remotely as long, and there was good reason for its longevity, says Matt Bishop. Engines could be V8s, V12s, or flat-12s, or occasionally even stranger configurations. They could be narrow or wide, or torquey or peaky; they could scream, howl, bark, shriek, or thunder according to their cylinder count and design architecture; above all, they all sounded utterly magnificent. Hear the full story in this podcast, and read more from Matt Bishop at Motor Sport: https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4dBJAsA ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Cruel tragedy of Elio de Angelis: an F1 gentleman with the talent to take on Senna

Forty years ago, Italian F1 driver, Elio de Angelis, died in a Marseille hospital following a testing accident at Paul Ricard the previous day. Matt Bishop looks back on one of F1's great might-have-beens: a man of serious ability, extraordinary charm, and uncommon grace, born in Rome to wealthy parents but the very opposite of arrogant. He won only two F1 grands prix, but there are some drivers whose win stats tell only the smallest fraction of their story. De Angelis is one of them. Read more from Matt Bishop: https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4noZjPZ ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Graham Hill's last hurrah at gloriously mad Silverstone

Matt Bishop's F1 flashback: 1971 International Trophy Graham Hill's final Formula 1 victory came in the 1971 International Trophy at Silverstone when the veteran driver, almost two decades older than the young and thrusting Emerson Fittipaldi, won at the wheel of a Brabham nicknamed 'lobster claw' for its challenging looks. It was a vignette of an era when our sport was more anarchic, more inventive, and more down-to-earth than it is today. Read more from Matt Bishop at: https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4wbLubC ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Why James Hunt should never have been F1 champion!

Matt Bishop's F1 flashback: 1976 Spanish Grand Prix The controversial FIA decision that changed the course of the Formula 1 world championship. 2021's Abu Dhabi season finale wasn't the first time that the title race was decided by an official error. In 1976, James Hunt was disqualified from the Spanish Grand Prix after winning it when his McLaren was found to be too wide. It was a decision that would have ended his title hopes - but it was then controversially overturned on appeal. Hunt then drove to a popular world championship — cheered on by Matt Bishop who now accepts that Niki Lauda should have been crowned in that remarkable year. Read more from Matt Bishop at: https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/3QNwuk4 ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.