Denny Hulme archive
Formula 1’s lost nations: New Zealand
Last world champion: Denny Hulme, 1967
Last Grand Prix winner: Denny Hulme, McLaren, Buenos Aires, 1974
Last Grand Prix starter: Mike Thackwell, RAM, Montreal, 1984
Last Grand Prix: None held
Only eight drivers from New Zealand have ever started Grands Prix. But they include a world champion, the founder of one of the great F1 teams, and a driver [...]
1968 South African Grand Prix flashback
F1 Fanatic guest writer Andrew Tsvyk looks back at a time when the F1 season started on January 1st.
It used to be that Formula 1 was not a multi-billion dollar business, the cars were not developed by rocket scientists in sterile laboratories and there was a race on New Year’s Day.
Alright, I have to [...]
100 F1 race winners part 4: 1962-1968
The fourth part of our series looking at F1’s 100 winners includes four champions: Jackie Stewart, Jim Clark, John Surtees and Denny Hulme.
Plus which Italian driver only won once – at home, in a Ferrari? Read on to find out.
Could Felipe Massa ‘do a Prost’?
On his current run of form Felipe Massa stands a chance of achieving something very rarely seen in Formula 1: he could turn the tables on his team mate by taking the title off him the year after he won it.
The only driver to achieve this in recent F1 history is Alain Prost, who did [...]
Video: Monaco GP history 1929-73
F1 Fanatic guest writer Journeyer returns with the first in a two-part look at the history of the Monaco Grand Prix.
And so we reach Monaco, Formula 1’s most famous and glamorous race – and with good reason. Barring World War II, Grands Prix has been held here for the last 80 years or so.
We [...]
“Memories of The Bear” (Eoin Young, 2007)
Formula 1 World Champions are a fascinating breed.
For every Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna or Juan Manuel Fangio – giga-stars whose names are writ large across the motor racing firmament – there are the slightly more obscure, less well known holders of the title World Drivers’ Champion.
Denny Hulme, 1967 world champion is one of these.
Kimi Raikkonen finally wins the F1 title
Kimi Raikkonen has become Finland’s third world champion by winning the Brazilian Grand Prix. He is the 28th F1 world champion in 58 years.
It comes after he finished runner-up in the 2003 championship (to Michael Schumacher) and in 2005 (to Fernando Alonso)
His triumph puts Finland up to fifth among the countries that have won the [...]
Video: F1 title deciders
Another chapter of F1 history will be written this weekend.
Will it be a glorious celebration of a worthy champion? Or yet another of F1’s sensational championship controversies?
Here’s a collection of 17 of the most memorable F1 title deciders on video – with the original commentaries where possible – from Fangio to Alonso…
History repeating
Three drivers will go into the last race of the season still able to win the championship.
It’s the first time this has happened since 1986. Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen will be hoping Lewis Hamilton has the same kind of luck Nigel Mansell did on that fateful occasion…
Here’s what happened on the eight occasions three [...]
Ten of the best… British Grands Prix
The British Grand Prix is one of only two races to have held a round of the world championship every year since the series started.
So it must have held a few decent races in 57 years? Damn right. Here’s ten of the best:
