Here’s the front cover of #Autosport, complete with the traditional BRG masthead that always accompanied significant British racing successes back in the day, following Johnny Herbert’s & Stewart GP’s wonderful #EuropeanGP victory at Nürburgring #OnThisDay in ’99.

#HappyBirthday Tim Schenken, 82, who started 34 #F1 GPs (’70-74) for Williams, Brabham, Surtees, Trojan & Lotus, scoring one podium finish (Austria ’71; Brabham). Pic: in a Brabham BT33 at Ricard in ’71, closely followed by Reine Wisell (Lotus 72D) & Henri Pescarolo (March 711).

#OnThisDay 66 years ago was run the ’59 #OultonParkGoldCup, won by Stirling Moss (Cooper; car #7). Getting the jump on Moss at the start is Jack Brabham in another Cooper (#3), who finished 2nd. More Coopers finished 3rd, 4th, 6th & 7th!

Here’s a paragraph from my latest #MotorSport column, which is all about Juan Pablo Montoya, who’s just turned 50. I reckon he was one of the half-dozen most talented #F1 drivers not to be world champion. Maybe you agree, maybe you don’t, but who would you put on that list? (1/2)

#OnThisDay in ’82, in Las Vegas, Michele Alboreto scored his maiden #F1 GP win. Eddie Cheever, exhausted, was 3rd. John Watson, 2nd, just missed out on the world championship: had he won the race, & Keke Rosberg scored no points, he’d have been champion. Yes, that’s Diana Ross!

#HappyBirthday Henri Pescarolo, 83. A 4-time Le Mans winner, he raced 57 #F1 GPs, albeit never with the stellar success that he achieved in sports cars. Here he is (in car) with his team-mate & fellow Le Mans legend Derek Bell in Frank Williams’ #F2 Marches at Nürburgring in ’71.

Remembering Neville Lederle, born #OnThisDay in ’38, who started one championship #F1 GP (East London ’62), finishing 6th. Pic: a phlegmatic Lederle watching Peter Ashdown’s acrobatics in the #BritishEmpireTrophy #FJunior race, Silverstone, ’61.

Question: is it possible to post too many pics of Stirling Moss in a Maserati 250F? Answer: no. So here’s a great Moss/Maser pic, taken #OnThisDay 71 years ago, picturing ‘the boy’ en route to victory in the ’54 non-championship #F1 #GoodwoodTrophy.

For my agency Diagonal Comms I interviewed the MIA’s Chris Aylett about the MIA (Motorsport Industry Association), the UK’s thriving ‘motorsport valley’, & why MIA CTS is such a superb event for anyone doing business in motorsport. Click below. (1/2) www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r7e...

André Testut died #OnThisDay 20 years ago, aged 79, having DNQ’d for the #MonacoGP in ’58 & ’59 in this Maserati 250F (pic), which - #AnorakFact - had been campaigned in ’56 by Jean Behra, who’d raced it to 2nd in Buenos Aires & 3rd at Monaco, Reims, Silverstone & Nürburgring.

Remembering Mike Parkes, born #OnThisDay in ’31, 2nd in the first #F1 GP he started (Reims ’66) in a Ferrari 312. Pic: tyre-smokin’ alongside team-mate Ludovico Scarfiotti at non-championship Syracuse (Sicily) in ’67, a race that ended in a dead-heat between their 2 Ferrari 312s.

Believe it or not, 3 days ago Juan Pablo Montoya turned 50. In terms of raw speed - but not diet, fitness or discipline - he was stunningly impressive. He won a lot, but he should have won even more. Click below to read my brand-new #MotorSport column. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

🗣️ "He was justifiably regarded as F1’s master of the white-knuckle balls-to-the-wall quali-lap" Juan Pablo Montoya raced on gut instinct — with all of the flaws and fireworks that brought — writes @thebishf1.bsky.social go.motorsportmagazine.com/3I...

#OnThisDay in 2012 Seb Vettel (Red Bull) won the #SingaporeGP, scoring what was only his 2nd #F1 GP win in a superb down-to-the-wire-in-Brazil F1 season in which he eventually took his 3rd consecutive F1 drivers’ world championship, pipping Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) to the crown.

#OnThisDay in ’90, at Estoril, Nigel Mansell won an #F1 GP for Ferrari for the 3rd & final time. Pic: beautiful study, taken by my old friend Steven Tee, who’s still snapping F1 cars 35 years later, of Mansell’s beautiful Ferrari 641/2 en route to victory.

#OnThisDay in ’73 Peter Revson (pic) won a wet-dry #CanadianGP. Well, maybe. The organisers messed up their lap charts & many thought he hadn’t won at all. Some thought Howden Ganley had won. What does Ganley think? “No doubt about it: Emerson Fittipaldi,” says Howden today. 🤯

#AnorakFact 1 & pic 1: the 4-wheel-drive Ferguson P99 was Stirling Moss’s favourite #F1 car - he raced it to victory in the non-championship F1 #OultonParkGoldCup #OnThisDay in ’61. #AnorakFact 2 & pic 2: the ’66 Jensen FF used Ferguson 4wd, as this contemporary ad explains.

The answer to the little #F1 quiz question that I posed in my tweet below is… Juan Pablo Montoya. Here’s the uncropped pic. Look out for my #MotorSport column about him tomorrow (Tuesday).

Here’s a little #F1 quiz question for you: to whom is Ron Dennis wagging his putter? The answer is the man about whom I’ve devoted my #MotorSport column this week. It’ll be published tomorrow.

#OnThisDay in ’74 was run the #CanadianGP at Mosport. On lap 1 Lauda leads pole man & eventual winner Fittipaldi, Regazzoni, Scheckter, Hunt, Reutemann, Jarier et al. Emmo’s win drew him level on 52 points with Rega with 1 #F1 GP to go. Jody had an outside chance too, on 45.

#OnThisDay in ’68, at Mont-Tremblant, Chris Amon suffered one of the many ‘if only’ moments of his #F1 career, leading the first 72 laps of the #CanadianGP in his Ferrari 312/68 (pic) until his race was ended by transmission failure. Denny Hulme won for McLaren. #ATaleOf2Kiwis

Remembering Ian Raby, born #OnThisDay in 1921. He started 3 #F1 #BritishGP - ’63, ’64 & ’65 - coming to F1 late in life. Pic: victory, #FrancisBeartTrophy, Brands Hatch, September ’55, a classic shot taken by photographer-mechanic Jeff Elmes of Raby in trademark checked shirt.

A Scottish Grand Prix would be a nice idea, wouldn’t it? Well, it’s been done before. #AnorakFact: a non-championship #F1 #ScottishGP was run on an airfield circuit at Winfield, Berwickshire, in ’51, & it was won by Philip Fotheringham-Parker, who was born #OnThisDay in 1907.

Remembering Henry Segrave, born #OnThisDay in 1896, who set 3 #LandSpeedRecord & 1 #WaterSpeedRecord, was the first person to hold both records simultaneously, & was the first to attain 200mph (322km/h) in a land vehicle (pic). He died in ’30, at 33, on Lake Windermere.

…& Mark Allen has finally won it 9-8. #EnglishOpen #Snooker

I’m currently glued to a TV channel called DMAX, watching the closing stages of today’s #EnglishOpen #Snooker final between Mark Allen & Zhou Yuelong. It’s now 7-7 - it’s extremely tense - & we’ve just had a re-rack. The first to 9 will win.

Max scored a grand chelem victory in today’s #AzerbaijanGP, thereby elevating himself to joint 2nd in #F1’s all-time list, as follows: Jim Clark 8, Lewis Hamilton 6, Verstappen 6. 2 weeks ago I wrote a #MotorSport column about grands chelems. Click below. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

Gutsy 10th place for Kevin Magnussen in Singapore #OnThisDay in 2014, achieved despite his lower back sustaining nasty burns in the cockpit of his McLaren during the race. Kev downplayed the issue afterwards, Viking style, but the truth was that he’d been in quite a lot of pain.

Can it be 28 years since Jarno Trulli blasted onto #F1 fans’, journalists’ & bosses’ radar screens by leading the #AustrianGP in this Prost JS45, before its Mugen V10 failed? Yes, it can be & it is, for it happened #OnThisDay in ’97. Fast driver, great guy. Pic by Ercole Colombo.

#AnorakFact: #OnThisDay in ’86, at Estoril, Keke Rosberg’s McLaren ran in one-off Marlboro Lights livery (pic), while team-mate Alain Prost’s retained the usual red/white colouring. Prost finished 2nd to Nigel Mansell (Williams). Rosberg DNF’d on lap 42 with electrical problems.

Remembering Kenneth McAlpine, born #OnThisDay 105 years ago, who died just over 2 years ago, aged 102. This excellent pic, taken during the ’53 #DutchGP, shows his Connaught Type-A en route to a lap-64 Lea Francis engine failure.

#OnThisDay in ’47 Louis Chiron won the #FrenchGP at Lyon-Parilly in a Talbot-Lago (pic); Alberto Ascari DNF’d in a Maserati. #AnorakFact: on the same day 7026 miles (11,307km) away, Oscar Gálvez won the #MarDelPlataGP in an Alfa; Juan Manuel Fangio was 5th in a Volpi-Chevy. (1/2)

#OnThisDay 10 years ago Seb Vettel won the #SingaporeGP, from pole position, for Ferrari. #AnorakFact: it was the only 2015 GP in which Merc failed to secure the pole, Lewis Hamilton & Nico Rosberg qualifying only 5th & 6th.

Can Juan Pablo Montoya really be 50? Yes, he was born #OnThisDay in ’75. Mega-talented, he won in #F1, #IndyCar, #Nascar & other series too, & my next #MotorSport column, published on Tuesday, will be all about him. Here he is en route to victory for Williams at Monaco in 2003.

I once asked Stirling Moss how quick Bernie Ecclestone had been in an #F1 car (he DNQ’d a Connaught at Monaco in ’58). “About as quick as Horace Gould,” Moss replied. Not very, then. Gould was born #OnThisDay in 1921. Pic: Gould’s ageing privateer Maserati 250F, Monza, ’60.

Remembering Ferenc Szisz - or Szisz Ferenc if you prefer - born in Szeghalom, Hungary, #OnThisDay in 1873, the winner of the 1906 #FrenchGP at Le Mans, which 769.36-mile (1238.16km) race is usually classified as the first ever GP.

DIAGONAL DIARY📰 Diagonal MD, @thebishf1.bsky.social, recently sat down with the CEO of the Motorsport Industry Association (MIA), Chris Aylett, for the latest episode of our ‘Up to Speed’ interview series. Come behind the scenes to learn more about the MIA 👇 diagonalcomms.com/2025/09/diag...

#HappyBirthday Lesley Lawson (née Hornby), aka Twiggy, 76: model, actress, singer & cultural icon of London’s swinging ’60s. She also attended a few #F1 GPs - here she is at Brands Hatch in ’70 with Colin Chapman & Nina Rindt, whose husband Jochen won the #BritishGP that weekend.

Brilliant #F1 GP debut at Mosport (Canada) #OnThisDay in ’71 by Mark Donohue, finishing 3rd in this Penske-owned McLaren M19A, despite making a pit stop for fresh goggles. Jackie Stewart won for Tyrrell. The following year Donohue won the #Indy500, also in a Penske-owned McLaren.

Wonderful promo poster celebrating Mercedes-Benz’s total domination of the non-championship #F1 #BerlinGP, which was run at superfast Avus #OnThisDay in ’54. (1/2)

#HappyBirthday Cristiano da Matta, 52. He drove 28 #F1 GPs in 2003 & 2004, all for Toyota, best result 6th (3 times), & he’d been an ace in #IndyCar, becoming champion for Newman-Haas in 2002. After his F1 foray he returned to the US, winning for PKV at Portland in 2005 (pic).

#HappyBirthday Bernard de Dryver, 73, who has one of the great racing driver surnames. A decent #F2 & #AuroraAFX (pic; taken by Alan Cox) driver, he had one shot at #F1, in an ex-works March 761 at Zolder in ’77, & DNQ’d. So Bernard was not de Dryver the next day (sorry). (1/2)

#HappyBirthday Brian Henton, 79. He started racing at 23, was an ace in #FVee (pic), #F3 & #F2, winning championships in all 3, but never got a decent break in #F1. However - #AnorakFact - he’s the only driver to score an F1 fastest lap (Brands ’82) but no F1 championship points.

Remembering Derek Gardner, born #OnThisDay in ’31, who designed a number of Tyrrell #F1 cars including the iconic ’76 P34 (pic; count the wheels). He also designed boats, electric bikes & microlites during a long career. He died in 2011, aged 79.

#OnThisDay in 2016 Nico Rosberg won the #SingaporeGP, his 200th #F1 GP start; 2nd was Daniel Ricciardo, 3rd Lewis Hamilton. Rosberg would go on to win the F1 drivers’ world championship that year, his next (& final) 6 F1 GPs yielding another win, 4 2nd places & one 3rd place.

#HappyBirthday Marc Surer, 74. #F2 champion in ’79, he then moved up to #F1. He started 82 F1 GPs but, although he bagged a couple of 4ths, he never had an F1 GP podium finish. Pic: at Brands Hatch in ’84 in an Arrows A7.

Look what’s just arrived - it’s Simon Lazenby’s new book #Pressure (pic 1). I’m really looking forward to reading it - & I’m well chuffed that Simon has devoted an entire chapter to yours truly (pic 2)!

#HappyBirthday Damon Hill, 65 years young, a fine & IMHO much underrated #F1 world champion, about whom I wrote a #MotorSport column last month. ICYMI then, click below to read it now. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

Remembering Stirling Moss, the greatest ever #F1 non-world champion, born #OnThisDay in ’29. Click below to listen to the #AndColossallyThatsHistory podcast that Richard Williams & I recorded last year about Moss & his great rival Mike Hawthorn. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

#AnorakFact: on Sunday in Baku we’ll witness the first ever occurrence of an #F1 team’s drivers having driven a combined total of 600 GPs. The team is Aston Martin, the drivers Alonso & Stroll. In my brand-new #MotorSport column I compare & contrast them. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...