News
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Our New General Secretary: Tanya Gilbert
Tanya Gilbert is very familiar with motor club affairs as she is Head of Membership at Silverstone and responsible for…
New Member: Jan Magnussen
These days an active Grand Prix driver is not as flexible in his choices as drivers once were. The reasons…
Theo Huschek: Honorary Member
At the General Assembly of the club at Silverstone the attending members were introduced to our new General Secretary Tanya…
King Constantine II June 2 1940 – January 10 2023
On Tuesday, January 10 the death of former King Constantine II of Greece was announced following a fatal stroke. He…
Philippe Streiff 26/6/1955 – 23 December 2022
On December 23, just two days before Christmas, Philippe Streiff died at the age of 67. He had been confined…
Welcome to F1GPDC Ross
Our latest Honorary member of the F1 Grand Prix Drivers Club is multi-talented Ross Brawn whose career path in motor…
Patrick Tambay 25/06/1949 – 04/12/2022
Patrick Tambay was a long-time member of the Grand Prix Drivers Club and supported our events until the onset of…
Mauro Forghieri 13 January 1935-November 2 2022
Throughout the history of Ferrari, there have been a number of notable engineers who have contributed towards the remarkable racing…
A Sad Week
International motorsport lost two remarkable men last week ( October 15-21) whose contributions to motorsport, could truly be said, transformed…
Maria’s New Maserati Model
Our beloved former President of the Grand Prix Drivers Club, Maria Teresa de Filippis, has been honoured by Maserati, the…
Happy Birthday Mario
On August 17, Mario Theissen, our Grand Prix Drivers Club vice-president and former Director of BMW Motorsport, celebrated his 70th birthday….
Happy Birthday, Teddy!
Congratulations to our former Vice-President Teddy Pilette on his 80th Birthday today. Born in Brussels, he is the third member…
Happy Birthday Jo
Last weekend our Swiss member Jo Vonlanthen celebrated his 80th birthday. Jo is always the life and soul of the party…
Two Anniversaries for Peter
The Grand Prix Drivers Club sends best wishes to our favourite Grand Prix racing photographer Peter Nygaard on his sixtieth…