[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@TheBishF1](/creator/twitter/TheBishF1) "#OnThisDay in XX Schumacher returned after a 6-race absence caused by a broken leg to support his Ferrari team-mate Irvines #F1 title bid. Cue an almighty battle with Hkkinen in the humidity of Malaysias first GP. Click to read my @Motor_Sport column" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1979070037227909256) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-17T06:20Z 80.9K followers, 5590 engagements "#OnThisDay in 2006 Alonso won the #AusGP taking Renaults 3rd consecutive #F1 GP win having also won the season opener (Bahrain) & Fisichella having won in Malaysia. #AnorakFact: it was the last F1 GP until the 2015 #MexicoGP in which neither Ferrari was a classified finisher" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1907376557347479664) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-04-02T10:16Z 80.9K followers, 9689 engagements "#OnThisDay in XX Ayrton Senna won the #MexicoGP from the pole leading every lap. Pic: Senna leading a McLaren-Ferrari sandwich comprising himself Nigel Mansell Gerhard Berger & Alain Prost" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1927612341283123329) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-05-28T06:26Z 80.9K followers, 5381 engagements "Was #F1 more exciting in days of yore Not always. #OnThisDay in XX at Aintree Jim Clark (Lotus 25; pic) took the first of his X #BritishGP wins leading all the way from pole with fastest lap & winning by 49sec. #AnorakFact: the XX British GP also took place #OnThisDay" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1947178094571159607) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-07-21T06:13Z 80.9K followers, 6971 engagements "Bruce McLaren was born #OnThisDay in XX. so heres some truly wonderful 70mm footage from the XX #MonacoGP which he won from the film #TheFlyingClipper which was released in the US as #MediterraneanHoliday. Heres a lovely 2min 20sec clip. Enjoy" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1961678049067302978) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-08-30T06:31Z 80.9K followers, 8485 engagements "Quite a few racing drivers had extravagant facial hair in the 70s none more so than Harald Ertl born #OnThisDay in XX. Primarily a journalist he started XX #F1 GPs from XX to XX (best 7th XX #BritishGP Hesketh 308D). He was killed in a light aircraft crash in 82" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1962089902163538124) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-08-31T09:47Z 80.9K followers, 4974 engagements "Gorgeous pic taken #OnThisDay in 2007 by my good friend Lorenzo Bellanca #F1s very own cockney Sicilian depicting Kimi Rikknen en route to #BelgianGP victory at Spa in his Ferrari F2007" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1967856204895735846) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-09-16T07:40Z 80.9K followers, 3662 engagements "#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) X F1 GPs yielding another win X 2nd places & one 3rd place" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1968568186002985107) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-09-18T06:50Z 80.9K followers, 3953 engagements "Remembering Kenneth McAlpine born #OnThisDay XXX years ago who died just over X years ago aged XXX. This excellent pic taken during the XX #DutchGP shows his Connaught Type-A en route to a lap-64 Lea Francis engine failure" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1969659377607946281) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-09-21T07:06Z 80.9K followers, 2399 engagements "Can it be XX 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 XX. Fast driver great guy. Pic by Ercole Colombo" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1969667795508928830) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-09-21T07:39Z 80.9K followers, 8259 engagements "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 hed been in quite a lot of pain" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1969673173903032773) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-09-21T08:00Z 80.9K followers, 3879 engagements "Remembering Ian Raby born #OnThisDay in 1921. He started X #F1 #BritishGP - XX XX & XX - coming to F1 late in life. Pic: victory #FrancisBeartTrophy Brands Hatch September XX a classic shot taken by photographer-mechanic Jeff Elmes of Raby in trademark checked shirt" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1970080698116518115) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-09-22T11:00Z 80.9K followers, 2979 engagements "#OnThisDay in XX Nigel Mansell won the #SpanishGP for Williams - a drive that team boss Frank Williams described as perfect. an absolutely brilliant performance. Pic: team-mate Nelson Piquet leads at the start but Mansell soon got by & was never headed thereafter" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1971834840896229569) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-09-27T07:10Z 80.9K followers, 4505 engagements "#OnThisDay in XX after a dramatic wheel-to-wheel battle with McLarens Ayrton Senna Nigel Mansell won the #SpanishGP for Williams; Senna finished 5th after a late spin. Great pic taken by Dominique Leroy" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1972545125130940923) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-09-29T06:13Z 80.9K followers, 16.1K engagements "Remembering Roberto Bussinello born #OnThisDay in XX. He started X #F1 GPs for Isobele de Tomaso (Monza 61) & Scuderia Centro Sud (Monza 65) & was successful in sports cars before hanging up his helmet to become an Alfa Romeo engineer. Pic: Alfa Giulia TZ2 #TargaFlorio 65" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1974359305509089453) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-04T06:21Z 80.9K followers, 4028 engagements "#HappyBirthday to my old friend Kevin Magnussen XX. He shares a birthday with the great Froiln Gonzlez whod be celebrating his 103rd birthday if he were still alive today. Kev is slimmer than Froiln was though. just" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1974752473996042534) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-05T08:24Z 80.9K followers, 11.3K engagements "#OnThisDay in XX the Citron 2CV was launched at the Paris Salon de lAutomobile (aka motor show) - so Im posting this pic simply because it floats my boat. (1/2)" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1975448775599718478) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-07T06:31Z 80.9K followers, 6227 engagements "#OnThisDay in XX the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow was launched at the Paris Salon de lAutomobile (aka motor show) - so Im posting this pic simply because it floats my boat. (2/2)" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1975448783849988412) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-07T06:31Z 80.9K followers, 2430 engagements "Remembering Alfonso Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton 11th Marquess of Portago aka Alfonso de Portago Spanish nobleman racing driver bobsleigh driver & jockey born #OnThisDay in XX. He started X #F1 GPs in XX & XX & he finished 2nd beaten only by Fangio at Silverstone in 56" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1976896285124051054) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-11T06:22Z 80.9K followers, 5858 engagements "#OnThisDay X years ago Lewis Hamilton won the first & only #F1 #EifelGP. #AnorakFact 1: in so doing he equalled Michael Schumachers record for most F1 GP wins (91). #AnorakFact 2: as of now the race was the last F1 GP run in Germany. Watch with sound" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1976901836096651686) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-11T06:45Z 80.9K followers, 45.5K engagements "Remembering Paul Hawkins born #OnThisDay in XX who won one #F1 race the non-championship XX #CapeSouthEasterTrophy at Killarney Cape Town in a Brabham BT10 & a number of sports car races including the XX #TargaFlorio with Rolf Stommelen in a Porsche XXX (pic). (1/2)" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1977276799722598407) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-12T07:34Z 80.9K followers, 3689 engagements "#AnorakFact: Paul Hawkins (pic) & Alberto Ascari share a unique claim to fame namely that they both ended up in the harbour during a #MonacoGP. Ascari was killed in a Monza test X days after his harbour immersion. Hawkins was killed at Oulton Park X years after his. (2/2)" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1977276808589722036) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-12T07:35Z 80.9K followers, 2326 engagements "#OnThisDay in XX in Mexico City Gerhard Berger won an #F1 GP for the first time also scoring the Benetton teams first F1 GP win with a zero-stop strategy on rock-hard Pirellis that beat all the Goodyear one-stoppers. Pretty car the Benetton B186. (1/2)" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1977283605203218764) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-12T08:02Z 80.9K followers, 14.5K engagements "#AnorakFact: Gerhard Bergers XX #MexicoGP win was the last #F1 GP win for the mighty BMW M12/13 turbocharged 1.5-litre four-pot which was good for 1400bhp in quali trim by XX. (2/2)" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1977283613252370657) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-12T08:02Z 80.9K followers, 2493 engagements "@simonmhill @SilverstoneUK @BTCC @JakeHillDriver Great stuff 👍" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1978048926080254317) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-14T10:43Z 80.9K followers, XXX engagements "I worked for McLaren from January 2008 to August 2017. Im delighted to see my old Woking mates riding so high nowadays. But the team was already an #F1 constructors championship winner more than XX years ago. Click to read my new @Motor_Sport column" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1978363915454087493) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-15T07:34Z 80.9K followers, 3983 engagements "Spotted & snapped in Brentford London just now a Range Rover that by rights should be mine Why so Because my husbands name is Angel Look carefully @ArtistAngel1989 🤣" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1978444306500214810) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-15T12:54Z 80.9K followers, 5119 engagements "Im enjoying a great day at #MIACTS25 at Silverstone the fantastic motorsport trade show run by the MIA (Motorsport Industry Association) which is a client of my comms PR social media content creation & digital marketing agency Diagonal Comms. Ill be back here tomorrow" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1978484931916419559) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-15T15:35Z 80.9K followers, 2120 engagements "#HappyBirthday Mark Blundell XX who raced to podiums for Brabham Ligier Tyrrell & McLaren in #F1 & raced to wins for PacWest in #IndyCar (#CART). In XX Nigel Mansell declared himself too broad in the beam for McLarens MP4/10; Blundell (pic) took over but the car was a dog" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1909511734433403333) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-04-08T07:40Z 80.9K followers, 7208 engagements "#OnThisDay in XX was run the #CanadianGP at Mosport. On lap X Lauda leads pole man & eventual winner Fittipaldi Regazzoni Scheckter Hunt Reutemann Jarier et al. Emmos win drew him level on XX points with Rega with X #F1 GP to go. Jody had an outside chance too on 45" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1970111828429807828) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-09-22T13:03Z 80.9K followers, 5273 engagements "#OnThisDay in XX Peter Revson (pic) won a wet-dry #CanadianGP. Well maybe. The organisers messed up their lap charts & many thought he hadnt won at all. Some thought Howden Ganley had won. What does Ganley think No doubt about it: Emerson Fittipaldi says Howden today. 🤯" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1970373218474279213) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-09-23T06:22Z 80.9K followers, 5695 engagements "#OnThisDay in XX Laffite won the #CanadianGP in a downpour. Watson finished a fine 2nd - & Villeneuve was an improbable & heroic 3rd. Why do I describe Gilless drive in that way Ah well I wrote a @Motor_Sport column about exactly that. Click below" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1971827362351448530) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-09-27T06:40Z 80.9K followers, 4208 engagements "@TheOneTrueGKS @Autodromo_Monza The answer to all X questions would be Kevin Magnussen - & he and I have done the first X on your list many times" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1979188268768850213) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-17T14:10Z 80.9K followers, XXX engagements "#OnThisDay in XX took place that years #BrazilGP won by Niki Lauda (Ferrari 312T). #AnorakFact & pic: the race was the first #F1 GP for the Ligier-Matra JS5 driven by Jacques Laffite; its outsized airbox earned it the unfortunate but appropriate nickname the teapot" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1883061936260268524) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-01-25T07:58Z 80.9K followers, 8548 engagements "The XX #BrazilGP at Jacarepagu was won brilliantly #OnThisDay XX years ago by Carlos Reutemann. He led all the way drove fastest lap & won by 49sec. The Ferrari 312T2 was a beautiful car raced in XX XX & early XX. #AnorakFact: Brazil XX was its last race & its last win" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1884495515565375643) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-01-29T06:55Z 80.9K followers, 11.4K engagements "Can it really be XX years since Emerson Fittipaldi won the first ever championship #F1 #BrazilGP having returned to his home city of So Paulo as the first ever Brazilian F1 world champion Yes it happened #OnThisDay in XX. Pic: Emmos black & gold Lotus 72D was a real beauty" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1889218080565600297) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-02-11T07:41Z 80.9K followers, 9417 engagements "#HappyBirthday Timo Glock XX. Thumbs up to any #F1 folk who manage to wish him many happy returns without bringing up the 2008 #BrazilGP. Oops sorry. Anyway he started XX GPs bagged X podiums was a #GP2 champion then became a #DTM ace. Nice guy too" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1901919016865648722) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-03-18T08:50Z 80.9K followers, 5706 engagements "Is this the best ever #F1 victory photo #OnThisDay in XX Carlos Reutemann won the #BrazilGP after Williams had instructed him via a JONES REUT pit board to let team-mate Alan Jones pass & win. Carlos refused won & paraded his own pit board in Argentina the next day (pic)" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1905882733768782241) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-03-29T07:20Z 80.9K followers, 21.4K engagements "#OnThisDay XX years ago at his home #BrazilGP Senna raced for the Lotus #F1 team for the first time. He qualified 4th & retired from the race (electrics). Prost won for McLaren. Senna went on to race for Lotus for X seasons winning X GPs for them then joined McLaren himself" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1909135501312811237) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-04-07T06:45Z 80.9K followers, 6562 engagements "He was born #OnThisDay in XX he died suddenly in 2019 & #F1 & the #FIA still miss him every single day. #RIPCharlieWhiting" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1955150626360303620) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-08-12T06:13Z 80.9K followers, 91.1K engagements "Wonderful start pic of a soggy #CanadianGP at Mosport #OnThisDay in XX showing Jim Clark (Lotus) leading from the pole. He dropped back after a while but when the rain stopped he retook the lead leading until his engine failed allowing Jack Brabham (Brabham) to win" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1960604592913203481) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-08-27T07:25Z 80.9K followers, 5175 engagements "The #ItalianGP has been run #OnThisDay (13 September) in XX XX XX XX XX XX & 2009. In XX Reutemann started in P2 having split the turbo Renaults on an out-&-out power track in a Cossie-engined Williams by removing its front wings & driving an utterly inspired lap" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1966765407861199119) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-09-13T07:26Z 80.9K followers, 7078 engagements "Since the #F1 world championship began in XX the #ItalianGP has been an ever-present annual fixture. It has been held at Monza every year except XX when it was held at Imola. Pic: #OnThisDay XX years ago Jabouille (car #15) Reutemann (#28) & Arnoux (#16) lead on lap 1" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1967150635557732621) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-09-14T08:57Z 80.9K followers, 7911 engagements "#OnThisDay in XX Graham Hill (BRM; pic) won the #ItalianGP after pole man Jim Clarks Lotus gave up with gearbox trouble. Monza XX was the 3rd of X #F1 GP victories for Hill that season his first of X F1 world championship years XX being the 2nd" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1967843139949039778) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-09-16T06:48Z 80.9K followers, 3571 engagements "#HappyBirthday rik Comas XX. He started XX #F1 GPs for Ligier & Larrousse best 5th (Magny-Cours XX Ligier) but was better in #SuperGT Japan (98 & XX champion in a Nissan Skyline GT-R). Turn the sound for this vid of him in his own Lancia" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1972184008739193184) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-09-28T06:18Z 80.9K followers, 4792 engagements "The XX #CanadianGP run #OnThisDay XX years ago is always remembered for Gilles Villeneuves maiden #F1 GP win but Jean-Pierre Jarier led from pole in Ronnie Petersons tragically available Lotus XX & would have won had he not been stopped after XX laps by an oil leak" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1975814516475916584) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-08T06:44Z 80.9K followers, 6106 engagements "Run at scary Mosport #OnThisDay XX years ago the XX #CanadianGP had it all: James Hunts & Mario Andrettis epic dice a crash between Hunt & his team-mate a trackside punch-up & high drama in the closing laps. Click to read my @Motor_Sport column" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1976199541373403639) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-09T08:14Z 80.9K followers, 4161 engagements "Can it really be XX years ago that Kimi Rikknen drove an utterly storming race to win the greatest #JapaneseGP theres ever been Yes it can be & it is for it happened #OnThisDay in 2005. Click below to read my @Motor_Sport column" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1976204515784159394) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-09T08:34Z 80.9K followers, 4203 engagements "#OnThisDay in 2003 Rubens Barrichello (pic) won the #JapaneseGP while his Ferrari team-mate Michael Schumacher finished 8th. Nonetheless Schumi secured a record-breaking 6th #F1 drivers world championship in a nail-biting season-closing F1 GP" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1977293151384764812) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-12T08:39Z 80.9K followers, 4284 engagements "#HappyBirthday Rikky von Opel XX the only #F1 driver from Liechtenstein great-grandson of Adam Opel (1837-95) founder of the famous car maker. Rikky von Opel started XX #F1 GPs in all in Ensigns & Brabhams & here he is in an Ensign N173 at Silverstone in 73" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1977998460138697157) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-14T07:22Z 80.9K followers, 6354 engagements "Heres a brand-new episode of #AndColossallyThatsHistory which is @RWilliams1947s & my #F1 history podcast. This week were waxing lyrical about the rise to prominence of Adrian Newey who fully justifies the description design genius. Click below" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1979082835043512327) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-17T07:11Z 80.9K followers, 3692 engagements "Remembering Ted Whiteaway who died #OnThisDay XX years ago aged XX. He attempted to qualify for just one #F1 GP at Monaco in XX in a privateer HWM-Alta but he DNQd. Here he is in practice following Cesare Perdisas Maserati" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1979427156703776817) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-18T05:59Z 80.9K followers, 2945 engagements "Handsome 80s #F1 car the Williams FW11B isnt it #OnThisDay in XX Nigel Mansell drove this FW11B to #MexicoGP victory his 6th win in an F1 season in which he didnt become world champion. The F1 world championship went to his team-mate Nelson Piquet despite only X wins" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1979438496663175646) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-18T06:44Z 80.9K followers, 5386 engagements "#OnThisDay in 2009 at Interlagos after a season that had started dominantly & had gradually become ever more nervy Jenson Button & Brawn GP finally achieved the impossible. It was a truly magnificent achievement for a team that had been on its knees just XX months before. 👏" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1979447030968693112) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-18T07:18Z 80.9K followers, 6946 engagements "#OnThisDay XX years ago Ren Arnoux (Renault) won the #BrazilGP. At the start Gilles Villeneuve hurled his Ferrari between front-row men Jean-Pierre Jabouille (Renault) in pole position & Didier Pironi (Ligier) to create a multi-coloured tableau of early-80s #F1 mega-ness" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1883787469415739630) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-01-27T08:01Z 80.9K followers, 13.1K engagements "#OnThisDay in XX Mika Hkkinen won the #BrazilGP for McLaren - but to ring the changes instead heres a pit-stop pic of Heinz-Harald Frentzen on the way to an excellent 3rd place for the team owned & run by the much missed Eddie Jordan" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1910583655426330765) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-04-11T06:40Z 80.9K followers, 4232 engagements "#OnThisDay in XX as Damon Hill crossed the finish line to win the #JapaneseGP & clinch that years #F1 drivers world championship Murray Walker famously said & Ive got to stop because Ive got a lump in my throat" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1977629722499785082) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-13T06:57Z 80.9K followers, 80.7K engagements "#OnThisDay in XX in Las Vegas Carlos Reutemann (Williams; pic) faded from pole position to 8th allowing 5th-placed Nelson Piquet (Brabham) to pip him for the #F1 world championship by a single point. It was a perplexing race - & for Lole fans like me an upsetting one" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1979065700355321866) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-17T06:03Z 80.9K followers, 10.6K engagements "#HappyBirthday Kimi Rikknen XX. He was always a fine #F1 driver but in his prime he was a staggeringly brilliant one combative yet imperturbable as shown in this superb pic of his pole lap at Monza in 2005" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1979073974991548426) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-17T06:36Z 80.9K followers, 19K engagements "Remembering Ludovico Scarfiotti born #OnThisDay in XX. He won one #F1 GP at Monza in XX for Ferrari. Pic: the Ferrari 330P4 that he & Mike Parkes raced to 2nd place behind the Ford GT40 of AJ Foyt & Dan Gurney at Le Mans in 67" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1979432612113289432) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-18T06:21Z 80.9K followers, 3778 engagements "The Robin Herd/Gordon Coppuck-designed McLaren M7A is one of the prettiest #F1 cars of the late 60s IMHO - enhanced by its brilliant papaya livery - & heres Denny Hulme en route to #MexicoGP victory in one #OnThisDay in XX. #AnorakFact: it was the last F1 GP of the 60s" [X Link](https://x.com/TheBishF1/status/1979793576822497395) [@TheBishF1](/creator/x/TheBishF1) 2025-10-19T06:15Z 80.9K followers, 1114 engagements
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@TheBishF1
"#OnThisDay in XX Schumacher returned after a 6-race absence caused by a broken leg to support his Ferrari team-mate Irvines #F1 title bid. Cue an almighty battle with Hkkinen in the humidity of Malaysias first GP. Click to read my @Motor_Sport column"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-17T06:20Z 80.9K followers, 5590 engagements
"#OnThisDay in 2006 Alonso won the #AusGP taking Renaults 3rd consecutive #F1 GP win having also won the season opener (Bahrain) & Fisichella having won in Malaysia. #AnorakFact: it was the last F1 GP until the 2015 #MexicoGP in which neither Ferrari was a classified finisher"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-04-02T10:16Z 80.9K followers, 9689 engagements
"#OnThisDay in XX Ayrton Senna won the #MexicoGP from the pole leading every lap. Pic: Senna leading a McLaren-Ferrari sandwich comprising himself Nigel Mansell Gerhard Berger & Alain Prost"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-05-28T06:26Z 80.9K followers, 5381 engagements
"Was #F1 more exciting in days of yore Not always. #OnThisDay in XX at Aintree Jim Clark (Lotus 25; pic) took the first of his X #BritishGP wins leading all the way from pole with fastest lap & winning by 49sec. #AnorakFact: the XX British GP also took place #OnThisDay"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-07-21T06:13Z 80.9K followers, 6971 engagements
"Bruce McLaren was born #OnThisDay in XX. so heres some truly wonderful 70mm footage from the XX #MonacoGP which he won from the film #TheFlyingClipper which was released in the US as #MediterraneanHoliday. Heres a lovely 2min 20sec clip. Enjoy"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-08-30T06:31Z 80.9K followers, 8485 engagements
"Quite a few racing drivers had extravagant facial hair in the 70s none more so than Harald Ertl born #OnThisDay in XX. Primarily a journalist he started XX #F1 GPs from XX to XX (best 7th XX #BritishGP Hesketh 308D). He was killed in a light aircraft crash in 82"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-08-31T09:47Z 80.9K followers, 4974 engagements
"Gorgeous pic taken #OnThisDay in 2007 by my good friend Lorenzo Bellanca #F1s very own cockney Sicilian depicting Kimi Rikknen en route to #BelgianGP victory at Spa in his Ferrari F2007"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-09-16T07:40Z 80.9K followers, 3662 engagements
"#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) X F1 GPs yielding another win X 2nd places & one 3rd place"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-09-18T06:50Z 80.9K followers, 3953 engagements
"Remembering Kenneth McAlpine born #OnThisDay XXX years ago who died just over X years ago aged XXX. This excellent pic taken during the XX #DutchGP shows his Connaught Type-A en route to a lap-64 Lea Francis engine failure"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-09-21T07:06Z 80.9K followers, 2399 engagements
"Can it be XX 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 XX. Fast driver great guy. Pic by Ercole Colombo"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-09-21T07:39Z 80.9K followers, 8259 engagements
"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 hed been in quite a lot of pain"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-09-21T08:00Z 80.9K followers, 3879 engagements
"Remembering Ian Raby born #OnThisDay in 1921. He started X #F1 #BritishGP - XX XX & XX - coming to F1 late in life. Pic: victory #FrancisBeartTrophy Brands Hatch September XX a classic shot taken by photographer-mechanic Jeff Elmes of Raby in trademark checked shirt"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-09-22T11:00Z 80.9K followers, 2979 engagements
"#OnThisDay in XX Nigel Mansell won the #SpanishGP for Williams - a drive that team boss Frank Williams described as perfect. an absolutely brilliant performance. Pic: team-mate Nelson Piquet leads at the start but Mansell soon got by & was never headed thereafter"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-09-27T07:10Z 80.9K followers, 4505 engagements
"#OnThisDay in XX after a dramatic wheel-to-wheel battle with McLarens Ayrton Senna Nigel Mansell won the #SpanishGP for Williams; Senna finished 5th after a late spin. Great pic taken by Dominique Leroy"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-09-29T06:13Z 80.9K followers, 16.1K engagements
"Remembering Roberto Bussinello born #OnThisDay in XX. He started X #F1 GPs for Isobele de Tomaso (Monza 61) & Scuderia Centro Sud (Monza 65) & was successful in sports cars before hanging up his helmet to become an Alfa Romeo engineer. Pic: Alfa Giulia TZ2 #TargaFlorio 65"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-04T06:21Z 80.9K followers, 4028 engagements
"#HappyBirthday to my old friend Kevin Magnussen XX. He shares a birthday with the great Froiln Gonzlez whod be celebrating his 103rd birthday if he were still alive today. Kev is slimmer than Froiln was though. just"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-05T08:24Z 80.9K followers, 11.3K engagements
"#OnThisDay in XX the Citron 2CV was launched at the Paris Salon de lAutomobile (aka motor show) - so Im posting this pic simply because it floats my boat. (1/2)"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-07T06:31Z 80.9K followers, 6227 engagements
"#OnThisDay in XX the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow was launched at the Paris Salon de lAutomobile (aka motor show) - so Im posting this pic simply because it floats my boat. (2/2)"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-07T06:31Z 80.9K followers, 2430 engagements
"Remembering Alfonso Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton 11th Marquess of Portago aka Alfonso de Portago Spanish nobleman racing driver bobsleigh driver & jockey born #OnThisDay in XX. He started X #F1 GPs in XX & XX & he finished 2nd beaten only by Fangio at Silverstone in 56"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-11T06:22Z 80.9K followers, 5858 engagements
"#OnThisDay X years ago Lewis Hamilton won the first & only #F1 #EifelGP. #AnorakFact 1: in so doing he equalled Michael Schumachers record for most F1 GP wins (91). #AnorakFact 2: as of now the race was the last F1 GP run in Germany. Watch with sound"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-11T06:45Z 80.9K followers, 45.5K engagements
"Remembering Paul Hawkins born #OnThisDay in XX who won one #F1 race the non-championship XX #CapeSouthEasterTrophy at Killarney Cape Town in a Brabham BT10 & a number of sports car races including the XX #TargaFlorio with Rolf Stommelen in a Porsche XXX (pic). (1/2)"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-12T07:34Z 80.9K followers, 3689 engagements
"#AnorakFact: Paul Hawkins (pic) & Alberto Ascari share a unique claim to fame namely that they both ended up in the harbour during a #MonacoGP. Ascari was killed in a Monza test X days after his harbour immersion. Hawkins was killed at Oulton Park X years after his. (2/2)"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-12T07:35Z 80.9K followers, 2326 engagements
"#OnThisDay in XX in Mexico City Gerhard Berger won an #F1 GP for the first time also scoring the Benetton teams first F1 GP win with a zero-stop strategy on rock-hard Pirellis that beat all the Goodyear one-stoppers. Pretty car the Benetton B186. (1/2)"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-12T08:02Z 80.9K followers, 14.5K engagements
"#AnorakFact: Gerhard Bergers XX #MexicoGP win was the last #F1 GP win for the mighty BMW M12/13 turbocharged 1.5-litre four-pot which was good for 1400bhp in quali trim by XX. (2/2)"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-12T08:02Z 80.9K followers, 2493 engagements
"@simonmhill @SilverstoneUK @BTCC @JakeHillDriver Great stuff 👍"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-14T10:43Z 80.9K followers, XXX engagements
"I worked for McLaren from January 2008 to August 2017. Im delighted to see my old Woking mates riding so high nowadays. But the team was already an #F1 constructors championship winner more than XX years ago. Click to read my new @Motor_Sport column"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-15T07:34Z 80.9K followers, 3983 engagements
"Spotted & snapped in Brentford London just now a Range Rover that by rights should be mine Why so Because my husbands name is Angel Look carefully @ArtistAngel1989 🤣"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-15T12:54Z 80.9K followers, 5119 engagements
"Im enjoying a great day at #MIACTS25 at Silverstone the fantastic motorsport trade show run by the MIA (Motorsport Industry Association) which is a client of my comms PR social media content creation & digital marketing agency Diagonal Comms. Ill be back here tomorrow"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-15T15:35Z 80.9K followers, 2120 engagements
"#HappyBirthday Mark Blundell XX who raced to podiums for Brabham Ligier Tyrrell & McLaren in #F1 & raced to wins for PacWest in #IndyCar (#CART). In XX Nigel Mansell declared himself too broad in the beam for McLarens MP4/10; Blundell (pic) took over but the car was a dog"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-04-08T07:40Z 80.9K followers, 7208 engagements
"#OnThisDay in XX was run the #CanadianGP at Mosport. On lap X Lauda leads pole man & eventual winner Fittipaldi Regazzoni Scheckter Hunt Reutemann Jarier et al. Emmos win drew him level on XX points with Rega with X #F1 GP to go. Jody had an outside chance too on 45"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-09-22T13:03Z 80.9K followers, 5273 engagements
"#OnThisDay in XX Peter Revson (pic) won a wet-dry #CanadianGP. Well maybe. The organisers messed up their lap charts & many thought he hadnt won at all. Some thought Howden Ganley had won. What does Ganley think No doubt about it: Emerson Fittipaldi says Howden today. 🤯"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-09-23T06:22Z 80.9K followers, 5695 engagements
"#OnThisDay in XX Laffite won the #CanadianGP in a downpour. Watson finished a fine 2nd - & Villeneuve was an improbable & heroic 3rd. Why do I describe Gilless drive in that way Ah well I wrote a @Motor_Sport column about exactly that. Click below"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-09-27T06:40Z 80.9K followers, 4208 engagements
"@TheOneTrueGKS @Autodromo_Monza The answer to all X questions would be Kevin Magnussen - & he and I have done the first X on your list many times"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-17T14:10Z 80.9K followers, XXX engagements
"#OnThisDay in XX took place that years #BrazilGP won by Niki Lauda (Ferrari 312T). #AnorakFact & pic: the race was the first #F1 GP for the Ligier-Matra JS5 driven by Jacques Laffite; its outsized airbox earned it the unfortunate but appropriate nickname the teapot"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-01-25T07:58Z 80.9K followers, 8548 engagements
"The XX #BrazilGP at Jacarepagu was won brilliantly #OnThisDay XX years ago by Carlos Reutemann. He led all the way drove fastest lap & won by 49sec. The Ferrari 312T2 was a beautiful car raced in XX XX & early XX. #AnorakFact: Brazil XX was its last race & its last win"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-01-29T06:55Z 80.9K followers, 11.4K engagements
"Can it really be XX years since Emerson Fittipaldi won the first ever championship #F1 #BrazilGP having returned to his home city of So Paulo as the first ever Brazilian F1 world champion Yes it happened #OnThisDay in XX. Pic: Emmos black & gold Lotus 72D was a real beauty"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-02-11T07:41Z 80.9K followers, 9417 engagements
"#HappyBirthday Timo Glock XX. Thumbs up to any #F1 folk who manage to wish him many happy returns without bringing up the 2008 #BrazilGP. Oops sorry. Anyway he started XX GPs bagged X podiums was a #GP2 champion then became a #DTM ace. Nice guy too"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-03-18T08:50Z 80.9K followers, 5706 engagements
"Is this the best ever #F1 victory photo #OnThisDay in XX Carlos Reutemann won the #BrazilGP after Williams had instructed him via a JONES REUT pit board to let team-mate Alan Jones pass & win. Carlos refused won & paraded his own pit board in Argentina the next day (pic)"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-03-29T07:20Z 80.9K followers, 21.4K engagements
"#OnThisDay XX years ago at his home #BrazilGP Senna raced for the Lotus #F1 team for the first time. He qualified 4th & retired from the race (electrics). Prost won for McLaren. Senna went on to race for Lotus for X seasons winning X GPs for them then joined McLaren himself"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-04-07T06:45Z 80.9K followers, 6562 engagements
"He was born #OnThisDay in XX he died suddenly in 2019 & #F1 & the #FIA still miss him every single day. #RIPCharlieWhiting"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-08-12T06:13Z 80.9K followers, 91.1K engagements
"Wonderful start pic of a soggy #CanadianGP at Mosport #OnThisDay in XX showing Jim Clark (Lotus) leading from the pole. He dropped back after a while but when the rain stopped he retook the lead leading until his engine failed allowing Jack Brabham (Brabham) to win"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-08-27T07:25Z 80.9K followers, 5175 engagements
"The #ItalianGP has been run #OnThisDay (13 September) in XX XX XX XX XX XX & 2009. In XX Reutemann started in P2 having split the turbo Renaults on an out-&-out power track in a Cossie-engined Williams by removing its front wings & driving an utterly inspired lap"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-09-13T07:26Z 80.9K followers, 7078 engagements
"Since the #F1 world championship began in XX the #ItalianGP has been an ever-present annual fixture. It has been held at Monza every year except XX when it was held at Imola. Pic: #OnThisDay XX years ago Jabouille (car #15) Reutemann (#28) & Arnoux (#16) lead on lap 1"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-09-14T08:57Z 80.9K followers, 7911 engagements
"#OnThisDay in XX Graham Hill (BRM; pic) won the #ItalianGP after pole man Jim Clarks Lotus gave up with gearbox trouble. Monza XX was the 3rd of X #F1 GP victories for Hill that season his first of X F1 world championship years XX being the 2nd"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-09-16T06:48Z 80.9K followers, 3571 engagements
"#HappyBirthday rik Comas XX. He started XX #F1 GPs for Ligier & Larrousse best 5th (Magny-Cours XX Ligier) but was better in #SuperGT Japan (98 & XX champion in a Nissan Skyline GT-R). Turn the sound for this vid of him in his own Lancia"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-09-28T06:18Z 80.9K followers, 4792 engagements
"The XX #CanadianGP run #OnThisDay XX years ago is always remembered for Gilles Villeneuves maiden #F1 GP win but Jean-Pierre Jarier led from pole in Ronnie Petersons tragically available Lotus XX & would have won had he not been stopped after XX laps by an oil leak"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-08T06:44Z 80.9K followers, 6106 engagements
"Run at scary Mosport #OnThisDay XX years ago the XX #CanadianGP had it all: James Hunts & Mario Andrettis epic dice a crash between Hunt & his team-mate a trackside punch-up & high drama in the closing laps. Click to read my @Motor_Sport column"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-09T08:14Z 80.9K followers, 4161 engagements
"Can it really be XX years ago that Kimi Rikknen drove an utterly storming race to win the greatest #JapaneseGP theres ever been Yes it can be & it is for it happened #OnThisDay in 2005. Click below to read my @Motor_Sport column"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-09T08:34Z 80.9K followers, 4203 engagements
"#OnThisDay in 2003 Rubens Barrichello (pic) won the #JapaneseGP while his Ferrari team-mate Michael Schumacher finished 8th. Nonetheless Schumi secured a record-breaking 6th #F1 drivers world championship in a nail-biting season-closing F1 GP"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-12T08:39Z 80.9K followers, 4284 engagements
"#HappyBirthday Rikky von Opel XX the only #F1 driver from Liechtenstein great-grandson of Adam Opel (1837-95) founder of the famous car maker. Rikky von Opel started XX #F1 GPs in all in Ensigns & Brabhams & here he is in an Ensign N173 at Silverstone in 73"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-14T07:22Z 80.9K followers, 6354 engagements
"Heres a brand-new episode of #AndColossallyThatsHistory which is @RWilliams1947s & my #F1 history podcast. This week were waxing lyrical about the rise to prominence of Adrian Newey who fully justifies the description design genius. Click below"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-17T07:11Z 80.9K followers, 3692 engagements
"Remembering Ted Whiteaway who died #OnThisDay XX years ago aged XX. He attempted to qualify for just one #F1 GP at Monaco in XX in a privateer HWM-Alta but he DNQd. Here he is in practice following Cesare Perdisas Maserati"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-18T05:59Z 80.9K followers, 2945 engagements
"Handsome 80s #F1 car the Williams FW11B isnt it #OnThisDay in XX Nigel Mansell drove this FW11B to #MexicoGP victory his 6th win in an F1 season in which he didnt become world champion. The F1 world championship went to his team-mate Nelson Piquet despite only X wins"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-18T06:44Z 80.9K followers, 5386 engagements
"#OnThisDay in 2009 at Interlagos after a season that had started dominantly & had gradually become ever more nervy Jenson Button & Brawn GP finally achieved the impossible. It was a truly magnificent achievement for a team that had been on its knees just XX months before. 👏"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-18T07:18Z 80.9K followers, 6946 engagements
"#OnThisDay XX years ago Ren Arnoux (Renault) won the #BrazilGP. At the start Gilles Villeneuve hurled his Ferrari between front-row men Jean-Pierre Jabouille (Renault) in pole position & Didier Pironi (Ligier) to create a multi-coloured tableau of early-80s #F1 mega-ness"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-01-27T08:01Z 80.9K followers, 13.1K engagements
"#OnThisDay in XX Mika Hkkinen won the #BrazilGP for McLaren - but to ring the changes instead heres a pit-stop pic of Heinz-Harald Frentzen on the way to an excellent 3rd place for the team owned & run by the much missed Eddie Jordan"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-04-11T06:40Z 80.9K followers, 4232 engagements
"#OnThisDay in XX as Damon Hill crossed the finish line to win the #JapaneseGP & clinch that years #F1 drivers world championship Murray Walker famously said & Ive got to stop because Ive got a lump in my throat"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-13T06:57Z 80.9K followers, 80.7K engagements
"#OnThisDay in XX in Las Vegas Carlos Reutemann (Williams; pic) faded from pole position to 8th allowing 5th-placed Nelson Piquet (Brabham) to pip him for the #F1 world championship by a single point. It was a perplexing race - & for Lole fans like me an upsetting one"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-17T06:03Z 80.9K followers, 10.6K engagements
"#HappyBirthday Kimi Rikknen XX. He was always a fine #F1 driver but in his prime he was a staggeringly brilliant one combative yet imperturbable as shown in this superb pic of his pole lap at Monza in 2005"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-17T06:36Z 80.9K followers, 19K engagements
"Remembering Ludovico Scarfiotti born #OnThisDay in XX. He won one #F1 GP at Monza in XX for Ferrari. Pic: the Ferrari 330P4 that he & Mike Parkes raced to 2nd place behind the Ford GT40 of AJ Foyt & Dan Gurney at Le Mans in 67"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-18T06:21Z 80.9K followers, 3778 engagements
"The Robin Herd/Gordon Coppuck-designed McLaren M7A is one of the prettiest #F1 cars of the late 60s IMHO - enhanced by its brilliant papaya livery - & heres Denny Hulme en route to #MexicoGP victory in one #OnThisDay in XX. #AnorakFact: it was the last F1 GP of the 60s"
X Link @TheBishF1 2025-10-19T06:15Z 80.9K followers, 1114 engagements
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