My participation to the races stays an act of will, and it is exactly in it that the thing distinguishes itself from the passion. I feel no need to race, but I feel even less some desire to not doing it.
In its number 134, the French magazine Auto Modélisme presents Jacky Ickx's cars which are, in fact, the cars from the collection of the webmaster of this site. Six pages are dedicated to the main models of my collection and the story of these cars.
Our friend Paul Frère left us this February 24th, 2008 at the age of 91 years old. It is a very great champion of the Belgian motorsportsport which leaves us. We address all our sympathy to his family and to his close relations.
Jacky Ickx, former winner of the rally-raid Paris-Dakar (in 1983 on Mercedes) in the car's category, qualified of "courageous but harmful for Africa" the decision taken by the organizers to cancel the competition.
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This sentence, Jacky Ickx often used it throughout his career. Today, it's my turn to use it because, after reading the various e-mails received, your comments to the previous news and further to the conversations which I had (in particular with Jacky Ickx himself), I decided to stay at the commands of this website and to maintain it in current hosting.
1.000.000 of unique visitors, it is the cape which has just crossed this website, this virtual encyclopedia dedicated to this great Sir whom is Jacky Ickx. It is with this record that the epilogue of this great adventure is going to be written because I think that it would be difficult to make this monument more complete. I thus decided that it is time to turn the last page.
On Monday, March 26th at 8:50 pm, the second Flemish public channel Canvas will broadcast a TV show dedicated to Jacky Ickx: "Belga Sport, Jacky Ickx - Het mirakel" to which I made a small informative contribution as.
Former Grand Prix driver Clay Regazzoni was killed in a car crash in Italy today. He was 67 years old. The Swiss driver is reported to have collided head on with a truck on the A1 Motorway near Parma, while driving a Chrysler Voyager.
Even if he will not be at the start, on November 3rd of this year, of this first Transafrican Classic, Jacky Ickx already set date for 2007. Together with Claude Brasseur, the greatest Belgian racing champion is anxious to live, to live again, his beautiful epic of 1983, at the steering wheel of his Mercedes. The returned honoring is sincere, so much Patric Zaniroli, former winner of the Dakar too, made a success of the alchemy of the adventure and the discovery... By creating the Transafricane Classic, first race of regularity which will venture on the African tracks of any ground, the one who was, during almost 15 years, the sports director of Dakar saw just. Offering an alternative to the pure speed, he marries the sport, the safety and the discovery in the purest respect for the crossed parts of the country. La DH
The 2006 Goodwood Festival of Speed will take place on July 7.8.9. The theme will be ‘Racing for Glory – a Century of Grands Prix’, celebrating the great sporting accolades to which drivers have always aspired. It’s 100 years since the first Grand Prix, a century since the first Targa Florio road race and 40 years since the great TransAm and CanAm series were founded.
Jacky Ickx, GP star and six-time Le Mans winner, will drive on the hill all weekend and will be in action on the hill in a Ferrari 312PB and on the Forest Rally Stage in a Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar car.
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