The Riccardo Patrese Website

Happy Birthday Riccardo

Webmaster — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:01:00 +0000

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Tony Regan Artwork

Webmaster — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:31:18 +0000

A new addition to the Art Gallery today is this painting of Riccardo in the 1982 Monaco GP winning Brabham BT49 airbrushed and painted in gouache by Motorsport Artist Tony Regan.

More of Tony’s work can be seen here.

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Riccardo Ready to Race Again

Webmaster — Sat, 22 May 2010 15:39:27 +0000

The Swedish sports newspaper Sportbladet have confirmed today that Riccardo Patrese will be taking part in The Race Legends event which takes place in August.

Riccardo is quoted as saying: “It will be fun, it’s for a charity, it is fun to drive fast cars and there are many friends. Of course you want to win, [...]

F1 Debut at Monaco

Webmaster — Sat, 22 May 2010 08:17:55 +0000

The 22nd of May 1977 saw Riccardo Patrese made his F1 debut for Shadow at the Monaco GP.

On the Monday before Riccardo had his first taste of a Grand Prix car when he tested the DN8 at Paul Ricard. As described in answer to a site visitor’s question, Riccardo did not run many laps [...]

Benetton B193

Webmaster — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:26:33 +0000

The Benetton B193/04 that Riccardo first raced at the 1993 Spanish GP will be making an appearance at the Magny-Cours Classic Days event this weekend. Barry Walker has restored the car which Riccardo took to a 4th place finish in Spain, and 3rd place at the British GP. The photos you [...]

Arrows A3 in Masters Series

Webmaster — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:19:24 +0000

The Arrows A3, as driven by Riccardo during the 1980 F1 season, made its first appearance in 2010 with Phil Hall at the wheel during the Superleague Festival held at Silverstone on the weekend of the 2nd-4th April.

Phil is racing the car, with Accurate Racing, in the Masters Series and here’s how things went from his point [...]

Lunch with Riccardo Patrese

Webmaster — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:18:15 +0000

Riccardo features in this month’s issue of Motor Sport magazine in the latest of Simon Taylor’s “Lunch with…” series. The lunch conversation covers the whole of Riccardo’s F1 career and took place at the Antico Brolo restaurant.

F3 Chevron in action

Webmaster — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:31:40 +0000

Riccardo’s 1976 F3 championship winning Chevron B34 will be in action again this year, with Pierre Lemasson at the wheel, most noteably at the Monaco GP Historic on May 1 and 2.

The car’s full calendar of events are:

April 4 : Val de Vienne (France) Mai 2 : Monaco May 23 : Spa (Belgium) [...]

The Fastest Lap That Never Was

Webmaster — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:36:59 +0000

Apparently, at the 1980 Monaco GP Riccardo was initially credited with setting the fastest lap of the race on the timing screens. However, officials noted that his time was set during wet/damp conditions, and they thought it impossible that this could be the fastest lap overall as some of the race had been run in the dry. [...]

Artwork by Luke Pollard

Webmaster — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:16:17 +0000

Luke Pollard is a huge motor racing fan and has been painting, drawing and producing computer aided artworks for many years. The full range of his work can be found on his website – www.motorsportinprint.com.

Here are two examples of his work featuring Riccardo seen in the 1986 Brabham and the 1984 [...]