The Riccardo Patrese Website

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 [...]

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) [...]

Macau GP Chevron

Webmaster — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:39:40 +0000

Following the news that Riccardo’s 1977 Macau GP winning Chevron was being restored, and had been entered to appear at the New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing in January, we now have pictures of the restored car thanks to Peter Whelan who has been busy working on it over the last year or so.

According [...]

Japanese GP Memories

Webmaster — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:00:20 +0000

The Williams team website – www.williamsf1.com - remembers Riccardo’s 1992 Japanese GP win:

We look back at Riccardo Patrese’s victory for the team at the 1992 race with John Russell, Riccardo’s engineer who still works for the team today…

“I joined Williams in 1989 and became a race engineer in 1991, so I was still a [...]

Macau Photos

Webmaster — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:02:24 +0000

Here’s an online “discovery”, courtesy of Nick Forsythe, showing photos featuring Riccardo at the 1978 & ’79 Macau GP’s. They’re from http://www.fotop.net/Reis where you will find many more photos from Macau races over the years.

WSC 1982 Brands Hatch

Webmaster — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:23:09 +0000

Here are video highlights of the race that decided the 1982 WSC Drivers’ Championship. Jacky Ickx (Rothmans Porsche 956) and Riccardo Patrese (Lancia Martini LC1) were the championship contenders, with the race and title being decided in favour of Ickx in the final race of the year at Brands Hatch

Part 1

Click here [...]

F3 Classic at Monza

Webmaster — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:39:21 +0000

Further to the news that Riccardo’s 1976 F3 championship winning Chevron B34 was being driven by Pierre Lemasson in the F3 Classic series come these photos, from Pierre, of the Monza round in June.

On-board at Hockenheim

Webmaster — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:53:05 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

Thoughts on the Indy 500

Webmaster — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:59:24 +0000

Nigel Mansell, Riccardo Patrese and Ayrton Senna give their views of the Indy 500 in 1992.

Click here to view the embedded video.