Jody Scheckter

Despite rain, retirements and the fact the driving championship was sewn up, Gilles Villeneuve and Alan Jones put on some show at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix

In recent years Mario Andretti has been labeled a hard-luck driver. But his sleek new Lotus has proved to be on the mark, and he showed that the tag was a bum rap at the U.S. Grand Prix West

Lured by the prospect of racing cars snarling through downtown, 65,000 fans watched Brian Redman take the inaugural Long Beach Grand Prix

•David Hobbs, race driver, on Formula I sensation Jody Scheckter: "Jody can retrieve a car from the edge of disaster—and instantly put it on the edge of another disaster."

Playing it cool wins the Grand Prix title for Emerson Fittipaldi