The best-loved character in all of Formula 1: Sid Watkins was responsible for introducing F1 medical care that has saved the lives of many drivers, writes Nigel Roebuck
A retired Grand Prix driver told me recently that he was struggling to retain much interest in the 2015 season. For one thing, he said, the endless paddock dissension had…
It was a pleasure last week, at a function unconnected with motor racing, to run into Martin Whitmarsh, whom I hadn’t seen since the palace coup at McLaren early in…
I didn’t catch his surname, but at Goodwood a Motor Sport reader named John told me emphatically that a Ferrari was going to win in Malaysia. Vettel or Räikkönen? He was less…
In the autumn of 1969 Chris Amon went to say his goodbyes to Enzo Ferrari, and it was an occasion savoured by neither man. After three years of unreliability and…
Denis Jenkinson has been gone for nearly 20 years now, yet still there are times – many times – when something happens in the world of Formula 1, and I…
“We’re the best, right? Formula 1 is the best, and we don’t need anything in it that isn’t the best… “People going on about only 19 or 20 cars in…
“To me,” said Derek Bell during last week’s Motor Sport podcast, “Fernando Alonso is the most talented driver out there. He always puts in an amazing performance – he drives the car to…
When I interviewed Mark Webber at the beginning of this year, and talked through his Formula 1 career as he prepared for a new life with Porsche, he came up with…
Back in the day, long after his retirement as a driver, Vic Elford worked for years for Skip Barber’s racing drivers’ school at Sears Point in California, and very occasionally…
It seems to me appropriate – with May 1 upon us – to take a break from the current Formula 1 scene, from bickering about not enough noise and too…
All this noise about noise. Three races into the new Formula 1, many continue to complain that the new ultra-complex ‘power units’ are too quiet, and in Malaysia Sebastian Vettel…
