Thinking of Bianchi in Sochi
By Lee McKenzie The last week has been incredibly tough for everyone in the Formula 1 paddock. We went to Japan worrying about a typhoon and left with no care…
I’d like to thank the hosts, the track, the gods and whatever other forces contrived to make the inaugural Russian Grand Prix one of the most tedious motor racing spectacles I have…
Thirty years ago, in the team’s second year in business, Mario Andretti won Newman/Haas Racing’s first of eight Indycar championships. Newman/Haas competed in Indycar racing for 29 years, establishing itself as second…
Well that’s another season in North America wrapped up, and our first in the United SportsCar Championship. As readers of this column will know, it hasn’t been a great season…
Like me you may be watching with ever increasing astonishment as classic car prices climb through the roof, up through the cloud base and into the stratosphere. I wrote a few…
It was with a heavy heart that Motor Sport heard of the death of de Cesaris in a motorbike accident in Rome on Sunday October 5. The Italian started 208…
At Maranello on the Wednesday after Singapore, Fernando Alonso and Marco Mattiacci sat down for a meeting to discuss the future. Fernando went in there believing he held a strong…
For the last three years the Henry Surtees Foundation has been holding a karting event for up-and-coming young drivers at Buckmore Park in Kent. The prizes on offer not only…
Henry Hope-Frost hosts a Credit Suisse Drivers' Forum with Derek Bell, Sir Stirling Moss, Jochen Mass, Alain de Cadenet and Max Chilton at the 2014 Goodwood Revival. While the topic…
Tony Stewart faced the media this week for the first time since the fatal sprint car accident he was involved in with Kevin Ward Jr six weeks ago. Stewart answered…
Decisions, decisions, decisions… racers make tens of thousands of them every race, and each and every one of them can make the difference between victory and defeat, even between life…
Alex Zanardi's achievements before his devastating Lausitzring accident in 2001 made him a hero within motor sport. His achievements afterwards allowed him to transcend racing's narrow scope and become a…
The Spa Six Hours. Sounds glamorous doesn’t it? Sounds like it should be stock full of low slung slices of exotica staffed by snake-hipped professional drivers who’ve just passed their…
NASCAR is into the thick of its ‘Chase for the Cup’ over the final 10 rounds of the marathon 36-race Sprint Cup championship. Seven rounds remain with the season finale…
“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…
Piero Ferrari has always been something of an enigma to the world beyond the gates of Maranello. The illegitimate son of Enzo is ‘the man in the shadows of a…
By Lee McKenzie The Singapore Grand Prix week is one of extremes, this year’s in particular. Extreme heat, extreme rain, dehydration, happiness on one side of the Mercedes garage, despair on the…