By Perry McCarthy A new race car’s first day on track is a nervous one for all. It’s akin to being in a hospital delivery room as your wife gives…
This month Land Rover announced that its new Range Rover Sport was the fastest SUV yet to lap the infamous Nordschleife northern loop of the Nürburgring race track. Quite what…
As everyone knows, Tony Stewart’s life was plunged into a very difficult, deeply tragic phase at the little Canandaigua dirt track in upstate New York a week and a half ago.…
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…
Racing is mostly about self-interest. It can be no other way. And even though the cliché that says nice guys don’t win is incorrect, the nice guys who do succeed…
Earlier this year BMW posted a corporate video on YouTube. In all regards bar one, it is entirely unremarkable. A man gets into an M235i on a test track and…
In America last week NASCAR Nation was all atwitter with excitement over Dale Earnhardt Jr scoring his third win of the year and establishing himself as a serious championship contender. At 39…
Pat Symonds – Williams' chief technical officer – stopped by for a podcast last week to talk about all things Formula 1, including the Grove squad's return to the podium. Along…
When he spun on a wet track in qualifying at Mid-Ohio last Saturday, bringing out a red flag, Scott Dixon’s luckless season seemed to slip even deeper into the murk.…
By David Brabham Photos: PSP Images Looking back over the last weekend at the Silverstone Classic, I have very mixed emotions. On the one hand it was a great event,…
Adrian Newey packages his thoughts into words in much the same way he draws perfectly formed Grand Prix cars: there’s not an ounce of wastage, everything is expressed tidily and always…
It is good news that Cal Crutchlow and Andrea Dovizioso have re-signed with Ducati, because if Gigi Dall’Igna hasn’t forgotten how to design a racing motorcycle, then his 100 per cent brand-new…
With Giorgio Piola The layout of this year's Ferrari F14T has recently been uncovered, as these Giorgio Piola drawings show. What is revealed is a fairly radical car that was…
I gave up the fruitless fight against the relentless advance of my middle years some time ago. I accept I will never again pick up a book without first picking…
Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon won his last championship in 2001 and in recent years there’s been occasional talk of his possible retirement, but the 42 year old is enjoying…
Sébastien Bourdais and Mike Conway showed their street racing skills last Sunday as they scored impressive wins in IndyCar’s pair of races in Toronto’s Exhibition Park. Bourdais dominated Sunday morning’s…
