In hindsight I shouldn’t have asked. If you want a short list of drivers who also had interesting jobs outside of motor racing don’t ask Motor Sport writers Paul Fearnley…
Every year, shortly before Christmas, a letter arrives from a woman I have never met. The only connection between us is that she is the second wife of a friend…
Unlike some Grands Prix the Indian race near Delhi is remarkably easy to get to. That is if you close your eyes for the taxi journey to the track. In…
“I’d been racing for so many years and in so many different cars and countries that nobody knew who I was.” Paul Radisich speaks without bitterness. He’s a self-sufficient, quietly…
Embarrassing. No other word for it, really. Well, apart from incompetence on the grandest scale. Pretty much everyone involved in the upper echelons of MotoGP was responsible for Sunday’s travesty…
Not being a whizz when it comes to business matters, it seems astonishing that the board of Morgan can chuck the grandson of the company’s founder out on his ear…
Scott Dixon took his third IndyCar championship after a furiously competitive, crash-filled 500-mile race on the high-banked California Speedway oval last Saturday night. The race was won by Will Power with…
There have been moments throughout racing history where drivers have been lauded for their courage in stepping out of the cockpit rather than their acts in it. Niki Lauda at…
There’s been so much written about bump and grind in MotoGP that I hardly dare add to it. But here goes anyway. During Thursday afternoon’s pre-event media conference at Sepang,…
Back-to-back races in Formula 1 at this stage of the season is tough for everyone. I am not expecting any sympathy and I do know how lucky we all are,…
One day soon when cars have learned how to drive themselves - and it’s not even decades let alone centuries away – someone will sit down to write a history…
Porsche Supercup driver Sean Edwards has sadly been killed in an accident at Queensland Raceway in Australia. He was the son of former Grand Prix driver Guy Edwards. The 26-year-old…
When I wrote a few weeks ago about Mario Andretti and other drivers who achieved success across a wide variety of motor racing categories driving I neglected to properly credit…
This year’s Japanese Grand Prix was the 25th to take place at Suzuka – and you have to wonder why the event has ever been staged elsewhere. Fuji Speedway benefits…
The radio messages were relatively muted, but the satisfaction ran deep. Mark Webber is rarely given the credit he’s due, but the 12th pole position of his Formula 1 career…
Somebody had been busy with their pruning shears – and a broom. The slender path to 130R had been cleared of its customary foliage and spiderwork, but many an element…
