It was a moment of purest Spa. Little more than an hour before first practice, with Williams putting the final touches to its traditional Friday morning media fry-up, the circuit…
It’s a fair while since I had the privilege of driving a Porsche 911, but the sense of familiarity is immediate. The latest Carrera 4S looks bulkier than elegantly pillared…
These days my enthusiasm for NASCAR is not, I confess, what it was, in part because I like the look of the cars way less than I did, and in…
At first glance Bob Alexander’s introduction to racing was much like that of every designer, engineer or mechanic in motor sport. “When I was seven years old my parents took…
Everyone who knew Floyd Ganassi was deeply saddened to learn of his death on Monday. Floyd was Chip Ganassi’s father and was a great supporter of his son's racing teams,…
Last week I touched on some of the reasons why the 1960s was such a great decade for Formula 1 and motor racing in general. Your enthusiastic responses prompted me…
It’s going to be a weird weekend for Cal Crutchlow. He will be contesting the Indianapolis GP for Monster Yamaha but I suspect that journalists at his daily media debriefs…
I fear I may have been taking my own advice a little too seriously. Almost exactly a year ago in this very slot I wrote about driving three Fiat 500s…
A round-up of the videos you should be watching this weekend. Loeb and Muller test Citroën's 2014 WTCC car This video's a little hokey but you get to see next…
"We deployed the parachute at 600mph and immediately you had 6g deceleration," Thrust2 driver Richard Noble tells us. "The weird thing about this extreme deceleration is that it upsets your…
While early leaders Ryan Hunter-Reay, Will Power and Scott Dixon took conservative strategies, trying to save fuel so they could run the race with two rather than three pitstops, Charlie…
One of the main fears about next year's new V6 turbo F1 engines is the reduction in noise from the current 2.4-litre V8s. It's not only the fans that have…
If you’re good enough, you’re old enough. It’s an old motor racing cliché, but one that has rung true over the years for the likes of Kimi Räikkönen, Fernando Alonso,…
They say that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. If you’re a motorcycle racer, you need to add collarbones to that list. Bike racers break collarbones, simple…
For a business that is as much about design and engineering as it is about sporting talent, we – both fans and journalists – spend an inordinate amount of time…
How should a driver answer a question? Should he toe the party line, say what his team and paymasters want him to say or should he be honest and say…
