Approaching Tertre Rouge at 130mph in the Toyota TS030, the words of Sébastien Buemi came back to me. ‘You can get through with only a lift, but you have to…
After 12 years of trying Tony Kanaan finally put it all together to score a very popular win in Sunday’s 97th Indianapolis 500. Kanaan has been racing Indycars since 1998…
A sizeable jam developed behind Sergio Pérez’s buckled McLaren towards the closing stages of the 2013 Monaco Grand Prix, but it was nothing compared with the race’s immediate aftermath. The…
The weekend began with Lewis Hamilton taking a kicking – a bit of tabloid mischief aimed at the Englishman’s lifestyle choices, including his decision to bring pet bulldog Roscoe to…
It’s the sound that counts, rather than its provenance. As soon as an exhaust’s siren bark first echoes from Monte Carlo’s many apartment blocks, it creates a feelgood factor. This…
Price of a croissant in the trendier parts of Nice? About the same as a semi-detached in Wimbledon. Price of a croissant in the back streets of Monte Carlo? Actually…
Not since Scott Dixon in 2008 has there been a first-time winner of the Indianapolis 500. Owner/driver Ed Carpenter, rookie Carlos Muñoz and Marco Andretti make up the surprising front…
It wasn’t so much an installation lap as a detonation. The opening few minutes of Monaco free practice are usually an exercise in restraint, drivers feeling their way around and…
No matter how many times you are privileged to attend, the anticipation never wanes. You know it won’t be a race in the conventional sense of the term – not…
The race to arm MotoGP’s private teams with higher-performance CRT bikes is gathering pace. Last summer Honda announced that they will sell a lower-cost version of their RC213V and then…
Ex-Formula 1 driver, 1990 Le Mans 24 Hours winner and F1 commentator Martin Brundle was fresh from a McLaren F1 seat fitting for a future Sky feature when he came…
Spare a moment if you will for one Sigmar Gabriel, chairman of the German Social Democratic Party who took the highly courageous move last week of proposing a blanket speed…
Nordschleife. One single word from the motor racing vocabulary that conjures up so many memories, so many images and not a few shivers. From the autobahn you follow signs towards…
Ed Carpenter is playing David versus the Goliaths of Penske and Andretti at Indianapolis this year. The 32-year old Carpenter is the only owner/driver in the Izod IndyCar Series. He’s…
Over the last 60 years there have been several families whose racing success spans generations. Names like Unser, Brabham, Hill and Andretti are as much a part of the sport’s…
1989 NASCAR Rookie of the Year Dick Trickle has died at the age of 71 from an apparent suicide. Racing fans in Europe might not have been that familiar with…
