At Donington on Sunday, the BTCC didn’t look like it would throw up many surprises. The drivers and teams you’d expect to be at the front finished there, with an…
It is a quarter of a century (ouch) since I visited my first United States Grand Prix in April 1988. That Laguna Seca event was historic because it was the…
While the top drivers are fighting on and off track about the right to add another Grand Prix win to their list, there is a group of drivers who are…
This week I want to talk about oversteer, that curious condition requiring you to steer a car in the other direction to that of the corner you are attempting to…
There was no catching Takuma Sato in the closing stages of this year’s Long Beach Grand Prix. The Japanese driver was in a class of his own through the race’s…
On Friday Bernie Ecclestone made one of his occasional appearances in the media centre. “Does he come in here often,” someone asked. “Only when he has something to say,” came…
Mercedes has sealed pole position for the second Grand Prix in a row. This time, however, it was Nico Rosberg who did the honours for the team. “Yes! That’s how…
The air conditioning in the Toyota Corolla was working overtime on the way to the circuit this morning as, despite the cloud cover, the temperature gauge was edging past 30…
This week, we kick off with another of Pirelli's preview videos. Hopefully this should go some way to preventing the confusion experienced by many fans during the Chinese race. Pirelli…
“I’m afraid all our navigation systems have been rented, but we do have a map.” The map from the rental car office consisted of no more than a few roads…
At one minute past midnight this morning, I became allowed to tell you I’ve driven the Jaguar F-type. In fact I’ve driven all three versions, the V6, V6S and V8S…
Recently there has been a worry that F1 drivers were simply robots, primed to say only what the team tells them to regardless of their own opinions, that they were…
There was, I’ll admit, a slight sense of disorientation. About 35 minutes before a Grand Prix starts, custom dictates that I leave the media centre, make my way across the…
Audi finished an exciting 1-2 at Silverstone on Sunday in the opening round of the 2013 World Endurance Championship. Toyota had locked out the front row in qualifying, but in…
Next weekend in the heart of the Los Angeles basin I’ll have the pleasure of covering the 39th Long Beach Grand Prix. I’ve been to every one of them since…
When the Shanghai circuit was built in 2003 it could easily have been argued that it wasn’t anywhere near the Chinese city. In fact, the track is the same distance…
