MotoGP winter testing began on Tuesday in very wintry conditions, which isn’t the idea of winter testing. The weather was so grim at Valencia that Yamaha packed up and headed…
A friend has been summoned to a road safety awareness course in lieu of three points on his licence. Three years ago I attended one myself having been gunned at…
Brad Keselowski put himself in the catbird seat to take his first NASCAR Sprint Cup championship by finishing sixth at Phoenix on Sunday. Keselowski qualified 14th at Phoenix with championship…
On November 8 Dick Lovett hosted a special Ferrari evening in its new showroom just outside Swindon. We say showroom, but really it's a Ferrari mecca. As well as Peter…
I’ve been chatting to Gordon Shedden, he who rules over touring car racing right now as King of the British Touring Car Championship. It was the customary hectic season, full…
Twenty-five years ago I wrote a book with Emerson Fittipaldi called The Art of Motor Racing. It was a how to go racing book featuring Emerson’s discussion about the techniques…
It seems as far fetched as a Hollywood A-lister marrying a girl from The Mumbles but Renault, a vast, multi-national that’s part of the fourth largest car group in the…
NASCAR’s championship battle has focused itself in recent races on a straight duel between five-time champion Jimmie Johnson and Roger Penske’s exciting new talent Brad Keselowski. In the third-last race…
Now that the first year of the new World Endurance Championship has come to a close, it's a good time to look back at the beginning of another era of…
Sebastian Vettel has a head for stats and clearly enjoys the status they bring. Last Sunday in India he moved ahead of Jim Clark on 26 Grand Prix victories. This…
It was during the week after the Singapore Grand Prix that Lewis Hamilton telephoned Martin Whitmarsh to inform him of his decision, finally, to leave McLaren for Mercedes at the…
Let’s get right to the point. Over the last third of a century America’s influence has vanished from international motor racing. Mario Andretti scored the last Grand Prix win by…
A few weeks back I was at the Bedford Autodrome when a Morgan 3 Wheeler suffered a suspension failure. I was some distance away and saw only the aftermath of…
You’ve got to hand it to Jorge Lorenzo. During 2012 he was the rock in a rough sea. This has been a stormy year of dizzying change in MotoGP: the…
A pathetically sad story continues. On Sunday evening Randy Bernard was sacked from his job as the CEO of IndyCar. Bernard was thrown into this lion’s den of a job…
Valentino Rossi has told BBC Sport that MotoGP racing is boring and that he finds it hard to stay awake. I bet the BBC loved hearing that – they broadcast the…
