Roger Penske’s IndyCar team has been off its game in recent months. Will Power and Helio Castroneves swept the opening four races of the season for Penske but over the…
The German Grand Prix is very German, much as the British Grand Prix is very British. There are those who continue to bemoan the demise of the old Nürburgring, or…
Chip, chip, chip… That’s the sound of Ducati’s MotoGP crew slowly chipping away at their disadvantage to Honda and Yamaha. It would be too soon to talk of a Ducati…
It was an impromptu experiment but, though I say it myself, one that worked well. I’ve just spent the weekend swapping between a pair of sports cars with results I’d…
NASCAR arrived in my backyard last weekend for round 19 of the 36-race Sprint Cup championship. These days New Hampshire Motor Speedway is one of NASCAR’s most successful tracks, drawing…
On July 3 Cranfield University held the inaugural History of Motorsport Technology Conference – and it was deemed a great success. Organised by Cranfield’s Motorsport Engineering and Management programme director…
As the sun shone on Sunday afternoon, the crowd of 125,000 enjoyed a fantastic British Grand Prix on one of the best racing circuits in the world. But over the…
Ryan Hunter-Reay has been driving flawlessly in recent races while favourites Dario Franchitti and Will Power have floundered amid incidents and accidents. In Toronto last weekend Hunter-Reay scored his third…
Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Johnny Herbert talk about what it means to race in the British Grand Prix. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj43RX03nsU&list=UUi7-hXZvOt5zFr2saBC6bug&index=0&feature=plcp[/youtube]
Us Brits are all fired up about the circus coming to town, to our patch, our home turf. And let’s face it, after weeks of rain (it’s supposed to be…
Fifteen or so years ago I attended a London auction, which included items from the estate of Robert McGregor Innes Ireland, one or two of which were a reminder of…
Before I wrote this I had to have a look at my last post on the website as so much has happened, I’d forgotten where I’d finished last time! So…
I didn’t attend last weekend’s Dutch TT at Assen. Instead I took a busman’s holiday a few hours south at Spa-Francorchamps. It was the weekend of the Bikers’ Classic, the…
The last time I saw Carroll Shelby was at the Los Angeles Auto Show in the autumn. He was there to unveil the latest car to bear his name. When…
Fans of the Delta Wing know that designer Ben Bowlby is a big fan of ‘Boundary Layer Adhesion Technology’, or BLAT, which is a feature of the wingless Delta Wing’s…
Tackling the Porsche Curves at Le Mans is a daunting job at the best of times, never mind when you're behind the wheel of a Sauber-Mercedes C11 and you have…
