There will be a female driver in Grand Prix racing within the next decade. Who says so? Susie Wolff, the DTM racer and development driver at Williams. It would appear…
These days most people in racing take the HANS Device for granted. Invented 20 years ago by veteran American sports car racer Jim Downing and Michigan State University bio-mechanical engineering…
I am aware of nothing more ridiculous in the entire car industry than the way in which CO2 emissions are measured. Were this a small side issue, an unimportant statistical…
The war has been going on for some while now and finally the deciding battle is ready to be fought. The opposing armies are camped out on either side of…
IndyCar’s return to Detroit’s Belle Isle last weekend was rather messy as the rough track began to come apart in the middle of the race resulting in a two-hour red…
Quietly over the weekend, Aston Martin unveiled a new concept at Villa D’Este called the AM310. So what, you might ask. A concept it might be but it might just…
In the wake of his brilliant victory at Indianapolis last weekend Dario Franchitti is clearly emerging as the greatest UK driver in the history of the sport outside Formula 1.…
Dario Franchitti drove a magnificent race at Indianapolis on Sunday to score his third win in America’s biggest race in the past six years. Dario made a superb recovery after…
The oval at Sitges only hosted one Gran Premio de España and that was in 1923, the year that it opened. The race was won by Albert Divo in a…
Ahead of this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix Lewis and Jenson talk about racing in the Principality. We always thought it was only Stirling Moss who clocked beautiful women while he…
Last autumn I wrote a newsletter on the subject of Kimi Räikkönen, and his possible return to Formula 1, following two years of rallying with Citroën – a project which did…
The Indianapolis 500 is the world’s largest annual, single-venue, one-day sporting event. Its cavernous grandstands seat more than a quarter of a million, while its infield viewing areas can swallow…
How fitting that we should celebrate the 30th anniversary of Group C in the same month the FIA World Endurance Championship should take its bow in Europe. It wouldn’t be…
It always amazes me when people outside the motor sport community take an interest in the sport. Maybe it’s because many of my friends couldn’t care less who won the…
Casey Stoner’s retirement bombshell overshadowed everything at Le Mans, but it wasn’t the only talking point. The other story that grabbed people’s attention was the Tech 3 brakes saga which…
The decision to exempt pre-1960 cars from their annual MOT test sounds terrific. In theory. Roads Minister Mike Penning says that though these cars represent 0.6 per cent of traffic,…
