Who is the most influential designer to have worked in Grand Prix motor racing: Vittorio Jano, Colin Chapman, Adrian Newey? It’s a trick question. And my answer is: the man…
We’ve seen the Grand Prix cars testing at Jerez, and in Barcelona, but we don’t really have a lot to go on ahead of the first race in Melbourne. Elsewhere,…
We always knew an hour spent with five-time Le Mans winner Derek Bell would be an hour well spent. But we didn't realise just how amusing it would be. Indeed…
“Everyone is more or less mad on one point”. These words of Rudyard Kipling come to mind when I see the sport of Grand Prix racing fumbling over the rights…
Some stories are special. They’re the ones you really want to tell, that you’ve wanted to do for years and that are not the work of a moment. One of…
And then there were none: Italian drivers in Formula 1. The home of the most famous team in motor racing and of international karting, plus the lair of the world’s…
No doubt you will have heard about, and been intrigued by, a new motor racing movie. Yes, another one for the fans, hard on the heels of the acclaimed documentary…
If it looks right, it is right: Renault AK 90CV, Bugatti Type 35, Alfa Romeo Tipo B, Maserati 250F, Lotus 25, and 72, Ligier JS11, McLaren MP4/4 and Ferrari 641.…
Something quite extraordinary has been announced. An event that no motor racing enthusiast can afford to miss, that nobody ever dreamed would actually happen. Beg, borrow or steal the cash…
Never exactly one to kowtow to convention, Patrick Head. But then great race engineers never are. It’s written in their DNA to kick against established thinking as they search for…
The 2011 Brazilian Grand Prix, which closed the season, didn’t exactly go the way Rubens Barrichello might have wished. Having qualified his Williams-Cosworth 12th – a position which considerably flattered…
Welcome everyone to our first podcast of 2012. Pat Symonds is the only podcast guest we've had more than once, and when you listen you'll realise why. He's a straight-talking…
Carlos Reutemann was a racing driver from Central Casting: blue eyes, chiseled jaw, dimples, brooding Brando brows, luxuriant hair, tanned. To think, he shared F1 grids with Peter Revson, François…
We are in the silly season, a period of posturing and positioning. The Grand Prix teams, and their drivers, are setting out their stores, limbering up for the battles that…
Today, in case you had not noticed, is Friday the thirteenth of January. Lucky for some, not so for others. If you were unaware, or simply don’t care, it is…
The New Year’s honours list for 2012 was, as ever, a matter of interest for the motor racing industry. This is one of those British traditions that never fails to…
