F1

The Lotus name returns to Formula 1 this year. Neither Tony Fernandes nor Mike Gascoyne are pretending this new team has any direct link to Colin Chapman’s great squad, but…

As part of the bid to host MotoGP, Silverstone has introduced a new loop on the track, called the ‘Arena'. It’s a large-scale operation, however you look at it. But…

Just as we were getting prepared to have Mario Andretti as our next podcast guest a call came through saying that Brian Redman also wanted to join us. There’s no…

Renault – in more ways than one – has had a poor time of it in Formula 1 over the last couple of years. True, Fernando Alonso returned to the…

Welcome to the first Motor Sport audio podcast of 2010. What does Nigel Roebuck really think about the return of Michael Schumacher and all the other news from the F1…

Everywhere I go these days the hot topic is Michael Schumacher. Will he or won’t he? Everyone wants to know. And this got me thinking back to 1984. I can…

A few days after Christmas I had the pleasure of talking to Jacky Ickx for a book I’m writing about the history of Carl Haas and Newman/Haas Racing. Thirty years…

A Happy New Year to all our bloggers and contributors to our regular debates. It looks like being a good year, with lots to look forward to in the season…

So what is the Motor Sport Hall of Fame? We admit, the concept is hardly a new one. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the United States, certainly…

This coming year, on May 1, it will be 16 years since the world watched the final moments in the life of Ayrton Senna, played out live on TV. As…

For the past couple of weeks it has been clear that Michael Schumacher really is coming back. The announcement this morning that he will partner Nico Rosberg at the newly…

Much has been written about Nelson Piquet Jr’s deliberate accident at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, which, lest anyone has forgotten, precipitated a safety car period, which in turn created…

Here we are: the last of the Motor Sport audio podcasts of 2009. For those of you who were upset about John Watson's views on Kimi Raikkonen in the last…

The British Racing Drivers’ Club has announced that it has secured a deal to host the British Grand Prix at Silverstone for the next 17 years. Following Donington Park’s failure…

So now we know. Murray Walker is the greatest commentator of all time. Well, we’re happy with that, aren’t we? Maybe not the other commentators, but Mr Walker himself will…

Everyone I know was delighted to hear last Friday’s news that the Canadian Grand Prix will return to Montréal’s le Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in 2010. A five-year contract has been…

The headline’s the big question, isn’t it? Jenson Button’s confirmed move to McLaren for 2010 will make him number one at the team in a physical sense – it’ll be…