The ‘People’s Champion’ – 17 years on
Can you believe it’s 17 years since Nigel Mansell banished his Formula 1 demons by finally clinching the World Championship? It only seems like yesterday, and yet young firebrand Michael…
Are you planning to be in, or near, northern Italy between now and the Christmas holiday? Perhaps you’re already there. If the answer to either of these scenarios is yes,…
How strange that the last two Formula 1 World Champions, both from Britain, should muddle through to their first title in the closing laps of a dramatic and occasionally chaotic…
It’s a painful truth for US race fans that 31 years have passed since Mario Andretti scored the last Formula 1 win by an American driver. Phil Hill, Dan Gurney…
Mark Webber (1st) A great weekend for the Australian, and for Australians in general as Casey Stoner also won at Phillip Island. The Red Bull looked like the car to…
On October 23 we have election day for the FIA presidency, and as I write both camps – Todt and Vatanen – reckon they are ahead. We shouldn’t, probably, be…
Sebastian Vettel (1st) A quite brilliant weekend for Vettel. Lost a little time in his first pit stop due to Heidfeld passing, but the German was in a class of…
Welcome to another installment of the Motor Sport audio podcasts. You'll all be pleased to know that Roebuck's Lauda impression makes a return and we're even treated to a 'Sir…
As Mike Doodson writes in this month’s excellent cover story, BMW has bottled it. The manufacturer has backed out of Formula 1 without reaching its goal of winning the World…
During the course of an interview with the BBC last Saturday, Mr Ecclestone invited us to consult a dictionary to check the meaning of the word ‘conspiracy’. For those of…
Lewis Hamilton (1st) Even though both Vettel and Rosberg put pressure on him at different points during the Grand Prix, you got the feeling that Hamilton was driving at nine-10ths…
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer’s role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. So said JG Ballard,…
We are known, locally, as Team Renault. On one side of the garage is a bullet grey Scenic, on the other a deep blue Modus. And we are not alone.…
“This time I got a good start, and it was vital I did, because the guys with KERS had 20 metres on us away from the grid. At one point…
Ah, so it was the press who were to blame. The dreaded ‘meejah’. And there was I, in my innocence, thinking it was the fault of the driver. When Felipe…
Lime Rock Park in north-west Connecticut stages its annual Vintage meeting this weekend. This is Labor Day weekend in the United States, the traditional end of the stateside summer season,…
Our latest installment in the Motor Sport audio podcast series. But this time Nigel Roebuck, Rob Widdows and Ed Foster were joined by 1979 Formula 1 World Champion Jody Scheckter.…