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For the first time in many years, the Formula 1 rules are due to change very substantially in 2009, and Patrick Head recently talked about the problems implicit in developing, week in, week out, one car – the car actually competing at the moment – while attempting at the same…
Archive for March, 2008
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If you could resurrect just one former Grand Prix circuit and include it in the F1 calendar, which would it be – and why?
Howard Woodward -
First of all welcome to the Motor Sport magazine.
Q1. What value do experts’ lists of the top 10 drivers have? Kimi Räikkönen was the World Champion, but Autocourse ranked Lewis Hamilton as number one.
Q2. Stirling Moss never raced at Pau – true or false? Was it because he preferred Goodwood? He went a few years back to receive an award.
Q3. What is your favourite wine?
David Baxter -
Michael Schumacher is always being hailed as the greatest and most successful racing driver ever. In F1 he won more races than anyone else, but he never won anything in a grossly inferior car as Stirling Moss consistently did in old Lotus’ and 250Fs. Moss won 50-odd F1 races, only 17 of which counted towards the championship, and in sports cars he was ‘the champion’.Do you agree he was the best? Schumacher was as good as his cars. Moss would dazzle in a wheelie bin. I always thought you were the best scribe by the way and, as I have been following the sport since the World Championship began, I do have a little knowledge on the subject.
Rod Hollingworth -
Mar 19 2008
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Mar 19 2008
A chink in the armour
The men from Ingolstadt were in sombre mood at the end of the 2008 Sebring 12 Hours. For the first time this century they failed to win. Worse still, it was the men from Stuttgart who were first to reach the chequered flag. It could have been worse, it could…
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Mar 17 2008
Formula 1 goes green
Max Mosley recently made a speech to the International Advanced Mobility Forum (IAMF) at the Geneva Motor Show about Formula 1’s move towards an “energy efficient future”.
Whether this makes you mildly excited or sends you clean to sleep, it is certainly the right direction to go in. The sport’s carbon…
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Mar 16 2008
Grand Prix Special, Australia – Race, full results
The Formula 1 World Championship certainly got off to an action-packed start – 9 cars taken out of contention by accidents, 5 breakdowns, a disqualification and only 7 finishers.
Hamilton avoided the carnage that unravelled behind him and romped home to take the top spot on the podium. The British driver…
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Mar 15 2008
Grand Prix Special, Australia – Qualifying, full results
It certainly seems that Hamilton is enjoying driving without traction control having put his car on pole for the Australian Grand Prix with a time of 1:26.714. After getting out of the car he said that he was delighted to get his 7th Formula 1 pole but knows that he…
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Mar 14 2008
Grand Prix Special, Australia – Practice, Full Results
Well the season has officially started… At 10am Australian time, the first of three practice sessions began.
What was interesting was just how competitive the Force India cars were – Fisichella finished the first practice in 12th and the second in 9th, which is certainly an improvement on last year. Whether…
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Mar 14 2008
Busch and Toyota are NASCAR’s hottest combination
Kyle Busch (above) has threatened to win every NASCAR Sprint Cup race run this year and at the high-banked Atlanta Motor Speedway last weekend the 22-year old finally put it all together to score a dominant victory. After three years with Rick Hendrick’s Chevrolet team, Busch was dropped by Hendrick…
