(1971 Le Mans 24 Hours, Pedro Rodriguez & Jackie Oliver (Porsche 917 LH) leads Gerard Larrousse & Vic Elford (Porsche 917 LH), Mark Donohue & David Hobbs (Ferrari 512M), and Jo Siffert & Derek Bell (Porsche 917 LH))
Do you remember the great days of Les Vingt-Quatre Heures du Mans?… Read more
March 2008
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Grand Prix Reports
March 14th, 2008 | Ed Foster | No CommentsDrivers’ Championship Standings
Manufacturers’ Championship Standings
Round 18 - Brazil (November 2)
Race
Round 17 – China (October 19)
Race
Round 16 – Japan (October 12)
Race
Round 15 – Singapore (September 29)
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Round 14 – Italy (September 14)
Race (By Nigel Roebuck)
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Audi v Peugeot – the gloves are off
March 12th, 2008 | Rob Widdows | 2 Comments
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Silverstone revamp – not all rescue missions are beautiful
March 10th, 2008 | Ed Foster | No Comments
The British Racing Drivers’ Club has finally produced some computer-generated images for the new pit complex at Silverstone. The BRDC knows as well as anyone that Bernie Ecclestone will have no qualms about axing the British Grand Prix when their contract runs out at the end of 2009 if some… Read more
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‘The show’ rolls on
March 7th, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | No Comments
Three races into the world’s longest racing season and NASCAR’s soap opera already is at full cry. In his debut with Hendrick Motorsports – stock car racing’s most successful modern team – NASCAR’s most popular driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. has run very competitively in the opening races, sending waves of… Read more
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In the heat of the night
March 5th, 2008 | Rob Widdows | 6 Comments
I wonder if anyone else shares my fascination with this night racing thing? Or perhaps you consider it be an irrelevance, an artifice created merely to increase the television ratings in Europe?
It is an artifice, of course, but a gripping idea as well. Not a new idea, I appreciate,… Read more -
Championship standings
March 3rd, 2008 | Ed Foster | No CommentsDrivers’ Championship
Pos Driver Team Points 1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren 98 2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 97 3 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 75 4 Robert Kubica BMW 75 5 Fernando Alonso Renault 61 6 Nick Heidfeld BMW 60 7 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren 53 8 Sebastien Vettel STR 35 9 Jarno Trulli Toyota 31 10 Timo Glock Toyota 25 11 Mark Webber Red Bull 21 12 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 19 13 Nico Rosberg Williams 17 14 Rubens Barrichello Honda 11 15 Kazuki Nakajima Williams 9 16 David Coulthard Red Bull 8 17 Sebastien Bourdais STR 4 18 Jenson Button Honda 3 19 Giancarlo Fisichella F India 0 20 Adrian Sutil F India 0 21 Takuma Sato S Aguri 0 22 Anthony Davidson S Aguri 0 -
Torchlight tour of ghostly Brooklands
March 3rd, 2008 | Ed Foster | No Comments
Last week I jumped in the car and fought through the ‘variable’ speed limit on the M25 to get to Brooklands by 6pm. As far as I can tell the new speed limit ideas are about as successful as a porn concession at the Vatican would be. The queues were… Read more
