All we seem to hear about, as we head into winter, is recession, downturn, crisis and imminent Armageddon. Come on, there must be some good news. Well, there is, and here it is.
Martin Brundle has joined the British Broadcasting Corporation’s team that will cover Grand Prix racing for the… Read more
While Motor Sport celebrates the ninth British Formula One World Champion, Simon Taylor has lunch with John Watson, Gordon Cruickshank finds out how the Bloodhound will reach an unprecedented 1000mph and Ed Foster reunites Andy Rouse with Dave Matthews’ Lindrick Finance Broadspeed Capri.
Hawthorn & Hamilton
Two British World Champions from… Read more
You’ve probably noticed – Britain has a new Formula 1 World Champion. He cut it fine, but Lewis Hamilton did just enough to claim his place alongside the eight other Grand Prix champions from the British Isles. We’d never seen drama like it.
Hamilton has enjoyed his fair share of… Read more
Dear Nigel,
If the Ferraris and the McLarens had swapped places into that first corner at Fuji, would Ferrari have been penalised for messing up McLaren’s start?
Alastair Warren
Dear Nigel,
What are your memories of Rob Walker? I grew up and still live in Indianapolis, and it was Walker, through Road & Track magazine, who fuelled my love of Grand Prix Racing way back in the late 1960s.
Steve Wyant
Dear Nigel,
I am a huge fan of Jenson Button, and have been since well before he hit Formula 1. I, like many other British fans, am dismayed at the lack of progress – or even negative progress! – at Honda. I felt originally that Jenson had the opportunity to go to Honda and build the team around him, a la Schumacher at Ferrari, and that they would go on to achieve an immense amount. However, here we are again saying “maybe next season…”I know that they now have Ross Brawn, and the new 2009 aero regs should negate Honda’s seemingly boundless confusion over the science of aerodynamics, but given their inability to maximise their vast resources, budget and knowledge base, can anything help them? I would dearly love to see Jenson win the championship he is capable of, but if not Honda, who now at this stage of his career, and with so many younger drivers out there (Vettel, Kubica, Hamilton) will give him the chance?
Scott Chesney
Dear Nigel,
What is your opinion about former F1 driver Andrea de Cesaris, especially about the Alfa years of 1982 and ’83?
Goran Manov
Last week I enjoyed a long chat with Jim Hall, the creator of the legendary Chaparral Can-Am (below with Jim driving) and long-distance sports cars from the sixties. Those cars were at the vanguard of the aerodynamic revolution as Hall pioneered the use of high-mounted, driver-controlled wings and rolled out… Read more
It seems that attempts to save the Canadian Grand Prix have failed, at least in terms of 2009, and thus we have a World Championship calendar without a single race in North America, for Indianapolis, of course, disappeared a year ago. The manufacturers and sponsors are incensed by this, and… Read more
I have just surfaced after a bout of enforced inactivity.
First, an operation on my right hand, with subsequent physiotherapy. Then came a rather nasty ‘lurgy’ which rendered me listless and spaced out, not to mention some aches and pains from a chest infection. Ah, the joys of winter in… Read more
