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Having dropped his Ducati for the third race in a row yesterday during the Grand Prix at Misano, Casey Stoner was running out of excuses. After the race he explained that they “took the decision to put one lap on the race tyre in warm-up this morning to get it…
Ed Foster
Ed returned from a stint in Milan, working on the Italian version of Autocar, and joined the team in August 2007. After two years of countless scooter accidents and a constant battle against coffee addiction it was a relief for him to start writing in his mother tongue. As well as managing the website, Ed is responsible for writing the Auctions and Desirables pages, the occasional features article and made his TV debut on CNN at the end of last year commenting on the F1 season.
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Sep 1 2008
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Aug 21 2008
ING is one step ahead
I have just been browsing through the latest shots of the track at Valencia and something caught my eye… see if you can spot what I’m talking about.
Yes… the runble strips have been painted in ING colours. I have a suspicion someone deep in the bank’s marketing department is getting…
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Aug 12 2008
What little difference 50 years can make…
It is quite amazing how little racing drivers change. They could have stopped racing 10 years ago, but put them in a car on a track today and I can pretty much guarantee you that they’ll have something to say about the car setup or the tyre pressures or even…
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Aug 4 2008
Grand Prix Special, Hungary
After the excitements of the British and German Grands Prix, the Hungarian GP got off to a comparatively sedate start. Indeed a very quiet start when you look back to this time last year when Alonso decided he had had enough of the way McLaren was treating him and went…
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Aug 1 2008
Based in Qatar, serviced in the UK
Yesterday there was a story on the front page of The Sun about a wealthy Sheikh who jetted his Lamborghini LP640 from Qatar to Britain for an oil change. Apparently the 6,428-mile round trip cost in the region of £20,000 (there’s something vaguely ironic about a car being shipped from…
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Jul 16 2008
Can I have your autograph please?
After Rob has written something on the Festival of Speed, it seems a little bit of a cop-out to write another blog on it.
However, on a quest to get some words out of the Formula 1 drivers I set off for the top paddock and having inhaled two burgers and…
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Jul 8 2008
A very one-sided view of the past week
After a quick perusal of my past blogs, it appears that when I haven’t been shamelessly plugging various products and events, I have been doing some fairly dubious reporting on racing in Scotland.
Blogs are here to be controversial, to raise questions, to promote discussion and above all, be ‘light reading’.…
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Jul 3 2008
Flag Art at the Festival of Speed
Having recently gone to visit Jason Bruges, an artist who previously trained as an architect, I wrote a small piece in the latest edition of Motor Sport about his artwork that Veuve Cliquot is showing outside their marquee at the Festival of Speed.
The basic principal is that there will be…
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Jul 1 2008
Competition
You may well remember that I recently wrote a blog singing the praises of Kangaroo TV. Well I have since been to Le Mans and can report first hand that it is, and I am sorry for sounding slightly gushing, utterly brilliant.
With access to two sets, I could spend my…
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Jun 23 2008
Knockhill Speedfair
After working out that we could do quite a large number of races in Britain, and indeed buy a new car for the same price as the Le Mans Classic, it was decided that our first outing in the MGB would be at the Knockhill Classic Speedfair.
With my brother and…
