The launch of the new Lotus Grand Prix car in London last week got me thinking. At last something has – I haven’t been inspired to put pen to blog in recent weeks.
Launches of new racing cars fall into two main categories – the absurdly lavish with dry ice,… Read more
Everywhere I go these days the hot topic is Michael Schumacher. Will he or won’t he? Everyone wants to know. And this got me thinking back to 1984.
I can hardly believe that more than a quarter of a century has passed since I stood at Paddock Bend watching Niki… Read more
A Happy New Year to all our bloggers and contributors to our regular debates. It looks like being a good year, with lots to look forward to in the season ahead. Last year I made some predictions about what might happen in 2009. Some of them came true – not… Read more
OK, here we are, the right side of the winter solstice, and just two packets of mince pies away from Christmas.
The last few days have been spent meeting deadlines, standing in queues of other badly organised people and waking up thinking of another thing I’ve forgotten to do.
Now… Read more
So now we know. Murray Walker is the greatest commentator of all time. Well, we’re happy with that, aren’t we? Maybe not the other commentators, but Mr Walker himself will be chuffed to receive this news.
Who says Murray is the greatest of all? To be precise, it is the… Read more
It has always interested me whether a great racing driver can be taught, or whether he must have some special natural talent. I suspect it is a mixture of the two.
It might be useful to look, briefly, at the careers of Graham Hill and Lewis Hamilton, world champions forty… Read more
“Even the slow ones are fast.”
So said Denis Jenkinson as we stood watching final practice for the Grand Prix of Monaco in the early summer of 1978, our feet against the barrier between Tabac and the swimming pool.
That’s how close you could get back then. We could, had… Read more
While the 21st century Grand Prix drivers prepare for battle on the streets of Abu Dhabi, one of the sport’s great street fighters from the previous century has gone fishing.
Walking along the beach on Hayling Island in Hampshire this week I saw a man who looked remarkably like John… Read more
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, read on.
Tazio Nuvolari. Two words that set the pulse racing in anyone who loves motor racing. One of the… Read more
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 Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos.
Merely to question the quality of either Lewis Hamilton or Jenson Button, or to ruminate… Read more
Rob was brought up on racing, being taken to Goodwood as a small child and devouring his father’s copies of Motor Sport. During a career in newspaper, radio and TV journalism he created the ‘Track Torque’ motorsport show on radio and was Indycar commentator for Eurosport before co-founding the Festival of Speed and Revival events. He was marketing director of the Goodwood Road Racing Company.
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