Get updates automaticallyAll 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 next…
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…
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 England.
Actually,…
What follows is not a race report, nor is it an insight into the 2009 Formula 1 season. In fact, it’s only tenuously linked to motor sport.
You may ask at this juncture, quite rightly, why I am writing such a blog? Well… let me explain. Over the last few months…
The fact that he was only 1.5 seconds off the fastest time in Barcelona on Monday, tends to suggest that the five-time World Rally Champion isn’t half bad in a Formula 1 car…
The Frenchman tested at a damp Silverstone in order to acclimatise himself with the car and then took…
Carl Edwards did all he could to try to steal this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup championship from Jimmie Johnson in NASCAR’s season-closer at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday. Edwards led the most laps and scored his ninth win of the year – more than any other driver – but it wasn’t…
Last week I had the pleasure of trying one of iRacing’s simulators at their headquarters in suburban Boston. I have zero experience in racing simulators and haven’t driven a racing car in twenty-five years so I was surprised at how quickly I took to it and how much I enjoyed…
Jimmie Johnson drove another superb race on Sunday, scoring his seventh win of the year and all but guaranteeing his third consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup championship. Johnson enjoyed a perfect race on the one-mile Phoenix, Arizona oval, qualifying his Hendrick Chevrolet on the pole, leading most of the way and…
New World Champion Lewis Hamilton returned to McLaren headquarters the conquering hero today and received a rapturous welcome home from the whole staff.
Boss Ron Dennis gave permission for his employees to down tools for the morning to greet their champion, who arrived at the company’s space age McLaren Technology Centre…
Wow! Strewth! Phew, what a scorcher! Have you come down yet?
It doesn’t get much better than Brazil 2008. Does it? Yes, we’ve seen some thrilling races over the decades, but this was surely about as gritty as it gets.
Don’t you just love the whole Brazilian thing? Great circuit, huge passionate…
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