Welcome to our March podcast with 1996 Formula 1 World Champion and current BRDC president Damon Hill.
He played a big hand in securing the British Grand Prix at Silverstone and has an interesting perspective on Formula 1 at the moment, a perspective he’s not afraid to air.
Enjoy… We… Read more
As the 2010 Grand Prix season beckons, most of my acquaintance are agreed that it’s been a very long time since we anticipated a year with such relish. Schumacher back… Alonso at Ferrari… Button with Hamilton at McLaren… four World Champions in the pack… the prospect of four highly competitive… Read more
Shows how much I know, doesn’t it? All week I’ve been telling anyone who’ll listen, including the millions of viewers who watch Formula 1 on ESPN Star Sports in Asia, that it was ‘fanciful’ that Michael Schumacher would be tempted to come back in place of the injured Felipe Massa.… Read more
Another Grand Prix and another win for Button. He may have lost a place to team-mate Barrichello at the start, but the Brit got his head down and gave us another remarkable display of driving and getting the most out of the car and tyres. A large shunt at the… Read more
Dear Nigel,
I am thoroughly enjoying reading your work online and in the mag, and I very much appreciate your views.
I was wondering if you have ever understood what it is some stewards have against racing?
Last year’s Massa/Bourdais non-incident in Japan was one example, but following the Kubica/Vettel contretemps in Melbourne, Vettel was awarded a grid penalty for the next race in Malaysia. Don’t the ‘powers that try to be’ know that in the course of racing cars will, from time to time, trip over each other? In my view Vettel was blameless (as was Bourdais last year, for what it’s worth) – he was on the inside of the corner on fading tyres, Kubica tried a slightly risky move which didn’t come off, and that should have been the end of it.
It’s all very well for certain people to come up with incentives to encourage drivers to race, but until there are stewards who demonstrate evidence of having seen a motor race rather than watching nice orderly parades, there seems little point in changing anything. Nobody wants to see stupid or dangerous driving on the track, but for heaven’s sake, it’s racing!
David O’Dell
The Chinese Grand Prix was another soaking affair, yet this weekend it wasn’t Brawn GP scoring a one-two but Red Bull. Sebastian Vettel, who proved his prowess in the wet at last year’s Italian Grand Prix, once again drove faultlessly to score a maiden victory for the team.
1st: Sebastian… Read more
The F1 season is finally under way… After a winter of wondering whether Honda would be saved, whether McLaren could carry on its 2008 form and whether Piquet could turn things around and keep his Renault on the Tarmac, some of our questions have finally been answered.
So who started… Read more
In recent weeks a hot topic of debate has been the cost of the Formula 1 superlicence, which has been greatly – massively – increased for 2009, to the considerable displeasure of the drivers.
Difficult to know what to say about this. On the one hand, one might suggest that… Read more
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,… Read more
Finns ain’t what they used to be. At least there is one who ain’t what he used to be.
Down the pub on Sunday night, bereft of a race to argue about since Hungary, we started on why Kimi Räikkönen appears to have lost the plot so soon after winning… Read more
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