Touring cars are great to watch for a number of reasons. Mostly notably the racing is extremely close and you’ll see cars passing each other in places that you never thought possible. Another draw, for me anyway, has always been that you can clearly see that they carry some DNA… Read more
Tag: FIA
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FIA GT1 sounds sweet
February 9th, 2010 | Ed Foster | 3 Comments
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Montezemolo replies to the FIA World Council’s changes
March 17th, 2009 | Ed Foster | 25 Comments
FOTA has reacted to the FIA World Council’s tough new measures to force cost cuts in Formula 1. The governing body has rejected FOTA’s proposal of the 12-9-7-5-4-3-2-1 points system in favour of awarding medals for race wins to ensure the driver who wins the most races becomes World Champion.… Read more
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The hard line behind FOTA’s friendly message
On March 5, in Geneva, FOTA – Formula One Teams Association – had its inaugural press conference, and my immediate impression was to feel a touch underwhelmed. Luca di Montezemolo, the association’s president, was at his most patrician as he addressed the audience, but if we had been expecting a… Read more
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Brawn GP gets the green light
March 6th, 2009 | Ed Foster | 10 Comments
Finally we have news on Honda Racing. It’s taken a fair bit of time, with rumours of various buyouts including a Richard Branson/Virgin takeover, but finally Ross Brawn released a statement at midnight last night to say that the team has reached an agreement to secure its future.
The former… Read more
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Grand Prix Special – Spa-Francorchamps, Nigel Roebuck
September 8th, 2008 | Nigel Roebuck | 57 Comments
Let us begin with a simple fact – a simple fact this particular week, anyway. The penalty for almost causing a collision in the pitlane is a drive-through penalty. This we know because Bruno Senna was thus punished in Saturday’s GP2 race at Spa, and it cost him the race.… Read more
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Why the president must go
April 29th, 2008 | Damien Smith | 3 Comments
Join in the racing action on our Grand Prix Reports
The Max Mosley scandal has dominated much of our time and energy this month, and that is reflected in the June issue (on sale Friday May 2) of Motor Sport. It was inevitable. When motor racing becomes a regular subject… Read more -
Should he stay or should he go?
April 24th, 2008 | Damien Smith | 55 Comments
Is Max Mosley’s position untenable? Or does his private life not affect his work as the president of the FIA?
Let us know what you think and we’ll publish a selection of your comments in the next edition of Motor Sport. Read more
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Deliberations from the desert
April 9th, 2008 | Rob Widdows | 7 Comments
Wow, what a week! And, as one of our bloggers remarked, wow, what a speech! The week in Bahrain was, as you might expect, dominated by revelations in the News of the World. As I was parking my car at Heathrow on March 30 I was blissfully unaware of this… Read more
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Formula One… The cutting edge of technology?
February 11th, 2008 | Ed Foster | 3 Comments
One of the recent headlines in Formula One has been the possible introduction of budget caps. When a steering wheel costs £13,000 and the typical costs of running a team are nigh on £100 million it was only a matter of time before yet another rule to allow the smaller… Read more
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Racism – F1 must stamp on it now
February 6th, 2008 | Rob Widdows | 4 Comments
I was watching News at Ten this week and up popped Eddie Jordan, looking tanned, relaxed and rich. Wrapped in an expensive leather jacket, EJ was standing in a smart London street, talking about the extraordinary outbreak of racism at the Catalunya circuit near Barcelona. I could see by the… Read more
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