Formula 2 is back as a low-budget championship capable of eclipsing current F1 feeder series GP2
By Ed Foster
To do a full season of GP2 – the established feeder series for Formula 1 – you need to turn up at a team’s door with over £1 million. Very expensive, especially in the face of a recession.
In the interests of cutting costs, last July the FIA launched its plan for the first international...
If you thought that the Andretti/Unser dynasties must run out of steam some time, think again! On April 3 Marco Andretti, the 18-year-old son of Michael and grandson of Mario, made his debut in the Infiniti Pro Series, the feeder category to the IRL IndyCar Series. Also on the grid at the St Petersburg street track was 22-year-old Al Unser (son of AI Jnr and grandson of Al Snr). who has been a...
Stalwart of the classic car scene, The Prince explains that his enduring love for the sport is in his genes
It is perhaps no surprise that Prince Michael's entry for September's RAC Centenary Rally was a Bentley, and the fact that he has chosen a pre-war car speaks volumes for his motoring preferences. The tall figure of the Prince with his distinctive beard is a frequent sight at automotive...
It can now be told that the remarkable entry of 462 pre-I905 cars for this year's Brighton Run was decimated to 418, after 44 drivers had either failed to report at the start or had been non-starters. But the formidable total of 359 successfully completed the 58.8-mile journey, (the retirements are set out below) which included the hilly scenic section necessitated for two years due to roadworks...
Back in 1924, at Brooklands, JG Parry Thomas — whose living depended largely upon such exploits — joined jockey-cum-racer George Duller and inventor Lionel Rapson to break the world's long-distance records up to 15 hours at the helm of Rapson's 6178 cc Lanchester. Their speed after 12 hours bettered that of previous, longer records. A lap speed in excess of 100 mph was maintained, but there were...
Scheckter Stateside
Since Jody Scheckter's appearance in the Race of Champions in March very little has been seen of the fast-rising South African star on the European scene. In fact he has not raced in Formula One since then. But Scheckter has been far from idle over the past two months. At the start of the season McLaren Racing told him that they were committed to running F1 cars for Denny...
The San Marino GP weekend will long be remembered in motor racing, for all the wrong reasons.
The death of Ayrton Senna, following so closely on that of Roland Ratzenberger in qualifying the previous day stunned the Formula One fraternity in Imola, in precisely the way that Jim Clark's at Hockenheim in 1968 did. At the end of the most traumatic weekend in Grand Prix racing's history since Spa in...
Many considered him a rich-kid racer in over his head. In the space of just two years, however, Auto Union were convinced he had the makings of a Champion. He refused their offer. Whitney Straight, explains Eoin Young, had much bigger fish to fly...
Whitney Straight did everything in style. Barred from keeping a car at Cambridge, he kept a plane instead, cycling to the airfield, flying to races...
Latin spirit
It is true that the current Mille Miglia retrospective is merely a historic regularity rally, but clocking in to controls at the specified time is of little importance to most entrants; they are here to give their sports-racers some exercise on the sort of roads the cars were built for.
Many cars are only brought out for this one event, so this travelling museum is a chance to see...
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I am in the process of restoring Prince George's (later Duke of Kent) 3 litre TT Replica Bentley and though some progress has been made in terms of retaining the original registration, works records and list of previous owners, I am still encountering difficulty in obtaining the correct colour scheme, interior details and any other specifications for the car. The Bentley Drivers' Club, The...
