Winning margins of the order of 13 minutes are normally associated only with endurance rallies such as the Safari, or, in Europe, only with something as rough and demanding as the Acropolis. Those based on comparatively short and smooth special stages — as the majority in Europe are — usually produce results in which the leaders are separated by mere seconds. It is all the more praiseworthy,...
Niki Lauda, the subject of Hollywood's latest take on motor racing, is a man who's never minced his words. So his thoughts on F1 2011 proved typically refreshing
BY NIGEL ROEBUCK
Motor racing at the movies is much in vogue just now. Endless plaudits have come the way of Senna, of course, but two more in the pipeline will be feature films, rather than documentaries, one about the saga of Mike...