If you’re good enough, you’re old enough. It’s an old motor racing cliché, but one that has rung true over the years for the likes of Kimi Räikkönen, Fernando Alonso,…
Thirty-seven years ago today, August 1 1976, Niki Lauda’s life changed forever. For almost a minute he was trapped in 800-degree heat as his Ferrari burned at Bergwerk. Guy Edwards,…
The heat of Hungary delivered a commanding victory for a chilled Lewis Hamilton. He spoke of being “mellow” and in a “different headspace”: distracted almost and yet somehow totally focused…
They say that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. If you’re a motorcycle racer, you need to add collarbones to that list. Bike racers break collarbones, simple…
For a business that is as much about design and engineering as it is about sporting talent, we – both fans and journalists – spend an inordinate amount of time…
How should a driver answer a question? Should he toe the party line, say what his team and paymasters want him to say or should he be honest and say…
I see reports in the press promising that TVRs will be back on sale by 2015. I note the man who now chairs the company cheerfully admits he has no…
Prior to last weekend’s Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis, NASCAR’s drivers and teams enjoyed a rare weekend off, a welcome mid-summer breather before a fearsome run of 17 consecutive races in…
Is Fernando Alonso really about to leave Ferrari and join Red Bull Racing in 2014? That was the sensational question on everyone’s lips on Sunday evening at the Hungaroring. For…
Lewis Hamilton said he’d need a “miracle” to win the Hungarian Grand Prix from pole position. But there was nothing supernatural about his first victory for Mercedes-Benz. Against his own…
“Is that pole?” asked a surprised Lewis Hamilton on the radio. It sure was. Sebastian Vettel appeared to have it all sewn up after his first run in the final…
He didn’t appear to be suffering from Hungarian heatstroke, so we guess he was being genuine. Jenson Button, looking tanned and relaxed in the paddock yesterday afternoon, stated quite clearly…
