It’s a case of Audi vs Audi this weekend, as the second round of the new FIA World Endurance Championship takes place at Spa-Francorchamps. The six-hour race, which begins at…
The man from Haguenau in Alsace is a phenomenon: 106 podiums from 156 World Rally Championship starts; 831 fastest stage times; and 1372 points. Record after record after record. His…
Probably the single most interesting exhibit at the Beijing Auto Show last week was an engine and a gearbox in a glass case on the Ferrari stand. Visually at least…
Will Power and Team Penske appear to be waltzing away to this year’s IZOD IndyCar Championship. After taking his third pole of the year Power drove a perfect race on…
Straight-talking BRDC president Derek Warwick on current Formula 1, his career, his work for the BRDC and trying to punch Michael Schumacher's lights out. Needless to say this was one…
For the second year in a row five-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson has been ranked by Forbes magazine as America’s most influential athlete. Forbes polled more than 1100 adults aiming…
Poor old Pirelli. They're damned if they do, and damned if they don't. It was asked to make racing tyres that wear out more quickly, to spice up the show,…
Of course we should listen whenever a seven-time world champion speaks, but I think we can turn a deaf ear to Michael Schumacher’s volley of verbal bullets at Pirelli. Why?…
VW Audi ownership will change Ducati, as it did Lamborghini. And what might happen to the Italian factory’s racing interests? Depending on your viewpoint, VW Audi’s £700 million purchase of…
Fed up with Formula 1 and its boringly repetitive ability to show itself totally insensitive to, and out of touch with, global opinion? Depressed by the sport’s leaders turning a…
The Beijing Motorshow is, by some distance, the strangest car exhibition it has been my pleasure to attend. Here, spreadeagled across nine colossal halls, the cream of European automotive nobility…
Sebastian Vettel won the Bahrain Grand Prix, and the race went ahead without disruption. Would it be on the F1 schedule again in 2013? “Absolutely,” said Bernie Ecclestone. “For ever.…
