I’ve been asked a few times over the past few weeks how I feel about Ford’s decision to kill the Fiesta. And I think ‘glum’ sums it up as well…
Twenty-nine years ago Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna stood together on the podium at the Australian GP, the final race of the season and embraced one another, the rivalry that…
Drivers, fans and viewers were overjoyed to return to Suzuka for the first time in three years, so what went wrong? There's one overriding factor...
I read with interest your report in the August 2022 issue [Triple Crown tales] about the Henri Pescarolo and Graham Hill victory in the Le Mans 24 Hours 50 years…
The ‘three wheels on my wagon’ moment for Carlos Sainz Jr during his pitstop at Zandvoort summed up the state of Ferrari right now. Shades of Eddie Irvine at the…
What is more frustrating in a road car: too much performance or not enough? The answer seems simple enough: too much performance provides the option not to use it all,…
Unlike Formula 1 which follows the sun around the world, domestic motor racing is coming to a close as the evenings begin to draw in. So it seems like a…
A furious Lewis Hamilton lambasted his team, as he once again fell behind George Russell in an outburst that revealed the close competition within Mercedes, writes Tony Dodgins
Later this month at a small ceremony in Bourne, Lincs, the home of BRM, a memorial to Jo Siffert will be unveiled. The Swiss driver was killed on October 24,…
On Monday morning after the Hungarian Grand Prix, Martin Brundle’s message on WhatsApp simply read “wow”. Fernando Alonso had signed for Aston Martin for 2023. In a media session over…
Do rebranding exercises actually work? I guess that they must because otherwise no-one would bother, but I still goggle at the millions paid to agencies full of sharp-suited, gimlet-eyed advertising…
Track limits and the rule on crossing the white line reared its head again at the Austrian Grand Prix. In the race more than 40 transgressions were recorded and five-second…
The world never stops changing and motorcycling’s elite with it. Riders and motorcycles come and go. Empires rise and crumble. And sometimes ancient empires arise from the dust. MotoGP seems…
The FIA issued Technical Directive 039 to the F1 teams ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix. It addressed the vexed issue of bouncing and porpoising following complaints from drivers in…
We had a young trainee reporter in for work experience this month. Henry Hudson is in his first year studying journalism in Leeds and as his first assignment I sent…
This column has very little to do with on-track behaviours or racing action, but matters of far more importance. At the end of the day, Formula 1 is a sport.…
