Last week we took a close look inside Graham Rahal’s unexpected pursuit of this year’s IndyCar championship. This week we complete our peek at how Rahal/Letterman/Lanigan’s one-car team has been…
Main image: a pre-race event in Brno, but perhaps not the one the weekend deserved At Brno I asked Dorna if they would arrange a minute’s silence on the MotoGP…
Honda’s motor sport chief Yasuhisa Arai went into F1’s summer break shooting from the hip and sounding very gung-ho about the progress he expects from the ‘Phase 3’ version of…
For some time now I have wondered whether, given enough exposure and shared adventure, any car could crawl its way into your affections however unlovely upon first acquaintance it might…
It’s fair to say I was a little frustrated after round seven of the United SportsCar Championship – it just felt like another race of ‘what ifs’. The Friday at…
After five or six years in the wilderness, Graham Rahal has come on strong this summer and with only two races to go he’s suddenly threatening to steal the IndyCar…
Emerson Fittipaldi & Nigel Mansell They were champions with something to prove when they first stepped into an Indycar. Emerson Fittipaldi – born on the 12th of the 12th, 1946…
By Sean Costa Turning off the Pacific Coast Highway towards Monterey after 15 hours of travelling was a relief. Pacific Grove felt passive and dreamy even at 9.00pm, with there…
“You always have to look at Formula 1 from two sides. The purist, like me, looks at it from a technical point of view, and from a racing perspective because…
When Marc Márquez swept to Honda’s 700th Grand Prix victory on Sunday he did so at the head of the factory Repsol Honda team, probably the biggest outfit in the…
The former business investor from the TV series ‘Dragons’ Den’ started racing historic touring cars this summer as a build up to the Goodwood Revival. Why did you get into…
You will probably know that the current GT3 regulations have created the most successful formula for sports car racing the world has ever known. Every major manufacturer, from Ferrari, Lamborghini…
The FIA World Endurance Championship takes a well-earned break after Le Mans so I haven’t been back in a race-spec Aston Martin for a few weeks, other than for a…
By Giorgio Piola and Mark Hughes Here is the current proposal for the 2017 F1 car from the F1 technical group. The brief was to create cars five seconds per…
“Do the organisers have the money to make a Grand Prix, yes or no?” said Toro Rosso chief Franz Tost in the Friday FIA press conference in Hungary. “France doesn’t…
Mauro Forghieri and Gordon Murray Both designers were in their twenties when they were promoted by major teams undergoing a step change. Mauro Forghieri was 27 when Ferrari selected him…
