I interviewed Sito Pons at the Sachsenring, chatting about his times winning 250 World Championships in the late 1980s. He told me that when he was training – running or…
Just over a dozen years ago I briefly crossed over to the dark side. Which in motoring journalist jargon means I started working for a car company. It wasn’t something…
At this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed Bonhams auctioned Juan Manuel Fangio's Mercedes W196 for a record-breaking £17.5 million. Here's the historic moment.
Scott Dixon dominated both street races in Toronto last weekend, scoring his second and third wins in a row. Dixon led a 1-2-3 sweep for Chip Ganassi’s team in the…
Even before news of Mark Webber’s planned departure from Dietrich Mateschitz’s senior squad broke, the current internecine battle at Scuderia Toro Rosso possessed an edge its predecessor never did. @AussieGrit…
Gumpert is not a ‘fast’ word. Neither is Koenigsegg (I struggle just to pronounce that one). As for the INNOTECH Aspiron, that sounds less like a supercar and more like…
Think of a German F1 driver and almost everyone will say Michael Schumacher. Even now in retirement (x2) he is still the answer of choice before the current three-time champion…
Friends, countrymen, Romain… Sunday’s 60-lap Nürburgring nail-biter underlined many things, not least that Romain Grosjean is almost as hard to decipher as Lotus team-mate Kimi Räikkönen – albeit for very…
Scott Dixon led a Ganassi 1-2-3 sweep of Sunday’s Pocono 400, the first time in 24 years that Indycars have raced at the Pennsylvania tri-oval. After looking like non-contenders through…
Capricious things, anniversaries. In the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix, Pastor Maldonado scored Williams’s first victory in eight seasons – the perfect follow-up to team founder Sir Frank Williams’s 70th birthday,…
It was early on Thursday evening when the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association delivered its bouncer – any sign of tyre trouble at the Nürburgring and its members would withdraw from…
No amount of cheap air travel would ever deflect my routine. There are several sizeable airports within easy reach of the Nürburgring, but the open road is always more tempting.…
Amid all the Assen drama it was easy to forget about the forlorn figure of Dani Pedrosa, slumped in his pit, wondering what might have been. If all things had…
The most telling moment of the British Grand Prix was not when Lewis Hamilton’s left rear Pirelli exploded, turning itself into what looked for most of his in-lap like some…
On Sunday morning, I met up with a mate who was sampling his first taste of Silverstone and Formula 1. He wasn’t doing it by halves, having arrived with his…
Unlike the tyres during the race, the atmosphere at the British Grand Prix couldn’t be burst quite so easily. While the race might not have been the best advert for…
