As Pastor Maldonado chased Fernando Alonso in the late laps at Melbourne, I confess I pictured Rubens Barrichello – watching the race on TV in Sao Paulo – thinking, ‘If…
I enjoyed a nice chat with John Barnard last week. John and I are old friends going back to his days as an Indycar designer for Vel’s Parnelli Jones and…
If I say 'three cylinders' to you, what pictures fill your mind? To me its images of tiny Japanese microcars that only ever leave their home islands by way of…
The Audi team dominated last weekend’s 60th Sebring 12 Hours with Alan McNish/Tom Kristensen/Rinaldo Capello scoring the company’s 10th win at Sebring. This year Sebring opened the new World Endurance…
I am probably in a minority (again), but I am not a big fan of the Top Gear programme on BBC television. I am, however, a big fan of racing…
The Goodwood press day is the only one in the year where I am allowed to play poacher come gamekeeper. While there to report on news surrounding the forthcoming Festival…
Next Sunday, March 17, marks the 71st running of the Daytona 200, once the traditional curtain raiser for the international bike racing season. Nowadays the event is a shadow of…
IndyCar’s teams recently completed four days of testing at Sebring in preparation for the season opener the weekend after next in the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida. After six increasingly…
Question. One that has been asked before but never properly answered, one that may justifiably be posed again. When we look at the entries for the 2012 Grand Prix season…
Every car manufacturer wants to be the talk of every car show it attends. But whether Bentley will appreciate the media storm unleashed by the reveal of its new SUV…
The Delta Wing ran its first test laps last week in secrecy at Buttonwillow Raceway in California. A distant YouTube video of the car running at Buttonwillow has been posted…
So Rubens Barrichello has decided to set out on a new adventure in his racing career. After becoming the most experienced Grand Prix driver in history over 19 years in…
We’ve seen the Grand Prix cars testing at Jerez, and in Barcelona, but we don’t really have a lot to go on ahead of the first race in Melbourne. Elsewhere,…
Some of you may have seen that Goodwood is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Group C era at the Festival of Speed this year (June 29-July 1). What many…
Cast your mind back 12 short years to the turn of the century. You may remember the country in general and hauliers in particular got themselves into something of a…
British MotoGP rider Cal Crutchlow spent last season learning how to ride a MotoGP bike and being awestruck by MotoGP’s greatest talents. Here’s what he thinks of Stoner, Lorenzo and…
