Drivers demanding a return to flat-out F1
Compromise solution for this season Here’s what GPDA President Alex Wurz said to the BBC last week when articulating the F1 drivers’ frustration with the current heat-degrading concept of Pirelli…
The big stories from the past week on the Motor Sport Archive. Gilles Villeneuve and Pedro Rodriguez, two greats with natural speed, flair, skill and fearlessness, would have shared a birthday…
Fighting spirit is at the heart of motor sporting endeavour. Achievement in the face of adversity is what inspires us, and ‘digging deep’ to find that extra level of performance…
As a young boy Corrado Lopresto played among some of the finest cars owned and collected in Italy. His family, related to some of the country's biggest landowners, stored every…
the debris on the Monza track is not where I see him, he is not on the winner's rostrum, garlanded, drinking Champagne — for me his 28 years flash into…
Is there one more act still to play out in the F1 engine drama? The F1 strategy group meeting on Monday and the F1 Commission the following day seems to…
It sounds boastful, but if you do this job for long enough you get to sit next to a reasonable number of decent racing drivers. They tend to fall into…
The big stories from the past week in motor sport from the Archive. It may be only January, but Argentina twice hosted Formula 1 this week. Denny Hulme opened the…
Recently I had cause to call the Attwood household. Mrs Attwood answered and we had a quick chat about dogs. When I asked if I might speak with her husband,…
2017 cars won't beat old V10 records and will not be raceable either It was at the last Motor Sport podcast that Pat Symonds let the cat out the bag…
All at Motor Sport were sad to hear of the death of Maria Teresa de Filippis on Friday. While there had been female race and rally drivers before her, de…
The big stories from the past fortnight in motor sport from the Archive. The most successful Formula 1 driver of all time, Michael Schumacher, was born in 1969. He was…
Tyler Alexander has passed away at the age of 75. He was one of McLaren's unsung heroes and played a large part in the founding of the team after being…
Looking back 50 years ago to 1966 it’s abundantly clear that it was truly a seminal year for motor racing as a whole and American racing in particular. It was,…
Ferrari is at it again. This time the threat was veiled, but it was there all the same. Although he said it was "very unlikely" that Ferrari would leave Formula…
In the new issue of Motor Sport magazine you will find my top 10 of F1 drivers 2015 and an accompanying piece on each man’s performance over the season. Inevitably…
We have delved into the Track Torque audio archive and come up with a magical journey back in time to the summer of 1977. We take you to Silverstone for…