Beatrice Racing: the first Haas F1 team
Alan Jones, Adrian Newey and Ross Brawn were once all under the same F1 roof. But the Carl Haas project — known as Beatrice Racing — failed horribly. Gordon Kirby looks back at the very first Haas F1 team
In Austin a race broke out amid the arguing about the sport’s future – and Lewis Hamilton won it, completely overturning Nico Rosberg’s trouncing of him in qualifying. His fifth…
In Red Bull's last video, we saw what the atmosphere's like at the team's Milton Keynes headquarters 24 hours after a race. Now, through mechanic Ole Schack and race team…
Marussia and Caterham are in administration, other teams are rumoured to be on the brink of financial meltdown and there are cries for Formula 1 to rethink its financial model.…
Hey, it’s not easy out there. That’s why there have been so many more losers than winners in Formula 1. Caterham and Marussia are far from being alone. More than 100…
When news broke that the Caterham Formula 1 team had been placed in administration, I couldn’t help but reflect on a few choice cuts from Mark Hughes’ Motor Sport magazine columns this year.…
As we sat in Jonathan Palmer's Brands Hatch office we overlooked a motorbike track day in action and were served bacon sandwiches, fresh coffee and orange juice – as podcasts…
How big a story would it be were it to become clear that Audi was going to bin both its WEC and DTM programmes and take part in Formula 1…
With the news that both Caterham and Marussia will not make it to the US Grand Prix this weekend, what was always inevitable is now unfolding. The greedy commercial model…
Dave Redding is part of the Formula 1 furniture and living proof that talent takes you places. Dave came to Grand Prix racing as a mechanic for Benetton, moving on…
Words by Mark Hughes With Mercedes having secured the 2014 World Constructors’ Championship in Sochi, here through Giogio Piola’s drawings we look at some of technical details responsible for the…
It was never really in doubt was it? As soon as the pace of the Mercedes was there for all to see, winning the 2014 Constructors’ Championship was merely a…
A crow flying the 87 Middle English miles that unite Stevenage and Upton-upon-Severn would enjoy at mid-distance a view of Silverstone – scene of many memorable moments for Our Nige…
By Lee McKenzie The last week has been incredibly tough for everyone in the Formula 1 paddock. We went to Japan worrying about a typhoon and left with no care…
If Nico Rosberg had not stood way too late on his brakes the first time he used them, this could have been a fascinating slug-out between him and Lewis Hamilton.…
I’d known about the autobiography of Peter Revson for years, but never felt inclined to read it. Revson’s was a supporting role on the global motor racing stage: not a…
Forty years ago – a time when running a World Championship Grand Prix in Russia was only marginally more likely than running one in, say, Azerbaijan – Formula 1 staged…