F1

“By no means have I ever suggested that I'm better than Ayrton,” Lewis Hamilton admitted to Nigel Roebuck in 2008. “For me he's the king, and always will be. If…

How many Formula 1 drivers have admitted to having a coach? Not many. In fact, you could probably count them on two hands. The fact of the matter is, though,…

It's hard to believe that we’ve completed the European leg of the F1 season already. Only seven races now make up that section of the calendar, so until May next…

The echoes of the Spa Pirelli tyre controversy resonated at Monza. For a while post-race it looked as if it might even lead to the disqualification of dominant race winner…

When Formula 1 cars are unleashed at Monza this weekend, there will be few architectural surprises. Grand Prix racing has been like that for some time. There will be design…

The passing of Lord Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu of Beaulieu on August 31 made me think for the first time in many years about the National Motor Museum he founded back in…

As the F1 circus prepares for Monza, with the highest speeds of the season, the elephant in the room is that there is still no full explanation for the tyre…

Formula 1 was at its most macho: James Hunt was having sex for breakfast; the ‘Monza Gorilla’ was muscling a works March; and, on a hill overlooking Barcelona, officials, team…

We've dug out and digitised Rob Widdows' old tapes from when he presented a show called Track Torque on Radio Victory in the late 1970s and early '80s. The first…

The ‘silly season’ has been intrinsic to Formula 1 since Job was a boy, and traditionally goes on and on. Occasionally we get a year where no major contracts are…

There are occasions when, even before you ask a driver a question, you know the answer you’ll get. You can almost go through it word for word, with the facial…

Ex-Formula 1 team principal Guy Ligier died on Sunday at the age of 85. An accomplished sportsman and racing driver in his own right, Ligier bought the assets of the…

Mercedes finishing 1-2, Lewis Hamilton from Nico Rosberg, was just a routine story. Romain Grosjean running fourth in an impounded Lotus, pressuring the one-stopping Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel for the…

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…

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…

With 550 entries across 15 grids, this weekend’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca (14-16 August) is one of the biggest historic racing festivals in the world. In a…

“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…