In 1978 I was still driving from Brabham as team-mate to Niki Lauda but was already thinking of moving on for 1979. There was a little incident on the eve…
“These men were the best in their profession. Through all the years we worked together I always felt they were much better at their jobs than I was at mine.…
With Giorgio Piola The layout of this year's Ferrari F14T has recently been uncovered, as these Giorgio Piola drawings show. What is revealed is a fairly radical car that was…
The podium represented three stunning drives: Daniel Ricciardo two wins from the last five in a 2014 Red Bull, Fernando Alonso coming within an ace of winning with a 2014…
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A curious term, greatness. Some like to measure it in statistical terms, but naked numbers tell only a partial story – and sometimes not even that. Common examples? Stirling Moss…
Ken Gregory: 1926-2013 Ken Gregory, who has died aged 87, had a huge effect on motor racing during the 1950 and ’60s, and arguably beyond. Team manager, constructor, circuit director,…
The Iron Curtain was just beginning to twitch when the mechanised might of Formula 1 first rolled into Budapest town. Well, not quite ‘town’ – rather a few clicks northeast.…
When you think of Hollywood film stars who could drive, James Garner is easy to forget. He never came second at Sebring like Steve McQueen, nor at Le Mans like Paul…
Considering this was a start-to-finish demonstration of unstressed perfection for Nico Rosberg’s Mercedes, Hockenheim actually served up a great race. In its short circuit existence it may no longer be…
Front and rear interconnected suspension (FRICS) suddenly swept into the F1 headlines last week after the FIA’s technical delegate Charlie Whiting wrote to all the teams, advising them that in…
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A damn silly rinky-dink idea in the first place: stick some modern-day road-testing equipment on a 92-year-old grand prix car in a bid to explode a few myths about 'jalopies'.…
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In 1985, Michele Alboreto's star was on the rise. The first Italian to drive for Ferrari for over a decade, he was on the podium eight times in the first…
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Team personnel rubbed their hands together to ward off the frosty chill as they left their hotels for the short run to the Hockenheimring, the circuit close to Mannheim in…
After the dramatic inflation of recent months, and the manner in which most of them drive on what pass for roads in Sao Paulo, the local populace is used to…
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Some weekends you can come back from a Grand Prix with a notebook relatively clean. There will be a lap chart in there, of course, together with notes and quotes,…
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”All my life I’ve wanted to run a chippie”. So said Lance Macklin to his young second wife Gill, and thus began a new chapter in the life of a…
