The week in motor sport (30/03/2011)
We may be one of the oldest motor racing magazines in the world, but we do like trying new things. Our latest idea was to record a very brief round-up…
On Thursday April 7 the Motorsport Industry Association (MIA) is hosting an evening with designer and engineer Gianpaolo Dallara at the Williams F1 Conference Centre. It promises to be an…
Usually on a Thursday lunchtime in the Motor Sport office conversation revolves around the upcoming Grand Prix. Nowadays there seems to be a heavy slant towards Mercedes GP’s form after…
The Dario Franchitti podcast may have only just gone live, but we’ve already lined up our next one! We wanted to record a preview to the Formula 1 season after…
The 2011 Motor Sport Hall of Fame was considered another huge success. Sir Jack Brabham, Sir Frank Williams, Jody Scheckter and Dario Franchitti were all inducted on the night and…
Testing, testing, one-two-three. We are now in the midst of the fourth and final pre-season Formula 1 test at the Catalunya circuit in southern Spain, where it has been unusually…
There is much to like about the Williams Formula 1 team. Fondly remembered as Williams Grand Prix Engineering, known affectionately as Team Willy, now called Williams F1 and soon to…
Imagine if James Hunt was still around today, I mused to Martin Brundle at Daytona a few weeks ago. “Well, if he was I’d be out of a job!”, the…
Robert Kubica’s accident, in a small Italian rally, came only days after he had set the fastest time in the Valencia test session, and as soon as it became clear…
Civil unrest has led to the cancellation of the first Formula 1 Grand Prix of the season in Bahrain. The decision has been taken by the Crown Prince Salman bin…
Ahead of our Hall of Fame event next Tuesday (February 15), the Motor Sport team sent out a survey to everyone registered on our website. Usually these things are well…
Here we are... the first of our 2011 podcasts. We made the journey to the McLaren Technology Centre yesterday and managed to distract Martin for well over an hour. We…
“Nice wheels” and “Vodafone is painted on nice this year”. That was the level of insight offered by Lewis Hamilton at the ‘reveal’ of his new McLaren-Mercedes MP4-26 in a…
I had the pleasure of talking to Jim Hall of Chaparral fame recently. The tall Texan built and raced some of the sport’s most appealing and ground-breaking cars, and went…
Time flies. Like many other clichés, this is undeniably true. And, believe me, the older you get the faster time flies by. If you follow a sport your year is…
Time flies. Like many other clichés, this is undeniably true. And, believe me, the older you get the faster time flies by. If you follow a sport your year is…
Next week we are off to the Autosport Show at the NEC in Birmingham. We’re joined on our stand by the Marussia Virgin Racing Team and we’re giving away great…