F1 at Imola: controversy, brilliance and the bizarre
Imola only hosted its first Formula 1 championship race in 1980, and hasn't held one for 14 years, but the circuit, in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy, has witnessed…
Alfa Romeo will field an unchanged line-up for the 2021 Formula 1 season, with both Kimi Räikkönen and Antonio Giovinazzi remaining with the team for the third consecutive year. With…
Former Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali has been announced as the new president and CEO of F1, effective next year after his tenure as the head of Lamborghini ends. F1’s incumbent…
Because the medical helicopter couldn’t fly due to the Nürburgring fog, the two practice sessions for the Eifel Grand Prix couldn’t happen. The only running before qualifying was therefore in…
On paper, it had the potential to be one of the most romantic of all motor racing fairy tales: the schoolboy who was given an unexpected opportunity to sit at the…
Jeez, who’d be the other guy? Neither basking in reflected glory nor withering in the shade is a good look/outlook for an ambitious Formula 1 driver. Imagine spending another long,…
For a driver who achieved so much so early, Ivan Capelli’s post-F1 career has been relatively quiet. From 1994 for three seasons he raced a Nissan Primera in Germany’s STW…
Pierre Gasly will stay with AlphaTauri for the 2021 Formula 1 season with the team confirming the Frenchman for next year. Speculation had grown that he might return to Red…
Michael Schumacher is a complex subject. But perhaps quite a simple man. The F1 colossus who broke all the records that are only now being challenged by Lewis Hamilton was…
From the December 2020 issue, this graphic marks the moment that Lewis Hamilton equalled Michael Schumacher's record of 91 Formula 1 wins; a statistic that he has already surpassed.…
The 1967 season was a halcyon time for the young Nigel Roebuck, who recalls tracksides echoing to Sgt Pepper as Clark, Gurney and Hulme roared by. Hippies hoped for…
There is an accepted ladder of progression for drivers aspiring to Formula 1. In the 1970s it ran thus: formulae Ford, 3 and 2. Unfortunately, there are rather more snakes. Even…
1982: Pironi betrays Villeneuve Most of the FOCA teams boycotted the 1982 San Marino GP, leaving just 14 cars on the grid, although that was of little concern to…
Gerhard Berger has talked candidly about his reasons for leaving Ferrari at the end of the torrid 1989 season. The Austrian says he is one of the few drivers to…
In between the Russian and Eifel grands prix, Honda announced it would be pulling out of F1 at the end of next year, ostensibly leaving the Red Bull group looking…
I guess it’s a by-product of age mixed with experience that makes greybeards such as myself tend to dismiss the modern superlatives presently showered around like confetti in praise of…