Single-Seaters

By Lee McKenzie I’m sitting in Bahrain having landed in a storm. The winds have whipped up the sand and unsettled the calm that is the norm here. As I…

What did you think of the race on Sunday? If you found it anything other than utterly spellbinding from flag to flag, it is possible you and I were tuned…

In Shanghai on Sunday there were echoes of Malaysia in how Ferrari’s tyre usage applied pressure to Mercedes – but only faint ones. They were heard mainly when Lewis Hamilton…

A week from Sunday I’ll be trackside at Long Beach as I have been for all 40 previous street races in Southern California. From 1976-83 Long Beach was a Formula…

As Rob mentions when introducing the podcast Mike Earle has spent five decades in the sport. I knew we were covering a lot of ground during the recording so when…

José Froilán González did a good grumpy. His emotions tended to run close to the surface: the unbridled joy of winning the 1951 British Grand Prix; the inconsolable tears after…

It’s not your usual month here at Motor Sport – hence my appearance at the helm of this newsletter. Our editor Damien Smith’s absence is wholly excusable because he has just become…

With Formula E coming to London on June 27-28, we decided to drag Mahindra Racing's Karun Chandhok around the Battersea Park circuit. He's one of the drivers tasked with ensuring…

Sebastian Vettel’s victory this weekend was not the first time Ferrari has unexpectedly beaten a dominant Mercedes-Benz racing team, but it was the first I can recall in which Ferrari…

By Lee McKenzie I bet you never thought you'd look forward to seeing the pointing, celebratory finger of Sebastian Vettel after four years of consecutive world titles. But who wasn't…

When Ferrari watched both Mercedes head out in Q1 on option tyres, it began to believe for the first time that it might be able to win this race. That…

Fernando Alonso, on his return to F1, has immediately gone off-message regarding McLaren’s position on the cause of his testing accident at Barcelona in February that left him hospitalised with…

Formula 1 was undeniably underwhelming Down Under. The lead battle in Melbourne was cagey rather than a cage fight; the rest were nowhere; and now everybody – not just Sauber…

Every time we record a podcast there are always a load of great questions from readers that never get asked. So this time we sat Nigel Roebuck and Mark Hughes…

"We have reached a settlement with Sauber and my driver contract with the team has been ended by mutual consent. As a passionate race driver, I feel sad and am…

By Lee McKenzie F1 is a sport used to making the news as much for its off-track dramas as the on-track excitement and before the weekend had even started, the…

Having won the German Formula 3 title in 1993 and impressed the Formula 1 paddock with his testing performances in the Footwork, Jos Verstappen was signed as Benetton’s test driver…