One of the real feel-good aspects of the 2015 season would be if the recently unveiled Lotus E23 turns out to be good car. With Mercedes ’15 power having replaced…
Having talked my way past the reception desk at the Dean Street Townhouse I wander through the half-full restaurant looking out for ex-Stig and GT driver Ben Collins. He’s tucked…
Denis Jenkinson has been gone for nearly 20 years now, yet still there are times – many times – when something happens in the world of Formula 1, and I…
Forty years ago Penske Racing was getting ready to run its first full Formula 1 season. Roger Penske debuted his first F1 car, the PC1, at the end of 1974…
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Today, in almost any car and weather conditions, Silverstone’s Woodcote is not a corner but simply an acceleration zone leading onto the old pit straight towards Copse. But 40 years…
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Brett Lunger has always been understated, self-analytical, supremely fit and serious. That was his manner back in the 1970s when I handled his public relations in Europe and now, as…
“Without a moment’s hesitation Jean-Pierre executed a perfect handbrake turn. In a great big Mercedes V8 saloon. In the wet. On a street of modest width. With cars parked either…
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On hearing of Sir Jack Brabham’s recent death – at the age of 88 – Australian enthusiast Alec Hawkins sat down at a computer keyboard and submitted the following to…
Adrian Newey, Christian Horner, Martin Brundle and David Coulthard were among the stars on hand to help launch the inaugural London Classic Car Show on Thursday night at the ExCel…
Among the pictures on my office walls are two of Tazio Nuvolari. I look across the room and there he is, rounding the Station Hairpin (now Loews) on his way…
Jean-Pierre Beltoise, winner of the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix for BRM, has died aged 77. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. Beltoise was an accomplished racer on two…
The Zen of standing trackside in solitude during an F1 practice session opens a window to the reality below the surface froth of a grand prix weekend. It’s out here…
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Ferrari was the clear pre-season favourite. Team leader John Surtees wasn't so sure, however: he was less than thrilled with the new 3-litre V12, hardly enamoured of team manager Eugenio…
They’d said it would be over by Christmas. Yet by 1915 the vast Vickers ‘shed’, built in response to the spiralling mechanised demands of an already entrenched conflict, loomed over…
“I finally got going after a push and spent a dismal race in the middle of the pack… unable to think much save that Boxing Day was a crazy day…
In the last few days it’s barely been possible to log in without encountering news of the latest Ferrari firing. Strategy chief Neil Martin is the latest casualty, following on…
