Beatrice Racing: the first Haas F1 team
Alan Jones, Adrian Newey and Ross Brawn were once all under the same F1 roof. But the Carl Haas project — known as Beatrice Racing — failed horribly. Gordon Kirby looks back at the very first Haas F1 team
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Alan Jones, Adrian Newey and Ross Brawn were once all under the same F1 roof. But the Carl Haas project — known as Beatrice Racing — failed horribly. Gordon Kirby looks back at the very first Haas F1 team
In Austin a race broke out amid the arguing about the sport’s future – and Lewis Hamilton won it, completely overturning Nico Rosberg’s trouncing of him in qualifying. His fifth…
In Red Bull’s last video, we saw what the atmosphere’s like at the team’s Milton Keynes headquarters 24 hours after a race. Now, through mechanic Ole Schack and race team…
Marussia and Caterham are in administration, other teams are rumoured to be on the brink of financial meltdown and there are cries for Formula 1 to rethink its financial model.…
Hey, it’s not easy out there. That’s why there have been so many more losers than winners in Formula 1. Caterham and Marussia are far from being alone. More than 100…
When news broke that the Caterham Formula 1 team had been placed in administration, I couldn’t help but reflect on a few choice cuts from Mark Hughes’ Motor Sport magazine columns this year.…
As we sat in Jonathan Palmer’s Brands Hatch office we overlooked a motorbike track day in action and were served bacon sandwiches, fresh coffee and orange juice – as podcasts…
How big a story would it be were it to become clear that Audi was going to bin both its WEC and DTM programmes and take part in Formula 1…
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