Readers’ evening with John Surtees
On October 2 we hosted a special readers’ evening with John Surtees. After a three-course dinner editor-in-chief Nigel Roebuck and editor Damien Smith sat down with the 1964 Formula 1…
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On October 2 we hosted a special readers’ evening with John Surtees. After a three-course dinner editor-in-chief Nigel Roebuck and editor Damien Smith sat down with the 1964 Formula 1…
I fear there will be some disparity between what we would like him to do (which according to polling on this website is drive at Le Mans) and how he…
When you get older, everybody else seems so young, especially policemen and bank managers. And racing drivers. Talking to Tiff Needell on our podcast the other day, I was interested…
For the last month or so we’ve run a poll asking what your favourite Grand Prix circuit of all time was. Some of you were rather liberal with the criteria…
They insist that they didn’t offer him more money and that he did not seek priority status. The other ‘they’, meanwhile, insist that they fought hard to keep him. So…
This month we sit down with Tiff Needell – the star of Fifth Gear and Top Gear. He made it, briefly, to Formula 1, but his success came afterwards in…
Finally it’s been confirmed. Lewis Hamilton will move to Mercedes next year, taking the seat of the most successful Formula 1 driver of all time – Michael Schumacher. Replacing Lewis…
Optimising the interaction between two individuals at the appropriate moment of interface can be a challenge – especially when one of them is Ron Dennis. Sorry, I’ll drop the ‘Ronspeak’.…
November’s edition of Motor Sport is a McLaren special, looking back at the Woking team’s time under Ron Dennis. Dennis took control before the 1981 season, with John Watson winning…
Sepang’s abrasive tarmac did more than shred Formula 1 tyres – it scrambled team simulations and may well have handed Red Bull an unassailable advantage in the Bahrain Grand Prix, that reshaped the competitive order, as Mark Hughes explains
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Mark Hughes dissects how Sepang’s brutally abrasive surface and restricted tyre allocation are turning this weekend into a strategic gauntlet where the right compound choice could matter more than raw pace
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