A chat with ‘Emmo’
Talking to Emerson Fittipaldi is never less than interesting. Alistair Caldwell, Emerson Fittipaldi and Teddy Mayer. We didn’t see much of him immediately after he retired, Emerson preferring to spend…
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When the teams began testing without traction control, at the end of last year, most drivers were enthusiastic about the change, Lewis Hamilton and others commenting that being in sole…
To some degree, it was a risky strategy, but in the end it worked out to perfection, and Lewis Hamilton won the German Grand Prix, thus becoming the first driver…
Isn’t life strange? This week, in the sporting headlines, we have Schumacher the cyclist and Rooney the runner. How long before Hamilton the hurdler? Stefan Schumacher pulverised the opposition in…
I am an armchair expert, of the kind as described by Ron Dennis in the afterglow of the 2008 British Grand Prix. I did not watch the race from my…
As Lewis Hamilton went out for his final qualifying run at Silverstone, the message over the radio was firm: ‘Don’t over-drive!’ On his previous run he had done just that,…
There is something in the water in Northamptonshire. We have been advised, by Anglian Water, not to drink their product from the taps. Good news for suppliers of the bottled…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-ANWkANvoo[/youtube] Having recently gone to visit Jason Bruges, an artist who previously trained as an architect, I wrote a small piece in the latest edition of Motor Sport about his…
We live in an increasingly procrustean society. We can’t do this, we can’t do that. And if we do this, or that, we will be fined or photographed. Or some…
Talking to Emerson Fittipaldi is never less than interesting. Alistair Caldwell, Emerson Fittipaldi and Teddy Mayer. We didn’t see much of him immediately after he retired, Emerson preferring to spend…
When the teams began testing without traction control, at the end of last year, most drivers were enthusiastic about the change, Lewis Hamilton and others commenting that being in sole…
To some degree, it was a risky strategy, but in the end it worked out to perfection, and Lewis Hamilton won the German Grand Prix, thus becoming the first driver…
Isn’t life strange? This week, in the sporting headlines, we have Schumacher the cyclist and Rooney the runner. How long before Hamilton the hurdler? Stefan Schumacher pulverised the opposition in…
I am an armchair expert, of the kind as described by Ron Dennis in the afterglow of the 2008 British Grand Prix. I did not watch the race from my…
As Lewis Hamilton went out for his final qualifying run at Silverstone, the message over the radio was firm: ‘Don’t over-drive!’ On his previous run he had done just that,…
There is something in the water in Northamptonshire. We have been advised, by Anglian Water, not to drink their product from the taps. Good news for suppliers of the bottled…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-ANWkANvoo[/youtube] Having recently gone to visit Jason Bruges, an artist who previously trained as an architect, I wrote a small piece in the latest edition of Motor Sport about his…
We live in an increasingly procrustean society. We can’t do this, we can’t do that. And if we do this, or that, we will be fined or photographed. Or some…
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