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Formula 1: good month, bad month — July 2022
Good month Horror shirt "Please buy the merchandise,"Alex Albon, above, centre, begged in Miami in the hope of a bigger…
Good month Horror shirt "Please buy the merchandise,"Alex Albon, above, centre, begged in Miami in the hope of a bigger…
Mercedes introduced the first significant upgrades to its troublesome W13 at Miami. Although the team feels that it needs a…
Can you explain what tyre graining is and how it affects car performance? Is it different to tyre deg that…
When I was racing, what I most enjoyed about new tracks was the differences they offered. The surfaces were usually…
You can spin the story of this car in two quite different ways. The easily pleased will point to the…
After four years proving that critical acclaim is no guarantee of commercial success, the rapturously received but still slow-selling Alpine…
I’ve always been highly suspicious of plug-in hybrids. Never got my head around having two different ‘engines’ yet spending almost…
Fans of souped-up Mercedes-Benz cars will be familiar with Bodo Buschmann, who was just 22 when he teamed up with…
Jakarta ePrix June 4 Originally meant to be part of the 2019/20 calendar, the inaugural Jakarta ePrix was cancelled due…
Why do we spend more time remembering the glorious failure of the V16 than we do the cars that finally…
Anybody with an interest in vintage chart music will know that this glossy, 258-page book about France’s ruthless march into…
There is something deliciously serendipitous about a chap from pancake-flat Norfolk becoming the only British driver to have conquered the…
This has to be my old sparring partner Martin Brundle. When I started in Formula Ford in 1984 he was…
René Arnoux’s victory in the 1983 Canadian Grand Prix was his first in a season that had seen six different…
Seeing John Hindle’s letter regarding a stoplight grand prix involving a GTO Ferrari [April] dislodged an almost-forgotten similar event, showing…
Toyota claimed a fourth Le Mans 24 Hours victory in a row in year one of the new era for…
Circuit length 8.46 MILES Lap record (race) Mike Conway, Toyota TS050 Hybrid, 2019, 3min 17.297sec Lap record (qualifying) Kamui Kobayashi,…
These are none other than the first and last Porsches to win the Le Mans 24 Hours during the legendary…
1982 Le Mans 24 Hours Porsche win didn't come as easy as 1-2-3 Porsche laid down a marker with the…
Amid the excitement about electric power, hybrid tech and synthetic fuels, the technology that was once seen as the future…
Jerry Grant passed away last week. Grant, 77, was renowned as a nearly man who threw away the 1972 Indy 500 when he made a confused, unscheduled pitstop with a…
Fernando Alonso will miss the Australian Grand Prix as a medical precaution following his being knocked unconscious in last week’s Barcelona testing accident. Although McLaren stresses that the various scans…
Pitch your questions to John Barnard for our next podcast Credited with the introduction of the carbon fibre chassis into Formula 1 with McLaren and the F1 semi-automatic gearbox with…
Former racer and TV presenter David Hobbs looks back on his expansive and varied racing career, from his first Morris Oxford to Formula 1, on to Le Mans, America and…