Cleanliness, they say, is next to Godliness. Everywhere you look in the city of Baku someone is cleaning or sweeping something. Naturally, the Azeris had been working day and night…
"Yes, is a big weekend for Baku, for sure many challenges." The barman smiles diffidently, hands me a glass of the local red wine. "Enjoy your stay with us," he…
Here we are again, on the eve of another Grand Prix. But I want to get away from the rollercoaster that is modern F1 and pay tribute to a new…
Those of us who recognise that we are getting older have also observed that everyone else appears to be getting younger. I recently consulted a doctor who, clearly aware of…
Unless we are very much mistaken it was your 90th birthday yesterday. So many, many happy returns from me, and all of us at Motor Sport magazine which, as you…
If the BBC was to make a situation comedy based on the activities of Mr Richard Noble it would surely be called Absolutely Fantastic, or 'Ab Fan'. In Noble's world…
When you think of Martini do you think of the drink, or the racing colours? I suspect that the majority of you will choose the latter. Along with the Gulf…
You may remember that at the start of the season I wrote about the rise and rise of some talented young Danes, all of them beginning to attract some serious…
Nordschleife. One single word from the motor racing vocabulary that conjures up so many memories, so many images and not a few shivers. From the autobahn you follow signs towards…
From somewhere down in the river valley comes the muffled music of a V12 Ferrari. Moved by this music I come to a roundabout on the edge of Varano de…
I am just back from the land of bacon, beer, bicycles and blondes. And a much-missed motor racing circuit called Roskilde, the scene of many a great race back in…
In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains near the ancient city of Granada in Andalucia lies a challenging motor racing circuit called Guadix. Owned by former motor trader and…