So Monza is over for another year, and this time the race was hardly a thriller. Afterwards Sebastian Vettel pointed out that traditionally the celebrated Autodromo had not been one of…

Two of the season’s classic Grands Prix in two weeks and both, unfortunately, were distinctly lacking in excitement. As at Spa Sebastian Vettel won as he liked at Monza, once…

Another blazing hot day at Monza – and, almost inevitably, another pole position for Sebastian Vettel’s Red Bull. Team-mate Mark Webber was appreciably closer – two tenths, rather than six…

Traditionally Ferrari has chosen the Monza weekend to announce any forthcoming changes in its driver line-up: it was immediately after the race here in 2006, for example, that the signing…

Taken from the July 1997 issue of Motor Sport On and off, Mario Andretti has been trying to win Le Mans for more than 30 years. The place has hardly…

Hard as it may be to believe now, time was when there were no chicanes at Monza, when the track – prior to 1972 – was uncompromisingly fast. “You had…

After taking pole position – his fourth on the trot – for the Belgian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton admitted he was surprised to find he had done it. On a…

Taken from the May 1997 issue of Motor Sport In a book shop the other day, I noticed by chance a volume on the life and, for want of a…

These days my enthusiasm for NASCAR is not, I confess, what it was, in part because I like the look of the cars way less than I did, and in…

“Whatever you do,” Bobby Rahal warned me, “do not immediately try to play the big hero, by which I mean don’t go and stand right behind the cars when they…

Saturday in Montreal, so qualifying day, with the emphasis finally on track action, rather than endless talk of Mercedes, Pirelli and FIA Tribunals. Alleluia! For a second day, though, the…

The forecast for Friday was ceaseless rain, but it turned out rather better than that. Certainly it was wet at first, and the first practice session began on a very…