The tailback, bizarrely, was longer than any I’d encountered en route to last month’s British Grand Prix. Back then I made a point of reaching Silverstone’s main gate at absurd…

Friends, countrymen, Romain… Sunday’s 60-lap Nürburgring nail-biter underlined many things, not least that Romain Grosjean is almost as hard to decipher as Lotus team-mate Kimi Räikkönen – albeit for very…

Capricious things, anniversaries. In the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix, Pastor Maldonado scored Williams’s first victory in eight seasons – the perfect follow-up to team founder Sir Frank Williams’s 70th birthday,…

It was early on Thursday evening when the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association delivered its bouncer – any sign of tyre trouble at the Nürburgring and its members would withdraw from…

No amount of cheap air travel would ever deflect my routine. There are several sizeable airports within easy reach of the Nürburgring, but the open road is always more tempting.…

Technically, this was a season without a German Grand Prix. After years of hosting two Formula 1 events, the nation was reduced to just one as Hockenheim and the Nürburgring…

You had to look twice to be certain, but there was no mistaking the boyish grin. Two young female fans had spotted their quarry as he strode towards his motorbike,…

There is something reassuring about the sight of human litter gravitating towards bacon bap merchants at 6.15am – a fragment of landscape that’s very Silverstone. The catering areas are a…

By reputation, Silverstone’s security force has a surly core – but driving in at 6.15am gives you an idea of its task’s true essence. Guards have been on duty through…

It was guesswork that guided us to the Dadford Road in 1977. Back then I had only a vague notion of Silverstone’s whereabouts, but we knew we must be getting…

It was inevitable that triumph would be tempered by tears. Given what had happened at the start of this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours, it would have been fitting to…

According to the official Le Mans 24 Hours timetable, Friday is a time of rest – an opportunity for drivers to unwind or, in the case of some mechanics, to…