The air was ripe with the pop of champagne corks – and the desperate yelps of Kai Ebel, a German TV presenter with a spectacularly lurid wardrobe. Right now he…

The scare stories were manifold, but it’s always best to speak as you find. Obtaining a visa for the inaugural Indian Grand Prix was a masterclass in precision – if…

This year’s Japanese Grand Prix was the 25th to take place at Suzuka – and you have to wonder why the event has ever been staged elsewhere. Fuji Speedway benefits…

From first-lap nutcase to startline hero… Romain Grosjean’s Japanese Grand Prix fortunes have changed beyond measure in the space of 12 months, but the Lotus driver was denied a shot…

The radio messages were relatively muted, but the satisfaction ran deep. Mark Webber is rarely given the credit he’s due, but the 12th pole position of his Formula 1 career…

Somebody had been busy with their pruning shears – and a broom. The slender path to 130R had been cleared of its customary foliage and spiderwork, but many an element…

It’s an oft-repeated cliché that Suzuka is remote, but getting there is half the fun – and few motor sport destinations reward travellers quite so handsomely. Nagoya possesses the closest…

Few of Formula 1’s host nations are as dependably capricious as Japan. The ground rules were laid at Fuji in 1976, when James Hunt tiptoed through the best part of…

The warnings had been fairly bleak. The circuit, we were told, wasn’t so much in the middle of nowhere as teetering on oblivion’s edge. Restaurants were few and far between……

It was approaching 1.30am as I walked from the paddock and threaded my way between scaffolding trucks and deconstruction staff on the long run between Turns Five and Seven. Little…

Mark Webber’s exploding engine apart, there were rather more fireworks after the Singapore Grand Prix than occurred during its course. As a lesson in race management, though, Sebastian Vettel’s third…

The question wasn’t so much who would be on pole, but by how much. Sebastian Vettel was six tenths clear of rivals after his first run during qualifying’s final phase,…