Ginetta: Episode 1
Ten miles east of Leeds you’ll find the town of Garforth. Known by some as the hometown of the Kaiser Chiefs’ lead guitarist Andrew ‘Whitey’ White, known by others as…
By Oliver Gavin Teams and drivers typically encounter many bumps in the road, both literally and figuratively, at Sebring. It’s a car buster – always has been and always will…
I have often wondered what that great engineer WO Bentley would have made of the turbocharger. His view of the supercharger is well known, as he once famously fumed that…
BMW M1 Procar, Silverstone, Brands Hatch… and Portimão The sense of acute disappointment lingers. I’d caught an early morning coach from Manchester to Silverstone, for the primary purpose of watching…
It’s not your usual month here at Motor Sport – hence my appearance at the helm of this newsletter. Our editor Damien Smith’s absence is wholly excusable because he has just become…
It was American author Mark Twain who said that fact is stranger than fiction. It must be, he said, because fiction is limited by the human imagination, whereas reality is…
With Formula E coming to London on June 27-28, we decided to drag Mahindra Racing's Karun Chandhok around the Battersea Park circuit. He's one of the drivers tasked with ensuring…
I didn’t catch his surname, but at Goodwood a Motor Sport reader named John told me emphatically that a Ferrari was going to win in Malaysia. Vettel or Räikkönen? He was less…
By Lee McKenzie I bet you never thought you'd look forward to seeing the pointing, celebratory finger of Sebastian Vettel after four years of consecutive world titles. But who wasn't…
When I arrived at Sebring last week I realised that it was there that we took the first ever win for Aston Martin Racing, 10 years ago! That was in…
Fernando Alonso, on his return to F1, has immediately gone off-message regarding McLaren’s position on the cause of his testing accident at Barcelona in February that left him hospitalised with…
IndyCar kicks off its new season in the streets of St Petersburg, Florida this weekend. Sunday in St Pete will witness the first race for Chevrolet and Honda’s aero kits…
"We have reached a settlement with Sauber and my driver contract with the team has been ended by mutual consent. As a passionate race driver, I feel sad and am…
McLaren the Formula 1 team may be having the most woeful start to season in its history, but it has not stopped McLaren the road car constructor forging ahead. It…
By Lee McKenzie F1 is a sport used to making the news as much for its off-track dramas as the on-track excitement and before the weekend had even started, the…
By Oliver Gavin Almost immediately after scaling the podium at Daytona, I had to switch gear for the 2015 running of the Bathurst 12 Hour at Australia’s legendary Mount Panorama…
By Perry McCarthy There I was, mid-January, on the phone to Ed Foster and I said, “Guess what! I’m going to all the Formula One tests.” Then, Ed says, “Why?…