Jean Todt: the man with the keys to F1
Jean Todt wants a legacy of significance when his time is up as the president of motor racing’s governing body. You’d be right to expect that from such a man,…
I never made it to Assen. Instead of heading north east last week I found myself running in the opposite direction, towards Goodwood. Goodwood’s Festival of Speed is Glastonbury for…
At last it was going to happen. The answer to the most meaningless yet somehow important question of the modern motoring age was about to be provided. On Saturday afternoon…
On June 24 Ed Foster hosted an evening of discussion at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Joining him were Williams chief technical officer Pat Symonds, Mercedes-Benz managing director Andy Cowell,…
The Verizon IndyCar series is in the midst of a frenetic sprint to an early close of its season at the end of August with eight race weekends over the…
Motor sport technology has gone through several boom periods over the years, but perhaps none bigger than the one happening in the modern era. The by-product of this is that…
There's been talk of a London Grand Prix for some time now, and while Formula E will be coming to the city in June 2015, the chances of a full-blown…
By Lee McKenzie For the first time in 11 years the hills were alive with the sound of F1. The race in Austria might not have thrown up a classic…
The day before heading to the Bristol-based launch of Bloodhound SSC’s cockpit the ‘phone rings in the office. “Hi Ed,” says PR man Jules Tipler, “we’re thinking of doing something…
From a personal perspective, Le Mans has hosted far more heartbreaking 24-hour races than this and you need look back no further than last year to know it. And while…
Jim McGee is one of the most successful crew chiefs in the century-old history of Indycar racing. At Indianapolis last month I had the pleasure of joining him to launch…
Audi scored its 13th victory in 15 attempts at the Le Mans 24 Hours, and Andre Lotterer, Benoit Treluyer and Marcel Fassler their third in four years, but only after one…
Join Motor Sport and Formula Student for a live lecture and podcast examining the most radical rule changes in Formula 1 for a generation. Hear from two of the sharpest technical…
Kazuki Nakajima stole Porsche’s thunder by securing pole position for Toyota in qualifying for the Le Mans 24 Hours. The Japanese, who shares his TS040 Hybrid with Stephane Sarrazin and…
It’s been a really busy few weeks for me with plenty of flying around. I had the European Le Mans Series race at Imola followed by F1 TV duties in…
Anyone who's read Perry McCarthy's book Flat Out, Flat Broke will know that he's got a knack for telling a story – and he's got a lot of them. Perry's…
On Friday evening ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix the BBC’s Andrew Benson posted a story that quickly set Twitter alight – with a little gentle stoking by, among many others, yours…