From joy to despair
By Lee McKenzie Formula 1 can provide all the riches in the world, but sometimes it is a cruel friend. One weekend you are on top of the world, the…
The reality gap between my professional life as a motoring journalist, and my personal life as a car enthusiast has never been wider. So far this year I have driven…
I was a little reticent as I drove through Vermont’s Green Mountains last Thursday headed toward Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix. The race is one of my favourite events…
Jenson Button was asked in Montreal about progress towards a new McLaren deal, given that his current contract expires at the end of this season. “No,” he replied. “No more…
There’s something very strange about being asked to ‘bring warm coats and woolly hats’ to an event near Birmingham in July. OK, the British summer hasn’t been great so far…
Many years ago I asked Wayne Rainey what’s the fastest he had been on a motorcycle. He told me 201mph at Yamaha’s Fukuroi test track. How did that feel? “It…
You never get a true picture of what will happen in a race from the testing times, especially at Le Mans. Last weekend the 2014 24 Hours class got on…
It’s not often people ask you to photograph their lunch and, in the less-than-glitzy surroundings of the Donington Park canteen, it might be a first. Nevertheless five-time Le Mans winner…
There’s no greater contrast between the sublimely fast, ultra-smooth environs of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the brutally bumpy, stop-and-go confines of Detroit’s Belle Isle park circuit. Detroit is hard…
The Bentley Boys are back on top and boy, what a weekend it was to notch up the first victory for their new Continental GT3 racer. To win at Silverstone,…
Google has revealed more details of the autonomous car it is already testing on public roads in those states in the US where self-driving cars have been made legal. It’s…
I’m not sure why, but I was expecting a little more ceremony when I arrived in Maranello to drive the LaFerrari. By some margin this is the fastest, most powerful…
Ryan Hunter-Reay drove an excellent race on Sunday to score his first Indy 500 win. Hunter-Reay had a tough time in qualifying and started deep in the field down in…
I have just re-read my last Motor Sport column written after the Spanish Grand Prix. OK, I'm not claiming to be Mystic Meg, and I can't read your tarot cards, but the predicted former…
An old brewery buried in the heart of East London isn’t the usual location for a car company launch, but then Nissan has been doing things a little differently in…
The psyche of most racers is a precarious thing. Their confidence is like a magician’s conjuring trick – it can disappear in a puff of smoke. There’s something almost spiritual…
As you may have read, Jaguar announced last week that it’s going to build the six ‘missing’ lightweight E-types, which is another way of saying that back in 1963 they…