For the second year in a row five-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson has been ranked by Forbes magazine as America’s most influential athlete. Forbes polled more than 1100 adults aiming…
Poor old Pirelli. They're damned if they do, and damned if they don't. It was asked to make racing tyres that wear out more quickly, to spice up the show,…
VW Audi ownership will change Ducati, as it did Lamborghini. And what might happen to the Italian factory’s racing interests? Depending on your viewpoint, VW Audi’s £700 million purchase of…
The Beijing Motorshow is, by some distance, the strangest car exhibition it has been my pleasure to attend. Here, spreadeagled across nine colossal halls, the cream of European automotive nobility…
Sebastian Vettel won the Bahrain Grand Prix, and the race went ahead without disruption. Would it be on the F1 schedule again in 2013? “Absolutely,” said Bernie Ecclestone. “For ever.…
One thing’s for sure about this year’s Bahrain GP. It got Formula One much more mainstream media coverage than usual, even in America. The New York Times led last Saturday’s…
Rubens Barrichello remains on a steep learning curve as he tackles his first year in Indycars with KV Racing and Chevrolet engines. Rubens has been struggling in qualifying, but has…
Press releases are usually pretty turgid affairs. And then, just once in a while, you get one that makes you put down your coffee, read, re-read and then check the…
Team Penske employed keen strategy and excellent pit work so that Will Power came from 12th on the grid to score his second IndyCar win in a row this year.…
So news out this morning that the Bahrain Grand Prix is going ahead next weekend. We’ve been waiting for a viewpoint from the FIA for sometime now, and this morning…
Football is a simple game, complicated by idiots. These are the words of the legendary, and I mean legendary, Liverpool team manager Bill Shankly who was never afraid to call…
One of the more popular assumptions among the car buying public is that there is no longer any such thing as a bad car. People tell me this with some…
Jorge Lorenzo had a perfect weekend in Qatar, his body and motorcycle in winning condition. Not so Casey Stoner… As a racer, Stoner would appear to have no weak points.…
Ben Edwards had been commentating for the British Touring Car Championship for nearly 10 years when he got the call from the BBC in November 2011. He's now the lead…
If any group of people were left looking more idiotic than the Government after its bungled handling of the only alleged fuel crisis, it was the general public. Whipped up…
Will Power showed why he should be the man to beat in IndyCar this year as he came from ninth on the grid to score an excellent win in round…
