The 2011 Brazilian Grand Prix, which closed the season, didn’t exactly go the way Rubens Barrichello might have wished. Having qualified his Williams-Cosworth 12th – a position which considerably flattered…
Unless you’re at the sharp end of racing – frantically fettling in readiness of the new season – this can be a grey time of year. Which is why we…
Welcome everyone to our first podcast of 2012. Pat Symonds is the only podcast guest we've had more than once, and when you listen you'll realise why. He's a straight-talking…
Just when you thought you’d mentally sorted your plug-in hybrids from your range extenders, your NiMh batteries from your lithium-ions, steel yourself for another twist in the hybrid tale, heading…
We are in the silly season, a period of posturing and positioning. The Grand Prix teams, and their drivers, are setting out their stores, limbering up for the battles that…
Michael Andretti announced this week that James Hinchcliffe has joined Andretti Autosport and will drive the team’s Go-Daddy car in a three-car team with Ryan Hunter-Reay and Marco Andretti. Michael…
Seven years after ceasing production, Honda has not only publically committed to building a new NSX, it has this week unveiled a concept of what it might look like at…
The New Year’s honours list for 2012 was, as ever, a matter of interest for the motor racing industry. This is one of those British traditions that never fails to…
The Dakar is but a shimmering mirage in Britain’s public sporting consciousness. Thirty years ago, however, it was suddenly front-page news: Mark Thatcher had gone missing in the Sahara. TE…
We still haven’t heard the results of the official investigation into Marco Simoncelli’s fatal accident, but we do know who will ride the Honda RC213Vs originally intended for the hirsute…
Like most industries, the car business awards itself a large holiday over Christmas and New Year. So every year I park the moderns and spend a fortnight chuntering around in…
As January arrives the torpor of the holiday season begins to fade and in the northern hemisphere we start to enjoy a welcome lengthening of the days. Already our thoughts…
Stratos versus 96 V4: no contest. An eight-year-old could tell you that. The 1975 RAC Rally, the Lombard, was behind schedule and my feverish anticipation had given way to a…
Presuming this reaches you at or around the start of the New Year, can I just wish you happy motoring for 2012: may your enjoyment be high, your bills low…
The first picture of the radical new Delta Wing race car has been issued from its base at All American Racers in California, USA. We previewed the Delta Wing Le…
Oh no, I hear you groan, he’s surely not going to give us another list of his favourite moments of the racing season just gone by. Oh yes he is.…
