NASCAR takes a rare weekend off over Easter, its drivers and teams enjoying a short pause in the 36-race Sprint Cup championship. After seven rounds, four-time champion Jeff Gordon leads…
The F1 season is finally under way… After a winter of wondering whether Honda would be saved, whether McLaren could carry on its 2008 form and whether Piquet could turn…
That hoary old racing cliché ‘cut him and he bleeds petrol’ does not apply to Flavio Briatore. He’s a businessman, pure and simple. But he also happens to be the…
Defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson scored his first win of the season on Sunday. Johnson came through to win the sixth Sprint Cup race of this year, run on the…
Like a bird on the back of a buffalo, I am watching my little world move around me. Life can be like baseball, or perhaps that should be cricket where…
Last Saturday’s 57th Sebring 12 Hours was a cracker of a race with the Audi and Peugeot teams fighting it out all the way. In the end it came down…
FOTA has reacted to the FIA World Council's tough new measures to force cost cuts in Formula 1. The governing body has rejected FOTA's proposal of the 12-9-7-5-4-3-2-1 points system…
This week sees the first day of spring. And that’s official. Even if it snows. In my neck of the woods spring arrived last weekend and suddenly there is work…
Saturday’s 57th Sebring 12 Hours kicks off this year’s American Le Mans Series, and an interesting race it will be with Audi and Peugeot staging a full dress rehearsal for…
On March 5, in Geneva, FOTA – Formula One Teams Association – had its inaugural press conference, and my immediate impression was to feel a touch underwhelmed. Luca di Montezemolo,…
This is quite simply, brilliant. Bear with it and you may well see a rather novel way of cost cutting in Formula 1. Who needs the drivers anyway... [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiLoANg6nNY[/youtube] How…
Four of 36 NASCAR races down and the Sprint Cup is wide open. At this early stage four-time champion Jeff Gordon leads the series from Clint Bowyer and last weekend’s…
Finally we have news on Honda Racing. It’s taken a fair bit of time, with rumours of various buyouts including a Richard Branson/Virgin takeover, but finally Ross Brawn released a…
No doubt many of you have gone on driving experience days before and, as I’m sure you’ll agree, some are more successful than others. Parting with £100 is one thing,…
This week has been all about James and Darren. James and Darren are carpenters. Their task this week has been to give our kitchen what I believe is known as…
The new USF1 team owned by Peter Windsor and Ken Anderson was formally announced on Tuesday afternoon on Speedtv in America. USF1 will design, build and race its cars from…
