The FIA has recently announced major cost-cutting plans for the Formula 1 World Championship. As it stands the Formula 1 grid is another team down for next season. First Super…
Just back from a few days in Wales. The trip was an eye-opener. There were two main topics of conversation in the service areas, and around the bars, during the…
At the end of last week Roger Penske officially announced what we’ve already reported in the latest issue of Motor Sport. After three successful years racing a pair of Porsche…
The American racing season gets under way every year at Daytona with what is now known as the Rolex 24 at the end of January. But everyone is wondering what…
Winter is here. It is cold in England, minus four this morning, and that’s in a valley just 20 miles from the sea. Well, of course winter has arrived –…
It seems that attempts to save the Canadian Grand Prix have failed, at least in terms of 2009, and thus we have a World Championship calendar without a single race…
I have just surfaced after a bout of enforced inactivity. First, an operation on my right hand, with subsequent physiotherapy. Then came a rather nasty ‘lurgy’ which rendered me listless…
The fact that he was only 1.5 seconds off the fastest time in Barcelona on Monday, tends to suggest that the five-time World Rally Champion isn't half bad in a…
Carl Edwards did all he could to try to steal this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup championship from Jimmie Johnson in NASCAR’s season-closer at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday. Edwards led the…
Jimmie Johnson drove another superb race on Sunday, scoring his seventh win of the year and all but guaranteeing his third consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup championship. Johnson enjoyed a perfect…
New World Champion Lewis Hamilton returned to McLaren headquarters the conquering hero today and received a rapturous welcome home from the whole staff. Boss Ron Dennis gave permission for his…
Carl Edwards has kept his NASCAR Sprint Cup championship hopes alive with a pair of excellent wins over the last two weekends. Edwards scored his seventh win of the year…
For those of you following La Carrera Panamericana – I know we have some Mexican readers in the UK and some fans who know Jo Ramirez from his time in…
Will Power, Scott Dixon and Ryan Briscoe dominated last weekend’s eighteenth edition of the Surfers Paradise Indy car street race on Queensland’s Gold Coast, qualifying one-two-three. Penske driver Briscoe became…
Previously on these pages, to re-phrase the opening titles of the best American soaps, we have examined why most are merely very good while a few are great. Following a…
All of a sudden the World Championship calendar is starting to look more than a little unbalanced – and, some would say, unstable. As of now, the 2009 schedule contains…
