The weekend began with Lewis Hamilton taking a kicking – a bit of tabloid mischief aimed at the Englishman’s lifestyle choices, including his decision to bring pet bulldog Roscoe to…
It’s the sound that counts, rather than its provenance. As soon as an exhaust’s siren bark first echoes from Monte Carlo’s many apartment blocks, it creates a feelgood factor. This…
Price of a croissant in the trendier parts of Nice? About the same as a semi-detached in Wimbledon. Price of a croissant in the back streets of Monte Carlo? Actually…
As Jack Brabham headed towards the last corner of the last lap of the 1970 Monaco Grand Prix, Piers Courage's hobbled de Tomaso was in exactly the wrong place. What…
It wasn’t so much an installation lap as a detonation. The opening few minutes of Monaco free practice are usually an exercise in restraint, drivers feeling their way around and…
Ivan Lendl never did win the Wimbledon Men’s Singles. Don Bradman never did score a Test century at Old Trafford. Jim Clark never did win the Monaco Grand Prix. ‘The…
No matter how many times you are privileged to attend, the anticipation never wanes. You know it won’t be a race in the conventional sense of the term – not…
Ex-Formula 1 driver, 1990 Le Mans 24 Hours winner and F1 commentator Martin Brundle was fresh from a McLaren F1 seat fitting for a future Sky feature when he came…
Discussions have been going on for a while, but now it’s official: Honda will return to Formula 1 in 2015 as engine supplier to McLaren. The Japanese manufacturer left the…
Home advantage is in the main a psychological and statistical given. Familiarity with a venue creates a powerful force when combined with the will of the majority of its crowd.…
Some things don’t change in Formula 1. It’s more than 10 years since I attended European Grands Prix on a regular basis, following the old Formula 3000 circus as it…
Formula 1 is back in Europe; that has a nice ring to it. Drivers seems to enjoy it, journalists too. Is it the familiarity, or maybe the fact that we're…
Mercedes-Benz locked out the front row for the Spanish Grand Prix on Saturday afternoon, as Nico Rosberg took his second pole position in a row and secured the team a…
It’s 10 minutes before Friday afternoon’s free practice session and the marshals up at the final chicane are having a kick-about. On this showing, you can see why the Germans…
Circuit de Catalunya Spanish Grand Prix, June 2 1996 It had been a fairly quiet weekend, hitherto – if you discount serial backmarker Forti making a fuss about a new…
From somewhere down in the river valley comes the muffled music of a V12 Ferrari. Moved by this music I come to a roundabout on the edge of Varano de…
