Grand Prix

January 8, 2021

On 14 November 1983, Brabham assembled Ayrton Senna, Mauro Baldi, Pierluigi Martini and Roberto Guerrero at Paul Ricard The quartet of top young guns gathered to test a BMW-powered BT52B at Paul Ricard on th...

Tony Fernandes: Formula 1 was a disaster for me

January 7, 2021

Malaysian businessman Tony Fernandes spent three years in Formula 1 as owner of Lotus Racing which morphed into Caterham F1 Team and eventually disappeared without a trace. Looking back he revealed that prom...

Stefan Bellof: the Real Master of the Ring

January 7, 2021

Grand Prix, Latest Updates, Other Racing, Sports & GT

A decade before the Michael Schumacher rocketed to Formula 1 stardom, Germany's great hope was a 24-year-old called Stefan Bellof A blisteringly quick driver but something of a maverick, Belloff joined the R...

Montezemelo: Lewis Hamilton among the Formula 1 greats

January 7, 2021

Ferrari Schuamcher Montezemolo

Lawrence Stroll: The F1 grid is the right place for Aston Martin

Lawrence Stroll: F1 grid is the right place for Aston Martin

January 6, 2021

Aston Martin is known worldwide for its high-profile successes in sports car racing. A famous outright win at Le Mans and a third consecutive victory at the Nürburgring 1,000km saw Aston Martin crowned World...

Villeneuve: Schumacher had total disrespect for other drivers

January 6, 2021

Almost a quarter of a century ago, French authorities wanted to charge Michael Schumacher on his title defining move on Jacques Villeneuve, who still remembers. Villeneuve blames his old rival Schumacher for...

Beltoise’s Formula 2 Love Lesson

Michele Lupini

January 6, 2021

Ken Tyrrell made a point of proving how effective his new Formula 2 Matra was to South Africa's Formula 1 regulars back in ‘68 While shooting the breeze after the 1968 South African Grand Prix at Kyalami...

Forgotten Grand Prix Legends: Porsche’s Portly Pilot Problem

Michele Lupini

January 5, 2021

In today's Hamilton and Vettel Formula 1 era, we hear time and again how ten kilos more fuel costs three-tenths of a second a lap. Over a 70 lap race distance, that adds up to 21 seconds. In 1962 Porsch...

Motorsport Royalty: Carel Godin de Beaufort

Sam Tomlinson

January 4, 2021

This Racing Royalty story again typifies the ‘gentleman driver’ in Dutch nobleman Carel Godin de Beaufort, a man often regarded as Formula 1’s last true amateur. Jonkheer Karel Pieter Antoni Jan Hubertu...

Brawn: Lauda convinced Mercedes to pay for Hamilton

January 4, 2021

Ross Brawn's revelation a two years years ago that Niki Lauda convinced Mercedes pay up and to lure Lewis Hamilton to the team makes for interesting reading right now. It is worth recalling that from 2010 to...

Schumacher took Formula 1 to a whole new level

January 3, 2021