For all the seven world championships he has won, Lewis Hamilton, if not quite a model of humble modesty, has retained a certain heart-on-sleeve quality when he reflects on races past. Not for him the stentorian braggadocio you would expect from one who had chalked up that level of achievementContinue Reading
It was 250mph turbo cars that won the Pro Modified day, and the year, at Santa Pod Raceway’s FIA European Finals last weekend.Finland’s Jere Rantaniemi and his turbocharged Chevrolet Camaro won the race and carried off the FIA European Pro Mod championship for the second year in a row. HisContinue Reading
The Catalan Grand Prix differed significantly from MotoGP’s form book, as it was the first time since Silverstone that championship leader Marc Marquez didn’t have a clear advantage over the rest of the pack.This paved the way for his younger brother Alex Marquez to end the weekend on top, butContinue Reading
Matthew Ryder is the 2025 British Hillclimb champion after another superbly measured performance at Prescott on Sunday.Ryder and Sean Gould in the Gould GR59 they share were the class of the field as the championship returned to the Gloucestershire venue for the second of two visits. When they each tookContinue Reading
The Italian Grand Prix resulted in a dominant victory for Max Verstappen, at the track where Red Bull struggled massively last year and where Verstappen described the car as “a monster.” Twelve months on reality looked very different, helped by a specific low-downforce rear wing, a fresh Honda power unitContinue Reading
Back where Formula Ford 2000 made an inauspicious debut, in a sullen wet British Automobile Racing Club meeting finale on 9 March 1975, the Historic Pinto posse continued to mark the slicks and wings category’s 50th anniversary at the Historic Sports Car Club’s first visit to Mallory Park since 2021.Continue Reading
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says Formula 1’s engine manufacturers are aligned in principle on a future move to V8 power units, but felt it didn’t make financial sense to fast-track them before 2031.FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is a driving force behind the introduction of simpler, cheaper and lighterContinue Reading
Marc Marquez has revealed he had been preparing himself mentally for the moment his winning streak would come to an end in MotoGP.The factory Ducati rider’s reign of nearly 100 days in MotoGP ended in the Catalan Grand Prix on Sunday, as he finished 1.7s behind his younger brother AlexContinue Reading
Marc Marquez has revealed he had been preparing himself mentally for the moment his winning streak would come to an end in MotoGP.The factory Ducati rider’s reign of nearly 100 days in MotoGP ended in the Catalan Grand Prix on Sunday, as he finished 1.7s behind his younger brother AlexContinue Reading
Language is like a river: it creates its own path. ‘Dilemma’ is one of those words, like ‘decimate’, which is losing its original meaning through misuse – which is a shame in this instance, since a dilemma is exactly what McLaren faced when ‘finger trouble’ reversed the position of itsContinue Reading