The final race in Champ Car’s 29 years of competition was won by KV Racing’s Will Power after Britain’s Justin Wilson suffered an engine failure.
We’re back from holiday here at Brits on Pole, and catching up with everything we’ve missed – starting with A1GP’s Shanghai event, where Switzerland came close to wrapping up the championship and Ireland took another podium.
Ryan Dalziel’s a Scottish racing driver whose open-wheel racing career we were following while he was driving for the Pacific Coast Motorsport team in the now-defunct Champ Car series. Now he’s switched to the Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series we’ll probably be writing about him a bit less – but if you want to…
Brits on Pole is back from its holiday – and before we get back to srs bzns, including Danica Patrick’s IndyCar win and the Barcelona Grand Prix previews, here’s a little light relief. This is one for every single person who has ever had an embarrassing motor accident – pity this poor professional driver who…
We’re (mostly) away from our keyboards at the moment, but we’ll be back in time for Barcelona and the A1GP finale at Brands Hatch. Plus we’ll catch on up A1GP in Shanghai and the action taking place in IndyCar this weekend. We’re also working on a brand new look for the site!
How things change in the space of a week. Especially The Telegraph’s editorial line on Max Mosley, it seems.
This morning we awaken chastened to the harsh realities of life as F1 team principals. Our refusal to invest in Ferrari, our reliance on Lewis Hamilton and our backing of lots of promising-on-paper midfield drivers who largely ended in the gravel at Bahrain mean that we’re another 4,912 places adrift this morning in the McLaren…
The smart money was always on Newman/Haas/Lanigan being the quickest of the ex-Champ Car teams to adapt to life in IndyCar – but even the most optimistic fan might have been stretched to predict a victory in only their second race.
Who did what to whom, and when – the winners and losers of the Bahrain Grand Prix, in six words each.