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F1: Stevenage boy racer done for speeding
It can happen to the most careful and law-abiding among us. A momentary lapse of concentration, a little too much pressure from the right foot and, before you know where you are, there’s an exceedingly bright flash or (far worse) a rotating blue light in your rear view mirror indicating that a burly traffic officer…
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RoC: Hamilton is top pick for next year
Race of Champions organisers have vowed to sign up Lewis Hamilton to next year’s event in a bid to ensure a capacity-crunching sell-out crowd. This year’s event, featuring top names like Michael Schumacher, Marcus Gronholm, David Coulthard and Andy Priaulx, sold 50,000 seats at Wembley Stadium, a venue with a 90,000 capacity.
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RoC: Germany wins, no-one much surprised
It was at Wembley. There was a German team, and it included Michael Schumacher. Nobody was therefore very surprised when the ‘retired’ F1 legend and his team-mate Sebastian Vettel wiped the floor with their English, French, Scandinavian, American and Scottish competitors in the Nations Cup race. But, just for once, Schumacher didn’t have it all…
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A1GP: Brits move up to fourth despite China disappointments
Oliver Jarvis failed to capitalise on a front row start in A1GP’s Chinese adventure, but still moved Team GBR up the standings after scoring respectable fifth and sixth place finishes.
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A1GP: Ireland’s points streak ends
Ireland maintained seventh place in the A1GP championship after the two Zhuhai races, but were squeezed off the podium by China in the sprint race and surrendered their record of always scoring during a trouble-strewn feature race.
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A1GP: Pakistan improve in China, but remain pointless
Team Pakistan remain one of a handful of nations yet to score a point in A1GP after two “chaotic” Chinese races in which driver Adam Khan posted a pair of 14th places.
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A1GP: Jarvis on front row for GBR, Carroll impresses
Ireland’s Adam Carroll, charging hard after finally solving problems with an ill-fitting seat, saw pole position snatched away from him in qualifying for A1GP’s China sprint race.
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F1: The Times calls on Dennis to resign
Never let it be said that the British press isn’t even-handed. The Sunday Times has recently become embroiled in a row with the FIA over remarks by Martin Brundle calling the organisation’s impartiality into question, a row that now requires the intervention of m’learned friends. And today its sister paper has Ron Dennis in its…
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F1: Q&A with Heikki Kovalainen
Read this Q&A released by McLaren, in which Kovalainen tackles head on the issues of driver equality, getting on with Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso’s exit and the politics which gave his new team such a testing time in 2007.