A1GP’s Great Britain team plans use next week’s official test at Silverstone to announce which of its existing drivers will start the season and who its new rookie driver will be.
As if there weren’t enough allegations of skulduggery and dirty tricks flying around the F1 paddock already, David Coulthard has thrown another into the mix by turning the spotlight on Ferrari.
No-one can accuse McLaren of making the same mistake twice. With the pre-race publicity well underway in Turkey their drivers are almost invisible, their appearances strictly rationed and the opportunities for the press to question them extremely limited.
Round eight of the 2007 GP2 championship is due to take place at Istanbul Park this weekend with the season’s championship battle turning into a nail-bitingly close contest.
The A1GP series is kicking off its pre-season testing with a stint at Silverstone – and spectators are invited to come along and watch free of charge.
‘Speedy’ Dan Clarke is another homesick Brit who’s delighted that the Champ Car series has brought him back to Europe – but the racing isn’t the only attraction.
Katherine Legge is hoping to put recent problems behind her when the Champ Car series comes to Europe for the first time since 2003.
The excitement of watching madcap McLaren tester Pedro de la Rosa duelling for race position with his swooping overtakes and seemingly death-defying approaches to his opponents’ exhaust pipes is always guaranteed to make a Grand Prix well worth the trouble of turning on the telly.
We all knew that being a Grand Prix driver was a pretty perilous occupation. But there are some perils we’d just never associated with it before.