Hermann Tilke makes great racing circuits. But they are, at best, artificial. The best circuits, the most interesting circuits, remain those that more or less follow the natural topography of the landscape into which they are dropped. Amongst th...
F1: Montreal marathon ends four hours after race starts
Jenson Button admitted to being very emotional: indeed, shortly after the end of the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, he was the opposite of speechless - but what he said was driven by adrenalin rather than his usual calm analysis.
Endurance Racing: 24 Heures de Mans / Le Mans 24 Hours 2011
A thrilling Le Mans 24 hours race finished with less than 14 seconds between the first and second cars in the overall classification. Audi driver Allan McNish said ""Le Mans is a race of 24 hours. All day, all night. With either of aqu...
MotoGP: back on track at Silverstone
It's tough being a motorsport writer this weekend: it's an impossible choice - go to one race and miss everything else or sit at home glued to the TV. As both the AirAsia British Grand Prix in MotoGP and the Le Mans 24 Hours race conclude within...
F1: Bahrain GP off - final answer
It has been hard to find a formula that would allow all sides to save face. One method has been found. And it demonstrates conscience over money.
Back in the early 1990s, weeks before it collapsed, Team Lotus (the original one) had an R&D team working on drive-by-wire, replacing the ste...
F1: Uncertainty over Bahrain and India races
The Bahrain race scheduled for the second race of this year's F1 season was not cancelled, after all. It was merely postponed to a date to be fix...
MotoGP: Catalonia GP 2011 far from a classic
It seemed as if the 2011 Catalonia GP at Barcelona was shaping up to be a real classic. But it didn't turn out that way.
F1: Monaco 2011 - a red flag to a Bull
Nothing should detract from Seb Vettel's fantastic drive in this year's Monaco Grand Prix. But his victory was sealed not by his driving but by t...
F1: Lotus naming battle ends in dead heat
A London judge decided that both Team Lotus and Group Lotus are entitled to use the word "Lotus" on their F1 cars. But his judgment, wh...
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