Formula 1 – like the rest of the world – currently finds itself on lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic, and it’s proving to be a perilous time for the sport and those involved. F1, unsurprisingly, relies on races being held to generate TV, gate and advertising/sponsorship Read more…
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Lance Stroll began his racing career in karts at the age of ten, competing around North America and Europe, winning titles in the Canadian National karting Championship and the Montreal and Quebec Cups before graduating to single seater racing in 2014 with a pre-season in the Florida Winter Series ahead Read more…
There’s a time in any given Formula 1 season that rumours begin to start about which drivers will or might be driving where the following season. It’s typically around August/September time, and can run until the very end of the season before it’s concluded. We call this ‘silly season’. It’s Read more…
Under different circumstances today is a day the F1 world would have greeted with much fanfare, rather than with the odd social media post they’ve allowed in the COVID-19 stifled world of 2020, because today my friends, Formula 1 is 70! The first ever Formula 1 Grand Prix was held Read more…
It’s been a while since we had any proper Formula 1 news to talk about – COVID-19 has pretty much seen to that. However, Williams Racing hasn’t been sitting on its hands, clock-watching until we’re all allowed to go racing again. They’ve made good use of the time to bring Read more…
Born into aristocracy, Sheridan Thynne’s interest in motorsport began brewing when a the father of a school friend – Peter Mitchell-Thomson, 2nd Baron of Selsdon – won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1949 in a Ferrari. (Where I’m from, if you had a school-friend whose dad owned a Read more…
It may have slipped your notice, but I’ve been on an enforced absence from anything computer related as a result of a nasty bout of COVID-19 (from which I am now fully recovered, thankfully!) Even without the pox, I probably wouldn’t have been quite as prolific in writing these blogs Read more…
After the 11th hour cancellation of the Australian Grand Prix (as fans were queuing at the gates ahead of FP1) as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, two further Grand Prix have been cancelled/postponed (depending on who you ask) making four in total – Australia, Bahrain, China and Vietnam – Read more…
It has long been accepted that the Formula 1 establishment handles Scuderia Ferrari differently to any and all of the other teams. In recognising the value they add to the sport as a result of the Italian marque’s heritage, their continued participation in Formula 1 since its inception in 1950 Read more…
Formula 1 finds itself on the brink of a new crisis – one not of its own doing this time – that threatens to derail the new season before it’s even begun. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak that began at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, China has – at the Read more…
