South African born Desire Wilson is one of the five women to take part in Formula 1 alongside Maria Teresa De Fillipis, Lella Lombardi, Divina Galica and Giovanna Amati, and is considered one of the most accomplished female drivers of all time. Today is her 66th birthday! In attempting to Read more…
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Everyone’s favourite daredevil and engineering enthusiast TT racer Guy Martin has entered the record books for driving a tractor at 153 mph (an average speed of 135 mph over the run), smashing the previous record – a record also held by Martin and JCB – by over 30mph. Martin took Read more…
James Hunt has become one of the sport’s most iconic characters. He embodies a representation of a bygone era of Formula 1 where drivers were daredevils who liked a smoke and a drink, a good punch up, the company of beautiful women, and after an afternoon’s toil at the wheel, Read more…
We’re two races from the end of the 2019 Formula 1 season, and with both championships won (by Mercedes Benz and Lewis Hamilton you will be no doubt shocked to read!) the Brazilian Grand Prix was the first of two ‘dead rubbers’ to round off the year. Dead rubbers typically Read more…
When Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna collided in Formula 1 title deciders in 1989 and 1990 rewarding the probable guilty party with the F1 title on each occasion (Prost in 1989 and Senna in 1990) we all wondered what kind of an example F1 was giving to young drivers looking Read more…
The 1995 Formula 1 World Championship was one Williams could and perhaps should have won. And but for the brilliance and sheer relentlessness of Michael Schumacher and his Benetton Team catching Williams short on strategy and forcing them into errors it most likely would have. However, by the time F1 Read more…
I’m almost loath to write another blog regurgitating nonsense that former Williams driver and 1997 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve has said in an effort to keep himself newsworthy, but I’m going to nonetheless, in the hope that one day someone will Google ‘Jacques Villeneuve Williams’ and they’ll end up here Read more…
The year is 1993 and the Williams team is at the peak of its powers. A string of groundbreaking Adrian Newey penned cars have turned F1 on its head sending the world’s best drivers into a scramble to win the much coveted Williams #1 drive and the success likely to Read more…
Changes designed to bring life back to a Formula 1 that many spectators believe has suffered from a lack of competition both on and off-track has been announced. The long-awaited new sporting, technical and financial regulations were made public prior to the United States Grand Prix weekend, and have been Read more…
The 2019 United States Grand Prix felt less like a Formula 1 motor race and like a homecoming for World Champion elect Lewis Hamilton. The Stevenage-born driver who spends much of his time in the USA needed just four points in the USGP to clinch his sixth Formula 1 world Read more…
