Inside Ferrari (Jon Nicholson with Maurice Hamilton, 2006)

Few of us ever get the chance to get up close to Formula One cars. Unless you can blag a paddock pass, it’s difficult to get much of an impression of what goes on behind the scenes at a race weekend.
“Inside Ferrari” puts the inner workings of the Scuderia on display through 285 pages of [...]

“Team Schumacher” (Timothy Collings, 2005)

Michael Schumacher is heading for retirement, so place your bets now on how many new Schumacher biographies will be out in time for the Christmas market.
There are plenty of books on the controversial seven-times champion already, though, one of the most recent of which is Timothy Collings “Team Schumacher”. This is not so much about [...]

F1 to adopt Champ Car tyres?

Tyre manufacturer Bridgestone are proposing that Formula One adopts the same tyre rules as seen in the Champ Car World Series, in an attempt to improving the racing.
Bridgestone are the exclusive tyre suppliers to Champ Car and provide two types of tyre for each weekend called the ’standard’ and ‘option’ tyres, the latter with a [...]

Gallery: Spyker show their colours

Good news for Ron Dennis: Spyker, the new owners of the former Midland F1 team, have repainted the team’s cars in a suitably Dutch shade of orange.
The old Midland F1 paint scheme looked like a cheap knock-off of McLaren’s gorgeous reflective chrome finish. Now it looks more like a cross between last year’s Dutch A1 [...]

Turkey penalised with largest ever slap on wrist

The organisers of the Turkish Grand Prix will not lose their rights to hold any races following the podium controversy at this year’s F1 race.
Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat was presented on the podium as the leader of the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus”. Turkey is the only country in the world to recognise [...]

Trackside: Guess Schu?

Last week’s Trackside was about some German guy retiring. Michael something. Bit of a dab hand at the old Formula One. Enjoy!
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Gallery: Not the Belgian Grand Prix

Today was supposed to be the date of the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francochamps. The majestic circuit in the Ardennes forest was voted the best in Formula One by fans last year, but was dropped from the 2006 calendar.
The circuit is one of the most demanding in the world. Its fastest sweeps and plunges are [...]

F1: It’s nepo-tastic!

The trend of Formula One drivers’ sons making their way into the sport is nothing new. World Champions Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve both had celebrated lineages, as did Michael Andretti, although he failed to match the achievements of father Mario by some way.
But the trend has taken off in a big way with the [...]

Alonso penalty: justice delayed

In the dispute over Fernando Alonso’s controversial qualifying penalty at last weekend’s Italian Grand Prix good sense finally prevailed, although good grace did not.
The FIA announced that henceforth only drivers who deliberately impede another racer in qualifying will be punished.
Seriously, could that not have come to that conclusion when they drafted that rule in the [...]

F1 in the news: Talladega Nights special edition

This week in F1 in the news the NASCAR film Talladega Nights officially opens: We took a look at it last week but what is everyone else saying? (All links external)