Archive for November, 2006
Trackside: Top 10s
Lots of lists in Trackside this month. With the racing year largely wrapped up it seemed like the time to pick the ten best British drivers of 2006.
And in a shameless re-hashing of the same idea there’s also the top 10 Scottish racing drivers of all top as today is St. Andrew’s Day featuring such [...]
The Ben Evans Column: F1 review videos
We’re only one month into the off-season and already Ben has re-watched all his F1 review videos.
So what makes a good review? Ben has a few ideas - not least of which putting out two reviews for each season. Read on to find out why…
Dear Michael Grade
Congratulations on your new job!
I’m sure you have many pressing matters to attend to since being installed as the new boss of ITV, so I’ll keep this brief.
I wanted to say a quick few words about ITV’s F1 coverage. Now, I know you’re a sports fan - former Daily Mirror sports correspondent and board member [...]
Super Aguri testing 2006 Honda?
As testing for the 2007 F1 season begins in Barcelona today it seems Super Aguri are running the 2006 Honda RA106 car.
The photographs below show 2007 Super Aguri driver Anthony Davidson in what appears to be a RA106 repainted in Super Aguri colours.
If so, and Super Aguri are able to run last year’s Honda as [...]
Why the 2007 calendar is too short
We all have a few writers whose opinions we tend to agree with - but isn’t it surprising when one of them comes out with something that’s totally at odds with your point of view?
So it was for me last week reading Damien Smith’s latest The Observer column on Autosport.com. He agrees with Max Mosley [...]
“Formula One 1970: The Uncrowned Champion”
“Uncrowned Champion†is the first in the series of F1 season reviews created using footage from the Brunswick archives.
At 52 minutes long, it is far shorter than the contemporary reviews we are used to, but all of the footage is in full colour - and especially interesting because video from the 1970s is hard to [...]
F1 in the blogs
The appointment of Lewis ‘first black F1 driver’ Hamilton is unsurprisingly the number one story among F1 bloggers this week.
But there are also those with plenty to say about the new green F1 and the state of F1 television. Read on for more in our weekly round-up.
(All blog links external)
F1 in the news
In our weekly roundup of F1 headlines the next generation of F1 stars have impressed at the Formula Three Macau Grand Prix, the ‘Michael Schumacher comeback’ rumours have started already, Juan Pablo Montoya makes a crash-bang debut in the NASCAR Nextel Cup, and Alessandro Zanardi makes an incredible return to an F1 cockpit.
All news links [...]
Sport may be ‘killing’ the planet - but don’t kill sport
Writing in last edition of the Observer Sport Monthly George Monbiot savaged sport in general and motor sport in particular for causing climate change.
Motor racing he says is, “simply incompatible” with finding a solution to global warming: “the faster the car, the quicker it cooks the planet.”
Never mind that Monbiot fails to make any distinction [...]
Hamilton gets the McLaren gig
McLaren-Mercedes will run GP2 champion Lewis Hamilton alongside Fernando Alonso in 2007, it was confirmed this morning.
This means there will be four British drivers in F1 in 2007 - Hamilton joining Jenson Button, David Coulthard and Anthony Davidson.
Hamilton is the first rookie signed to race a full season for McLaren since Michael Andretti in 1993. [...]
