Speeed date: motor racing returns to Pau
As home of the first grand prix circuit, the sedate town of Pau turned one driver into an excited Mr Toad It was a quiet morning in a dignified provincial French town. Old ladies watered their geraniums on ornate balconies. Others sipped coffee in the sunshine and watched groups of young men strolling to the [...]
Turkey grand prix heads for the scrapyard over $26m price tag
• Cost of staging F1 race next year set to double to £15.75m• Only 36,000 attended 2009 grand prix at Istanbul Park The next round of the Formula One world championship in Turkey may well be the last time the country stages a race after organisers claimed they had been priced out, with costs set [...]
Formula One 2011: drivers’ and constructors’ world championships standings
Updated tables for both the Formula One drivers’ and constructors’ world championships. Jenson Button
Formula One 2011: drivers’ and constructors’ world championships standings
Updated tables for both the Formula One drivers’ and constructors’ world championships. Jenson Button
Bernie Ecclestone meets German prosecutor investigating F1 sale
• Ecclestone confident of being exonerated of wrongdoing• Investigation centres on £30.6m paid to German banker Bernie Ecclestone has travelled to Germany to meet a state prosecutor investigating alleged payments of m (£30.6m) to a German banker during the sale of Formula One’s commercial rights five years ago. “I have been co-operating with the investigation [...]
Lewis Hamilton: I could make a go of it at Red Bull
• ‘Vettel would have to learn to take losing graciously’• McLaren driver still has two years left on contract Lewis Hamilton would be prepared to drive for Red Bull but only if Sebastian Vettel could learn to be a better loser. That was the clear implication from the McLaren driver’s comments on Friday following remarks [...]
Why two new sports documentaries have messed with my mind | Emma John
My Ayrton-Senna-as-panto-villain stance had never been properly challenged until I saw a preview of Asif Kapadia’s upcoming documentary I have only the vaguest idea where I was when Princess Diana died, and hopefully you’ll have guessed from the photo that I wasn’t around for JFK. But I remember exactly where I heard about Ayrton Senna’s [...]
