Eyes wide open. Jenson Button is aiming to become the ninth British driver to be crowned world champion this weekend. Season’s penultimate round takes place in Sao Paulo at the Jose Carlos Pace circuit at Interlagos. Rain is expected for the whole weekend. Rain last year in the closing laps of the race resulted in […]
Dressed for success Dario Franchitti – The 2009 IRL Champion After walking away from a season of Nascar racing, the Scottish driver switched back to Indy car racing with Chip Ganassi’s team. Five wins and five poles during the season gave Ashley’s Ace his second championship in three years. Franchitti was victorious in Long Beach, […]
François Cevert © Paul Chenard October 6, 1973. A grim day at the Glen. When Francois Cevert crossed the line to take the checkered flag for the 1971 United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, it was a day he would never forget. He was scoring his first world championship Formula 1 victory with Ken […]
Faces Going Places By Nasir Hameed Frijns Means Business: Flying Dutchman Robin Frijns lands Rookie of the Year title in the 2009 Formula BMW Europe Championship with Josef Kaufmann Racing of Germany.
Singapore Snapshot Motorsport Mondial Presentation Uniquely Singapore. Formula One’s only night action returned to Singapore for the second running of the street race in the city-state. Bernie’s bright idea may be applied to other fly away races for the convenience of European TV audience.
Splash from Singapore ’08 Insurance company pulls premium and bank loses interest By Nasir Hameed From the “why am I not surprised?” folder comes the hard drive that both Spanish insurance giant Mutua Madrilena and Dutch banking behemoth ING are pulling the plug on their sponsorship of UK-based French Formula 1 Renault team. Destroying […]