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Feature - Stubbing out cigarette money in F1

Some of the Formula 1 teams seem to be in denial at the moment over the question of tobacco sponsorship. They are talking about seeking clarification from the new British government about the latest anti-smoking legislation which arrives at the end of July this year, Full Story

The Man in the Pub - These new-fangled circuits

It used to be the case that I'd walk into my son's room and find him playing a Formula 1 game on the Playstation and I, like a true anorak, would look at the screen and instantly know not only on which track he was playing, but also which corner he was at. Sad, but true. Nowadays, however, unless there is a big clue (lots of sand means Bahrain) I have to admit that I am struggling.Full Story

Feature - Gordon Bennett, it's Gordon Bennett!

In Britain the expression "Gordon Bennett" is one of surprise, alarm and even incredulity. The Oxford English Dictionary points out that derivation of the term is obscure. There is speculation that it is a gentrification of the expression "Gor Blimey", which itself was a corruption of "God blind me!"Full Story

Interview - Gil de Ferran's big challenge

Gil de Ferran's Formula 1 career never really got off the ground - probably because of a bang on the head. Full Story

The Man in the Pub - You're confusing us!

Being the sad guy in the corner of the pub with a pint and a copy of Autosport, I have had to fight endless battles with the pub bores over the years over whether or not Formula 1 was "just about driving around in circles". Then it was the "I'd watch it, but the same bloke wins all the time" routine.Full Story

Interview - Aiming for the top

Most young American racing drivers nowadays want to be big names in NASCAR. That is where the money is and where a young man can really make his name. But Ryan Hunter-Reay is not interested. He wants to be a Formula 1 star.Full Story

Feature - What might have been

Paul Stoddart located his Formula 1 team (at least for a time) in the unlikely location of Ledbury, a pretty little town in the Malvern Hills well off the beaten track from the usual motor racing haunts.Full Story

Feature - Taking a long view

Formula 1 is an industry in which people never look very fair ahead. There is always a crisis to be sorted out or a deadline to be met. Formula 1 is a world in which a talent for fire-fighting is usually more successful than brilliant long-term thinking.Full Story

Book Review - Martin Brundle, Working the Wheel

In the early 1990s Bernie Ecclestone once referred to the midfield in Grand Prix racing as "Brundle, Blundell and Smundell". It was an uncharitable remark given that Martin Brundle was a driver who did just about everything in Formula 1, except winning a race. Full Story

News Feature - F1 in crisis? Well, it's a wake-up call

Many thousands of words have been written in the last few days about Formula 1 being in a state of crisis. It is, but then it always is. Formula 1 will stagger on as it always has done because the sport is stronger than the constituent parts.Full Story

Feature - Make your F1 dream come true

Have you ever dreamed of going to all the Formula 1 Grands Prix around the world, seeing all the great race tracks and meeting F1 fans from countries all over the world? Dreaming is easy, but back in 1991 one English fan called John Grainger decided that he was going to do an entire season of Formula 1 racing.Full Story

Feature - The story of Willie K

Motor racing was always - and remains - a sport for the rich. There are very few poor drivers in the sport, beyond a few dozen who by talent alone make it into the top drives across the world. The rest pay.Full Story

Book Review - Ayrton Senna. Croisements d'une vie

Lionel Froissart first met Ayrton Senna in 1978 when Senna left Brazil for the first time and came to Europe to race karts. The two remained close and moved up to Formula 1 in the same era, Froissart reporting on the F1 scene for the French daily newspaper Liberation.Full Story

Book Review - The Bugatti Queen

At the end of her book on Mariette Helene Delangle, the mysterious racing driver "Helle Nice", Miranda Seymour explains that "the story will not I am afraid satisfy the experts". And she says that she would like it be become "the ground from which more detailed researches can be undertaken".Full Story

Book Review - Ferrari Formula 1

You might argue that producing a book in 2004 about a car which won the World Championship in 2000 is a strange thing to do, but that is to analyse this book in quite the wrong way. This is not a "news" book which is late arriving but rather a history book which is well ahead of its time.Full Story

Book Review - The Powerbrokers

Alan Henry is probably the best qualified of all Formula 1 journalists to write about Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley.Full Story
Book Review - Donald Campbell - The Man behind the Mask

To be published in January 2004, David Tremayne's new book about speed record hero Donald Campbell is not strictly a motor racing book and perhaps we should not be reviewing it on grandprix.com. However we have concluded that most race fans will be interested in this extraordinary story.Full Story

Book Review - The International Motor Racing Guide

If you have an annoying relative who is into motor racing, this book will guarantee total silence for the whole of the Christmas holiday.Full Story

Feature - The pioneer

Take a walk through the gardens at the Porte Maillot in Paris and you will find a large memorial to a man called Emile Levassor. Some people may know him as the partner of Rene Panhard; others may know him as a great automotive innovator but very few will ever have heard of his exploits as a racing driver.Full Story

News Feature - The race of death

This week marks the 100th anniversary of the Paris-Madrid road race, the greatest of all the city-to-city races in the early days of the sport. It was also the most disastrous as the rapid development of the cars in the early years of the sport meant that speeds had increased to dangerous levelsFull Story

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