Formula One Features — December 2005

The Super Aguri F1 team has had a short and rather difficult life to date. The decision to go ahead with the team was taken very late in the day and then the $48m bond necessary for a new team to enter F1 was not paid in time and there had to be nearly three weeks of horse-trading before a deal was found.

Mark Hughes is a wellknown name in F1 journalism and deservedly so for he is in the style of the journalists of old who knew the sport in intricate detail and did not get by with lightweight flim-flam and lifestyle articles. Hughes's knowledge is astonishing

Tim Collings used to be a fulltime Formula 1 reporter but in recent years has drifted away from the sport and concentrates more on soccer although the agency he runs continues in the sport. This distance is a both a blessing and a failing

David Tremayne is a friend and colleague for many years but all friendships aside, his biography of Donald Campbell was an extraordinary book and so I was looking forward to reading his biography of Rubens Barrichello, who is one of the nicest and even-tempered of the current Grand Prix drivers