Formula One Features — July 2007

I suspect that a fairly high proportion of the fans who read this website are old enough, like me, to have been weaned on the writings of Denis Jenkinson. In the bad old days when motor racing only ever got on to the front pages of the daily press if someone was dead, finding out what had really happened in the last couple of GPs involved buying Motor Sport magazine on the first Wednesday of every month (one shilling and sixpence when I was at school) and devouring whatever 'Jenks' had written.

Coming away from Magny-Cours on the train last week, I picked up a copy of L'Equipe, the national sporting daily which has somehow survived the looming menace of the worldwide web. Like so many of the publications which we used to enjoy, it's now only a pale shadow of its former robust self, with the F1 coverage lacking any of the informed analysis that you'll find here.