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The hack looks back - The French GP

If you had believed what the organisers of the French GP were saying this time 12 months ago, there wouldn't be a race to be writing about this year. Far be it from me to suggest that you should never believe a word a Frenchman says, but I am happy to report that no sooner had we all written the obituary of Magny-Cours and its race than a bout of arm-twisting by local dignitaries unlocked some secret funds, and we're all going back yet again to enjoy the farmyard smells of La France Profonde.Full Story

The hack looks back - The Canadian GP

Before starting my usual nostalgic meanderings around Montreal and its Grand Prix, perhaps I might be permitted to reflect on last week's race at Monaco. Far be it from me to attribute great visionary powers to the magnificent electronic organ to which you have just directed your browser, but having warned you all about the rapaciousness of the Principality's hospitality industry it is a matter of record that the number of fans who went there two weeks ago to urge our own young Mr Hamilton to success was well down on the usual attendance. Full Story

The hack looks back - The Monaco Grand Prix

So it's Monaco this weekend, and good luck to everyone who's going there. Unless you're one of the fans who come in by train on Sunday and grab the free but rather precarious positions on the cliff face overlooking the exit from the Rascasse, you can be sure that you'll have had your pockets emptied by the rapacious hotel and restaurant owners, most of whom - like all the genuine Mon©gasque residents - are descended from a long line of Italian pirates. Full Story

The hack looks back - The Turkish GP

This weekend's Turkish GP will be the country's fourth, which seems surprising when you recall what happened after the race two years ago. Full Story

Interview - Martin Whitmarsh on Heikki Kovalainen and the Spanish Grand Prix

The Spanish Grand Prix was a bitter-sweet race for the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team. On the one hand Lewis Hamilton returned to form, finishing third and adding to his score in the Formula 1 Drivers' World Championship, but on the other hand, Heikki Kovalainen crashed heavily.Full Story

The hack looks back - On despots and elsewhere

What with Robert Mugabe defying the wishes of the Zimbabwean people and clutching fast to his country's discredited presidency, not to mention Vladimir Putin's dubious plan to stay in charge of Russia, dictators are much in the news right now. A curse on them all. Full Story

The Man in the Pub - The German we should be talking about

Sunday™s during the winter are, it has to be said, generally rather pleasant affairs. They are the high point of the week and during the dark months they usually follow the same pattern.Full Story

Interview - The force behind the Force

Vijay Mallya says that his mother told him that the first word he ever uttered was not "Mama" or "Papa" like the rest of us. Apparently the bouncing young baby Vijay came up with the word "car". Since his days in nappies, Mallya has been passionate about cars.Full Story

Feature - Putting the X into F1?

These are exciting times in Dubai. The entire emirate seems to be under construction. Buildings rise from the ground with alarming speed. The more one looks, the more amazing it all seems.Full Story

Feature - A hack looks back on ... Australia and Malaysia

So, it's a late start to the season for this column, the first edition of which was written in plenty of time before the Australian GP but somehow failed to get itself published. Full Story

Interview - Bernard Rey

Bernard Rey is the chairman of Renault F1, keeping an eye on the team's progress from his position in the top management of Renault in Paris. Flavio Briatore and the Renault F1 engineers answer to him. So he is a man worth talking to.Full Story

Insight - The Winds of Change?

Recent news that has attracted a lot of attention in the motor racing world is that Formula 1™s governing body, the FIA, has declared its intention to introduce dramatic measures to reduce costs within the sport. Full Story

Interview - Interview with Pascal Vasselon

Pascal Vasselon is the man in charge of chassis design at Toyota. A tyre man with Michelin for many years, Vasselon took over the management of the team when Mike Gascoyne departed. Full Story

The Man in the Pub - Arise, Sir Ron

It's back to the warmth of the pub after a trip out for the lads to nearby Kemble Airfield, an old World War II bomber base and once the home of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team. Full Story

The hack looks back - Brazil

So, after 16 of the best races I can remember in one season, we won't know until Sunday whether it's going to be Hamilton, Alonso or Raikkonen who will wear the crown. For only the ninth time in the 38-year history of the FIA's World Driving Championship, three drivers will be in contention for the title in the final round. Full Story

The hack looks back - Japan and China

There can be little doubt that the Fuji circuit, helped along with many millions of Toyota investment, will make a good fist of staging this weekend's 15th round of the world championship out in the countryside overlooked by that venerated snow-draped volcano. Nevertheless, I'm a little uneasy about the change of venue for the Japanese GP. After 20 years at Suzuka, the race had found its home at one of the world's greatest tracks, in front of huge, appreciative crowds. Full Story

The Man in the Pub - All news is good news

Depending on which newspaper, magazine or website you read, as far as Formula 1 is concerned, the world came to an end at around 6pm on Thursday, September 13. Unless you have been on the Moon, or in Guantanamo Bay, you™ll know this was, of course, the day when McLaren lost all of its Constructors™ points for 2007 and for good measure, $100m. Full Story

The hack looks back - Spa-Francorchamps

It's great to be going back to Spa this weekend. Because I'm writing this before Thursday's manure/ventilator interface scenario in Paris, I'm assuming the race itself won't be affected. There has been a lot of political argy-bargy in recent years about the Belgian GP, too, so much in fact that when it was agreed that the 2006 race should be suspended, many of the old hands in the press centre suspected it was doomed. Full Story

The hack looks back - Monza

History hangs heavy over Monza, much as it does over ancient cathedrals or battlefields. Here in the Royal Park, the Kings of Lombardy once hunted deer and wild boar, in between fighting bloody local turf wars. The road circuit was first used for racing in 1922, and it has been the scene of every world championship Italian GP since 1950, except for just one edition held at Imola in 1989. Full Story

The hack looks back - Hungarian GP

My mate PeeWee in Australia has brought my attention to a website on which you can see details of the speed at which our planet is being destroyed. Log on to poodwaddle.com and you'll find lots of whirring dials which track alarming shifts like the increase in the world's population, the depletion of the rain forest, the rate at which we're burning up the oil and other depressing facts. Full Story

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