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Insight - Formula 1 funding - how does it work?

Many people, even in the sport, do not really understand how Formula 1 racing is funded. It is a complicated business and very different from the way in which other sports work. It has its advantages and its disadvantages.Full Story

Insight - Super Aguri - the full story

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.Full Story

Book Review - Speed Addicts

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 Full Story
Book Review - Team Schumacher

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 failingFull Story
Book Review - Rubens Barrichello - In the spirit of Senna and the shadow of Schumacher

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 Full Story

An appreciation - Jabby Crombac

Jabby Crombac died as he had lived, with a strong heart and no regrets. Full Story

Insight - The Red Bull dilemma

Last weekend Vitantonio Liuzzi gave some of the other Formula 1 drivers a demonstration of why it is that some people in F1 think he is a star, who is being wasted in his current role at Red Bull Racing. Full Story

The Man in the Pub - Before you die...

For the first time in a good few years I was recently tempted to venture forth from the comfort of the pub to go for trip to a Grand Prix in that place we Brits call Europe. Actually, if the truth be told, it was the current wife who decided that this would be a good idea.Full Story

Profile - The new World Champion

Fernando Alonso, the new World Champion, comes from the town of Oviedo, the capital of the principality of Asturias, an autonomous province on the north coast of Spain. There is a proud heritage in the region and an independence which one sees sometimes when the Asturias flags appear when Alonso is around.Full Story

Interview - The secrets of Nico Rosberg

In the summer of 1985 Keke Rosberg, the original F1 Flying Finn, wound up his turbo-charged Williams-Honda and went for the fastest lap ever around Silverstone, aiming to break the average speed of 160mph. It was a record that would stand for 17 years.Full Story

Interview - Mateschitz on Minardi

Red Bull has acquired the Minardi team from Paul Stoddart and will take over operations on November 1. We asked Dietrich Mateschitz and his right hand man Dany Bahar to explain the takeover and their plans for the future.Full Story

Interview - Tonio Liuzzi: Born to race

Tonio Liuzzi is a frustrated man. Last year he was racing like a demon and swept to a dominant championship in Formula 3000 with seven wins in 10 races. Sauber wanted to give him a contract but decided at the last minute to sign Jacques Villeneuve instead and so Liuzzi went instead to Red Bull Racing.Full Story

Interview - Mario Theissen

Mario Theissen is the boss of BMW Motorsport - and the newest Formula 1 team principal. The German car manufacturer has announced its purchase of Sauber and the aim is to create a new manufacturer team in the sport. To take BMW to the World Championship. Full Story

Book Review - For the love of it - John Love and an era of South African motorsport

Some drivers are fated to be remembered for one race, even though their careers embraced any others. John Love, who died in April aged 80, was such a man. For the Rhodesian, it was the 1967 South African Grand Prix at Kyalami.Full Story
Book Review - Legends of Speed - Brabham to Webber, Beechey to Brock

Like Greg Mills' John Love biography, this covers forgotten eras of Australian motorsport that would otherwise long have been forgotten by all but the hardiest enthusiasts, but as the title suggests it also reaches to the modern day with the exploits of Mark Webber.Full Story

The Man in the Pub - A day in the country

There aren't many things to tempt me away from the pub of a weekend, a Grand Prix of course will do it, but we've not had one of them for a couple of weeks now. However every year for the last 10 I have journeyed to West Sussex to visit Goodwood House. Full Story

Feature - An American journalist writes

It is now obvious to anyone with eyesight that the USA represents little more to F1 than another source of revenue to be salted away in offshore accounts and not reinvested in the sport. Full Story

Interview - Danica talks F1

Danica Patrick is the darling of the US motorsport scene at the moment. She was the star of the Indianapolis 500 and already her name is being talked about as a possible F1 driver of the future. Full Story

The Man in the Pub - Oh, these precious drivers

This week, as has been the case every May since 1995, my invitation to join Team McLaren at the annual three-day Silverstone test, landed on my doormat. I say invitation, but in truth McLaren's supporters club wants me to part with around $180 for the pleasure of going to the event. Full Story

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

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