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Big Al - Study the history books before you criticize

If I had a dollar for everybody who's moaned to me over the last few days about just how boring the British Grand Prix turned out to be, I wouldn't be sitting here writing this column.Full Story

Technical - Barriers

The ideal crash barrier is no barrier at all. However, the only applications of this in motor sport that I can think of are at Bonneville and the Black Rock desert, used for Land Speed Record attempts. At these sites there are several miles in every direction between the track and the mountains and, even through a telephoto lens the vehicles seem a very long way away from the spectators and viewers. Barriers are necessary on race circuits to enable spectators and TV cameras to get close enough to the action, without being exposed to the danger of being hit by an out of control car.Full Story

Exclusive Interview - Ralf Schumacher: Why winning is good for Ralf

Two victories in a resurgent year for BMW Williams have allowed Ralf Schumacher to realize one burning ambition - his maiden Grand Prix success - and to push himself alongside elder brother Michael in the spotlight. It's also brought in a much-needed new contender to break up the Ferrari-McLaren monopoly at the top of the F1 tree.Full Story

News Feature - Silverstone goes to the government

The 2001 British Grand Prix is out of the way, as is Britain's general election, and now it is time for Sir Jackie Stewart to take himself back to Westminster to ask for money to create his vision of Silverstone.Full Story
F3000 Report - Bourdais breaks the mold

Ten years ago the DAMS team was the one to beat in Formula 3000. In 1990 Jean-Paul Driot's team won the title with Erik Comas and there was a second title in 1993 thanks to the efforts of a rising star called Olivier Panis and a third in 1994 with Jean-Christophe Boullion. But then things began to go wrong. There was only one win (for Tarso Marques) in 1995 and it was not until 1997 that the team won again - thanks to the efforts of Jamie Davies at Enna-Pergusa in Sicily.Full Story

Exclusive Interview - Patrick Long: The Natural

For almost every great Grand Prix driver in recent decades the initial steps to the top have been the same, whether you are Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher or Kimi Raikkonen: karting followed by Formula Ford.Full Story

The Youth of Today - Driver safety and renegade cool

Take away the screaming headlines, and there's one person who has consistently spoken about our sport with common sense since first tipping up at Silverstone and giving the jitters to Hill, Schumacher, Coulthard et al. The hair color may be less dramatic, and he may not have stood on the middle step of the podium for some four years but Jacques Villeneuve remains as relevant a mouthpiece for motor racing as ever he was.Full Story

Exclusive Interview - Mika Hakkinen: Will he go or will he stay?

Word was that Mika Hakkinen was considering retirement from the sport that yielded him two World Championship crowns. But now it is that he won't be going after all, and that he has chosen to stay and fight. So what's going through the talented but troubled Finn's mind right now?Full Story

Technical - The anoraks/geeks shall inherit the earth

Bill Gates and his software gurus at Microsoft have proved that being able to write computer code gives one a good opportunity to earn $billions and gain enormous influence over a large number of people and corporations. This principle holds true on a smaller scale in motorsport, and in Formula 1 in particular. When the FIA scrapped all driver aids and active suspensions in 1993, the code writers, who were becoming pivotal members of teams, did not disappear from the sport but went underground for a while.Full Story

Big Al - Who hits the F1 big time next?

So Mika Hakkinen might be toying with retirement. Even if he doesn't decide to quit after this, the most disappointing season of his F1 career so far, he surely can't be too far away from calling it a day.Full Story

F3000 Report - Christmas for Webber

Super Nova Racing driver Mark Webber won the Magny Cours Formula 3000 race, his third victory of the year. He is now within one point of championship leader Justin Wilson and would have been ahead if Wilson had not overtaken his team mate Tomas Enge on the very last lap of the race after a long battle for second place.Full Story

The Youth of Today - National Passion's a Wonderful Thing

Being a European is quite hard work for us Brits. For example as much as many of us wanted to, drumming up excitement over Bentley's return to Le Mans was a feat that was a little too hard to manage, by virtue of not being German.Full Story

F3000 Report - Closing up the championship

The International Formula 3000 title race is between three men: the two Coca Cola Nordic Racing team mates Justin Wilson and Tomas Enge and Super Nova Racing's Mark Webber. At the Nurburgring, title leader Wilson went out early with a mechanical problem and so Enge and Webber made up ground. The top three are now covered by just five points with six races gone and six races still to come.Full Story

Technical - The games people play

Before pit stops to refuel and change tires were reintroduced into Formula 1, there was only one race strategy, as Colin Chapman told me at my first race as a race engineer: "Go like hell at the start, and overtake as many people as possible." Nowadays the post-race talk is as much about strategies as actual car performance or on-track overtaking maneuvers.Full Story

Big Al - A worthy reward for the right man

Jackie Stewart deserves his knighthood because there are a lot of people alive today who wouldn't be if the Scot hadn't chosen to make a professional career out of motor racing. That is neither a joke nor an exaggeration.Full Story

News Feature - Johnny Herbert rates the F1 teams, Part 2

He's still quick, as he proved while testing for Orange Arrows, and he keeps up with the intricacies of the F1 scene. So who better to give his opinion on who is doing a good job and who isn't than three-time F1 winner Johnny Herbert?Full Story

News Feature - Johnny Herbert rates the F1 teams, Part 1

He's still quick, as he proved while testing for Orange Arrows, and he keeps up with the intricacies of the F1 scene. So who better to give his opinion on who is doing a good job and who isn't than three-time F1 winner Johnny Herbert?Full Story

Big Al - Don't take your eye off the ball, Ron!

The main priority for the McLaren-Mercedes team this week will most certainly NOT be a process of picking-over the events of Adrian Newey's will-he-won't-he psychological wobble last week in which it seemed as though he was going to Jaguar. And then, suddenly, he wasn't.Full Story

Exclusive Interview - Jenson Button: Button hoping for Renault kick start in French GP

Jenson Button faced the glitz and glamour of the Monaco Grand Prix as the F1 driver who has everything. Apart from a competitive car.Full Story

The Youth of Today - Ripping yarns for Monaco

"Goodwood's not for a while yet," said a colleague as I ambled into the Donington paddock for the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophy Meeting. Well, yes, there's no formal request to put on period togs and pretend to be Bertie Wooster at any of the other historic meetings of the year? it's just something that happens.Full Story

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