27 March Sunday 27 March
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Melbourne Musings
A Happy Easter to everyone. Strange, given the past wonders of Good Friday Oulton and Easter Monday Goodwood/Thruxton, that the motor racing world this Easter morn lies relatively quiet. Perhaps it’s a good thing: time to pause, time to reflect. (My mate Alan Gow, who runs the ultra-successful British Touring Car Championship – but never […]
24 February Wednesday 24 February
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Enter the 2016 F1 cars
No big new F1 car launches these days. No pre-paid tickets to Paris or Bologna. No Marlboro watches, BMW duck-down jackets or Ferrari leather folders. Just Barcelona in mid-February. Misty mornings. Dodgy wifi. And closed garage doors. They eventually broke cover, though, the new 2016 cars. And when they did so we were watching with […]
17 February Wednesday 17 February
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They built racing cars….
Pure and simple. For F1. And, in order to finance those F1 projects, every other type of racing car too – from Formula Junior to big-banger sports cars. Cooper and Brabham. Two titans of the sport. Cooper gave us rear engines, Jack Brabham the sight of a brilliant driver winning races and championships in a […]
14 February Sunday 14 February
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How they finished
With the first of the two Barcelona tests due to begin shortly (Feb 22), let’s take a last look at how they finished, team-by-team, in 2015. With me in the TRE studio is my friend, Craig Scarborough: