The Canadian Collection

Some video thoughts from three absorbing days in Montreal…

Magic on the Cote d’Azur

Anyone watching the action from Monaco’s Casino Square, or the exit of the tunnel or the entry to the swimming pool will know it: will know that it doesn’t get much better in these places; that you are close to human beings of extraordinary talent, doing more with their hands, feet, eyes, brains, heart, lungs, muscles and […]

Hey Bruce! What happened to the livery…?

Wonderful to see Michael Turner (right) in Monaco (above with Paul-Henri Cahier) – particularly on the occasion of McLaren’s 50th birthday. I may be wrong, but I don’t think too many of the people closely associated with the original McLaren F1 team are in town – apart from Michael, of course, and I think Howden […]

Now that was a motor race…

There was plenty to talk about after the Spanish Grand Prix, not the least of which was that first, amazing, win for Max Verstappen. When I predicted a few weeks ago on this site that Max would win a race in 2016 with the Red Bull A-team I certainly didn’t imagine that both Merc drivers […]

Another first corner skirmish…

It was 50 years ago that Graham Hill summed it up: “Difficult to believe that a bunch of so-called racing drivers can’t all head into the first corner without running into one another…” He was talking, of course, only a few moments after the famous 1966 Indy 500 rolling-start multishunt. As on-the-button as Graham was back […]

Shanghai Breezes

A friend in the LeTV (Chinese TV) studio generated some nice art after the race in Shanghai: it was a colour-coded lap chart – all lines, peaks, troughs, zigs and zags. It was that sort of race. About the only thing predictable/normal was that Mercedes would win – but even that was coloured by Lewis […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: