Lewis Hamilton responds to key F1 question: 'You've never had anyone like me here'

Punchy and fighting talk from Lewis Hamilton over a key F1 question regarding his future in the championship.

For the F1 Driver Oliver Bearman, It’s a Journey

The young Haas driver has had a fast rise in Formula 1. He has dreams of someday driving for Ferrari, but first he wants to make Haas a contender.

Video: 2026 F1 Car Reveal | Scuderia Ferrari SF-26

The covers are almost off, get ready to meet our F1 2026 Challenger, the SF-26!

Sainz to Ferrari, Daniel to McLaren. Wow!

Good news all round, I think, to have Carlos Sainz in a Ferrari and Daniel Ricciardo a McLaren-Renault/Mercedes (post-2020). Carlos will bring a dash of Latin flair to the most glamorous team in racing; and Daniel will glide right in at McLaren alongside Lando Norris. Anyway, rather than reading about my opinions, here are my […]

Vettel splits with Ferrari

Here are a few thoughts on Sebastian Vettel’s end-of-season departure from Ferrari. I think this is a good thing for Ferrari in one sense – it’ll allow them to focus 100 per cent on Charles Leclerc, who is quite capable of winning a championship if the car is good enough – but in another it’s […]

One of the greatest of F1 drives – Monaco, 1965

This race had it all. A titanic win for Graham Hill (father of Damon). In-fighting between the two very quick Ferrari drivers. A fast drive by a young rookie named Jackie Stewart. The debut of a future World Champion – Denis Hulme. Plus an F1 Lotus plunge into the Monte-Carlo harbour. In conjunction with APArchive, […]

F1’s unlikeliest winner

All bets were off by the time they arrived at The Glen in ’66. Jack Brabham and his fabulous Brabham-Repcos had secured the world championship; John Surtees had switched mid-season from Ferrari to Cooper-Maserati, thus ending Maranello’s realistic title challenge (despite producing a car that could have won it). Dan Gurney had debuted his gorgeous […]

Ferrari win at Monza! Surtees-Bandini 1-3!

When I found this footage in the APArchive I couldn’t help re-living the titanic 1964 Italian GP at Monza, for this was the race when John Surtees and Lorenzo Bandini finished one-three for Ferrari. Coming off wins in Germany and Austria, Ferrari were under massive pressure to complete the hat-trick in Italy – and they […]

The Racer’s Edge Live (Ep03)

Here’s a recording of the live show we aired on Thursday, April 09, 2020. It includes all the chat and questions that sped us quickly through the hour and finishes with some footage I think you’ll love – shots of Paris, 2004, when a certain Ferrari driver brought the city to a standstill. I’ll be […]

Travels in Italy

The Spa-Monza double-header always poses a question: fly or drive? This year I chose the latter option and took the opportunity to visit some of the people and places I’ve always wanted to meet (or re-visit). Near Parma, for example, I called on the former Ferrari engineer, Enrique Scalabroni. He and his partner live in […]

F1 tech update with Scarbs

Time for another F1 tech update with the excellent Craig Scarborough. Although many of the mid-field teams are now concentrating on their 2017 cars, development continues unabated at the sharp end of the grid. Here are some separate thoughts on Mercedes, Red Bull-Renault, Ferrari and McLaren-Honda, with the final video focussing on the remaining teams. […]

Monza’s always fun…

…and you invariably leave on Mondays with some regret. Here are some of my thoughts as I drove across Northern Italy after another weekend at the autodromo: Nico Rosberg won impeccably; Lewis Hamilton, F1 global ambassador extraordinaire, is still massively under-used by the F1 world, particularly as the USGP approaches; Ferrari, re-structured, are looking good; Daniel […]

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 […]

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 […]