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The story, as recounted in a motoring magazine after Nigel had gone to Indycars, is that Nigel decided to retire after Silverstone in 1990 because he was being jerked around by Ferrari over...

Vijay Mallya has one significant outside sponsor on his team's cars - Medion, which came to the team with Adrian Sutil. All of the other brands on the cars are "in house" sponsorships, via companies...

IMHO the analogy to Prost vs. Senna is incorrect. A more appropriate comparison is Niki Lauda vs. Alain Prost in 1984. At the time Prost had been in Formula 1 for 4 seasons, and was reckoned to be...

Dismissing a website as "vile journalism" is an ad hominem fallacy that does not address the underlying issues. Briefly:

1. Force India owed Ferrari money as late as last Summer for their 2008...

Williams are merely defending their interests, as I would expect them to do. Because of their non-involvement with manufacturer stakeholders, and the fact that F1 is their only business, those...

If any of the other auto manufacturers decide to leave F1, what is the FIA going to do? Sue them, and run the risk that they will withdraw from all FIA-sanctioned motorsport? Somehow I don't see that...

..this gets messier by the minute. Now Mayfield's family is being torn down the middle...

In the past in F1, corporations have entered as a large-space or primary sponsor with a smaller team, then they have concluded that they get more value from less signage with a front-running team. ...

Apparently when Nigel Mansell returned to Williams for several races that season, he validated what Hill and Couthard had been saying about the difficulty of driving the car. Williams were anxious...

The background to the signing of Frentzen is that apparently, after losing the 1995 title to Michael Schumacher, Williams decided that Damon Hill was not the long-term answer to their #1 driver...

I also remember one John Horgan of Marlboro complaining back in 1981 that Gilles Villeneuve "does not understand the politics of F1" after Gilles removed the Marlboro logos from his uniform in...

I cannot see Honda staying as an engine supplier. Their 2008 engine was reckoned to be significantly down on power relative to the front-running engines (possibly as much as 50 bhp depending on which...

We have to be careful about drawing too many parallels between the past and the possible future...in the late 70's, although many teams used the Cosworth DFV engine, not all the teams had equal...

Max Mosley has made it clear that if teams want to continue to build their own engines or take a manufacturer-supplied engine they can do so, but the performance of other engines will be pegged to...

Car manufacturers can always withdraw from F1, because it is not their core business. Contrast that with Williams Grand Prix Engineering (notice the name) and you can see the difference.
F1 has to...

On one level, Lee White's suggestion is hilarious, since Toyota was one of the reasons that the CART series declined, after Toyota bailed on it by signing up as a primary supplier to the IRL and then...

Well, now that there is no ownership stake by Gerhard Berger, perhaps somebody in Red Bull can fire Franz Tost the next time he opens his mouth and publicly criticizes the team's drivers. That...

While I am sympathetic to the idea that there should be a variety of powerplants in F1, I regard the threat from Ferrari and Toyota as a bluff.
The FIA should call the bluff. The manufacturers have...

I want to see refuelling banned, so that the teams have to build cars with a decent fuel capacity, and drivers have to drive to optimize their tyre wear throughout the race. Currently F1 races...

Roger Penske is a blue-chip leader of a massive corporate empire, running a team that has several blue-chip sponsors. Sponsors and large corporations of the type that Penske has relationships with...

Here is the underlying problem...historically, as the amount of money in a branch of motorsport increases, the chance of one well-funded or well-supported team "getting it right" and walking away...

It seems that Gerhard Berger is determined to take over the role of Worst Team Driver Environment from Williams...if he fires Bourdais, that will be 2 complete sets of drivers lost in 2 seasons. That...

Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
The NASCAR formula needs a total makeover. Persisting with what is essentially a 1950's iron block pushrod V8 with a carbureter for a fuel system...this is beyond...

...are now suffering from the cumulative impact of their failure to focus on smaller car and powerplant engineering for the domestic US market, and their past failures with build quality and...

There was some interest in Al Unser Jr. from F1 teams. Williams tested him in the autumn of 1991, but he was not that quick, and Patrick Head was quoted at the time as saying that he would need to...