Only one pre-season F1 test in 2021, so there was lots to be learned and tried in Bahrain. I talked to Craig Scarborough after the test about new developments on the cars, the outstanding pace of Red Bull-Honda…and what appeared to be a disappointing test for Mercedes ..read more

Highly-acclaimed F1 photographer, Charles Coates, selects his personal favourite images in this exclusive series. Charles (otherwise known as “Tootall”) has been working professionally in F1 since 1989, mainly for LAT (London Art Tech) but also as a freelance. A familiar, unmissable figure at F1 races, Toots has forged close friendships with many of the great Grand Prix drivers and team personnel over the past 30 years. He shares some of those bonds in these videos – as well as giving us an insight into life on the F1 road. LAT is one of the largest of F1’s photographic agencies. Founded and s ..read more

Shortly before he passed away in 2017 I recorded an interview with Sir John Whitmore in his Surrey, England, apartment. The subject: his friendship with Steve McQueen. Now, with Alex Rodger’s superb documentary, “Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie” being screened on Sky TV (UK) and Now TV (on-line app), I felt it was the right time to post the interview on YouTube. I initially divided it into segments so that it could be enjoyed on and around the days of Alex’s film but now here they all are, on one page, so to speak. Enjoy. The portrait of Sir John above was painted by another close friend of Sir ..read more

Steve Etherington – official photographer of the AMG Mercedes F1 team – shares some favourite images from his year with the World Champions ..read more

It wasn’t quite as we’ve known it…but it was glorious nonetheless. Here are some of my favourite cars and people, as seen on a golden Friday in Autumn ..read more

Nigel Roebuck, F1’s premiere journalist/ historian, became a Moss fan from the moment he saw him race at Oulton Park in the early 1950s. In this new four-part video series he recounts personal memories of Stirl – the driver he grew to know well and whom he considers to be the best that ever lived ..read more

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…is never enough… It’s always a pleasure to chat to Eddie Jordan, partly because he always makes me laugh, partly because he’s been there, done that and partly because he’s a Top Man (in the Frank Williams sense of the words). So I tracked him down during this lockdown on his yacht in the South of France. Everything was rushed, of course – it always is with Eddie – but we got there in the end.  Enjoy ..read more

Amidst all the turmoil of recent days it was stunning to watch the launch of the SpaceX Falcon9 mission. There was nothing particularly ground-breaking about it within the context of, say, Mercury, Gemini or Apollo….or was there? As a Tintin fan, I’ve always hankered after rockets that land vertically, thrusters down, but as a realist I just assumed that that would never happen. Enter Stage 1, Falcon 9. Within minutes of the SpaceX launch, there it was, perfectly settling back onto its droneship as per the predictions of Prof. Calculus!  And, if that wasn’t ‘t enough, look at which compan ..read more

Chatting with Hitech’s Oli Oakes Oliver ‘Oli’ Oakes today owns and runs one of the most successful race teams in Europe – and must be on any logical short-list of F1 team owners of the future. More than that, though, Oli is a former World Kart Champion and Red Bull Junior F3 driver, which means that there are not many drivers of this generation that he doesn’t know, or hasn’t raced against. He loves motor racing and winning and thinking ahead in the classic way of successful entrepreneurs – but, unusually, he’s also passionate about rewarding unsung but genuinely talented drivers. Hiring Luca ..read more