A quick update

I apologise for a lack of activity. I have been on the road all day long. This being Silverstone there are always additional things to be done as well as the Grand Prix and so it is a week-long trip away from home. So, I was up long before the sun today (which is not …

Perfect… yet more allegations

A former Conservative Party chairman, David Davis, has claimed that he was approached by businessman Sir Alan Curtis 10 years ago, with an offer of money from Bernie Ecclestone if the party would find a safe parliamentary seat in Britain for FIA President Max Mosley. The allegations appeared in the Mail on Sunday in Britain …

A lawsuit for Group Lotus

The IndyCar team Dragon Racing has sued Group Lotus for at least $4.6 million in damages, accusing the company in its claim of damaging the team's reputation by spreading "especially outrageous" falsehoods while at the same time failing to deliver two chassis which it had agreed to supply, which handicapped the team's opportunity to be …

Funny old world…

Two men in Wellford, South Carolina, have been charged with armed robbery. Mario Andretti Jackson, 38, and Tyler Alexander Fernandez, 19, were charged after being arrested on Monday. For those of you who might not understand the significance of such a story, it should be noted that Mario Andretti is a legend of American racing, …

An interesting development at Renault Sport F1

The news that Lotus F1 Team's deputy technical director Naoki Tokunaga will leave the team to become Renault Sport F1’s Technical Director - New Generation Power Unit, is an interesting development. Tokunaga was a Nissan engineer who joined the Renault F1 team in 2000 on secondment from the Nismo team in Japan. He became the …

Sergio Perez stakes his claim

The one outcome of the Malaysian Grand Prix which is sure to be creating much chatter on the Web today is the performance of Sergio Perez, and at the same time the under-performance of Felipe Massa. Fernando Alonso won the race with his Ferrari, but Massa could do no better than 15th, a shocking 97 …

Stories from inside the F1 Paddock in Melbourne

Melbourne has been pretty miserable for the last few hours, with bucketloads of rain and stormy weather throughout the night. Still, it has made the jet-lag interesting. The weather may have an effect on today's activities at the track, where the F1s take to the tarmac for the first time in a few hours from …

Stories, trends, ideas and rumours from F1

You may have noticed that I was not very productive today on the blog. It is half term in England and I have a niece of Disney age. I am not one of those people who believe that one should wear plastic Mickey ears from the moment one is born until the day that one …

Meanwhile at Blackbushe

Interesting things are happening at Blackbushe Aerodrome in England. The former WWII airbase is situated alongside the old main A30 road to the west of Camberley, not far to the north of Farnborough. This now houses a number of small aviation companies but is often used for filming movies, TV shows and advertising. The crew …

Troubles over the Lauda movie

There is legal action afoot over the upcoming movie about Niki Lauda, with a European consortium claiming that they had agreed a deal with the Austrian to make a film called "33 Days - To Hell and Back". Lauda wrote a book back in 1986 called "Meine Story" in German, but this was named "To …