McLaren’s car company: A new legacy in the making?

For years the prevailing notion, and truth, is that many of today’s road cars have benefited from the technology developed from Formula 1 racing. Teams have pressed the limits of what is achievable and come away with an array of innovations that have pushed the road car into the new century. Most recently [...]

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McLaren buy back Merc shares…what’s next?

If memory serves correctly, McLaren and Mercedes parted ways from their traditional relationship at the end of 2009. I can also recall Mercedes GP buying a team (Brawn GP) and renaming it Mercedes GP Petronas. If I think hard enough, I believe there was talk of a road car called an MP 12 [...]

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The Schumacher effect…in numbers

There is no doubt that the return of the 7-time world champion Michael Schumacher was a big talking point heading into the 2010 season. His return to Mercedes GP Petronas was big news and the expectations were on the high side but within reason for most who knew what task he was facing.
Nothing encapsulates [...]

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Lotus Racing moves the goal posts..is it realistic?

On the heels of a successful debut in the season opener in Bahrain, Lotus Racing has set its sights on veteran F1 teams Sauber and Toro Rosso.

“This is a great start. We’ve done the first massive step, we’ve now got to take some more,” technical director Mike Gascoyne told Reuters after Finland’s Heikki Kovalainen [...]

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Ecclestone: Propeller heads to blame for boring F1

If there has been one resounding message from the opening race of the F1 world championship in Bahrain it is that the hype may not have matched the action on track.
The regulation changes, new teams, star drivers and no less than four teams vying for the title made for terrific off-season reading and dreaming. [...]

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