Jenson Button led Rubens Barrichello to another Brawn GP 1-2 at Saturday’s Grand Prix de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. Saturday’s race also marked the fifth race this season, and closed the first third of what has been a thrilling year in F1. Between the dominance of the Brawns and Red Bulls, the rulings on Brawn’s [...]

Sunday’s GP in Shanghai was yet another noteworthy chapter in the 2009 F1 saga. Red Bull pulled off their maiden victory, with Sebastien Vettel in first and Mark Webber in second. The race also  saw two firsts for Ross Brawn GP. For one thing, nobody gave them shit about their diffusers. For another, they didn’t [...]

March is here again, which for most Americans means getting excited about college basketball and economic stimulus checks [Ed: and my birthday]. For those of us with a  motorsports bent, that also means watching a bunch of guys with sideburns and bad dye jobs see who can master the left turn. But for those of [...]

To kick the list off with a WTF of a different flavor, we have the NATS GT-K. On display at the Tokyo Auto Show, the GT-K is basically a souped-up Suzuki Capuccino with a snazzy hideous Skyline knock-off body kit. Go bits include a big turbo and an intercooler attached to the stock Suzuki 675-cc [...]

First up I’m English, in case you all didn’t already know that. So I should have been cheering all season for our new F1 Golden Boy but I haven’t really. I’m not a Ferrari fan either, but I do like Kimi. and Massa has done a good job of endearing himself to me too. Got [...]

The 2008 Formula 1 drivers’ Championship went down to the final two corners of the  final race in an unbelievable finish to the season. All Hamilton needed for the title was a fifth place or better. Massa needed to win to be in with his own chance. Massa crossed the line in first while Hamilton [...]

Lewis Hamilton took his Mclaren Mercedes to pole position in qualifying for the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix from Shanghai. Kimi Raikkonen will be parking his Ferrari next to him on the front row of the grid and Hamilton’s main competition for the Drivers’ Championship, Felipe Massa qualified third. Fernando Alonso, who won the last [...]

In what were probably the most exciting closing laps of a Grand Prix in recent Formula One history, Lewis Hamilton seized victory from Kimi Raikkonen only to be denied the top spot by race officials and relegated to third place. Raikkonen had taken the lead just moments from the start and held it for pretty [...]

On the fortieth anniversary of Bruce Maclaren’s first race for his eponymous team at Spa Francorchamps, when he qualified for pole position, Lewis Hamilton suitably repeated the performance today with what he described as a perfect lap. Sebastian Bourdais’ finally showed the speed expected as four time Champ Cars series (RIP) world champion with a [...]

The McLaren wonderboy, Lewis Hamilton, is now looking just that with his fourth victory this season and a now a lead in the drivers’ championship after a hard fought win at this weekend’s German GP. Thirty four laps into the race he, and Ferrari’s Felipe Massa had run away from the field but everything changed [...]