Stoffel Vandoorne was born in the Belgian town of Kortijk in 1992, and began karting in 1998. By 2008, he was the Belgian KF2 karting champion, and the following year the runner up in the FIA World Cup for the same series. He moved on to single seater cars, with 2010 seeing him race in the…
The new motor racing season is about to start, and the various pre season tests are under way, so I recently headed out to the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona for Formula One Winter Testing 2016, where each of the teams get a chance to try out their new cars, and also the new tyres that…
Rio Haryanto was born in Indonesia in 1993. In 2008, he competed in the Asian Formula Renault Challenge, Formula Asia 2.0, and in Formula BMW Pacific. Rio managed a third place in the Formula Asia 2.0 championship, with a race win, and two race wins in the Asian Formula Renault Challenge, which was impressive enough…
Pascal Wehrlein was born in Germany to a German father and a Mauritian mother in 1994 and took up karting in 2003. Pascal progressed quickly through karting, and in 2010 he moved to the ADAC Formel Masters series, where he finished 6th before winning the series the following year. He moved to the Formula 3…
It’s probably a bit of an understatement to say that this has not been the best year for the McLaren team and their drivers Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso, very much being a development year for the new Honda engines. Saturday at the 2015 Brazilian Grand Prix saw the team have a few more issues,…
Jolyon Palmer made his way through karting before entering the T Cars series in 2005 at the age of 14. He had some impressive performances and in 2007 moved to Formula Palmer Audi, which had been founded by his father, Jonathan Palmer, back in 1998. A second series in Formula Palmer Audi saw Jolyon take…
Roberto Merhi is a Spainish racing driver of Brazilian and Lebanese ancestry. He made his name in Formula Renault, coming 4th in Italian Formula Renault in 2007 at the age of 16, whilst also competing in the Formula Renault Eurocup. The following year saw him race in the Western European Championship in Formula Renault, as…
Last weekend saw the Formula One circus move to Spa Francorchamps for the 2015 Belgium Grand Prix, in the forests and hills of the Belgium countryside. Spa has a reputation as one of the best circuits on the F1 calendar, and first time visitors normally comment that no matter how steep you expect the hills…
Last weekend at Silverstone saw the 2015 British Grand Prix, and as normal, I went along to see Formula One’s annual visit to the UK, as the Northamptonshire circuit became the centre of the F1 circus for a few days. The Grand Prix weekend is getting longer and longer, with Thursday having a pit lane…
Booking a test drive normally implies that there will be someone trying to convince you that their car is the best one, with a broad smile and a convincing approach. Infiniti have at least met the requirement of providing a chap with a broad smile to meet someone who requested a test drive, but I…
I wrote recently about attending Formula One Winter Testing 2015, and mentioned that I had managed to get through a few of my photos, but had some more to get through. A few days at home, and I have managed to get through the rest from my camera, and load them to Flickr, so here…
Carlos Sainz Jr is a Formula One driver from Spain, and is the son of Carlos Sainz, the former World Rally Champion. Carlos started racing karts, racing in Europe and Asia Pacific, before moving to Formula BMW Europe in 2010 at the of 15. This is when I first saw him race, as a support…