Max Verstappen is the son of former Formula One driver Jos Verstappen, and given his family history, a career in motor racing is not that surprising. As well as his father, known as Jos The Boss, his mother, Sophie Kumpen, was a kart driver, and his maternal grandfather, Paul Kumpen, was a GT driver. His…
I am currently in Barcelona after watching the last round of Formula One Winter Testing 2015, the series of three tests that provide the teams with the opportunity to test their cars on track. It has been an eventful series of tests this year, with what appears to be some changes in the order of…
Near the end of the 2013 Formula One season, I put together a list of the pages of my galleries of Formula One drivers past and present in order of the number of views that they had that year. Sebastian Vettel was the top of the pile last year, both on the track and in…
Felipe Nasr comes from a motor racing background, with his uncle, Amir Nasr, running a South American Formula Three team, which bears his name. He moved into karting at the age of seven in his native Brazil, before a move to Formula BMW Americas in 2008. 2009 saw a move to the European Formula BMW…
British racing driver Will Stevens has made his way through the ranks of motor racing, often managing to race in multiple series at the same time. After winning the 2008 Formula Renault 2.0 Portugal Winter series, whilst also competing in the UK Formula Renault Winter series at the same time, Stevens competed in four rounds…
Before the 2014 Belgian Grand Prix, the Marussia team announced that they would promote Alexander Rossi to a race seat from the position of reserve driver, after spending 2012 and 2013 as the reserve driver at the Caterham Formula One team. Alexander has been on the verge of a Formula One seat for some time,…
Kevin Magnussen entered Formula One in 2014 with the McLaren team, after a rapid rise through the levels of motor sport. He is the son of former Formula One driver Jan Magnussen, who is himself still racing in various Formulae. A successful series of Formula Ford in 2008 saw Kevin crowned as Formula Ford Denmark…
I posted some photos on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the 2014 German Grand Prix, and some of the horrific crash that Felipe Massa had on the first lap – and thankfully walked away from – but did not get round yet to putting together a post with more photos of the event. So, here…
The 2014 German Grand Prix featured plenty of memorable moments, including Felipe Massa’s first lap crash, where his Williams car flipped over after some contact with Kevin Magnussen’s McLaren. Massa’s car was, at one stage, upside down with sparks lighting the area. The crash was at the end of the start/finish straight, near where…
Well, that was quite a race. Where to start? We headed off to the circuit on Sunday morning, as the rain started, and as the early races were most definitely wet. As we watched the GP2 race – which was, as usual, superb – we could see the dry line starting to develop on the…
My last post brought us up to the end of the day at the circuit on Friday, at Hockenheim for the German Grand Prix. The rest of the evening was fun, made up of a nice dinner in a lovely square in nearby Mannheim before heading to the equally picturesque university where we almost ended…
The phrase “an early start” means different things to different people, but I’m sure that most people would agree a three o’clock constitutes an early start. That was the time that my alarm went off yesterday morning, and as I headed off at 0330, I checked – again – that I had my ticket with…