Marcus Ericsson is a Swedish racing driver, born in September 1990, who has competed in various series through his career. After the traditional start in karting, he made his was to Formula BMW in 2007, which saw a win at Brands Hatch early in his career, and following it up with six more wins to…
A new face to Formula One in 2014 was the young Russian driver Daniil Kvyat. He was born in April 1994 making him one of the small group of racing drivers who competed initially as a teenager when he had his first outing for the Toro Rosso team in Australia in March 2014. Daniil…
I have written several times before about Donington Park, and about The Donington Collection, the fantastic museum of Formula One cars and other vehciles located at the race course. On previous visits for lunch, I have been lucky enough to see various activities including Ayrton Senna’s first Toleman Formula One car make its way out…
Daniel Ricciardo, from Perth in Western Australia, started off in Formula Ford with a thirteen year old leased car, which was not competitive, and saw a best finish of sixteenth place. However, the following year, 2006, saw Daniel winning a scholarship into Formula BMW Asian championship, during which he managed a pole position, two wins,…
Romain Grosjean made his way through various levels of Renault racing and into Formula Three before joining the ART GP2 team in 2008. In 2009, the “Crashgate” incident in Singapore involving Nelson Piquet Jr gave Romain the opportunity to debut in Formula One for the remainder of the season. 2010 saw a return to GP2…
It appears that there are connections to the Lotus F1, or formerly, Toleman team everywhere at the moment. I wrote recently about a trip to see Lotus F1 earlier in the week, and I had previously mentioned the 1984 Toleman that was in reception at The Donington Collection in Donington Park, which had been Ayrton…
As you are probably aware, I have plenty of pictures on Flickr of various subjects, including motor racing of various types. I thought that might be a good opportunity to have a moving slide show of a few drivers. Here are some of my pictures of Bruno Senna. Enjoy! [slickr-flickr tag=”Bruno Senna”]