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Man down!

It’s taken a little while, but the first driving casualty of 2010 is Bruno Senna, abruptly dumped by HRT a day before the start of a race weekend. A surprise to many, this one, and that presumably includes Bruno, who spent his Wednesday cycling around the new Silverstone layout.

No official reason for Senna’s departure [...]

Milky yet reasonably strong: Bahrain 2010

Four months ago, the 2009 season went out with a quiet whimper in Abu Dhabi.  In those four months, we’d had the return of one of the best there’s ever been, the never-ending USF1 saga and what looked to be one of the tightest winter testing periods in history.  The grid contained four world champions, [...]

See? They do have a sense of humour…

Ever looked at one of those ‘Top 100 Grand Prix Drivers In The World Of All Time In The History Of Forever’ books?

If you haven’t, don’t.  At best they’re mildly entertaining but otherwise irrelevant, one man sat in front of a computer ranking drivers from different eras with different rules, different cars and different competitors.  [...]

Ayrton

“Where where you when you heard…?”

We’ve all been asked.  It might be JFK, John Lennon, Challenger, any one of a million things, but for all of us there’s one particular event that’s somehow frozen in time.  We heard, we’ll never forget, and we know exactly where we were.

I’d watched Ayrton Senna’s crash in the San [...]