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  • F1: Vettel beats Hamilton to win Australian Grand Prix

    The start of the 2011 Formula One season looked very much like the end of the 2010 one as Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel scampered away into the distance from pole position, leaving his rivals to scrabble for scraps behind him.

    Archive, F1
    Albert Park Street Circuit, Australian Grand Prix, David Coulthard, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Paul di Resta, Sebastian Vettel, Vitaly Petrov

  • Driver fitness: how do they get the balance right?

    This season sees the return of the energy recovery system KERS to Formula One – and, with it, kilograms of extra weight that have to be clawed back from some other part of the car in order to maximise performance.

    Archive, Industry
    Adrian Quaife-Hobbs, Dan Williams, fitness, Pro Performance

  • England’s racing drivers on the World Cup, Beckham and supporting the USA

    With World Cup fever reaching new heights among English football fans ahead of the team’s opening match, most of the country’s top open wheel racers are in North America looking for ways to watch the game.

    Archive, F1, IndyCar Series
    Alex Lloyd, Dan Wheldon, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Martin Plowman, Mike Conway, World Cup

  • F1 Canadian Grand Prix preview: The return of the Wall of Champions

    Last time Formula One visited Canada the track fell to bits, Lewis Hamilton had an embarrassing front-end shunt, Robert Kubica delivered an unlikely one-two for BMW and Martin Brundle opened his mouth and inserted both feet.

    Archive, F1
    Canadian Grand Prix, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Ferrari, Formula One, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, Red Bull, Robert Kubica

  • F3: Second isn’t enough for disappointed Sims

    For a driver who’s just finished second in a prestigious all-star race and has a couple of wins under his belt already this season, Alexander Sims is not as happy as you might expect.

    Archive, F3 Euro Series
    Alexander Sims, F3 Euro Series, Masters of F3

  • F3: Rising stars to do battle in masters event

    Five British drivers will be among the up-and-coming racing talents competing in the Masters of F3 all-star race to be held at Zandvoort this weekend.

    Archive, British F3, F3 Euro Series
    Alexander Sims, Edoardo Mortara, Hywel Lloyd, Jean-Eric Vergne, Masters of F3, Rupert Svendsen-Cook, Wayne Boyd, William Buller

  • Donington Slot Car Festival: size isn’t everything

    On a busy weekend for racing, with Indy 500 qualifying reaching a climax and British racers taking to the track across Europe, Brits on Pole cast aside its grown-up responsibilities and headed north to relive the pastimes of its youth at the International Donington Slot Car Festival.

    Archive, Events
    Donington Park, Scalextric, Slot cars

  • Race of Champions to visit Germany this year

    Its drivers keep on winning – and now Germany is to host this year’s Race of Champions as well as regularly supplying the annual motorsport event’s most successful entrants.

    Archive, Events
    Fredrik Johnsson, Michael Schumacher, Race of Champions, Sebastian Vettel

  • F2 at Silverstone: Sunday liveblog

    Day two of the year’s opening Formula Two season, and we’re back to update you with all the action.

    Archive, F2
    Dean Stoneman, Formula Two, Jack Clarke, Jolyon Palmer, Jonathan Palmer, Paul Rees, Tom Gladdis, Will Bratt

  • F1: Chinese Grand Prix preview – settling down for a long run in Shanghai

    What with all the growing excitement over next weekend’s London Marathon, we can’t help but feel that the Formula One field goes into this weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix looking like nothing so much as the opening stages of the nation’s most popular footslog.

    Archive, F1
    Anthony Davidson, Chinese Grand Prix, David Coulthard, Formula One, Shanghai International Circuit

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