This was my 40th British Grand Prix. If Silverstone operated a loyalty scheme I ought to be due for a free t-shirt by now. Not that all the British races that I’ve attended have been at the Northamptonshire track. In the early days it alternated with Brands Hatch until 1986. I first went in 1970, missed ’71, but then have been to every home Grand Prix since. That makes nine at Brands and 31 at Read more…

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Formula One racing cars aren’t meant to fly. They are designed to stay on the track and to grip it with as much effort as their tyres and aerodynamically-generated downforce can manage. It is therefore unusual and frightening to see one flying through the air. F1 cars do not carry a ‘this way up’ sticker either; they shouldn’t need to. So you can be pretty sure that something is very, very wrong when one performs Read more…