The days when the driver will become virtually redundant as more and more sophisticated aids take over responsibility for the control of the car has taken a step nearer with the announcement of Audi’s new A7 Sportsback. Forget the 0 – 62 mph time of 8.1 seconds and the top speed of 145 mph. Forget the seven-speed twin-clutch sports transmission. Instead, check out the bells and whistles. For a start, and for the first time Read more…

There’s a lot of hoo-hah in the Formula One world at the moment about what’s legal and what isn’t. Team orders which affect the outcome of a race are outlawed but drivers can let a team-mate past if it’s their own decision. So when Felipe Massa was told in the German Grand Prix that Fernando Alonso was quicker than him, he then completely voluntarily moved aside to let him into the lead. Or at least, Read more…

They call it the Hungar-boring, because of the number of processional Hungarian Grands Prix that have taken place there over the years. Overtaking is as hard as it is at Monaco, and it doesn’t have the same scenery. But this year’s Hungarian Grand Prix was far from boring, though only perhaps because of the intervention of a Safety Car. If not for that, Sebastian Vettel would have won the race in his Red Bull and Read more…

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Who’d be a Formula One team’s press officer these days? Recently we’ve had Red Bull under the media spotlight for its apparent favouritism of Sebastian Vettel over Mark Webber and now Ferrari has shot itself in the foot by ensuring that Filipe Massa moved aside and handed victory in the German Grand Prix to his team-mate Fernando Alonso. The poor beleaguered press officers have had to face a braying media pack and try to justify Read more…