I am a politics student looking to branch into a motorsport writing career. I have particular expertise in F1 and single seaters and write opinion and analysis pieces in conjunction with Read Motorsport.
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It was an incident 39 laps in the making. The two Red Bulls had spent the entire race in close proximity and had made contact on no fewer than two occasions before the ultimately terminal confrontation. Initially hamstrung by difficulty in charging the cars’ ERS batteries and hobbled the entire distance with tyre warm-up issues, […]
“We’re going to keep a much closer eye on Formula 2 this year,” mused Sky Sports’ Simon Lazenby during the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend. It would certainly be overdue. The excitement in Bahrain and Shanghai may have saved Formula 1’s blushes in recent weeks, but regular viewers of F2 will be all too familiar with […]
Did F1 just waste a week? The circuit photographers may have captured many pretty pictures from Barcelona’s winter wonderland, but beyond that, very little was achieved during the first test. A green, newly resurfaced track – spliced with occasional wintry showers – truncated running on the first two days, before a dusting of heavy snow […]
It has not been a long winter for Formula 1 fans. Truncated by a stateside cameo for F1’s resident Jack-of-all-trades, frenetic racing in Formula E and a handy reminder of David Coulthard’s skills in the Race of Champions; F1 fans have not been short of things to talk about over the bleak winter months. Whatever […]
A weekend where the German crashed on his final qualifying run and almost eliminated his team-mate from the lead doesn’t exactly rank among Andre Lotterer’s finest performances. And yet, the Santiago ePrix Prix nevertheless looked to herald Lotterer’s arrival in Formula E, having traversed some positively catastrophic races in Hong Kong and Marrakesh. There was […]
2017 was the first genuine inter-team title battle Formula 1 had witnessed for five years. With Mercedes no longer monopolizing the top-step, the team could no longer relate the championship to an entirely internal affair. Not that the resurgent Scuderia was of much concern to Lewis Hamilton; the Brit had waited years to compare himself […]
Away from the titanic battle for the title, 2017 saw a multitude of other subplots embedded in the lower reaches of the grid. Following a year when the driver market slot-machine had mixed up the grid in the midfield, many drivers found themselves adapted to new teams and new procedures. Others found themselves adopting a […]
Formula 1 is inherently a very political sport: so much money and power cannot coexist in the same paddock without a certain degree of political fallout. And yet, in this strange world of smoke, mirrors, cloaks and daggers, there remains a man with no agenda whatsoever. He is a man that enjoys driving an F1 […]
Red Bull Racing’s dynamic duo of Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo is the accepted answer to the question, ‘What is the best driver line-up in Formula 1?’. Ever since Daniil Kvyat’s career with the top team was brought an abrupt end by the squad’s Austrian overlords, Red Bull’s young Dutch prodigy has flourished in the […]
The 2017 Formula 1 World Championship took a very different form to previous years. Not only did the cars look radically different with the aggressive new aerodynamic regulations, but a less dominant Mercedes squad brought the prancing horse back into the championship fold. With Ferrari vying for top honours, and no longer bogged down by […]
Whilst the Sunday morning support action saw a frenetic contest in GP3 and a thrilling, last-lap pass for the lead from F2 champion Charles Leclerc, the main event produced little excitement. As has often been the case at the Yas Marina circuit, the sheer eye-wrenching opulence and grandeur of the setting would be matched only […]
As Fernando Alonso’s manager, Flavio Briatore perhaps has the easiest job in the paddock. Whilst the Spaniard has an uncanny habit of zigging whilst the balance of performance zags, Fernando is also his own PR agent. Scarcely a qualifying session goes by without a somewhat breathless Alonso radioing-in to engineer Mark Temple to proclaim that […]