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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Now that Hamilton had put the exhaustive talk of a dwindling championship fight to bed, the paddock could at last refocus on the racing. And what a terrific weekend of action ensured. A pole margin of less than half a tenth of a second; the newly crowned world champion in a high-speed crash on his […]
Unapologetically emotional, a loving family man and a stalwart friend to Formula 1’s travelling circus: that is how those who know Felipe best will remember his grand prix racing career. And yet, for a man more ready than most to show off his emotions in the macho environment of the paddock, the Brazilian has shown […]
A grand tectonic divergence is at work in world motorsport, a critical crossroads between entertainment and road relevance. The FIA has long sought to legitimize the rather lavish but undeniably entertaining art of flying across the world and extravagantly burning fuel by framing motorsport as the leading edge of automotive R&D. F1’s current generation of […]
Heavy mechanical attrition, key protagonists hobbled by contact and a dominant victory may not be the ideal ingredients of a championship-decider, but there were nonetheless some intriguing plotlines throughout the field in Mexico. Hamilton may have dominated the headlines – and rightly so, considering the Brit’s illustrious achievement – but Verstappen did a good job […]
They may not be household names in motorsport, but former Ginetta Junior racers Jack Mitchell and James Kellett have the illustrious honor of being the only two drivers to have beaten Lando Norris in a full season campaign thus far in the meteoric 17 year-old’s career. But for this black mark, Norris has taken the […]
For avid Formula 1 fans, it is easy to deride the value of nationalities in the competing web of factors on driver-team decisions. The entire mantra of the pinnacle motorsport ought to put driving skill ahead of any other considerations. And yet it is a matter of undeniable commercial realpolitik that national markets benefit from […]
Despite being one of Helmut Marko’s legion of spurned Formula 1 hopefuls, Brendon Hartley has certainly gone on to greener pastures in his career. As the young gun in Porsche’s juggernaut LMP1 assault, the Kiwi has taken twelve race wins, the World Endurance Championship title in 2015 alongside Mark Webber and Timo Bernhard, won Le […]
The news that Carlos Sainz Jr. will make an in-season switch with Jolyon Palmer is the story that apparently wanted to break on its own terms. Ever since the British Grand Prix, the paddock has been convinced that each race would be Palmer’s last, and yet the Brit has stoically clung on. Once Sainz’s 2018 […]
It has not been as supreme a Formula 2 campaign for Charles Leclerc as the standings would suggest. A suspension failure whilst leading in his home race in Monaco; demoted from pole to the back of the grid in Hungary; a demolition victory turned disqualification in Spa; and of course, most significantly, the tragic death […]
There is great potential to be confused by today’s news that Daniil Kvyat will step aside for Pierre Gasly in Malaysia in what is expected to be a multi-race switch. The Frenchman had already been linked with a debut at the Malaysian Grand Prix, with the Renault team’s newest recruit Carlos Sainz Jr widely expected […]
The German Touring-Car Championship, or DTM, is perhaps not the first series you would suggest from which Formula 1 could draw inspiration in its eternal battle to improve the Sunday spectacle. The DTM boasts a melting-pot grid of single seater stars, GT prodigies and familiar faces, like ex-F1 driver Paul di Resta. The V8-powered super […]
It is difficult to recall a grand prix weekend in which the Saturday headlines have juxtaposed so greatly against the Sunday result, or a first-lap that changed the flavour of the championship so dramatically and so decisively. In terms of championship magnitude, perhaps only Ayrton Senna’s kamikaze first corner in Suzuka 1990 can be compared […]