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Losing direction - Richard Asher

The Avis desk at Frankfurt Airport doesn't give out maps any more. How silly of me to ask. I could hear them tittering as I walked away: “Haha! Ze prehistoric dinosaur!

F1, Lifestyles of the ludicrously wealthy

By: Calvin Fisher

The overtaking dilemma

Once again a promoter has massaged attendance figures: the weekend’s Turkish Grand Prix allegedly had 115 000 spectators over the full three-day period.

China - Pirelli's master stroke

What to say after China except that Lewis Hamilton’s tactical victory for McLaren has blown the title wide open, while further back Mercedes has shown definite signs of improvement, as Nico Rosberg

Dieter Rencken - The Malaysia spectacle

Off the back of the weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix comes a mindboggling set of statistics: combined the 24 drivers pulled off over 100 overtaking manoeuvres (an average of two per lap), with the fi

Exploding the motor show myth

GERMANY IS FULL of quaint towns and fascinating cities. Frankfurt is neither.

It's time to reinstate the value of the simple power-to-weight ratio

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO the good old ‘power to weight’ ratio?

Dieter Rencken - Turkey in review

If ever 100 00 Formula 1 fans missed a fantastic spectacle, it was Sunday’s Turkish Grand Prix at the Otopark Istanbul – a rather crude sounding name for one of the most technically-demanding circu

Dieter Rencken - The Schumacher incident

‘What is it about Schumacher and [filtered word]?’ asked a Swiss media colleague rhetorically on Sunday evening in Monaco after it was announced that Mercedes Grand Prix were appealing a stewards’ decisi

Dieter Rencken - Spanish report

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