This is a letter to my youth hero Michael Schumacher. Feared by many and hated by some, he was a true champ back in the days that I started following Formula 1. It was not always fun to watch races being fiercely dominated by him in his Ferrari, but I have so much respect for this man..
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My dad was a huge motorsport fan and amateur photographer, so he took me to the races as a small boy and we visited our local track Oulton Park many times and he would pose me next to racing cars and drivers at this famous circuit near Manchester. I first picked up a camera at college in 1983..
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Being a marshal is often looked at as an underrated job, which is done mainly by many volunteers. But if they are not around the track, not one race could be run as the marshals are essential for many different reasons and not just for waving a flag or recover a car. I got in touch..
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It is a big day for Rinus Veekay today, as the Dutch youngster is about to run his first ever IndyCar test at Portland International Raceway. To celebrate the occasion, we now republish a text on young Rinus, written by our contributor Jeroen Demmendaal back in 2017 when the talented Dutchman had only just started…
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Last year we heard that Circuit Zandvoort will no longer be hosting the DTM series and that they would move up North to TT Circuit Assen instead. So this beautiful series luckily did not go gentle into that good night..’ as poet Dylan Thomas would have put it and raged on to be one of…
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If you watch motorsports regularly, you must have heard about this legendary race. Maybe you’ve even watched it a couple of times. There are die hards who watch the entire race and stay up all night to see how their favourite team and drivers are doing, while others just really wanna see the start, some…
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Who run the world? Girls! Despite of the lyrics of Queen Beyonce, it is still to this day not a no brainer that women have equal rights to man. Though rights are the same in most parts of the world, there is still a hidden inequality. Governments are debating over this issue and set quotas…
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Last weekend circuit Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium hosted the FIA World Endurance Championship (also WEC) 6hrs of Spa for the 8th time now. This form of motorsport is long distance racing, thus reliability and consistency are very important. Different classes compete with each other in the World Championship. This so called ‘Super Season’ which stretches out…
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Ayrton Senna da Silva. Everyone who follows any kind of motorsports knows the name of this true legend. His name is more than just a driver who performed at the very top in his time. It has become a synonym for all racing drivers risking their lives on track. Though luckily the sport has become…
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As Oren Harari, business professor and author of many books, said: if we would have continued to improve candles on and on, we wouldn’t have electric power. The same goes for the car: if we were to constantly improve the horse-drawn carriage, we wouldn’t have cars like we have today. “The electric light did not…
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