Eight years ago, Adrian Newey published a book called How to Build a Car. This was after he had designed eleven championship-winning Formula 1 cars from the most recent 26 seasons, and before adding another four in the intervening years. After much badgering from a
We are a little more than a week away from Sir Lewis Hamilton entering his first Grand Prix as a driver of the famous Scuderia Ferrari. The Italian team signed the seven-time world’s champion to a multi-year contract at the start of 2024, finishing his
On this day 20 years ago, Michael Schumacher accomplished a then unprecedented feat in Formula 1 history by clinching his seventh Driver’s World Championship at the legendary Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. To celebrate this accomplishment, this month’s Gravel Trap will re-watch the ITV coverage of this
While Grand Prix Rejects primarily writes profiles for the official list of Rejects – those with 2 points or less under the classic F1 points system – it is no less important to stress that there are drivers who absolutely befit the spiritual definition of
Welcome back to the galactic sensation that is the Teammate Collision podcast! In our first in-season 2023 episode, we ignore the current season entirely and go back 20 years to 2003. It’s time for another reappraisal of the season, its highs and lows, and what
Vincenzo “Vince” Sospiri has a pitiful record as an F1 driver. Every other record shows him as one of the greatest drivers of his generation. A domineering karting champion, he took the accolades of Schumacher and Senna, beating the former convincingly in multiple series. He
It was a real achievement from everyone involved behind the scenes in Formula 1, that Max Verstappen winning the world championship for a second time at the Suzuka circuit was a genuine surprise to everybody. One has to hand it to their ability to provide
Nobody’s too old for an advent calendar, although years of cheap chocolate behind little cardboard doors ad nauseam have led us to come up with something a bit different for this year. A discussion on “the worst drivers at the best teams” in Formula 1