Empathy, grit and honesty – a rare mix

Thank you, Damien Smith, for your sympathetic rendering of Lewis Hamilton’s first year at Ferrari (Racing Lines, 14 January). In particular, thank you for ending with a clear view on the 2021 season f

If you spend a couple of hours with Nick Fry – as I did recently – you quickly grasp two things. The first is that he is almost constitutionally incapable of self-aggrandisement. The second is that th

At just the second time of asking, Citroën has become a race winner in Formula E. The chevrons of the Stellantis-owned French brand now adorn the cars that wore Maserati tridents last year, and at the

HE WAS A man who was going places, often several places at once. Few racing drivers jousted with jeopardy with such regularity as Willy Mairesse. He was fast and he was committed but all too often he

‘The experience [of driving it] is like carrying a TV remote for the world… everywhere you go, you can hit pause and everyone around you comes to a standstill,’ says California-based collector Phillip

I was 30 when reality hit me, sitting across from a disinterested LMP2 team owner in a workshop office: I’d toured Europe to find sponsors; convinced, coerced, trained and performed. How did he know t