With the customary summer break upon us the time is ripe to see exactly who stands where in the 2012 Formula One season. A record-breaking seven winners in the first seven races, a resurgent Ferrari and muted Sebastian Vettel, plus the wildly differing fortunes of British drivers Jenson Button and […]

July 11th— As if empathising with my early rise, the sun makes an appearance and the road glows a little with a July sun, as surprising as it was welcome. I’m headed toward Caversham Court Gardens, a small grassy park which rolls down into the River Thames and where today, […]

July 14th 2012- Today the Olympic torch passes through York; a place seemingly too small to be granted the honour but apparently a place with enough charisma to earn itself the privilege anyway. It’s 3pm and the main route, a long stretch of road running from the A64 straight into the heart of […]

Is Jenson Button headed in the wrong direction? 18th March 2012 – Jenson Button dominates the Australian Grand Prix to take the lead of the Formula One World Championship, finishing ahead of Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton, Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso. 8th July 2012 – Jenson Button struggles to a […]

  A day cannot be bad when you’re woken up with Franz Ferdinand’s Ulysses in full swing at half nine in the morning. This accidental alarm clock makes the few days camping in Zagreb’s scorching heat all worthwhile. It is the seventh year of the INmusic Festival held at lake Jarun on the […]

Mark Webber put himself right back in contention for his maiden Formula One World Championship this afternoon with a last-gasp effort to wrest victory in the British Grand Prix from Ferrari hero Fernando Alonso. The Australian capitalised on a strategy mistake by the rival Ferrari team to close down Alonso […]

Fernando Alonso underlined his credentials as pretender to the 2012 Formula One World Championship this afternoon by securing pole position in a rain-soaked qualifying session for the British Grand Prix. The Spaniard overcame a fifty minute rain shower that saw qualifying halted while stewards and marshals attempted to make the […]

Fernando Alonso produced arguably the greatest drive of his Ferrari career to date and capitalised on a rare Sebastian Vettel retirement to take a grip on the 2012 Formula One world championship this afternoon in the European Grand Prix. The Spaniard climbed from 11th on the start grid to claim […]