With the Formula One teams showing and testing their new cars in Spain, their virtual equivalent — the iRacing’s World Championship Grand Prix Series — is set to start next Saturday. Driving Coanda’s McLaren MP4-30 are Mitchell deJong, Martin Krönke, André Bötcher, Martti Pietilä, Hugo Luis Calmon, and Rocco Barone. We catch up with them […]
Racing the McLaren MP4-30 Around Suzuka Against a World Class Driver, From Home
The first time I drove Suzuka, virtually, was probably on EA Games’ F1 2000, manoeuvring a pixelated car around with the left and right buttons of the PS1 controller. Through the next decade, I raced the Japanese track in games like Grand Prix 4, Codemasters’ F1 series, and Gran Turismo 5, so I felt I […]
Last October, Above Average uploaded a video titled ‘First Person To Run A Marathon Without Talking About It’, in which a guy says: “The whole point of running a marathon is to tell people you’re going to run a marathon. Otherwise, who’s going for a long run?” It’s a parody on today’s society, about the goals we set […]
The format of the book is really bad and the editing is poor and inconsistent (the intro is written like a school report). It’s a real pity they choose to make some coffee table book out of this, and not a regular paperback. It’s not really an autobiography, rather six separate articles Tesla wrote about […]
A bet is what got Maria Teresa de Filippis into motor racing, but her legacy she crafted herself. During her racing career her biggest competition didn’t come from the greats like Stirling Moss, Jack Brabham or Juan Manuel Fangio, but the prejudice that women weren’t supposed to race. Maria was born and raised in 1926 […]
Wile growing up, I could always relate to Pokemon’s Ash Ketchum so well because I grew up in a small town too. Ash is a simple boy with aspirations of winning the Pokémon league, who does stupid stuff along the way. I could always identify with that. I like people who have obvious flaws, because it gives personality. And I […]
It’s an honest attempt, but the pace of this book is too much, and it often feels like it’s part of a series, not introducing the location or characters, at all. The writing is ridiculously flat and filled with superlatives (everything is extreme!). You can see the plot coming from miles ahead. Don’t recommend.
New article on BadgerGP, on the F1-equivelant of scoring an own goal: colliding with your teammate, in ‘When teammates collide‘ It is motorsport’s ultimate sin and the equivalent of scoring an own goal during football: colliding with your teammate. It’s something that has left many drivers red faced and many cars beyond repair. Here’s a […]
When I started my internship at JWT Amsterdam, early 2013, I saw advertising as a sport (I even wrote an article titled as such, back then). There wasn’t any morale for me, my motivation was just to sell as many products as possible. For the internship, I only had one goal: producing a television commercial. […]
Stirling and Behra, 1956 – Photo: f1-photo.com As one of the greatest drivers never to win an official Grand Prix, Jean Behra lived and drove full of courage and bravery. To his love of racing, he lost part of his nose, an ear and ultimately, his life. Behra was born in Nice, France in 1921. […]
