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. […]
Last summer, in the French town of Le Mans, the famous twenty-four hour race started. In the front of the field, the hybrids from Porsche, Audi and Toyota shot away into a big lead. After twenty minutes, the backmarkers, Ferrari’s and Chevrolet’s, were lapped, which means a disadvantage of 14 kilometers. Porsche went on to win, while […]
Originally an answer on Quora to the question: What do you see as the future for F1 Grand Prix? I’m pretty sure that — despite the public disliking the new V6 engines and their sound — Formula 1 will go all-electric within the decade. Maybe at first there will be only an electric final drive, […]
On a Saturday in July 1891, in Paris, France, the American Luther Cary ran and won the 100 meter sprint final, setting the first documented record at 10.8 seconds. Fifteen years later, in 1906, Knut Lindberg from Sweden ran the distance in 10.6 seconds, and come 1956, Willie Williams from the United States, knocked off another […]
