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4 weeks ago | 
autosport.com | Damien Smith
The biggest problem with the McLaren M26? Simple. It wasn’t the McLaren M23. Yet with the hindsight of nearly 50 years, looking back specifically to the first of its two seasons in the Formula 1 frontline, a softer light can be cast upon a car that didn’t inspire a great deal of love within McLaren and its star driver James Hunt during 1977.
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1 month ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Damien Smith
He could have what so many want: a full-fat factory drive in the top tier of endurance sports car racing. Instead, Callum Ilott has thrown the dice on a far riskier choice. The 26-year-old from Cambridge has steered away from a prime Hypercar drive with Jota’s works Cadillac team in the World Endurance Championship to head back to IndyCar with a European operation, Prema Racing, which is diving into one of the most competitive and difficult racing series for the first time.
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1 month ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Damien Smith
Harry Tincknell, 33 (GB) The two-time class winner will be making his 12th attempt at the Le Mans 24 Hours, but only his third in the top class. A veteran of the Ganassi-run Ford GT campaigns, he has only raced for Aston once at Le Mans, when he won the GTE Pro class with Alex Lynn and Maxime Martin in 2020. “To be in the middle of this Hypercar era is absolutely amazing.
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1 month ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Damien Smith
In one regard – and it’s one that really shouldn’t be dismissed – Aston Martin is guaranteed a sure-fire hit even before its new Valkyrie racing car has turned a wheel at the Le Mans 24 Hours.
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1 month ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Damien Smith
Online convenience is all well and good, but it can’t replicate that feeling of unearthing a hidden gem in person. Order something online and you know what you’ll get and when you’ll get it. But part of the rush of collecting is the thrill of finding the unexpected, sifting through the usual to discover something special. But where can you maximise your chances of this? Goodwood’s events are spectacular, with hundreds of stalls to choose from and big-name sellers present.
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1 month ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Damien Smith
We take it for granted, still curse the traffic on British Grand Prix weekends and brace ourselves for that chill wind that whips across the old airfield site nearly every time we visit. And yet you’ve got to love Silverstone. After all, it’s home. Our comforting familiarity with the place, despite all the developments in recent years, is reflected in this second edition of Chas Parker’s paean to Britain’s premier race circuit.
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1 month ago | 
autocar.co.uk | Damien Smith
Close Six months on, it still hurts. Tom Ingram won’t forget how a second British Touring Car Championship title slipped through his fingers in the final race of 2024 at a damp Brands Hatch. But as the 2022 champion readily admits, that defeat to WSR’s Jake Hill only makes him hungry for redemption as the new BTCC season rolls into action at Donington Park.
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1 month ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Damien Smith
Intermediate-level English learners will now have less opportunities going forward, due to cuts from the federal government. The decision is sparking concern from those in involved in teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) across the country. According to the Canadian Learning Benchmark (CLB), the intermediate stage includes levels 5-8 - which slots below advanced stage courses from 9-12.
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2 months ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Damien Smith |Rob Widdows |Simon Taylor |Mark Hughes
Formula 1 in 1973 boiled down to Lotus versus Tyrrell: Lithe and balanced 72 versus stubby and twitchy 005-006. But were either the best car of the season? Silverstone that year is remembered for the shunt triggered by Jody Scheckter, F1’s newest bad boy, whose McLaren M23 slewed in the teeth of the pack. His team-mates, Peter Revson and Denny Hulme, howled through a shrinking gap, while others screeched and squawked into a growing pile of expensive scrap.
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2 months ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Damien Smith |James Elson |Jonathan Noble |Chris Medland
The death of Eddie Jordan has prompted some impressive tributes from former drivers and paddock contemporaries. But what was it like to work for the colourful Irishman – and how good a leader was he? Few knew EJ better than Andy Stevenson, who joined him as an F3 mechanic towards the end of 1987. Some 38 years later Stevenson is still at what is in effect the same team as sporting director of Aston Martin, one of several employees who has remained on board what was originally Jordan GP.
