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1 week ago | 
straitstimes.com | David Tremayne
The Miami Grand Prix is an odd one. It’s one of those all-singing, all-dancing, slightly schizophrenic events that doesn’t quite know whether it’s a motor race or a music festival. That’s great if you’re a paying punter there for the noise of cars or the bray of jiggling singers of horribly repetitive lyrics backed by horribly repetitive chords. Not so great if you are there as a hack to report something and to do so preferably without a thumping beat echoing endlessly in your head.
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3 weeks ago | 
straitstimes.com | David Tremayne
Oscar Piastri’s triumph at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, his third success in 2025, not only lifted an Australian to the top of the drivers’ standings for the first time since his manager Mark Webber back in 2010, but it also made his McLaren team the only one ever to score victories at 50 different venues. But might we look back at the end of the year and see that this was also the race where the three title contenders inadvertently (or deliberately) revealed their true colours?
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1 month ago | 
redhot.sg | David Tremayne
Four races into the 24-event calendar, McLaren have won three, two with Oscar Piastri (left) and one with Lando Norris (right).PHOTO: AFPBe careful what you wish for – that is always very sound advice. McLaren wanted the best car, and two very fast drivers to do it justice. And now they have that. But when you finally bring together all the disparate factors that lead to domination, it comes with a price. Few blessings come without strings attached.
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1 month ago | 
straitstimes.com | David Tremayne
UPDATED Apr 14, 2025, 11:37 AM
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1 month ago | 
straitstimes.com | David Tremayne
Had they but known, the International Automobile Federation (FIA) could have saved the 10 teams a few hundred miles of power unit life and Pirelli 20 sets of tyres, plus lots of human time and energy, by handing out the trophies for the Japanese GP after qualifying on Saturday afternoon instead of running the race.
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1 month ago | 
straitstimes.com | David Tremayne
This was a weekend that began with red and ended with red, albeit of an altogether different shade, but it was the orange in between that painted the most vivid portrait of the 2025 Formula One world championship race thus far.
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1 month ago | 
straitstimes.com | David Tremayne
We call Oscar Piastri the silent assassin, because his youthful looks and shy smile belie the inner steel and sheer determination of the soon-to-be 24 year-old as he goes into his third year in Formula One intent on becoming the third Australian world champion after the great Jack Brabham and Alan Jones. After the Australian Grand Prix on Match 16, which he so badly wanted to win, he was not smiling.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | David Tremayne
If ever there was a great screenplay to showcase the history of Formula One, it’s a showdown between the sport’s two longest-established contestants: Ferrari versus McLaren. Enzo Ferrari’s purist company prided itself on making its own chassis, engine and gearbox. Bruce McLaren’s team who followed Ferrari 16 years later, in 1966, mated a self-built chassis with proprietary engines and gearboxes and achieved similar or better results.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | David Tremayne
While the on-track action in Formula One these days continues to thrill with the closeness of qualifying times and some pretty decent racing, matters behind the scenes threaten to move the sport closer to conflict with its governing body. There is little love lost between Formula One Management (FOM), the body tasked by F1 owner Liberty Media with running the business of the sport, and the International Automobile Federation (FIA) whose job it is to govern it.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | David Tremayne
I’d been in the world 14 years and one month when, on January 4, 1967, I watched Donald Campbell’s fatal Bluebird somersault on Coniston Water, on our black and white television. I look back on that as the defining moment of my life. Then four months later, when I’d screwed up while helping my father overhaul his Rover 90’s gearbox, I sought refuge in the latest Autocar. My mother’s employer used to pass his copy on to me, so I got the May 4 issue on the 5th.
