Inside Formula 1: Business. Lifestyle. Power.
Inside Formula 1: Business. Lifestyle. Power.
The Sochi roulette
The Formula 1 folk is focused on a particular Grand Prix this year – everyone is curious whether Sochi GP will live up to the hopes and become a success like Singapore GP did. Sergey Vorobyev, Deputy General Manager at…
How to meet sport executives?
CEO and Founder of a very particular company iSportconnect, Mr Sree Varma, guides us through the steps of making sports executives start new business relationships with one another. What’s underneath it all I came up with the idea for iSportconnect…
Where Are They Now: Peter Windsor
We take a short glance at the career of a journalist and businessman who came very close to creating an American Formula 1 team in 2010 – Peter Windsor. Peter David Windsor was the Sporting Director of the US F1…
Keepin’ it rollin’
Since 2011 Italian tyre manufacturers Pirelli are back as Formula 1’s exclusive supplier. Motorsport director Paul Hembery has had a rollercoaster-life ever since. The 2010 Canadian Grand Prix changed both the direction of Formula 1 and the life of…
If I Ran F1: Jonny Dodge
Events & travel entrepreneur, investor, CEO of GP Management and part-time adventurer Jonny Dodge gives us his take on how things would be different if he had the steering wheel of the whole sport. Needless to say, Formula 1…
Where Are They Now: Jarno Trulli
Jarno Trulli is not your ‘typical Italian’: he arrives early for appointments; does not care for football, claiming he did not even support Italy in World Cups; and he even has a Finnish name – he is called Jarno after…
My Race Day: Zak Brown
A powerful motorsport marketer, founder of JMI, former CEO of CSM Sport & Entertainment and the current CEO of McLaren Racing, mister Zak Brown shows us what his typical race day looks like. The night before. Each race has its own requirements,…
Motormen and motorwomen
We had some very interesting discussions lately about women taking over key positions in motorsports. This time, one of the most solid businesswomen in the racing industry that we know, Elisabeth Hake, opens her mind on these matters. Status I…
Asteroid on its way
We’ve reached the point where a significant number of racing drivers will be looking at their bank balances and realising that they’re not going to get through to the end of the season. The coffers are empty! In most cases,…
Should Bernie buy Twitter?
Bernie Ecclestone’s seeming dismissal of social media contrasts sharply with what other racing series, and major sports leagues, are doing with social media. We’ll have a look at how NASCAR monitors social media and the corresponding benefits. One of…
The benchmark race
Singapore was the 29th country to hold a Formula 1 Grand Prix and it has turned out to be a success story ever since. When the Singapore Grand Prix was first introduced to the Formula 1 calendar for the 2008…
The auto dentist
In an overnight move, Colin Kolles and a Swiss-Arabian consortium have taken over Caterham F1 from unlucky team boss and airline owner Tony Fernandes. Here’s the story behind all that. If you have a low-budget F1 team that doesn’t work,…
