Inside Formula 1: Business. Lifestyle. Power.
Inside Formula 1: Business. Lifestyle. Power.
Vijay Mallya: “It’s imperative to bring Indian GP back”
You’ve clinched fifth place in the Constructors’ Championship. What’s that like for the team emotionally? I am truly proud of the work everyone in the team has done this year. We made some huge decisions over the winter of 2014 –…
My Race Day: Charlie Hooper
This time we experience what’s it like to be Charlie Hooper, Systems Engineer at Williams F1, on a regular Formula 1 race Sunday. 07:00 Wake up! 09:00 sees us arriving at the track. Straight into breakfast with a double-shot…
Gossip Grip: December
Gossip grip: December, Ferrari is upset that Red Bull Racing believes it’s their ‘right’ to have a good engine. If that’s the case, we wonder if Manor feels it is their ‘right’ to have a good chassis. And let’s not…
Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones): “F1 is where my heart is”
The TV series Game of Thrones has attracted record numbers of viewers on HBO and attained an exceptionally broad and active international fan base. It has received widespread acclaim by critics, particularly for its acting, complex characters, story, scope and…
2015 Formula 1 Season Review
Like each year, we present our very own season review, hand-crafted by our Formula 1 hitlady Dessislava Jeleva. It’s a fresh team-by-team report of 2015, from the heights of Mercedes to pits of Manor, including all relevant shifts, tricks and twists in the travelling circus of…
Renault to return in 2016 as an F1 team
Ending all speculation about its exit from Formula 1 and its doubted future, Renault has announced that it will return to Formula 1 as a team in 2016. The French manufacturer was in talks with Lotus F1 Team and was…
Jo Ramirez: “Invest in the talents from the Americas”
By Rosa Elena Torres | We sit down for a chat with Jo Ramirez, a respected author and ex-employee of several sports car racing teams. From 1984 to 2001 he was coordinator of the McLaren Formula 1 team, and he finally…
Abu Dhabi race check-up: What went down
Nico Rosberg won the 2015 Formula 1 Abu Dhabi race with an 8.2-second lead over his teammate Lewis Hamilton. This was Rosberg’s 14th career win, 6th win of the season, and third in a row, making it the first hat-trick…
Securing a sponsorship deal: Finding out what’s important
Annually for the past three years, the British Racing Drivers Club (BRDC) has invited me to deliver a training course on the topic of sponsorship acquisition. The audience has mainly included drivers from the Club’s Superstar and Rising Star programmes,…
A Mexican standoff
The final stretch of the 2015 Formula 1 season is here and the two Red Bull teams are still without a confirmed engine supplier. Predicting how this debacle would end is difficult, but we can at least analyse the actions…
Kicking and screaming
By George Woods Baker | Fans drive the numbers and never before has fan engagement been more critical to the life blood of Formula 1, a legacy sport playing catch-up in the fast-moving digital age we live in. Formula 1’s principal…
My Fantasy F1 Team: Zak Brown
An impressive businessman, racing expert, CEO of McLaren Racing, mister Zak Brown gives the Paddock magazine his fantasy Formula 1 set. The drivers As a marketer, my driver would be Tom Cruise. He’s a sponsor’s dream: fast, brave, exciting, and charismatic with…
