I’ve been enjoying working with the leading F1 photographer Darren Heath this season.
He has a fantastic eye and always gets an original view on a Grand Prix weekend. We are experimenting with ways we can work together on content and this is a Flickr slideshow with my captions.
For maximum impact, expand it to full screen [...]
Archive for the ‘Features’ Category
Where will the next F1 stars come from?
Posted in Discussion, Drivers, Features, tagged Drivers, talent on January 22, 2009 | 6 Comments »
How can our sport identify and nurture the best driving talents and bring them to F1? What is the best way to evaluate a young driver?
One of the eye catching lines Bernie Ecclestone came out with recently in an interview with my Financial Times colleague Christian Sylt was a dismissal of the revived Formula 2 [...]
How to make an F1 genius
Posted in Discussion, Drivers, Features, tagged Drivers, talent on November 30, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I read a fascinating article this weekend by a writer called Malcolm Gladwell, whose new book “The story of success” looks at what creates success in many walks of life.
He describes some studies by psychologists into music students and concludes that however much talent someone has at something, what makes the difference between them becoming [...]
Bernie’s going for Gold
Posted in F1 News, Features, Personalities, tagged Ecclestone, F1 rules, Medals on November 26, 2008 | 43 Comments »
Just back from a press conference at the Landmark Hotel, London, where Bernie Ecclestone said more about the proposed “medals” scheme in F1 and announced that LG the consumer electronics group, will sponsor F1 next year. You as viewers will be very aware of this deal as you watch, because the timing graphics, which appear [...]
Thinking ahead to 2009
Posted in Discussion, Features, tagged F1 2009 season on November 4, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Back in the UK after the long BA flight from Sao Paulo. It was very quiet on the plane as almost everyone had a hangover and had had little or no sleep. The two parties were the big one thrown by Red Bull at a place called the Mausoleum and a McLaren celebratory bash, near [...]
New This Week
Posted in Features, tagged Formula One, Personalities on September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Check out all the new features uploaded this week, which include an in-depth profile of Ferrari’s new boss, Stefano Domenicali, I get to see what’s cooking with Robert Kubica and we test our mathematics skills with the paddock’s top strategists.
The comment of the week!
Posted in Discussion, Features, tagged Comment of the Week on November 25, 2008 | 30 Comments »
I’ve had a peach of a comment from AK, in response to the posting yesterday about the new BBC team.
He says: “I’ve just been pointed here by someone who said “I know none of us like James Allen as a commentator, but check this blog out anyway”. It’s won over a large number of people [...]
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