THE very car in which Michael Schumacher first made his mark in Formula 1 more than three decades ago is for sale!
The Ferrari F2003-GA which Michael Schumacher won his 6th Formula One World Championship in sold at auction for a price of $14.9 million, making it the most expensive F1 car sold to date.
Retired for the second time, you’d be forgiven for thinking seven-time F1 World Champion Michael Schumacher would be taking it easy. Maybe he’d take one of his Harleys out for a ride here and there, or have a nice game of golf, tennis, or soccer. Nope, not even close.
The 2023 USGP will be remembered not only for its thrilling racing, but also for the DQ’s of top drivers, Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc.
Vettel’s surprise announcement that he would be back in action, joining Daniel Ricciardo for a special event at the Nürburgring Nordschleife.
Ford and Red Bull Racing have announced a partnership in which Ford will become the engine supplier for the team starting in 2026.
The auction firm has announced another banger: Mario Andretti’s 1978 John Player Special Lotus-Cosworth Type 79
Moving from High Performance Driving Education (HPDE) events or lapping days to racing is, well, exhilarating!
I have been very lucky in my career to not only have a chance to drive SO many different kinds of cars (Grand-Am DP, Grand-AM GT, ALMS GTLM, ALMS PC, ALMS LMP2, Porsche Cup cars, World Challenge, Continental GS, Continental ST, NASCAR Sprint Cup, NASCAR Nationwide, NASCAR Trucks, Late Models, Midgets, Formula Atlantic, Pro Mazda, IMSA Lites, Radicals, Formula Renault, karts, etc.), but I have also been very lucky to have been raised by a professional race engineer my entire life. I guess where I am going with all of this is that I may only be 25 years old, but I feel like I have seen quite a bit and experienced a lot in my racing career. I want to talk this week about a few things I think club racers can learn that are easy to execute and will deliver results right away. These are things I have seen and continue to see over my career. I do quite a bit of driver coaching alongside my pro racing, so I have worked with drivers of all different experience levels.
In this episode, Damon Hill, 1996 Formula 1 World Champion, opens up about his personal struggles with depression, feelings of inadequacy, loss of identity, and his ultimate path to healing following his remarkable racing career.
One of the key areas that separate good race drivers from great race drivers is their ability to adapt their driving to suit the car’s handling, or from one type of car to another. Some drivers, despite how the car is handling, will only drive it one way – their style. And guess what? A driver’s style will never suit every handling characteristic. If you cannot adapt your style to suit the car’s handling, a change in track conditions, a mechanical problem, or a different type of car, I doubt you will ever be a real champion race driver.
How important to your results is the team you race with? Critical, right? When working within any team environment, you really have three options.
Thirty years ago, Mercedes-Benz achieved a double victory in 1989 with their Sauber-Mercedes C 9 Silver Arrows – just as they did in 1952 with the 300 SL racing sports car
In Part 2, I presented the concept of how our brains work when driving a race car. Essentially, it can be summed up by Input-Process-Output. If you recall, information from our senses go into our brain/computer, where it is processed by our software/programming and we then get some form of output – our performance or skill.
How important to your results is the team you race with? Critical, right? When working within any team environment, you really have three options.
If you had to pick just one thing that separates a Lewis Hamilton from other drivers (or any other superstar athlete, such as Serena Williams, Sidney Crosby, Steph Curry or Tom Brady) from all the rest, what would it be? Is it motivation? Desire? Work ethic? Great eyesight? Or just natural talent?
In this final article of this series, it’s time for a little reality check. If you could do just one thing better this upcoming season as a driver, what would it be?
In this final article of this series, it’s time for a little reality check. If you could do just one thing better this upcoming season as a driver, what would it be?
If you like books that give an “inside look” on racing, you’ll probably like Total Competition. It mainly discusses Formula One, but the discussion happens between two very high level recent participants.
With the onset of winter, many of our readers are thinking more about snow than rain. But soon enough the 2017 season will start, first in Florida, Texas and California and then moving northwards. You can get ready now…
When I think of drivers making a comeback in racing, I think of Michael Schumacher and Niki Lauda. The former never quite achieved the same level of success as he did before his retirement, but the latter won a World Championship after returning from his.