Rush – first trailer for Ron Howard’s F1 film hits the net
This one has Oscar-winning pedigree! Ron Howard directs a Peter Morgan written film looking at the 1976 F1 season and the rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Starring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl and set amongst the glamorous Seventies cars this is a subject made for the expansive cameras of the 21st century cinema....
The Malaysian F1 Grand Prix and the Human Nature of young gentlemen
Sometimes with cars racing around circuits at 200mph and all the talk of DRS and KERS and tyres and strategies it is forgotten that at the heart of each speeding machine is a human being. All that tech is nothing without a young gentleman clicking buttons and pressing pedals and flicking paddles. But someone who...
New #F1 Season: What’s changed for 2013?
The Australian Grand Prix was the opening round of the 2013 Formula One World Championship and brought the thrills of open-wheel racing back to the street circuit at Albert Park, Melbourne. This is always a great curtain-raiser to the season, with the winner often going on to win the Championship. It’s a long way from...
New Caterham CT03 – Another attempt at automotive Beauty #F1 @GvanderGarde
Caterham have today launched their new Formula 1 car in Spain at the Jerez circuit. F1 designers are not looking for beauty per se, but as we have mentioned before, beauty is an unavoidable result of the successful singleminded pursuit of an idea. The CT03 is pictured below. Credit: Caterham F1 Team The team colours have...
Short film: Marcus Soderlund’s McLaren 50 – Courage @thefifthdriver
We’re in a hazy English summer’s day. It could be the beginning of a music video. We wait for the guitars to kick in as the camera follows a figure in white overalls walk across the grass. He could be the lead singer looking for the band on a Glastonbury afternoon. But he speaks when...
Why are F1 cars beautiful? Venus de Milo to the Ferrari F138 Formula 1 #F1 @InsideFerrari
Definitions of beauty change over the centuries but the F1 car endures for a year. When Alexandros of Antioch was chipping away at the Venus de Milo in 100BC it’s doubtful he would have imagined that people would be calling a racing car a thing of beauty in a couple of thousand years. He might...
The F1 season kicks off with the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-28 car launch #F1
Ah, the roar of engines and the heady fumes of high performance fuel are almost back. The first race isn’t until March 17th in Australia but the teams have been busy with making this part lighter and that part longer and the whole thing go faster and we’re about to see what they have been...
Modesty panels, modernism and the aesthetics of #F1 2013 regulations
F1 cars have never looked like elegant road cars, but they have always had a pleasing aesthetic of their own. There is always something beautiful about an object that does what it is supposed to and nothing else. The modern F1 car is a prime example – it is designed to take one man very...
200mph in the dark – Singapore #F1 GP weekend
The Singapore F1 Grand Prix is different. Very different. It is the only race on the Formula One calendar that is run at night. 8pm, when everything is pitch black 1500 lamps are turned on around the 5KM Marina Bay circuit and the roar of an F1 race begins. The lights are as bright as...
