Today the Renault Formula 1 team have been given a 2 year suspended ban for their part in the race fixing scandal of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix. The F.I.A. Motor Sport World Council handed down the sanction following Renault pleading no contest to the charge that Nelson Piquet crashed deliberately in order to aid [...]

Renault F1 boss Flavio Briatore and engineering head Pat Symonds have today quit the team prior to the hearing into alleged race fixing due before the World Motor Sport Council next week. The Renault team is now not disputing the case before them that then driver Nelson Piquet Jr deliberately crashed during last years Singapore grand [...]

Visiting my brother and his family recently allowed a closer look at the original Audi TT. Accompanied by the wonderful Olivia and scruffy Matthew, above, his brother-in-law’s 225bhp turbo quattro is a very fit low mileage example of this classic coupe. I know the mark 2 is a better car dynamically but it has no where [...]

Interesting times are ahead with the introduction of electric cars. Tesla, above, are established as a provider of very rapid and expensive sports cars but soon more affordable models will be coming on line by mainstream manufacturers. Many of those, such as the Vauxhall Ampera, will have a small combustion engine to top up the batteries [...]

I’m still finding rather too much time to keep checking updates on the Bristol Cars website. A 406 Zagato has appeared, combining my current obsession with Bristol’s and my long running interest in all things Zagato’ed, particularly Alfa SZ and Aston DB7 specials. The 406 looks ideal for an old school European road trip. No [...]