"You know, it really looks like Chinatown here," he said as he was waiting for the barman to bring our drinks over, "except it just keeps going on and on." I was sitting in a bar in Xintiandi, the westernised, pedestrianised bar section of the city with a couple of people I'd just met who work in the Paddock Club, and my new companion was keen to explain how much he was enjoying his trip, but he wasn't really thinking it through too well. In his defense he'd been in the bar for a while.  Continue 

Ove Andersson is the human face of Toyota, the single most prominent person working in the second largest automobile manufacturing company in the world. And not for no reason - he has been involved in the running of their motorsport arm for longer than most fans have been watching cars driving around - which is why the recent announcement of his retirement came as a shock to so many people around the world.

Continue

Fourteen of the top fifteen drivers in the World Championship have contracts with Formula One teams for the 2005 season. The one who doesn't have a contract has scored thirteen wins and sixty podium appearances in his ten years in the sport and is currently seven points away from being the fourth highest point scorer in Formula One history. That driver is David Coulthard. It's an anomaly that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, but then again this is Formula One, and sometimes sense is what happens elsewhere.

Continue

When you're the number two driver for Formula 3000 team Arden, there's not much expectation laid on you. At the end of last year, team boss Christian Horner chased hard after Vitantonio Liuzzi to lead his efforts in claiming back to back titles for the young team, seeing the Italian as the next star of F3000 and wanting to prove to everyone that the title brought home by Swede Bjorn Wirdheim wasn't a one off. Liuzzi wanted to race with the hot team of the series, and the deal came together quickly.

After that Horner cast around for the second driver, and although he tested a few drivers there weren't that many who were able to drive and also had the budget to be there. From a short list he picked Dutchman Robert Doornbos, signed him to the usual two year option deal, and hoped that he'd made the right choice - there wasn't much to go on with his record, but he put his trust in his team to get ‘that Doorknobs guy', as he became known in the paddock, through.

Continue

At the age of only twenty three, Antonio Pizzonia was an ex-Formula One driver. He did everything he was told to do to get there, and initially it worked. He knew he had to leave his family behind in the Amazonian town of Manaus, Brazil, and he did. He then had to fight through the junior ranks at home and in England, against drivers with bigger budgets and more impressive names, and he did. In doing so he impressed to such an extent that a test seat with Williams fell to him, which then translated into a race drive with Jaguar.

Conwww.davidcameron.it/williams/reversal-of-fortune-how-antonio-pizzonia-recovered-his-f1-career1tinue