Grand Prix

The 2014 Grand Prix season was a very good one for Mercedes. The 2015 season is right around the corner and Mercedes has unveiled the new car it will use in defense of its title – the F1 W06 Hybrid Silver Arrow.

The 2015 Grand Prix season is nearly upon us and the teams are busy unveiling their contenders. Ferrari Scuderia, the team that more than any other embodies all that is Formula 1, rolled its SF15-T off the truck and into the public eye this past weekend at pre-season testing in Spain.

A trace of racing might-have-been will get its international public première at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elégance as Mercedes-Benz shows up with its newly restored 1938 540 K Streamliner.

As Nico Rossberg and Mercedes celebrate the first win of the 2014 Formula One season, another group of racers is preparing for a new electric race series. Formula E racers will hold their own Grand Prix for the first time this September at the iconic Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium in Beijing.

RM Auctions, based in Blenheim, Ontario, is placing a prominent slab of Formula One racing history on the auction block with the sale of a Ferrari F310 B, chassis 179 that was once driven by Michael Schumacher and Eddie Irvine.

Last year, I found myself 20 feet from a race track while dozens of the most expensive cars in the world screamed past at almost 200 miles per hour – and my job was to help them stay safe.

The world record for a car at auction was smashed this month when a 1954 Mercedes W196 F1 Silver Arrow sold for nearly US$30 million, doubling the previous record. This car won the 1954 German GP at Nürburgring driven by Fangio on debut, and is the only post-war Silver Arrow in private hands.

In a rerun of David versus Goliath, the small highly-innovative Team MotoCzysz has once more triumphed over the Honda-Mugen effort, demonstrating 40 years of lap speed improvements in exactly 48 months.

Honda recently showed two scooter concepts at the Bangkok Motor Show that will challenge your thinking as they did mine.

The Espresso Veloce Machine is a coffee machine, shaped like a 1990's Grand Prix race car engine.

With only minor changes made in the Formula One regulations for this year, the differences between the F2012 and Ferrari's 2013 entry, the F138, are evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

The hyper-spectacular sport of wingsuit flying is ideally suited to television. Hence, it's not surprising that the the World Wingsuit League will hold its first Grand Prix on October 13-14 in Hunan, China.