While yesterday all eyes were on seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton, today we focus on the fellow Mercedes partner Valtteri Bottas. Bottas has managed to make his way to the top of F1, meaning he is very much...

It might be a bit of a surprise for some readers that I am writing this notebook from the wine country to the north of Beaune, not quite in the Côte de Nuits, but not far away either. It’s wine snob...

Virgilio is, according to legend, the birthplace of the Roman poet Virgil. But that was not why I ended up in the village. That was pure chance.In fact the whole visit was down to luck. I made no plans at...

When you go to Barcelona using the same route each time, lovely though it may be, you tend to get to a point where you say: “Let’s try something different” and this happened to me as I pondered my return...

If you were around in medieval times and developed an overwhelming urge to go on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, to get away from the drudge of everyday living (plagues and so on) and discover yourself on the road,...

So I’m just getting the Green Notebook done for Silverstone, as I sit in the Media Centre for the next race at Silverstone and, to be honest, I’m wondering if I won’t be doing the same again in week from...

The word in Formula 1 circles is that Racing Point and Sergio Perez are going to be going to the Contract Recognition Board (CRB)…  If true, this will be to establish whether the Mexican’s contract, which runs until the end...

After three weeks on the road, and a triple-header of Grands Prix in points far away, coming home was a pleasure. “Every traveller has a home of his own,” Charles Dickens once wrote, “and he learns to appreciate it the...

If you’re pottering about and see a sign that says Untere Stinkensee, it takes a lot of self-control not to go and have a look – and I don’t have that much restraint. That’s how I ended up next to...

It is only a week since the Australian Grand Prix was cancelled. It feels like it was in another age. So much has changed. I stayed in Australia and even lengthened my visit because I did not want to return home and perhaps...