Uncle Iberian is absolutely delighted to announce his departure in the Iberian-mobile to Jerez de la Frontera in Spain where the second session of Formula 1 winter testing is about to begin. Here I’m supposed to thank my sponsors (and express more delight) but it […]
I am a motor racing enthusiast, have always been. It’s just that sometimes the mountain comes to Uncle Iberian, and sometimes Iberian must go to the mountain (or as Vitaly Petrov would say “must to go”). With EXPOMOTO bike show in Batalha (central Portugal) the […]
You wake up in the morning looking greener than Shrek just to learn about Kubica’s horrific accident in the Ronde di Andora rally. It’s a tough one to swallow… I was looking forward to taking some photos of Robert testing with the new Lotus Renault […]
I think I got seriously lucky with ACP’s Classic British Sports Cars event (originally called “Passeio dos Desportivos Ingleses”) which took place in the small town of Batalha in central Portugal. I have to admit I’m not really familiar with the whole British car industry thing […]
A couple of years ago I took a few photos of the 1978 McLaren F1 car demonstration run in Estoril; for some reason I never used those photos, so now’s the time. The car looked futuristic and it sounds slightly weird, because modern F1 cars are […]
This morning I was picking my nose in a very unhygienic way and thinking about the so-called noise factor in motor racing. I came to the conclusion that I’m seriously obsessed with S2000 rally cars (like the Ford Fiesta S2000 or the Peugeot 207 S2000) […]
2011 marks le return of KERS to the wonderful world of Formula 1 racing… I’ve never been a big fan of KERS myself because it’s a fairly confusing and complicated system (pretty irrelevant too). I witnessed the growing pains of Ferrari and McLaren in Portimão first-hand when both teams […]
Yeah, my quest for truth has taken me to the centre of Lisboa (also known as “Lisbon”) this week where I had a lovely chat with a couple of local bureaucrats who managed to demonstrate to me that without them I’m nothing. In the process I […]
U2 will record a version of “Where the Streets Have No Name” called “Where the Teams Have No Name” especially for Tony Fernandes. Jérôme d’Ambrosio will score points in 2011 for MVR (I’ll eat my hair or run around any circuit in Spain or Portugal […]
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