This post was created with help from AI. Irwin D. Trenton, the seasoned Formula 1 journalist with a beard as wild as a Monaco hairpin, set off from the glittering Principality on his state-of-the-art e-bike, a sleek, neon-green contraption dubbed the “Thunderbolt 3000.” This wasn’t […]
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Sergio’s Column – #SpanishGP: Oh (no longer) So Close!
Text and images by Sergio Álvarez. You could be forgiven for thinking that Lady Luck doesn’t like journalists; neither journalists nor long-time F1 enthusiasts, as the work conducted by Liberty Media over the past few years has paid back for them with packed grandstands and […]
Radio Free Barcelona: Free Qualy Quotes, FIA Formula 2, with Sergio (Updated)
Interviews and photos by Sergio Álvarez; spiritual guidance and header image by Diego Merino/Clarksport. Question to top 3 in today’s qualy: “Many congratulations, guys. With these high temperatures that we’re feeling in Barcelona, how much tyre deg and tyre wear are you expecting towards the […]
The Only Driver Yet to Score, What Are You Even Doing This For? The Junior Conundrum in Barcelona (FIA F2/F3)
Header image by Diego Merino. Poetry by Alex Albon. Indeed, I am sat in my old rocking chair, rocking all the way to the Moon and back, checking out the drivers’ standings of the FIA F3 Championship and one uncomfortable thought clearly springs to mind: […]
F1 Testing: Bouncy Castles, Barcelona, 2022 (Summary & Photos)
All photos: Copyright © 2022 Diego Merino, Clarksport & Iberianmph So, Barcelona, there we went again into the empty paddock and had the distinct privilege and dubious honour of staring at the empty grandstands, which might have robbed the occasion of some kind of special […]
F1 Testing Diaries: Shaken Down, (not?) Stirred, Barcelona, 2022
Header image & other photos are courtesy of Diego Merino, in association with Clarksport. 09AM, 23.02.2022: Sheena, it’s 9AM and we see new F1 cars on track for the first time in daylight and in the carbon flesh, some of them I like, while some […]
FIA F3, #SpanishGP: the Battle of the Teams and How Andy Warhol Set Up Oliver Rasmussen
Interviews by Sergio Álvarez; header image and photos by Diego Merino. What’s cooking, dudes and dudettes? Have we got more F3 stuff for you! Looking back on the Spanish Grand Prix, one of the unsung heroes of the opening weekend of F3 racing was Alexander […]
F3 Hotshots, Part Trois – the Path of the F1 Junior
Interviews by Sergio Álvarez; header image and photos by Diego Merino. Junior F1 drivers, they’re a bit like distant stars in another ‘modor racing’ galaxy: some shine brighter than the others to find their way into the top 1-3 in F2/F3. Then the Grandfather Clock […]

