Alex Jones Speaks To Badger – The Full Interview

Were you in to motorsport before you started racing yourself?
Yeah. I first started following motorcycle racing- Grand Prix motorcycles and World Superbikes- and I was very interested in getting started in that. But my parents deemed it a little dangerous and steered me the way of go-karts and from there I started getting interested in [...]

Lotus is back – The Return of the “British Ferrari” (video)

Badger was fortunate enough to be invited by Tony Fernandes to the launch of the new Lotus F1 car and it was probably the grandest of the launches so far with not only the usual media, but also racing drivers past and present and other famous faces turning up for the event.  London’s Royal Horticultural [...]

On Form – Action Art's Fran Richley Chats To The Badger

Painting is perhaps the last of the great past times that one would actively associate with the raw speed, angst and glory of motor racing

Ferrari Oasis in the Dunes – An Architects Story (part 2)

F1 Badger recently posed some questions to Mike Lewis, of architectural company Benoy who are currently working on the amazing Ferrari World theme park on Yas Island, described as a collection of 20 high octane attractions for the whole family. Benoy also had the mammoth task to create the masterplan for Yas Island, the location [...]

Ferrari Oasis in the Dunes – An Architect's Story

BADGER EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Mike Lewis, Architect at Ferrari World, Yas Island, Abu Dhabi.

F1 Badger recently posed some questions to Mike Lewis, of architectural company Benoy who are currently working on the amazing Ferrari World theme park on Yas Island, described as a collection of 20 high octane attractions for the whole family! It’s the [...]

Stirling Moss on Schumacher, Eddie Jordan and why F1 needs Rossi

Republished from earlier this year – When Badger met Sir Stirling Moss…

“The point is, if somebody comes along and says, ‘Listen, I’m going to give you 3 or 4 million.” You’re not going to say ‘Well I’m not worth it,’” he smiles. “It’s an unrealistic amount to pay I think, for a safe sport.”

Badger Meets… 5Live's Anthony Davidson and David Croft

If you are one of the more ‘hardcore’ F1 fans who avidly watches the Friday and Saturday practice sessions then you’ll probably be familiar with the voices and brilliant banter of David Croft and Anthony Davidson. Badger was lucky enough to catch up with them both at the launch of the new Formula 1 [...]

Badger Meets… The BBC Sport F1 Crew

At the Italian grand prix last weekend the “Goodnight Horse!” podcast team bumped into Lee McKenzie, Jake Humphrey, Jonathan Legard and (super) Ted Kravitz around the circuit and had the pleasure of talking to them about the 2009 season so far.
They’re not surprisngly, an excellent bunch of fantastic people with arguably one of the dream [...]

Badger meets… Freddie Hunt

As we sit down with a cup of tea in the garden of the West Sussex cottage where he grew up, Freddie admits that he’s usually pretty wary of journalists. Such an admission is unsurprising given who his father is, the 1976 Formula 1 World Champion James Hunt. There’ll always be comparisons between Freddie and [...]