Badger Banter Special – We Talk To Lotus Racing’s Fairuz Fauzy

Were you paying attention to today’s first practice session? If you were then you’ll have noticed that it wasn’t Jarno Trulli putting the Lotus through its paces alongside Heikki Kovalainen, but Fairuz Fauzy, the team’s test driver. Having done FP1 back at his home race in Malaysia Fairuz got back in the car this morning, [...]

Badger Banter – We Put The Questions To Timo Glock

After two seasons with moneybags Toyota, Timo Glock has switched to Virgin, a team who’ve promised to operate on F1’s smallest budget. His F1 experience prior to this year was of fighting for points and grabbing the odd podium, so we think you’ll agree that the German racer has faced something of a change since [...]

Badger Banter Special: We Put The Questions To Karun Chandhok

Not many people have had as tough a start to their F1 career as Karun Chandhok. The Indian racer only signed for the Hispania team 10 days before the season opener in Bahrain, where hydraulic problems kept him in the garage throughout free practice. His first taste of the car came in qualifying.
But since that [...]

F1 To Watch – Badger Talks To The Flying Dutchman

The Dutch love their F1; they’re passionate about the sport and support their drivers every step of the way.
But the country has never had a real grand prix star. Undoubtedly the most successful Dutch F1 driver was Jos ‘The Boss’ Verstappen, who scored two podiums for Benetton in the ‘94 season. Sadly that was the [...]

F1 To Watch – GP2 Racer Sam Bird Talks To Badger

St George’s Day Special – Badger has a bit of a natter with England’s next Grand Prix star.

With the grand prix circus on a three-week hiatus now is as good a time as any to take a look at a young driver aiming to make it in to the sport in the near future.
Being as [...]

Badger Banter Special: Our Q&A With McLaren’s Gary Paffett

Who was the first person to get behind the wheel of the 2010 McLaren-Mercedes that won Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix? Reigning world champion Jenson Button? Nope. The team’s golden-boy  and 2008 champ Lewis Hamilton? Try again.
It was in fact the other racer in McLaren’s all-British superteam, Gary Paffett, who was given the honour of taking [...]

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 [...]