I can still vividly recall my first ever sponsorship deal, way back in 1974, which appropriately allowed me to enter my first motor race. It wouldn’t have been possible without a major change in the RAC motorsport rules just six years previously.

In 1968, Colin Chapman, legendary boss of the Lotus F1 Team, commercially...

Watching the London Games I found it easy to become both carried away on the wave of euphoria sweeping the country and slightly depressed at the shortcomings of my own sport.

The first was the...

I read with great interest that former Grand Prix driver Gerhard Berger has echoed the sentiments that I expressed in my last Expert Column, regarding the plethora of categories in single-seater motorsport.

Gerhard was one of the drivers with whom I worked at Benetton F1. Still very much involved with the...

I can still recall the thrill of securing my first ever sponsorship deal. It was some 38 years ago! What will surprise a lot of young drivers today, is that I was able to put together a meaningful sponsorship without ever having raced a car before. As I point out during many of my training seminars, you don’t...