Monthly Archives: February 2011

McLAREN HAS UNVEILED the car it believes will take it to both the drivers’ and constructors’ world championship, writes Jim McGill. The new McLaren MP4-26 was revealed in Berlin today after the team used an interim MP4-25 during this week’s test in Valencia. The new McLaren features some interesting concepts, including a…

FORMULA ONE grand prix winner David Coulthard has called for fellow Scot Paul di Resta to be given room to settle into his ‘great opportunity’ with Force India, alongside team-mate Adrian Sutil, writes Jim McGill. And the 39-year-old from Twynholm believes Di Resta will be a “great ambassador” for Scotland. “I’m tremendously…

BATHGATE’S PAUL di Resta left Valencia after the final day of the opening Formula One test in Spain excited by the speed and reliability his Force India car delivered, writes Jim McGill. “We’ve achieved everything we wanted to over the past three days,” the 24-year-od Scot, who handed the revised 2010 Force…

RALLYSCOTLAND WINNER and reigning Intercontinental Rally Challenge champ Juho Hanninen is poised to defend his title, despite contesting the new S2000 World Rally Championship, writes Jim McGill. Skoda’s original plans for Hanninen was to enter him solely in the opening round of the IRC in Monte Carlo, and the team’s home event…

BATHGATE’S PAUL di Resta maintained his impressive start to his Force India Formula One racing career by finishing today’s second day of testing in Valencia third-fastest, writes Jim McGill. And the 24-year-old Scot, on his first full day driving the 2.5-mile circuit, was only denied the top slot by two Formula One…

IT’S A MINI, but not as you know it! This is the first site of the all-new Prodrive-developed Mini WRC car in its red and white livery; previous images have shown the car in a yellow and black camouflage, writes Jim McGill. Unveiled today in Monte Carlo, the latest development version of…

BATHGATE’S PAUL di Resta immediately showed he will be a force in this year’s Formula One season when he finished today’s opening day of testing in Valencia fourth-fastest, just 0.692s behind world champ Sebastian Vettel, writes Jim McGill. While times in testing are notoriously difficult to analyse — it’s often like comparing…

RED BULL, the team which dominated both the drivers’ and constructors’ championships last year, today unveiled the car with which it will defend its titles — the Adrian Newey-designed, Renault-powered RB7, writes Jim McGill. Featuring a high nose, a different concept rear wing and higher engine cover than its predecessor, world champ…