The sixth Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will be held two Sundays hence. It will be the second time the Formula One drivers’ champion will be decided in the UAE capital. Which is the aim of any track that winds up with the final date on the F1 calendar. “All we want is the championship up […]

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The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix went green shortly after 5 p.m., and 22 cars charged for the first turn. Sebastian Vettel got there first. And that was, effectively, the end of the race, though they went ahead and drove 55 laps anyway. So, where is Formula One racing, at this moment in history?

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This was the sports story of the day, here in Abu Dhabi. Kimi Raikkonen, former Formula One world champion, defending champion of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix … showed up a day late at the track here in the UAE today and dropped a bombshell. He said he has not been paid by his team, […]

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I love this story. And the timing is good, too. The Formula One guys are gathering in Abu Dhabi this weekend for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. So, we were looking for ways to localize the big motors story, and our sports columnist, Ali Khaled, came up with this 5-year-old Emirati kindergartner who races go-karts […]

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Companies tend to be like living beings — their first impulse is to stay alive. So we can understand how Sauber, the struggling Formula One racing team, came to make a midseason agreement with three Russian firms to get the cash to continue racing. (Rumors had been circulating that Sauber was not paying suppliers or […]

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If you pay any attention to the U.S.-based National Hot Rod Association — better known as the NHRA — you know the name of an Emirati. Which puts you ahead of most of the planet’s people. That guy who drives one of the two Top Fuel cars for Al Anabi Racing? Khaled Al Balooshi? An […]

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The Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge falls dead-center in the “work with what you got” line of thought. And what does Abu Dhabi have a lot of? Sand. Miles and miles and miles of it. Mountains of it. In deserts that are not just waste areas, but actual dunes, moving and shifting and drifting almost like […]

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I spent some time in yesterday’s post considering what is sure to be a chasm on the two-car Red Bull Racing team, now that Sebastian Vettel passed Mark Webber late in the Malaysian Grand Prix — against team orders — to win the race. People will be talking about this for months. For years. Nascar? […]

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Maybe we should have seen this coming. A guy doesn’t win the Formula One drivers championship three consecutive years by being a milquetoast. But that didn’t keep those of us who follow F1 — which is most of world aside from North America — from having a general idea of Sebastian Vettel, the German driver […]

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In yesterday’s post, I noted how difficult it is, in the Western world, to have good newspapers in the final week of the year. Parliaments are not in session, stock exchanges take days off, sources are out of town, fewer games are scheduled. At newspapers, one of the bits of enterprise often used to fill […]

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