The 2011 Intercontinental Le Mans Cup sees Audi and Peugeot take each other on across a full season of global races for the first time in their epic four-year LMP1 rivalry.
Allan McNish shares his thoughts on the first round of the series at Sebring, which saw him put together a typically feisty performance from the Scot and produced a surprising result overall. Allan takes the story up from there in his latest AUTOSPORT video diary.
How to solve F1's overtaking problem How can the racing be improved? Would a windtunnel ban make for more interesting designs? What parts can F1 standardise? And which direction should F1 take for its next engine formula? These questions, and more, are answered this week F1
Why the F1 ladder can't produce new grand prix teams The days of junior teams stepping up to Formula 1 appear long gone. And the reason behind the lack of quality options to expand the grid is easy to trace F1
Why F1 needs more junior works teams Ferrari may tie up with Sauber, Red Bull has Toro Rosso, and Mercedes flirts with junior-driver deployment through customer teams. Embracing a more organised series of alliances would help F1 blood the best young talent much more effectively F1
What Bottas is lacking compared to Hamilton Despite his attempts to play down his first half-season with Mercedes, Valtteri Bottas has settled in well - but while he's been capable of matching and beating team-mate Lewis Hamilton, there's one key area where the Finn finds himself behind F1
Why Super GT could catch Button out Jenson Button's next race appearance of his 'sabbatical' year is looming - Super GT's Suzuka 1000km. He can't afford to take it lightly, as other ex-Formula 1 racers in Japan can attest GT
Kubica's road to recovery in his own words Robert Kubica's return to the Formula 1 cockpit has dominated the headlines for the last two months, but as he explains to ANTHONY ROWLINSON, it was the culmination of a plan he'd been brewing for much, much longer F1
How to solve F1's overtaking problem How can the racing be improved? Would a windtunnel ban make for more interesting designs? What parts can F1 standardise? And which direction should F1 take for its next engine formula? These questions, and more, are answered this week F1
Why the F1 ladder can't produce new grand prix teams The days of junior teams stepping up to Formula 1 appear long gone. And the reason behind the lack of quality options to expand the grid is easy to trace F1
Why F1 needs more junior works teams Ferrari may tie up with Sauber, Red Bull has Toro Rosso, and Mercedes flirts with junior-driver deployment through customer teams. Embracing a more organised series of alliances would help F1 blood the best young talent much more effectively F1
What Bottas is lacking compared to Hamilton Despite his attempts to play down his first half-season with Mercedes, Valtteri Bottas has settled in well - but while he's been capable of matching and beating team-mate Lewis Hamilton, there's one key area where the Finn finds himself behind F1
Why Super GT could catch Button out Jenson Button's next race appearance of his 'sabbatical' year is looming - Super GT's Suzuka 1000km. He can't afford to take it lightly, as other ex-Formula 1 racers in Japan can attest GT
Kubica's road to recovery in his own words Robert Kubica's return to the Formula 1 cockpit has dominated the headlines for the last two months, but as he explains to ANTHONY ROWLINSON, it was the culmination of a plan he'd been brewing for much, much longer F1
