Author Profile: Bill Thomas

Bill Thomas has written about cars and racing for Top Gear, GQ, The Times, Car, Max Power, FHM, Autocar and various other magazines and newspapers, not necessarily in that order. His favourite race in the world is the Bathurst 1000, his favourite racing car is the Porsche 962, and he was once knocked off his feet by Gerhard Berger in a press conference...

One up on Jenson

Posted by Bill Thomas at 1:47 pm on Tuesday October 20, 2009 16 Comments
Abu Dhabi

OK, so Jenson’s the F1 world champion and he’s The Man right now, but I’ve got one over him: I’ve driven Yas Marina circuit and he hasn’t. So there. Yeah.

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A very British win

Posted by Bill Thomas at 4:34 pm on Monday October 19, 2009 70 Comments

What a great result for British sport at Interlagos on Sunday. Don’t forget that Brawn, which was Honda last year and almost disappeared altogether over Christmas, is a British-owned team, staffed by British people almost exclusively.

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Button: will he do it?

Posted by Bill Thomas at 10:56 am on Wednesday September 9, 2009 28 Comments
Jenson Button: can he do it?

I wrote a story about Brawn GP a couple of weeks ago for the magazine, which you can read about this week when you buy it, which you should – it’s a good issue, though I would say that, wouldn’t I?

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Who to replace Badoer?

Posted by Bill Thomas at 5:29 pm on Monday August 24, 2009 106 Comments

Yeah, OK, Luca Badoer was ‘hapless’ in Valencia, but all his performance did for me was to highlight just how amazing F1 drivers are – all of them.

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’Ring rage

Posted by Bill Thomas at 2:08 pm on Monday July 13, 2009 54 Comments

I have to admit, I flew into a rage on Sunday afternoon and turned the TV off with a shaky hand when Mark Webber received his drive-through penalty from the stewards at the Nürburgring.
That shaky hand, desperately trying to find the ‘off’ button, only just managed to stop itself flinging the remote through the screen.

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The true picture?

Posted by Bill Thomas at 8:01 am on Saturday March 28, 2009 72 Comments

It’s hard to come to terms with all the stories that have just been generated by that qualifying session! Is your head as muddled as mine? I’ll do my best to un-muddle but it isn’t easy!

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Hey F1, looky here y’all

Posted by Bill Thomas at 1:09 pm on Thursday January 29, 2009 121 Comments

When is F1 going to wake up and change itself for its fans? I count myself as a die-hard F1 fan, but fundamental changes need to be made to improve the show, or else millions more will switch off.

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Not losing face

Posted by Bill Thomas at 4:32 pm on Wednesday December 17, 2008 92 Comments
Honda F1

I must admit, I find the recent earth-shattering Japanese pullouts from high-end motorsport extremely disturbing, and, more to the point of this blog, extremely annoying. First Honda, gone from F1, now both Suzuki and – perhaps most importantly of all three – Subaru gone from the WRC.

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