Hello! Many of you have been asking for it, and apologies for the delay in its publication – life getting in the way – but I have finally completed the 2020 motorsport calendar spreadsheet. It has the majority of major series on it, plus some additional events, allowing you to easily see what races are …
Author: lsmithjournalist
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running F1 Tracks
It has literally been a year since I last did anything on here. Yikes. The whole point of setting this up was a) a way to showcase my work, and b) write content that would not have a home with any of my outlets. This piece comes under b). It’s about running. Something that 12 …
2019 Motorsport Spreadsheet Calendar
Ask and ye shall receive! Firstly, hello my often-forgotten-about blog. I was hoping to spend more time writing about various things, including my travels following the F1 circus, through 2018. Alas, it has been a super-busy year – but part of my New Year’s Resolution for 2019 is to write on here more. I’ve had …
Postcard from Melbourne
Like all good postcards, this one from Melbourne has arrived way later than planned. And after I forgot to send ones from Marrakesh and Barcelona. Oops. Anyway, hello slightly-forgotten-about blog. It’s currently 6:20am, which means my body thinks it’s still 4:20pm (and my computer, as I’m yet to change it back from Australia time). Jet lag is not …
More than a job – a thank you to NBC
New Year’s Day marks my last published pieces for NBC Sports. 7,781 articles have been written, 98 Formula 1 races have been covered, countless tweets have been sent – but it all ends here. I’ve touched before online about the significance of the job that I got with NBC back in 2013. That night at …
2018 motorsport calendar spreadsheet
I’ve been putting together my motorsport calendar spreadsheet for a couple of years now. It has proven to be a massively useful tool to know when races are on, what series clash and what weekends I can actually have “off”! And as promised on Twitter, I’m more than happy to share it out for free …
Postcard from Hong Kong
It’s done! The racing year is officially over! It’s a weird paradox to be celebrating the final event of the year with the first race of a new season. Alas, such is the nature of Formula E and its winter calendar, meaning the ‘break’ is really only five weeks or so. Formula E’s second visit …
Postcard from Abu Dhabi
Like all good postcards, this one is coming to you about three days after it should have arrived. And it’s not really from Abu Dhabi, but from Hong Kong. And it’s powered by stupid, stupid jet lag. Anyway! That’s all for another season of Formula 1, with the season finale in Abu Dhabi proving to …
Postcard from Bahrain
Bahrain had never been a country I had held much great intention of ever visiting when I was a kid. Typically there are places and sights we all say we want to see as part of a hypothetical travel bucket list. I personally always wanted to visit Japan (check), Argentina (check), New Zealand (working on it) and …
Hello world…
The generic ‘Hello World!’ intro for any first post on a new WordPress blog/website is perhaps a little cheesy, but it has long been a traditional message as a way to test things out. As a result, I’m going to run with it as the way to start off a blog on this new website. …