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IGNITION SEB REVEALS HIS TRUE COLOURS PARADES THE VERY BEST F1 PHOTOGRAPHY PITPASS NEWS, OPINION AND ANALYSIS PITPASS TECH IN-SEASON CAR DEVELOPMENT PETER WINDSOR SEPANG JUST WON‘T GO AWAY DIETER RENCKEN WHO WILL BE THE NEXT BERNIE? VALTTERI BOTTAS ON HIS VERY FIRST GRAND PRIX INBOX YOUR VIEWS ON ‘MULTI-21-GATE’ NOW THAT WAS A CAR THE BRABHAM BT20 SUBSCRIBE AND GET A FREE MCLAREN T-SHIRT
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THE DARK SIDE OF VETTEL Sepang has been the talk of the season. After Sebastian Vettel‘s sunny side was suddenly eclipsed, Andrew Benson asks: do Red Bull have only themselves to blame?
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Flav‘s got plenty to say about team ownership, ditching managers… and ‘Crashgate’
BULLETPROOF BUTTON While no one wants a car like this year‘s MP4-28, Teflontough Jenson Button has endured far worse over the years
38 52
A CHAT WITH MARTIN WHITMARSH McLaren‘s head honcho on a difficult season ahead
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WHEN TECH GOES BAD McLaren aren‘t the only ones: we investigate how teams can go from hero to zero over the course of a winter break
60
THE RETURN OF ADRIAN SUTIL Putting that nightclub fracas far behind him, Sutil returns to his Force India drive with a new perspective on life
VETTEL It‘s a case of no more Mr Nice 38 Guy as Seb asserts himself at Sepang
66
HÜLKENBURG STEPS SIDEWAYS Force India to Sauber wasn‘t an obvious promotion for young Nico. But his ultimate destination is Maranello
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AT SAUBER, EVERY DETAIL COUNTS… …as we learn from their chief designer, Matt Morris
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MONISHA: F1‘S FIRST LADY The sport‘s only female team principal on the pressures of leading a team from the midfield
When the going gets tough 44 heBUTTON always finds a way to pull through
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GO FIGURE Spain‘s involvement in F1 – in number
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LUNCH WITH FLAVIO BRIATORE Maurice Hamilton enjoys a lively catch-up with one of the most flamboyant and controversial figures ever to grace F1
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YOU ASK THE QUESTIONS Pirelli boss and Ricky-Gervais look-alike Paul Hembery tackles your questions about tyres… and calendars
FLAV Brace yourself as the 80 outspoken Mr Briatore lets rip
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THE ORIGINAL ‘AUSSIE GRIT’ An exclusive interview with the only man ever to win the championship in his own car: Sir Jack Brabham
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PERFORMANCE DRIVING WITH PROST F1 Racing takes a few lessons from the sport‘s Mr Smooth
THIRD SECTOR: FINISHING STRAIGHT PROST How making the best of 100 your car makes you a better driver
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MALAYSIAN GP REPORT TEAM ORDERS GO AWRY CHINESE GP REPORT RUBBER RUNS THE SHOW SPANISH GP PREVIEW A VERY FAMILIAR CIRCUIT TOM CLARKSON IN TROUBLE AT THE AIRPORT MURRAY WALKER NOT AT ALL HAPPY ABOUT SEPANG
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The highly rated Nico Hülkenberg is on a fast track to Ferrari – with a detour by way of Sauber
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Adrian Sutil‘s got his old drive back at Force India. But what has he learned in his time away?
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When Vettel put winning above team orders at Sepang, it opened
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W We take a spin in Renault‘s b brand-new hot hatch with the ffamously smooth Alain Prost
The relentless Jenson Button on why even an underperforming car can‘t blunt his competitive edge
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We meet Jack Brabham: ferocious competitor and, at 87, Formula 1‘s oldest living world champion
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Red Bull team boss Christian Horner is answering accusations of ‘weakness’
WINNERS + SPINNERS UPS AND DOWNS ON THE F1 ROLLER COASTER GOOD MONTH FOR
The ‘cuddly' Ron Dennis When McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh was grilled by Fleet Street over his team’s poor start to 2013, one hack wondered why there had been so many calls to have Ron Dennis reinstated as team principal. Whitmarsh replied: “Because he’s a warm and cuddly sort of individual...” Re-inventing the wheel Lewis Hamilton’s arrival at Mercedes has necessitated a redesign of the steering wheel on his car. Hamilton felt
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PHOTOS: ANDREW FERRARO/LAT; GLENN DUNBAR/LAT; MALCOLM GRIFFITHS/LAT; ALASTAIR STALEY/LAT; XPB.CC; LAT ARCHIVE
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tried to fly home from the Malaysian GP. The A380 they were booked on developed a fault and spent 17 hours grounded at Kuala Lumpur. Nearby hotels were all full, so the team finally had to switch flights to get home. Team-order T-shirts Red Bull’s ‘Multi 21’ team order won’t be forgotten any time soon. Like Ferrari's infamous “Fernando is faster than you” it’s been immortalised on a range of T-shirts that bear the line: ‘What part of Multi 21 don’t you understand?’ Track cleaners The owners of Nürburgring were forced to close the adjoining Nordschleife in early April after a very large phallic symbol was daubed onto the track surface. Stop that sniggering at the back…
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Test your knowledge / Rising stars / All change at Mercedes
Answers: 1 Giancarlo Fisichella 2 Michele Alboreto 3 Riverside 4 Bruce McLaren 5 Mercedes 6 FW17 7 Christijan Albers 8 Paddy Lowe 9 Huub Rothengatter 10 Alexander Lyons
F1 Mastermind Your chosen specialised subject: the world’s greatest sport
1 Which driver rolled his car at
6 What was the designation of the
Monaco after Takuma Sato’s
Williams chassis that was used
engine blew up in 2004?
during the 1995 season?
2 Who made his F1 debut at the
7 Which Dutch driver (below left)
1981 San Marino GP for Tyrrell?
started 2007 with Spyker?
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8 Who did McLaren send onto the
circuit to host a round of the F1
podium with Jenson Button after
world championship?
his Montréal win in 2011?
4 Which eponymous team owner
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Jonathan Palmer at Zakspeed?
5 Which F1 team is situated on
10 What are Jenson Button’s
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THIS BOY CAN DRIVE
PHOTOS: STEVEN TEE/LAT; CHARLES COATES/LAT; LAT ARCHIVE
Keeping an eye out for the stars of tomorrow Fabio Leimer Who is he?
Anything else we need to know about him?
Leimer is a 24-year-old Swiss
Leimer was Formula Master
driver, who is competing for the
champion with Jenzer Motorsport
Racing Engineering team in this
in 2009 and has been plying his
year’s GP2 Series.
trade in GP2 ever since. He’s only had a handful of wins, but did get
How good is he?
an F1 run-out with BMW Sauber in
Leimer took the spoils in the
2011, putting in 67 laps at the Abu
opening GP2 race of the season,
Dhabi Young Driver test.
which supported the Malaysian Grand Prix back in March. His
F1 chances
victory came in the longer feature
After four years in GP2, this has
race after he started fourth on
to be the year that Leimer proves
the grid. If he continues to display
he’s capable of winning otherwise
the pace he had in Malaysia then
it could be too late. Then again,
he could be one of the favourites
winning in GP2 still doesn’t
to fight for the title this year.
guarantee an F1 drive…
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ANALYSIS
As Nick Fry departs Merc, is Ross Brawn next? The staff manoeuvrings continue at Mercedes as Toto Wolff and Niki Lauda work to reshape the management structure
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/ The unexplained mystery of McLaren’s sluggish MP4-28
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McLaren mystified by car’s lack of pace Jenson Button admits the team don’t fully understand how they have slipped so far back from the sharp end of the grid +RZGR\RXJRIURPKDYLQJWKHIDVWHVWFDU DWWKHHQGRIRQHVHDVRQWRRQHRIWKHVORZHVW FRPHWKHVWDUWRIWKHQH[W"7KDW¶VWKHTXHVWLRQ HYHU\RQHKDVEHHQDVNLQJRIPLJKW\0F/DUHQ ±LQFOXGLQJWKHWHDPWKHPVHOYHV :KHQWKH\WXUQHGXSLQ$XVWUDOLDDQGIRXQG WKHPVHOYHVWZRVHFRQGVRIIWKHSDFHWKH\ZHUH DVVXUSULVHGDVDQ\RQH,WZDVFOHDUIURPWKH ¿QDOWHVWLQ6SDLQWKDWWKH\ZHUHVWUXJJOLQJ± EXWQRWWRWKDWH[WHQW ,QLWLDOO\0F/DUHQWKHPVHOYHVGLGQRWNQRZ ZKDWZDVZURQJ±VSRUWLQJGLUHFWRU6DP 0LFKDHODGPLWWHGWKH\ZHUH³ORRNLQJDWDOO
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/ Could money woes see off Lotus title challenge?
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Finance is key to Lotus’s title quest Lotus started 2013 with triumph, but could find they lack the budget to maintain season-long development
Kimi started the season well – but is it sustainable?
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/ Pirelli face criticism from teams / Pitstops on the increase since 2011
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Hembery: holding fast
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How pitstops have risen in the Pirelli era Since the two-compounds-per-race rule was introduced in Formula 1, the average number of pitstops in each grand prix and over the first three races of the year, has steadily increased 2009
2010
2011
2012
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PHOTOS: STEVE ETHERINGTON/LAT; ANDY HONE/LAT; PAUL GILHAM/GETTY IMAGES
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60
56
50 47 40 41
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2007
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/ The Williams name continues / Merc and Force India strike deal
NEWS
Claire Williams takes on senior role in father’s team Sir Frank’s daughter becomes the team’s deputy team principal and likely long-term successor
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Mercedes were instrumental in securing Sutil’s Force India drive
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PHOTOS: MALCOLM GRIFFITHS/LAT; CHARLES COATES/LAT
From 2014, Merc will supply Force India with a new powertrain, including engines and gearboxes
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Pat Symonds Explaining the hidden brilliance that drives Formula 1 forward THE SCIENCE BEHIND...
Car development What happens when a new car appears in testing and doesn’t correlate with what you expected?
PHOTOS: ANDREW FERRARO/LAT; GLENN DUNBAR/LAT; STEVEN TEE/LAT
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After such a poor start to 2013, McLaren will be ramping up development of the underachieving MP4-28
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whereabouts you are on the grid.
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shame we never get the chance
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speed over the course of 2013.
other than in the simulators.
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Are all the updates aero-based?
Why do so many teams turn up in Australia with such a large update without having tested it first?
Can you find yourselves moving backwards in a season after you’ve gone the wrong way with setup?
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Peter Windsor
RACER’S EDGE Authority, wit and intelligence from the voice of F1 Racing
WAS MALAYSIA 2013 THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR RED BULL? OR A NEW DAWN? OUR MAN REFLECTS ON AN AFTERNOON THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING Webber leads Vettel at Sepang. But not for long…
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All happy with that one-two then? Er… no
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Read Peter Windsor’s interview with Adrian Sutil on page 60
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POWERPLAY The stories F1’s bigwigs would rather you didn’t know…
IS THREE FOR THE PRICE OF TWO THE ANSWER TO F1’S SUCCESSION QUESTION?
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“For more than a decade, speculation about who could replace Ecclestone has been rife. One name that keeps cropping up is that of Justin King, currently CEO of Sainsbury’s”
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ROOKIE YEAR The Williams racer reveals all about his first season in F1
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“You wouldn’t think it, but I slept really well on the Saturday night before the race. I didn’t have any nerves and got nine and a half hours straight”
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Mercedes team orders kept Nico behind Lewis in Malaysia. It was a different story at Red Bull…
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Team orders spoil the show
STAR PRIZE Marilyn Strawn wins a pair of three-day admission tickets to the 2013 British GP at Silverstone. For more details, call the hotline on 0844 372 8300 or visit www.silverstone.co.uk
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BRABHAM BT20 TECH SPEC Engine
3-litre Repco 620
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311bhp
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2,375mm
Weight
560kg
Fuel and oil
Esso
Fuel tank
145 litres/32 gallons
Tyres
Goodyear
Notable drivers
Jack Brabham Denny Hulme
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THE DARK SIDE OF VETTEL Rancour continues to brew at Red Bull and the happy-go-lucky image of triple world champion Sebastian Vettel has given way to something rather less appealing. But do the team have only themselves to blame? WORDS ANDREW BENSON IMAGE ANDREW FERRARO/LAT & PETER CROWTHER
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Turkey 2010: Vettel suffers a tyreshredding exit after tangling with Webber – then lays the blame on his team-mate
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Italy 2012: Breaking new rules, Vettel squeezes Alonso onto the grass. And then goes on to blame Alonso…
Malaysia 2013: Vettel is struck from behind by Alonso at Turn 2, although Alonso later insisted the mistake had been his
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Hamstrung by Helmut The presence of a highly influential adviser means there are practical limits to team principal Christian Horner’s authority Why so? Look no further
racer’s instinct, but he’s the
sympathy for Red Bull team
than Dr Helmut Marko. The
product of a culture hard-wired
boss Christian Horner post-
former racer seen so often
to promote his success. He
Sepang. He ‘s led the team
at the back of the garage on
grew with Red Bull backing
with enviable calm since ’05,
Vettel’s side is the personal
since his teens and now feels
but Vettel’s harpooning of
adviser, on motorsport, to Red
empowered to act as he likes,
Webber in Malaysia gave
Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz
safe in the knowledge that
rise to accusations of ‘weak
and thus Horner’s worst
ultimate authority does not
leadership’ as controversy
nightmare: a hugely influential
rest with Horner.
clouded the success of the
minister without portfolio
past four seasons.
placed where the team owner
Vettel. His move at Sepang
Consider Horner’s invidious
So forget talk of disciplining
wants him. While day-to-day
was as much the product of
position. While his team have
running of the team is down to
cool calculation as it was of
a competitive budget and a
Horner, the influence of Marko
red mist. Back in Austria, Red
technical staff led by Adrian
is beyond his control.
Bull’s overlord will be loving it.
Newey (lured from McLaren by
It’s in this light that Vettel’s
Mateschitz’s genius, after all,
Horner himself, it should not be
defiance of team orders, in
is as a marketeer... And nothing
forgotten), Horner’s position
such an public manner, should
sells cans like column inches.
remains... nuanced.
be seen: yes he followed his
Anthony Rowlinson
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PHOTOS: STEVE ETHERINGTON/LAT; ANDREW FERRARO/LAT; STEVEN TEE/LAT; VLADIMIR RYS/GETTY IMAGES; SUTTON IMAGES
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BUTTON The slings and arrows of F1 fortune have hit Jenson Button harder and sharper than almost any of his peers. Yet entering his 14th season, he’s standing stronger than ever. JB chatted to F1 Racing about life, lycra, and being McLaren’s out-and-out number one WORDS ANTHONY ROWLINSON PORTRAITS ANDREW FERRARO
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“I’ve pushed myself through things that I never thought I would. And I’ve been through pain that I never thought I would”
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Friends or rivals? How Jenson’s stacked up against his closest competition over the years – his team-mates Wins
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In conversation with
Martin Whitmarsh McLaren’s team boss on tough times both on-track and off PORTRAIT ANDREW FERRARO/LAT
Factfile Date of birth
29 April 1958
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Birthplace
Chobham, England Team
McLaren Role
Team principal 1980
as operations
Graduates from
director
Portsmouth Polytechnic
1997
with a degree
Moves up
in mechanical
to become
engineering
managing
and secures a
director of
job with British
McLaren Racing
Aerospace as a structural
2004
analysis
Becomes chief
engineer
operating officer of the
1988
McLaren Group
Promoted to
in addition to
manufacturing
his McLaren
director
Racing role
of British Aerospace’s
2009
Hamble-le-
Replaces
Rice-based
Ron Dennis
subsidiary,
in the team
Aerostructures
principal role at
Hamble
McLaren and becomes the
1989
chief executive
Joins McLaren
officer of the
International
McLaren Group
INSETS: STEVEN TEE/LAT; CLIVE MASON/GETTY IMAGES
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WHEN TECH GOES
McLAREN MP4-28 You wouldn’t expect to see a McLaren battling for position with a Marussia. But then 2013 hasn’t exactly been their greatest start to a season
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McLaren are by no means the first team to slide from the front of the grid to the midfield almost overnight. F1 Racing remembers other sorry examples of top-team tech-tastrophe WORDS ROBERT HOLMES PICTURES LAT ARCHIVE
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Lotus 63
BRM H16
March 721X
Tech timeline
BRM H16, 1966
Lotus 63, 1969
March 721X, 1972
Constructors’ championship: 4th (22 points) Previous season: 2nd (45 points)
Constructors’ championship: 3rd (47 points) Previous season: 1st (62 points)
Constructors’ championship: 6th (15 points) Previous season: 4th (33 points)
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Lotus 80
Brabham BT55
Lotus 80, 1979
Brabham BT55, 1986
Constructors’ championship: 5th (39 points) Previous season: 1st (86 points)
Constructors’ championship: 9th (2 points) Previous season: 5th (26 points)
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Ferrari F92A
McLaren MP4-18
Ferrari F92A, 1992
McLaren MP4-18, 2003
Constructors’ championship: 4th (21 points) Previous season: 3rd (55.5 points)
Constructors’ championship: 3rd (142 points) with the MP4-17D. The MP4-18 never raced Previous season: 3rd (65 points)
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Adrian Sutil fell out of F1 after being convicted of GBH. Now back with Force India, he tells Peter Windsor how a year on the sidelines has changed his entire outlook on life WORDS PETER WINDSOR PORTRAITS ANDREW FERRARO/LAT
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F1’s comeback kings (and clowns)
McLaren in ’82 he was quick enough to add
Formula 1’s first world champion set the
whose speed hastened Lauda’s second retirement,
When Niki Lauda returned to the fray with another title (’84) to his portfolio. Alain Prost,
benchmark for successful comebacks at motorsport’s top level: Giuseppe Farina had
claimed the title in 1993 with Williams after a year’s (L-R) Returners Farina, Andretti, Jones and Lauda
sabbatical, albeit with a demonstrably superior car
been number two to Tazio Nuvolari in the 1930s
Since then it’s been rare for a returning driver
and then, like many drivers of his generation, lost
to recreate their peak after time out. In the 1980s,
the golden years of his career to World War II.
Mario Andretti and Alan Jones, champions both,
car – and some didn’t have competitive machinery
He won three world championship races in 1950
made brief returns with mixed results: after a
before entering the wilderness: the likes of Bruno
with Alfa Romeo (whose cars were making a
one-off drive with Williams at Long Beach in 1982,
Giacomelli, Jan Lammers and Yannick Dalmas were
comeback of their own, having escaped being
Andretti drove the last two races of the season for
on a hiding to nothing. And of the second comings
melted down for munitions during the war) to
Ferrari and started from pole at Monza, finishing
of Nigel Mansell (1995) and Michael Schumacher
claim the very first drivers’ title shortly before
third. Jones retired at the end of 1981 but returned
(2010-2012), let us not utter another word.
his 44th birthday.
full-time in 1985 for two unproductive seasons.
Stuart Codling
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to everyone else bar his team-mate. Not all drivers get to come back to a winning
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Sideways to victory Wondering why Nico Hülkenberg really transferred from Force India to Sauber for 2013? The answer is written in red… WORDS TOM CLARKSON PICTURES ANDREW FERRARO/LAT
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Think about it from Ferrari’s
FROM SAUBER TO GLORIOUSNESS KIMI RÄIKKÖNEN Plucked from Formula Renault by Peter Sauber, the 21-year-old Finn bagged a couple of fourth places during his debut F1 season in 2001 and was duly snapped up by McLaren. Race wins followed, and he claimed the world title with Ferrari in 2007.
FELIPE MASSA Finished in the points in his second race for Sauber in 2002 and joined Ferrari as their test driver the following season. Three years on, he was racing for the Scuderia alongside Michael Schumacher.
SERGIO PÉREZ Second place for Sauber in last season’s Italian Grand Prix, just four seconds behind the race winner Lewis Hamilton, was enough to cement McLaren’s interest in hiring Checo to replace
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the Mercedes-bound Hamilton.
HEINZ-HARALD FRENTZEN Had a long association with Sauber in sportscars even before Formula 1, then caught the attention of Williams for 1997. Finished third in the world championship for Jordan in 1999.
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FROM SAUBER TO INGLORIOUSNESS NICK HEIDFELD Seven years racing for Sauber in both independent and BMWowned guise did little for ‘Quick Nick.’ He clocked up 183 starts in his F1 career but never won a race, despite having some rather competitive machinery at his disposal.
JOHNNY HERBERT Took two wins at Benetton before switching to Sauber for three years in the mid-’90s and bagging a couple of podiums. Won one further race for Stewart GP but this was against the run of form,
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and he scored no points for Jaguar in his final season (2000).
KAMUI KOBAYASHI Finished 12th in all three of his years with Sauber (2010-2012), but while former team-mate Pérez used the Sauber experience to secure a McLaren drive, Kamui slipped off the back of the grid into sportscars.
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Paul Hembery Pirelli’s main man on ‘Indygate’, tyre wars – and why softer compounds are a safer way of spicing up the racing than throwing nails on the track… WORDS JAMES ROBERTS PORTRAITS ANDREW FERRARO/LAT
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Original Aussie grit At 87, Sir Jack Brabham is the oldest living F1 world champion. Not only that, but he won the title three times and remains the only man do so in his own car. We relish a rare chance to interview a grand prix great WORDS ANTHONY ROWLINSON PICTURES STEVEN TEE/LAT & LAT ARCHIVE
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Brabham takes on and conquers the world for the second year in a row, this time piloting the tiny Cooper T53 of 1960
Black Jack’s wins Round 1
Round 5
1959
Constructor: Cooper-Climax
Constructor: Cooper-Climax
British GP, Aintree, 18 July. Pole position. Constructor: Cooper-Climax
F1 Racing May 2013
1960 Dutch GP, Zandvoort, 6 June.
Monaco GP, Monte Carlo, 10 May.
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F1 Racing meets Sir Jack Brabham at his home on Australia’s Gold Coast
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“I thought about going to Europe for a year or two and ended up staying for 30!”
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Round 7
French GP, Reims, 3 July. Pole position. Fastest lap. Constructor: Cooper-Climax
Belgian GP, Spa-Francorchamps, 19 June.
British GP, Silverstone, 16 July.
Pole position. Fastest lap (shared with Phil Hill
Pole position.
and Innes Ireland). Constructor: Cooper-Climax
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“I was only ever interested in beating Ferrari, not joining them”
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1960 Portuguese GP, Oporto, 14 August. Constructor: Cooper-Climax
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Round 4
1966
British GP, Brands Hatch, 16 July.
French GP, Reims, 3 July.
Pole position. Fastest lap.
Constructor: Brabham-Repco
Constructor: Brabham-Repco
Jack leads Ferrari’s Phil Hill at the 1962 Monaco GP “Beating Ferrari was my greatest satisfaction”
Round 5
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Round 6
German GP, Nürburgring, 7 August. Constructor: Brabham-Repco
Dutch GP, Zandvoort, 24 July. Pole position. Constructor: Brabham-Repco
Brabham on crutches following a serious testing accident at Silverstone in 1969, chats with his rescuer – a young mechanic by the name of Ron Dennis
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Constructor: Brabham-Repco
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South African GP, Kyalami, 7 March. Fastest lap (shared with John Surtees). Constructor: Brabham-Ford
Canadian GP, Mosport Park, 27 August.
French GP, Le Mans, 2 July.
1970
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TIM SCHENKEN Clerk of the Course for the Australian GP. Finished third for Brabham at the 1971 Austrian GP “Jack has been so important for Australian motorsport. His success alerted us all to grand prix racing. The media coverage he got was minimal compared to what we have today, but it was there and I recall going to the movies and seeing Pathé News and it wasn’t unusual to see Jack winning a race. For all of us aspiring racing drivers, he was an icon. He was very much a pioneer and very important to us all.”
ALAN JONES 1980 world champion “Sir Jack was the first to go to Europe and as a youngster I used to watch him race and he was inspirational. You looked at him and you could see that it was the way ahead: he was a true pioneer and to this day he’s still the only man to have won a race and a title in a car carrying his own name.”
INSET: ANDY HONE/LAT
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MARK WEBBER Red Bull racer “The Brabham family has always been fantastic towards me, and particularly Jack. I remember him telling me 15 years ago that he had always found it great to come to the other side of the world and beat the Europeans, and I’ve tried to continue that trend as best I can.”
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FAST MASTER We take a performance driving lesson with F1’s king of smooth WORDS STUART CODLING PICTURES ANDREW FERRARO/LAT
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Prost’s perfect lap…
1a Turn 2
1b Turn 2
1c Turn 2
At Turn 2, Prost brakes
We’re at the sharpest part
With one flowing
from 80mph while moving
of the turn, but Prost has
movement on the wheel,
the car ever so gently
only half a turn of lock on,
we’ve gone around the
towards the apex before
and drops just one gear
corner and the car is
the cone marking the turn-
while bleeding off the
perfectly positioned at
in point, in effect looking
brake effort. Slowest point
the apex of the next one,
to make a vee-shaped
of the corner is 44mph.
as Prost accelerates hard
trajectory around this
From here, he picks up
all the way to the chicane.
long corner
speed and has to unwind
We gain 13mph before the
the steering only slightly
steering is fully unwound.
Chicane 1
Spoon 1 The most technical corner
We’ve gone up only one
on the circuit runs at
gear, topping out at
a constant radius and
87mph before reaching the
then tightens at the exit.
chicane. Here Prost stays
Prost has time to talk
to the left all the way to
to his passengers while
the turn-in point
turning in to the first apex at precisely the right point, carrying 67mph throughout, hands still delicate on the wheel
Chicane 2 Brake, turn, go. A short, sharp braking effort combined with the turning
104
force brings us down to
Spoon n2
65mph as we take the
Most drivers would get on the
straightest line through the
throttle too early and understeer well
chicane. Just before the
before the exit, but Prost keeps a
first cone, Prost downshifts
constant pace, straightening before
to third and hooks the car
turning again – shedding speed but
around the cone
lengthening the straight that follows
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FINISHING STRAIGHT Analysis
Opinion
Stats
MAIN PHOTO: GLENN DUNBAR/LAT. INSETS: CHARLES COATES/LAT; STEVE ETHERINGTON/LAT; LORENZO BELLANCA/LAT; ANDREW FERRARO/LAT
Reports Previews
Stirred not shaken No points in Malaysia then a storming victory in China… but Alonso’s recovery still wasn‘t quite enough to overshadow the ramifications of ‘Multi-21-gate’ PREVIEWS
REPORTS
OPINION
121 TOM CLARKSON TC finds himself in a spot of bother at Bahrain International Airport. Is this your bag, sir…?
114 CHINESE
118 SPANISH
GP REPORT
GP REPORT
GP PREVIEW
The team orders debate
Fast-degrading tyres
All the drivers know
Seb’s let Webber down,
rages on, as Red Bull take
dominate the weekend,
Barcelona from winter
he’s let Red Bull down…
a one-two of the most
while Fernando Alonso
testing, but the track can
but most of all he’s let
controversial variety
dominates the race
still dish out a few surprises
Murray down
110 MALAYSIAN
122 MURRAY WALKER
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FINISHING STRAIGHT
RACE DEBRIEF by James Roberts Malaysian Grand Prix 24.03.2013 / Sepang, Kuala Lumpur
A bruising victory There were no celebrations on the podium as the latest intra-team bust-up between winner Sebastian Vettel and second-placed team-mate Webber overshadowed all other talk at Sepang 'RZQLQWKHSDGGRFN)HUUDUL¶VWHDPSULQFLSDO 6WHIDQR'RPHQLFDOLZDVODXJKLQJ³)RURQFH\RX DUHQ¶WDVNLQJPHDERXWWHDPRUGHUV
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SEPANG
Vettel makes a tidy
T1
T3
start but Alonso is on his tail. They get
T14 T2
too close and touch at Turn 1
T13
T4
T12
T5 T9
T6
T11
T10
T15
T8
T7
> Alonso loses his front wing on the main straight on the second lap and slides off into the gravel
> For his first stop,
Button stops in
Lewis accidentally
the pits because
drives through the
of a wheel-gun error
McLaren pits before
and loses out on
arriving at Mercedes
some major points
> Rosberg is told to hold position behind Hamilton as they battle for third due to concerns about fuel
>
>
Vettel emerges behind team-mate Webber on the final stop but defies team orders to pass and win the race
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MAIN PHOTO: CHARLES COATES/LAT. ILLUSTRATION: ALAN ELDRIDGE. INSETS: ANDREW FERRARO/LAT; CHARLES COATES/LAT; STEVE ETHERINGTON/LAT; ANDY HONE/LAT; ALASTAIR STALEY/LAT
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Malaysian Grand Prix stats The lowdown on everything you need to know from the weekend at Sepang… THE GRID
THE RACE 1. VETTEL RED BULL 1min 49.674secs Q3
4. HAMILTON MERCEDES 1min 51.699secs Q3
6. ROSBERG MERCEDES 1min 52.519secs Q3
3. ALONSO FERRARI 1min 50.727secs Q3
Sergio Pérez, lap 56, 1min 39.199secs
THE RESULTS (56 LAPS) 5. WEBBER RED BULL 1min 52.244secs Q3
7. BUTTON MCLAREN 1min 53.175secs Q3
8. SUTIL FORCE INDIA 1min 53.439secs Q3 9. PÉREZ MCLAREN 1min 54.136secs Q3 10. RÄ RÄIKKÖNEN* ÄIKKÖNE LOTUS 1min 52.970secs Q3
FASTEST LAP
11. GROSJEAN LOTUS 1min 37.636secs Q2
12. HÜLKENBERG SAUBER 1min 38.125secs Q2
1st
Sebastian Vettel Red Bull
2nd
Mark Webber Red Bull
3rd
Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
1h38m56.681s +4.298s +12.181s
4th
Nico Rosberg Mercedes
+12.640s
5th
Felipe Massa Ferrari
+25.648s
6th
Romain Grosjean Lotus
+35.564s
7th
Kimi Räikkönen Lotus
+48.479s
8th
Nico Hülkenberg Sauber
+53.044s
9th
Sergio Pérez McLaren
+72.357s
10th
Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso
+87.124s
11th
Valtteri Bottas Williams
+88.610s
12th
Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber
+1 lap
14. GUTIÉRREZ SAUBER 1min 39.221secs Q2
Jules Bianchi Marussia
+1 lap
1st
Sebastian Vettel Red Bull
Charles Pic Caterham
+1 lap
2nd
Kimi Räikkönen Lotus
31pts
15th
Giedo van der Garde Caterham
+1 lap
3rd
Mark Webber Red Bull
26pts
18 BOTTAS 18. WILLIAMS 1min 38.207secs Q1 19. BIANCHI MARUSSIA 1min 38.434secs Q1
16th
Max Chilton Marussia
+2 laps
4th
Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
25pts
Jenson Button McLaren
53 laps – vibration
5th
Felipe Massa Ferrari
22pts
18th
Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso 51 laps – exhaust
6th
Fernando Alonso Ferrari
18pts
7th
Nico Rosberg Mercedes
12pts
8th
Romain Grosjean Lotus
9pts
9th
Adrian Sutil Force India
6pts
Pastor Maldonado Williams
45 laps – KERS
Adrian Sutil Force India
27 laps – wheelnuts
10th
Nico Hülkenberg Sauber
4pts
Paul Di Resta Force India
22 laps – wheelnuts
11th
Paul Di Resta Force India
4pts
1 lap – accident damage
12th
Sergio Pérez McLaren
2pts
13th
Jenson Button McLaren
2pts
14th
Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso
15th
Valtteri Bottas Williams
0pts
16th
Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber
0pts
17th
Jules Bianchi Marussia
0pts
18th
Charles Pic Caterham
0pts
19th
Giedo van der Garde Caterham
0pts
20th
Max Chilton Marussia
0pts
THROUGH SPEED TRAP
Slowest: Fernando
21st
Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso
0pts
Gutiérrez, 191.42mph
Alonso, 171.91mph
22nd
Pastor Maldonado Williams
0pts
TYRE COMPOUNDS USED CONSTRUCTORS’ STANDINGS
Medium
22. VAN DER GARDE CATERHAM 1min 39.932secs Q1
1pt
Fastest: Esteban
20. PIC CATERHAM 1min 39.314secs Q1 21. CHILTON MARUSSIA 1min 39.672secs Q1
40pts
17th
16. MALDONADO WILLIAMS NO TIME IN Q2 17. VERGNE TORO ROSSO 1min 38.157secs Q1
DRIVERS’ STANDINGS
13th
Fernando Alonso Ferrari 15. DI RESTA FORCE INDIA 1min 44.509secs Q2
Mark Webber, 20.736secs (entry to exit)
14th
Retirements 13. RICCIARDO TORO ROSSO 1min 38.822secs Q2
FASTEST PITSTOP
Hard
CLIMATE
Rain/sun
Intermediate Wet
TRACK TEMP
24°C
27°C
1
Red Bull
66pts 9
2
Lotus
40pts 10 Marussia
0pts
3
Ferrari
40pts 11 Caterham
0pts
4
Mercedes
37pts
5
Force India
10pts
6
Sauber
4pts
7
McLaren
4pts
8
Toro Rosso
1pt
Williams
0pts
For comprehensive F1 statistics visit www.forix.com
*Three-place grid penalty for impeding another driver
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2. MASSA FERRARI 1min 50.587secs Q3
FINISHING STRAIGHT
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FINISHING STRAIGHT
Chinese Grand Prix stats The lowdown on everything you need to know from the weekend at Shanghai… THE GRID
THE RACE
1. HAMILTON MERCEDES 1min 34.484secs Q3
5. MASSA FERRARI 1min 34.933secs Q3
7. RICCIARDO TORO ROSSO 1min 35.998secs Q3
Sebastian Vettel, lap 53, 1min 36.808secs 4. ROSBERG MERCEDES 1min 34.861secs Q3
6. GROSJEAN LOTUS 1min 35.364secs Q3
8. BUTTON MCLAREN 2min 05.673secs Q3 9. VETTEL RED BULL NO TIME IN Q3
11. DI RESTA FORCE INDIA 1min 36.287secs Q2
FASTEST LAP
10. HÜ HÜLKENBERG ÜLKENBE SAUBER NO TIME IN Q3
12. PÉREZ MCLAREN 1min 36.314secs Q2 13. SUTIL FORCE INDIA 1min 36.405secs Q2 14. MALDONADO WILLIAMS 1min 37.139secs Q2 15. VERGNE TORO ROSSO 1min 37.199secs Q2
THE RESULTS (56 LAPS) 1st
Fernando Alonso Ferrari
2nd
Kimi Räikkönen Lotus
+10.168s
3rd
Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
+12.322s
1h36m26.945s
4th
Sebastian Vettel Red Bull
+12.525s
5th
Jenson Button McLaren
+35.285s
6th
Felipe Massa Ferrari
+40.827s
7th
Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso
+42.691s
8th
Paul Di Resta Force India
+51.084s
9th
Romain Grosjean Lotus
+53.423s
10th
Nico Hülkenberg Sauber
+56.598s
11th
Sergio Pérez McLaren
+63.860s
12th
Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso
+72.604s
Valtteri Bottas Williams
+93.861s
1st
Sebastian Vettel Red Bull
Pastor Maldonado Williams
+95.453s
2nd
Kimi Räikkönen Lotus
49pts
15th
Jules Bianchi Marussia
+1 lap
3rd
Fernando Alonso Ferrari
43pts
52pts
16th
Charles Pic Caterham
+1 lap
4th
Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
40pts
17th
Max Chilton Marussia
+1 lap
5th
Felipe Massa Ferrari
30pts
18th
Giedo van der Garde Caterham
+1 lap
6th
Mark Webber Red Bull
26pts
7th
Nico Rosberg Mercedes
12pts
8th
Jenson Button McLaren
12pts
Retirements Nico Rosberg Mercedes
21 laps – anti-roll bar
9th
Romain Grosjean Lotus
11pts
Mark Webber Red Bull
15 laps – loose wheel
10th
Paul Di Resta Force India
8pts
Adrian Sutil Force India
5 laps – accident
11th
Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso
6pts
Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber
4 laps – accident
12th
Adrian Sutil Force India
6pts
13th
Nico Hülkenberg Sauber
5pts
14th
Sergio Pérez McLaren
2pts
15th
Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso
16th
Valtteri Bottas Williams
0pts
17th
Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber
0pts
18th
Jules Bianchi Marussia
0pts
19th
Charles Pic Caterham
0pts 0pts
1pt
20th
Pastor Maldonado Williams
Fastest: Daniel
Slowest: Pastor
21st
Giedo van der Garde Caterham
0pts
Ricciardo, 199.38mph
Maldonado, 189.68mph
22nd
Max Chilton Marussia
0pts
TYRE COMPOUNDS USED
19. CHILTON MARUSSIA 1min 39.537secs Q1
CONSTRUCTORS’ STANDINGS 20. PIC CATERHAM 1min 39.614secs Q1 Soft
21. VAN DER GARDE CATERHAM 1min 39.660secs Q1
DRIVERS’ STANDINGS
13th
16 BOTTAS 16. WILLIAMS 1min 37.796secs Q1
18. BIANCHI MARUSSIA 1min 38.780secs Q1
Sebastian Vettel, 19.323secs (entry to exit)
14th
THROUGH SPEED TRAP
17. GUTIÉRREZ SAUBER 1min 37.990secs Q1
FASTEST PITSTOP
Medium
CLIMATE 22. WEBBER*‡ RED BULL 1min 36.679secs Q2
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Dry
Intermediate Wet
TRACK TEMP
28°C
40°C
1
Red Bull
78pts 9
2
Ferrari
73pts 10 Marussia
Williams
0pts 0pts
3
Lotus
60pts 11 Caterham
0pts
4
Mercedes
52pts
5
McLaren
14pts
6
Force India
14pts
7
Toro Rosso
7pts
8
Sauber
5pts
For comprehensive F1 statistics visit www.forix.com
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3. ALONSO FERRARI 1min 34.788secs Q3
2. RÄIKKÖNEN Ä Ö LOTUS 1min 34.761secs Q3
FINISHING STRAIGHT
The Spanish GP preview
10-12.05.2013 / Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona Drivers might be very familiar with a track so well used in winter testing, but the Circuit de Catalunya can still throw up surprises – particularly in the final sector
THE ENGINEER’S VIEW Xevi Pujolar, Williams’ chief race engineer
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BARCELONA STATS AND FACTS
730
metres
The run from the start/finish line to the first apex is one of the longest straights of the season
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different drivers have won the
Five different
Spanish GP in the
venues
past ten races
have hosted the
held at Barcelona
Spanish GP
Michael Schumacher’s record
SIX
Spanish GP wins is followed by Jackie Stewart, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost and Mika Häkkinen on three each
Sector 2
3 5 4 2
9 1 6
SPANISH GP RACE DATA
7
F1 debut 1991
TV TIMETABLE (UK TIME)
Length 2.892 miles
Friday 10 May
Distance 190.826 miles
Practice 1 09:00-10:30
Laps 66
Practice 2 13:00-14:30
Direction Clockwise
Saturday 11 May
Lap record 1min 21.670secs,
Practice 3 10:00-11:00
K Räikkönen, 2008
Qualifying 13:00
Full throttle 58%
Sunday 12 May
Gear changes per lap 44
Race 13:00
Winners from pole 17
Live coverage
Tyre compounds TBA
Sky Sports F1 (available in HD)
Circuit Circuit de Catalunya
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12
Sector 3
14 10 15
BBC One (available in HD)
16
LAST YEAR Winner Pastor Maldonado
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Sector 1
DO YOU REMEMBER…
Retirements 5 Overtaking moves 30
…when Eddie Irvine and Giancarlo Fisichella came to blows after colliding
DRS overtakes 15
at the 1998 Spanish GP? Irvine tried to pass the Italian’s Benetton and
Weather Sunny, 22°C
the pair touched then spun simultaneously into the Turn 1 gravel trap.
BARCELONA TELEMETRY
QUALIFYING
RACE
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250
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1750
2000
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3000
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Turn 3
Turn 9
Turn 13
This is fast, but because it’s a very long
This is a high-speed corner,
You can take a
corner, drivers are building up speed and
although drivers do need to
number of lines here.
they need to lift as it tightens mid-corner.
brake a little before turn-in.
Some drivers opt for
The more fuel they have on board, the
You can see how the speed
a wide exit; others
more speed they lose
reduces on the telemetry
stay in the middle
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ILLUSTRATION: ALAN ELDRIDGE. PHOTOS: STEVE ETHERINGTON/LAT; LAT ARCHIVE
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“Wow! What an absolutely great run of opening races for the 2013 season – and for very different reasons…”
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