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CONTENTS / OCTOBER 2013

RACING 93 70 64

COVER STORIES

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FIRST SECTOR: THE REGULARS 10 12 18 30 32 35 37 38 40 102

Cover: Spencer Murphy/ Red Bull Content Pool

IGNITION OUR MARK WEBBER RETROSPECTIVE PARADES THE BEST SHOTS FROM SPA AND MONZA PITPASS NEWS, OPINION AND ANALYSIS PITPASS TECH THE SCIENCE BEHIND F1 MATERIALS PETER WINDSOR REMEMBERING FRANÇOIS CEVERT DIETER RENCKEN THE STATE OF IN-RACE SECURITY VALTTERI BOTTAS GETS SET FOR THE FLYAWAY RACES INBOX FORGET THE GRAPHICS – GIVE US A SHOW! NOW THAT WAS A CAR THE FERRARI 126C4 SUBSCRIBE AND GET A FREE CREDIT CARD CASE

54 Pastor Maldonado on why he’s still positive about his future at Williams

SECOND SECTOR: THE FEATURES 42

MARK WEBBER ON LEAVING F1 The sport’s toughest competitor opens up to Peter Windsor about the reasons behind his decision to quit

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MARK’S FINEST F1 RACING MOMENTS

He’s no stranger to the pages of this mag. We look back at some of the more unusual shoots he’s obliged us with 54 MARK WEBBER On leaving F1 to lead 42 the Porsche sportscar programme

YOU ASK THE QUESTIONS Pastor Maldonado on racing for a team who aren’t performing, and why that point in Hungary meant so much

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BACK IN THE RING We head to Austria, to check out the Red Bull Ring, which looks set to join the F1 calendar for 2014

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MURRAY WALKER Friends, fans and 70 colleagues do the talking – for once

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WHERE NEXT FOR F1? The classic old circuits that are about to make a comeback

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MURRAY AT 90

Meet John

Mr Walker lets other people do the talking, as they offer up their personal tributes on the eve of his 90th birthday

Barnard,

MEET THE GAME CHANGERS

first semi-

Behind the scenes, the best brains in the business generate fierce competition for their technical services

gearbox

IN CONVERSATION WITH JOHN ILEY Caterham’s performance director on the challenges ahead

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GAME CHANGERS The in-demand 76 technical brains who drive F1 forwards

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WHEN MAURICE MET JOHN BARNARD

64 Mexican F1 fans could

STEVEN TEE: LIFE THROUGH A LENS

own. We

THIRD SECTOR: FINISHING STRAIGHT

STEVEN TEE Our ace lensman 93 chooses his favourite photographs

automatic

From carbon fibre monocoques to semi-automatic gearboxes, technical ace John Barnard was a true pioneering genius, as Maurice Hamilton discovers

As he celebrates his 500th GP at Singapore, we present his most stunning photographs from the past 29 years

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creator of F1’s

BELGIAN GP REPORT A DOMINANT WIN FOR VETTEL ITALIAN GP PREVIEW VETTEL WINS; THE TIFOSI BOO SINGAPORE GP PREVIEW FORMULA 1 RACES BY NIGHT KOREAN GP PREVIEW THREE VERY DIFFERENT SECTORS JAPANESE GP PREVIEW THE DRIVERS’ FAVOURITE TOM CLARKSON ON AN AGE-OLD BATTLE MURRAY WALKER MEMORIES OF GERHARD BERGER

soon get a GP of their investigate…

93 Steven Tee presents his favourite shots from the past 500 grands prix

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see active

birthday

service

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in 2014?

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42 All eyes are on Mark Webber following the announcement of his retirement

Ignition / Anthony Rowlinson / 10.13

We celebrate a selection of Formula 1 greats

Follow Anthony on Twitter: @Rowlinson_F1R

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Maurice Hamilton

Fernando Alonso

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On La Source Mark Webber tiptoes around Spa on intermediates as rain hits the track in the dying minutes of qualifying. Ahead of him is a lap into the unknown as he discovers the lack of grip through Raidillon, Pouhon and Blanchimont. These are the challenges he’ll miss when he departs F1... Where Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium When 2.57pm, Saturday 24 August 2013 Photographer Steven Tee/LAT Details Canon EOS-1DX, 20mm lens, 1/250th at F6.3

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Say cheese! When one of F1 Racing’s regular contributing photographers asked Fernando Alonso to take his camera onto the Monza podium, he refused. In parc fermé he gave Alonso his own iPhone and asked again. This was the result. A cheesy ‘selfie’ in front of thousands of wild Italian tifosi Where Monza, Italy When 3.41pm, Sunday 8 September 2013 Photographer Fernando Alonso / Lorenzo Bellanca Details Apple iPhone 5, 1/800th at F2.4

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Park and hide Lewis Hamilton’s weekend drive through the historic Monza parkland wasn’t up to his usual exacting standards. After failing to make Q3 in qualifying, he said he’d driven like an “idiot”. But despite a problem with the car’s floor, a spirited comeback on Sunday helped restore the faith Where Monza, Italy When 2.24pm, Friday 6 September 2013 Photographer Steven Tee/LAT Details Canon EOS-1DX, 200mm lens, 1/500th at F8

News Analysis Opinion

Räikkönen rejoins his old team on a one-year contract with an option for 2015

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WINNERS + SPINNERS UPS AND DOWNS ON THE F1 ROLLER COASTER GOOD MONTH FOR

Fans of two-wheeled sporting activity Fernando Alonso will become a team owner in world cycling after buying the Spanish Euskaltel Euskadi setup. The team were set to close due to a lack of funding, but Alonso’s move will now ensure they continue in events such as the Tour de France.

Massa: next move currently unknown

British drivers in F1 James Calado will dovetail the remainder of his GP2

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campaign with a new role at Force India. The 24-year-old drove in Friday practice at Monza and is set to retain the role as test and reserve drive into 2014. Aficionados of sudden bursts of enormous activity Lotus PR man Andy Stobart deserves recognition after he gamely cycled – yes, cycled – between the Belgian and Italian Grands Prix. Over nine days, he covered nine countries and 750 miles between Spa and Monza. Great effort.

Robin Frijns Sauber have just informed the talented Dutch driver Robin Frijns that he will not continue as the team’s reserve driver

PHOTOS: STEVEN TEE/LAT; GLENN DUNBAR/LAT; CHARLES COATES/LAT; ANDREW FERRARO/LAT; ANDY HONE/LAT; ALASTAIR STALEY/LAT

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moving into 2014. With Sergey Sirotkin already lined up for the role, it seems that money talks… Shell The fuel company were title sponsors of the recent Belgian Grand Prix. Worryingly for the circuit owners, environmental

Kimi left Ferrari in 2009, following speculation over his commitment. His last race for them was at Abu Dhabi, where he finished 12th

protesters from Greenpeace managed to evade security and scale the main grandstand and sabotage the podium to protest about Shell’s plans to drill for oil in the Artic. Nervous flyers A draft 2014 calendar was doing the rounds in the paddock at the Italian GP. The schedule featured 21 races, with the last seven of them taking place outside Europe. Flying between Singapore, Japan, Russia, Abu Dhabi, Mexico, USA and Brazil means 25,000 miles in the air.


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/ Test your knowledge / Rising stars / Intrigue at Sauber

PHOTOS: CHARLES COATES/LAT; GLENN DUNBAR/LAT; ALASTAIR STALEY/LAT; ANDY HONE/LAT; LAT ARCHIVE

Answers: 1 Jerez 2 Races were stopped early and half points awarded 3 Jacky Ickx 4 Pacific 5 Derek Warwick 6 2006 Chinese GP 7 Professor Sid Watkins 8 It was the 500th world championship F1 grand prix 9 Coulthard 10 21

F1 Mastermind

NEWS

Your chosen specialised subject: the world’s greatest sport

1 Which former grand prix circuit

6 Where did Michael Schumacher

had corners named Dry Sack and

(below, right) score his 91st and

Angel Nieto?

final victory in Formula 1?

2 What do the 1975 Austrian GP,

7 Whose autobiography is called

the 1984 Monaco GP and the 1991

Beyond The Limit?

Australian GP have in common?

8 Which landmark was achieved

3 Who partnered Arturo Merzario

at the 1990 Australian GP?

(below, left) at Ferrari in 1973?

9 Who won more F1 races: David

4 Paul Belmondo and Bertrand

Coulthard or Jacques Villeneuve?

Gachot drove for who in 1994?

10 With which number does

5 Which Brit’s first F1 start came

Caterham driver Giedo van der

at the 1981 Las Vegas GP?

Garde race this year?

Nicolas Todt wanted to take PDVSA funding over to Sauber

Situation at Sauber still far from certain As Sauber sought to address their financial shortfalls, driver-manager Nicolas Todt briefly stepped forward as a potential new leader

THIS BOY CAN DRIVE Keeping an eye out for the stars of tomorrow Stefano Coletti Who is he?

claims to have been conceived by

Coletti is a 24-year-old racer

while they were holidaying on

from Monaco, who competes in

board Keke Rosberg’s yacht in

the GP2 Series for Rapax.

autumn 1988. He caught the

parents Armande and Gianluigi

racing bug when his father took

How good is he?

him to a kart circuit and he

Pre-Monza, he’d notched up

bumped into 1970s motorcycle

three wins to lead this year’s GP2

champion Guido Mandracci, who

series. But he’s failed to score in

took Stefano under his wing.

the last seven races and has now dropped to third in the standings.

F1 chances He’s has been competing in

Anything else we need to know about him?

GP2 since 2009 and despite

It perhaps doesn’t quite fall into

of F1 running, he is still a title

the category of ‘need to know’,

contender. Much depends on

but if you’re interested, Coletti

his recovering his lost form.

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▲ Making a front wing Small pieces of carbon fibre are cut from a roll and stuck into place on moulds to create front and back ‘skins’. Once the two skins have been cured in the autoclave at high temperatures, they can be bonded together to form the lightweight and ultra-resilient wing

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RACER’S EDGE Authority, wit and intelligence from the voice of F1 Racing

THE ETERNAL SPRINGTIME OF FRANÇOIS CEVERT

Teacher and pupil: Tyrrell team-mates Jackie Stewart and François Cevert in Brazil, 1973

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WORDS JAMES ROBERTS PICTURES JAMES MANN

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FERRARI 126C4 TECH SPEC Engine

1.5-litre turbo

Layout

V6 (120°)

Power

660bhp

Maximum revs

11,000rpm

Weight

540kg

Wheelbase

2,600mm

Transmission

Ferrari 5-speed

Fuel and oil

Agip

Tyres

Goodyear

Notable drivers

Michele Alboreto

Ferrari 031

manual

René Arnoux


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MURRAY’S 90TH BIRTHDAY

Advance, Australian Fair Without doubt the most popular driver in the F1 paddock, Mark Webber will be hugely missed when he leaves the sport at the end of this season. In this world-exclusive interview, he tells old friend Peter Windsor why leading Porsche’s sportscar programme was too good an opportunity to miss PORTRAITS THOMAS BUTLER

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2004

2002

2003

In a season

At Interlagos, in

Webber finishes

Mark Webber: the F1 years

dominated by

his third race since

fifth on his debut,

JAMES ROBERTS

Ferrari, Webber

joining Jaguar,

claiming Minardi’s

LOOKS BACK OVER

manages to split

Webber produces

first points in three

MARK WEBBER’S 12

the scarlet cars

a brilliant qualifying

years. They finish

SEASONS IN THE SPORT

in qualifying at

lap to give the

ahead of Toyota in

Sepang, earning his

team its highest

On Paul Stoddart: “Stoddy was brave

the constructors’

first ever front row.

grid slot – third.

and tried to take on a lot of people

championship.

PHOTOS: STEVEN TEE/LAT; GLENN DUNBAR/LAT; STEVE ETHERINGTON/LAT; MINARDI

with Minardi. He bankrolled me initially”

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2005

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On Alonso: I’ve raced him since F3000, so I’ve known him a long, long time. On a Sunday afternoon, he’s incredible”

On Newey: “He’s a big reason why I continued for as long as I did. He’s an inspiring guy to work with”

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2006

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2007

The first podium comes at last but Webber

One year later, Webber

Now at Red Bull, Webber’s best chance of a win comes

isn’t smiling. Having moved to Williams,

is heading for another third-

in torrential rain at Fuji. He’s sick in the cockpit due to

he is on course for a strong result at

place finish for Williams at

food-poisoning, and is doggedly chasing down Lewis

Monaco. But then the team choose to pit

Monaco, when a spectacularly

Hamilton for the lead when the Safety Car is deployed

Nick Heidfeld before Webber, ‘Quick Nick’

fiery exhaust failure dashes

and future team-mate Sebastian Vettel drives into the

finishes second to a fuming Webber’s third.

his hopes.

back of him. It’s the start of an interesting relationship…


On the best car he’s driven: “The RB6 at Budapest 2010. I won when Seb had a drive-through and I had to get a lap over Fernando. That car, around there, was just amazing. Turns 8 and 9 were what I remember most. Just phenomenal”

On celebrating that first Monaco win in 2010: “I’m annoyed I lost my boots. Probably got nicked when I jumped into the pool…”

On Haug: “I had a really good time with Mercedes [in sportscars] and

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2008

On [his manager] Briatore: “I can’t say a bad word about what Flavio’s done with me. He’s always boxed my corner”

On Mateschitz: “He’s been great. Always replies. Always available. I look forward to working with him in the future”

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2009

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2010

A second year with Red Bull gets

Pre-season, Webber breaks a leg and shoulder

The Turkish GP reveals the simmering tension between the

off to an inauspicious start for

during his Tasmania Challenge charity event.

Red Bull drivers: while battling for the lead, Vettel hits Webber,

Webber when he qualifies 14th at

Red Bull underline their competitiveness with

scuppering either driver’s chance of victory. Three races later,

his home race then crashes out.

their first victory as new team-mate Seb Vettel

at Silverstone, Vettel gets priority with a front-wing update

It is a disappointing season, with

leads Webber home in China. At the Nürburgring,

and Webber makes it clear he feels unsupported. “Not bad for

fourth in Monaco the only highlight.

Webber scores his maiden pole and win.

a number two driver,” he quips after winning the race.


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PHOTOS: ANDREW FERRARO/LAT; ANDY HONE/LAT; GLENN DUNBAR/LAT

Norbert was always a supporter”

The metal rod that held Mark’s leg together following his cycling accident in 2008

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2013

Webber takes his only win of the year

More rancour at the Brazilian GP as Vettel

Animosity spills out in public again as Vettel refuses

at the season-ending Brazilian GP.

homes in on his third world title. He needs a

to obey the team’s coded ‘multi-21’ order to remain

He finishes third in the drivers’ world

good result to acquire it, but Webber subtly

in formation, bullying his way past Webber to win

championship, having clocked up

impedes his progress by squeezing him at

the race. The TV broadcast from the drivers’

seven fastest laps – more than any

the first corner. A spin later in the lap forces

pre-podium ‘green room’, mercilessly exposes the

other driver that year.

Vettel to charge back through from 22nd.

frosty atmosphere between the team-mates.


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“I’d stand on my head for F1 Racing…” Mark Webber made his presence felt in this magazine even before his F1 debut, and he’s indulged us with some of our most offthe-wall ideas ever since. Here are a selection of our favourite Webber moments – and, yes, he really did stand on his head… WORDS STEWART WILLIAMS

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PHOTOS: STEVEN TEE/LAT; NEALE HAYNES; ANDY EARL

MURRAY’S WORKING 90TH WITH BIRTHDAY WEBBER

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Pastor’s heroes: Ayrton Senna and Juan Pablo Montoya

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BACK IN THE RING Formula 1 fans have long been hankering after a return to the classic circuits – and that wish has now been granted as Austria lines up to take its place on next year’s calendar. F1 Racing finds out what’s been going on at the Red Bull Ring WORDS STUART CODLING

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The Österreichring and Red Bull Ring compared Noise objections and safety concerns did for the western loop of the old circuit. You approached the Remus

first corner flat-out over a crest, and with a steep drop to the left there just wasn’t enough run-off, even when it was turned into a chicane. Other corners became “a battle for centimetres”.

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Rindt New circuit length: 2.7 miles

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THE A1-RING’S MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS When the Österreichring re-opened for F1 business as the A1-Ring in 1997, critics ho-hummed at the truncated layout. But that didn’t stop it from playing host to some pretty remarkable events…

‘PROST-GATE’ 1997 Alain Prost bought the Ligier team at the beginning of 1997, changing the name to Prost GP, and this first season would prove to be their most competitive. Olivier Panis shone brightly until breaking his legs in Canada, and his stand-in, Jarno Trulli, announced his arrival on the world stage by leading the Austrian Grand Prix commandingly until his Mugen engine began to tighten up. It finally blew 12 laps from home while he was running in second place.

‘BIFF-GATE’1999

“By the 1980s the Österreichring was dead in the water… F1 cars were too powerful for the layout, which couldn’t be altered”

With Michael Schumacher out of the picture

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‘VENISON-GATE’ 2002

– after breaking his leg at Silverstone two weeks earlier – this race was McLaren’s to lose. And lose it they did, despite both cars being a second faster than new Ferrari team leader Eddie Irvine in qualifying. At Turn 2, David Coulthard biffed a bemused Mika Häkkinen off the track, leaving the way open for Irvine to claim victory.

A classic sense of humour failure on the pitwall after Juan Pablo Montoya’s engineer radioed him to warn of a deer on track. “Oh deer!” laughed Juan. “A deer,” came the emphatic response. “Er, like a horse with horns.” “I know, I know… Oh deer! Ha ha ha!”

‘BRAKE-GATE’ 2002 The action had only just begun again following a Safety Car intervention when Nick Heidfeld got his braking very wrong for the Remus Kurve, arriving at the corner backwards and at largely unabated speed before slamming into the side of an unsuspecting Takuma Sato’s Jordan.

‘BOO-GATE’ 2002 In 2001, Ferrari ordered Rubens Barrichello to hand second place to Michael Schumacher as

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McLaren’s David Coulthard claimed the win. In 2002, Rubens was leading when the call came to swap. Bad move. Rubens dropped back on the last lap, and an enraged crowd booed Schumacher off the top of the podium.


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TURN IT UP! Mid-’80s turbo cars, running four-bar boost, were the wildest F1 has seen. Austrian ace Gerhard Berger recalls the thrill of driving the Benetton-BMW B186 on home turf

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A tour around the new-look Ring…

They sat one-two on the grid: the garishly purposeful Benetton-BMWs of Teo Fabi (on pole) and team-mate Gerhard Berger. With more than 1,000bhp – maybe more than 1,400bhp for a qualifying ‘grenade’ engine – and one-lap super-sticky Pirelli qualifying tyres, these cars were the fastest way of lapping the high-speed Österreichring. And boy oh boy, for all the dangers inherent in driving cars designed to be OTT, did the drivers ever love them at a circuit so speedsome.“Yeah, it was the best time,” Berger recalls, eyes glinting. “It was a time when the driver could make the difference. If you were really brave you could be a second ahead of your team-mate in quali… if not, you’d be two seconds off.” Berger explains the extreme performance of cars like the B186 through the conflicting demands of high-boost turbos – turned up to the max for qualifying – combined with qualifying tyres: “You wanted to brake much

The control room’s 42 monitors and 26 cameras give an uninterrupted view of the entire circuit

earlier because you were arriving at the corners so much faster, but you knew the tyres were giving you the grip to brake much later. Yet you only had one lap from tyres and engine to get it right. “Everything was so squeezed it was mad. The engines would literally melt after one lap of putting out 1,400bhp, and the tyres were completely finished. There’s never been anything like it in Formula 1. On full boost it was madness really…” Interview by Anthony Rowlinson

The podium is at the pit building’s centre. It’s hosted various ceremonies – but no F1 action yet

The flag cupboard does what it says on the tin: flags are stored here for use in podium ceremonies

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The new media station features hi-tech viewing screens and workstations for 150 journalists

The pit building now consists of 24 pit garages, with a further four for technical inspections

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Juan Manuel Fangio wins for Merc

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MULTI-MILLION POUND DROP Ever since the expulsion of the French GP, it’s been clear that no venue on the calendar is safe – with the exception, perhaps, of Monaco. Ecclestone recently admitted that even Monza, the historic home of the Italian GP, could become a victim of F1’s continued push into emerging markets and the multi-millions that some governments are willing to pay in the name of tourism. But the Italians need not start worrying just yet. Some of those recently emerged F1 markets seem to be sinking as quickly as they started to swim. Turkey is gone and forgotten. India is gone for next season but has hopes of a return in 2015. Although, as France discovered, once you’re off the schedule it’s far from easy to get back on again. The Korean Grand Prix also looks set to join India in exile. Since the teams are determined to have no more than 20 races on the calendar – and a number of venues are joining the queue – then something’s got to give. And those markets that have struggled to attract fans to cover the larger part of their race fee may be the first to go.

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South Africa Minding the gap

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Meet the F1’s tech geniuses can command higher salaries than the drivers, although they swap teams less often. As three big names change allegiances, we ask: can one man really make a such a difference? WORDS ANDREW BENSON

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Caterham Role

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to Renault.

graduating

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two years at

in automotive

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engineering

of aerodynamics

from Lanchester Polytechnic,

2003 Moves

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to Italy, where

Brun Technics

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to work on their

next six years

Judd-powered

in Maranello as

sportscar

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1993 Spends five years

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working on

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aerodynamics

UK as head of

for the Lola and

aerodynamics

Swift Indycars

at McLaren

1997 Joins

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Jordan as senior

his current role

aerodynamicist

as performance director at

2001 Follows

Caterham,

Mike Gascoyne

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1 The CART, USAC and Indy 500-winning 1980 Chaparral 2K 2 Niki Lauda in the McLaren MP4/1: F1’s first all-carbon-fibre monocoque 3 Nigel Mansell gets to grips with Formula 1’s first semi-automatic gearbox in the Ferrari 640 4 The Benetton B191, which formed the basis for the 1994 title-winning B194

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MAIN PHOTO: GLENN DUNBAR/LAT. INSETS: STEVE ETHERINGTON/LAT; GLENN DUNBAR/LAT; STEVEN TEE/LAT

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Red Bull rack ’em up With wins for Vettel at Spa and Monza, Webber’s solid support and a 102-point lead over closest rivals Ferrari, Red Bull seem set for a fourth consecutive title double REPORTS

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BELGIAN GP REPORT

ITALIAN GP REPORT

SINGAPORE GP PREVIEW

KOREAN GP PREVIEW

JAPANESE GP PREVIEW

Seb is simply sublime over

The tifosi aren’t happy as

Get set for a challenging

Three very different sectors

The fast, flowing figure-of-

Formula 1’s longest lap

Seb does it again at Monza

series of turns – by night

put teams through their paces

eight that’s loved by all

OPINION

121

122

TOM CLARKSON

MURRAY WALKER…

The McLaren vs Ferrari rivalry, brought

When Gerhard Berger happened to ponder

to life in Ron Howard’s new feature film,

whether Murray still remembered him, the

Rush, still resonates today

recollections came thick and fast…


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FINISHING STRAIGHT

RACE DEBRIEF

by Anthony Rowlinson

Belgian Grand Prix 25.08.2013 / Spa-Francorchamps

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SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS

Protesters unfurl an anti-Shell banner on

T1

the main grandstand,

T2

although it’s not

T3

T4

T19 T18

shown on TV

T5 T6

T17 T10

T7

T9

T16 T11 T8 T13 T12

T15

T14

> On lap 1, Vettel outdrags polesitter Hamilton out of Eau Rouge to take the lead of the race

> drive-through penalty for forcing Grosjean off the track at Les Combes

> Vettel pits from the lead on lap 14 and Alonso passes Lewis to move into third place at La Source

>

Kimi retires with

Vettel takes his

brake problems on

fifth win of the

lap 26 after a run

year, extending his

of 38 consecutive

championship lead to

races finishes

46 points over Alonso


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FINISHING STRAIGHT

Belgian Grand Prix stats The lowdown on everything you need to know from the weekend at Spa-Francorchamps… THE GRID

THE RACE

1. HAMILTON MERCEDES 2min 01.012secs Q3

FASTEST LAP 3. WEBBER RED BULL 2min 01.325secs Q3

4. ROSBERG MERCEDES 2min 02.251secs Q3 5. DI RESTA FORCE INDIA 2min 02.332secs Q3 6. BUTTON MCLAREN 2min 03.075secs Q3 7. GROSJEAN LOTUS 2min 03.081secs Q3 8. RÄIKKÖNEN LOTUS 2min 03.390secs Q3 9. ALONSO FERRARI 2min 03.482secs Q3 10. MASSA FERRARI 2min 04.059secs Q3 11. HÜLKENBERG SAUBER 1min 49.088secs Q2 12. SUTIL FORCE INDIA 1min 49.103secs Q2

Sebastian Vettel, lap 40, 1min 50.756secs

THE RESULTS (44 LAPS) 1st

Sebastian Vettel Red Bull

2nd

Fernando Alonso Ferrari

3rd

Lewis Hamilton Mercedes

+27.734s

4th

Nico Rosberg Mercedes

+29.872s

1h23m42.196s +16.869s

5th

Mark Webber Red Bull

+33.845s

6th

Jenson Button McLaren

+40.794s

7th

Felipe Massa Ferrari

+53.922s

8th

Romain Grosjean Lotus

+55.846s

9th

Adrian Sutil Force India

+69.547s

10th

Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso

+73.470s

11th

Sergio Pérez McLaren

+81.936s

12th

Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso

+86.740s

Nico Hülkenberg Sauber

+88.258s

1st


197pts

Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber

+100.436s

2nd


151pts

15th

Valtteri Bottas Williams

+107.456s

3rd


139pts

16th

Giedo van der Garde Caterham

+1 lap

4th

Kimi Räikkönen Lotus

134pts

17th

Pastor Maldonado Williams

+1 lap

5th


115pts

18th

Jules Bianchi Marussia

+1 lap

6th


96pts

19th

Max Chilton Marussia

+2 laps

7th


67pts

8th


53pts

9th


47pts

26 laps – accident

10th

Paul Di Resta Force India

36pts


25 laps – brakes

11th


25pts

Charles Pic Caterham

8 laps – oil leak

12th


18pts

13th


13pts

14th


12pts

15th


16th


17th


0pts

18th


0pts

19th


0pts

20th


0pts

THROUGH SPEED TRAP 15. BIANCHI MARUSSIA 1min 52.563secs Q2

16. CHILTON MARUSSIA 1min 52.762secs Q2 17. MALDONADO WILLIAMS 2min 03.072secs Q1 18. VERGNE TORO ROSSO 2min 03.300secs Q1

20. BOTTAS WILLIAMS 2min 03.432secs Q1

22. PIC CATERHAM 2min 07.384secs Q1

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DRIVERS’ STANDINGS

13th


14. VAN DER GARDE CATERHAM 1min 52.036secs Q2

Fernando Alonso, 22.444secs (entry to exit)

14th

Retirements 13. PÉREZ MCLAREN 1min 49.903secs Q2

FASTEST PITSTOP

7pts 1pt

Fastest: Felipe Massa,

Slowest: Charles Pic,

21st


0pts

190.86mph

181.67mph

22nd


0pts

TYRE COMPOUNDS USED CONSTRUCTORS’ STANDINGS 19. RICCIARDO TORO ROSSO 2min 03.317secs Q1 Medium

21. GUTIÉRREZ SAUBER 2min 04.324secs Q1


Hard

CLIMATE

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TRACK TEMP

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26°C

1st Red Bull

312pts

2nd Mercedes

235pts 10th Marussia

0pts

3rd Ferrari

218pts 11th Caterham

0pts

4th Lotus

187pts

5th McLaren

65pts

6th Force India

61pts

7th Toro Rosso

25pts

8th Sauber

9th

Williams

1pt

For comprehensive F1 statistics visit 7pts www.forix.com

PHOTOS: ALASTAIR STALEY/LAT; ANDY HONE/LAT; SAM BLOXHAM/LAT

2. VETTEL RED BULL 2min 01.200secs Q3

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T5

T4

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T1

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T11

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> Alonso passes Mark Webber to move up into third place

>

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contact with

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retires on lap 16 with

and is booed on the

transmission failure

podium by the tifosi


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The story of the race

FINISHING STRAIGHT

Italian Grand Prix stats The lowdown on everything you need to know from the weekend at Monza… THE GRID

THE RACE

1. VETTEL RED BULL 1min 23.755secs Q3

3. HÜLKENBERG SAUBER 1min 24.065secs Q3

2. WEBBER RED BULL 1min 23.968secs Q3

FASTEST LAP Lewis Hamilton, lap 51, 1min 25.849secs

5. ALONSO FERRARI 1min 24.142secs Q3 6. ROSBERG MERCEDES 1min 24.192secs Q3 7. RICCIARDO TORO ROSSO 1min 24.209secs Q3 8. PÉREZ MCLAREN 1min 24.502secs Q3 9. BUTTON MCLAREN 1min 24.515secs Q3 10. VERGNE TORO ROSSO 1min 28.050secs Q3 11. RÄIKKÖNEN LOTUS 1min 24.610secs Q2

13. GROSJEAN LOTUS 1min 24.848secs Q2

12. HAMILTON MERCEDES 1min 24.803secs Q2

THE RESULTS (53 LAPS) 1st


2nd


+5.467s

3rd


+6.350s

1h18m33.352s

4th


5th


+10.355s

+9.361s

6th


+10.999s

7th


+32.329s

8th


+33.130s

9th


+33.527s

10th


+38.327s

11th


+38.695s

12th


+39.765s


+40.880s

1st


222pts


+49.085s

2nd


169pts

+56.827s

3rd


141pts

+1 lap– brakes

4th


134pts


+1 lap

5th


130pts

18th


+1 lap

6th


104pts

19th


+1 lap

7th


79pts

20th


+1 lap

8th


57pts

9th


48pts

10th


36pts

14 laps – transmission

11th


25pts

0 laps – accident

12th


18pts

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18pts

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17pts

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13pts

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0pts

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0pts

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0pts

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0pts

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16th


17th


THROUGH SPEED TRAP 16. GUTIÉRREZ SAUBER 1min 25.266secs Q1

17. SUTIL* FORCE INDIA 1min 24.932secs Q2 18. BOTTAS WILLIAMS 1min 25.291secs Q1 19. VAN DER GARDE CATERHAM 1min 26.406secs Q1

21. BIANCHI MARUSSIA 1min 27.085secs Q1

1pt

Fastest: Esteban

Slowest: Paul

21st


0pts

Gutiérrez, 211.92mph

Di Resta, 140.97mph

22nd


0pts

TYRE COMPOUNDS USED CONSTRUCTORS’ STANDINGS 20. PIC CATERHAM 1min 25.563secs Q1

Medium

Hard

CLIMATE 22. CHILTON MARUSSIA 1min 27.480secs Q1

* Three-place grid penalty for impeding another driver

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DRIVERS’ STANDINGS

13th


15. DI RESTA FORCE INDIA 1min 25.077secs Q2

Nico Rosberg, 22.079secs (entry to exit)

14th

Retirements 14. MALDONADO WILLIAMS 1min 25.011secs Q2

FASTEST PITSTOP


Cloudy

Intermediate Wet

TRACK TEMP

26°C

31°C

1st Red Bull

352pts

2nd Ferrari

248pts 10th Marussia

0pts

3rd Mercedes

245pts 11th Caterham

0pts

4th Lotus

191pts

5th McLaren

66pts

6th Force India

61pts

7th Toro Rosso

31pts

8th Sauber

17pts

9th

Williams

1pt

For comprehensive F1 statistics visit www.forix.com

PHOTOS: ALASTAIR STALEY/LAT; SAM BLOXHAM/LAT; STEVE ETHERINGTON/LAT; CHARLES COATES/LAT

4. MASSA FERRARI 1min 24.132secs Q3

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The Singapore GP preview

20-22 September 2013 / Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore F1’s only night-time race takes place under floodlights, and combines high humidity with a bumpy track and an epic series of slow, tight corners

THE ENGINEER’S VIEW Xevi Pujolar, Williams’ chief race engineer

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SINGAPORE STATS AND FACTS

THE FLOODLIGHTS ARE CONNECTED BY

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The Safety Car has been deployed every year since the first race in 2008

There are 15 different braking zones in one lap

1,600 light projectors illuminate the circuit, totalling 3,180,000 watts of power

9 10 8 11

7 Sector 3

12

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13

SINGAPORE GP RACE DATA

6

15 16

F1 debut 2008

TV TIMETABLE (UK TIME)

Length 3.152 miles

Friday 20 September

Distance 192.2 miles

Practice 1 11:00-12:30

Laps 61

Practice 2 14:30-1600

Direction Anticlockwise

Saturday 21 September

Lap record 1min 45.599secs,

Practice 3 11:00-12:00

K Räikkönen, 2008

Qualifying 14:00

Full throttle 70%

Sunday 22 September

Gear changes per lap 71

Race 13:00

Winners from pole 3

Live coverage

Tyre compounds

Sky Sports F1 (available in HD)

Supersoft/medium

Highlights BBC One (available in HD)

Circuit Marina Bay

LAST YEAR

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2

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5

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23

Sector 1

DO YOU REMEMBER…

Winner Sebastian Vettel Retirements 5

…when Nelson Piquet Jr lost control here at Turn 17 and crashed on the

Overtaking moves 24

14th lap in 2008? The Safety Car was deployed, handing victory to his

DRS overtakes 10

Renault team-mate Fernando Alonso. It later emerged that Piquet had

Weather Clear, 29°C

crashed deliberately, setting off the ‘Crashgate’ controversy.

QUALIFYING

RACE ILLUSTRATION: ALAN ELDRIDGE. PHOTOS: STEVE ETHERINGTON/LAT; ANDREW FERRARO/LAT; CHARLES COATES/LAT

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The Korean GP preview

4-6 October 2013 / Yeongam, Korea Three very different sectors combine to make a circuit that’s difficult to get to grips with – especially given how hard it is to get heat into the Pirelli rubber


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CARS EXCEED

174mph FOUR TIMES EVERY LAP 116


12 of the circuit’s 18 corners are taken at 124mph or slower

The last 2 races here have featured

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6

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KOREAN GP RACE DATA

17

14

F1 debut 2010


Length 3.489 miles

Friday 4 October


Practice 1 02:00-03:00

Laps 55

Practice 2 06:00-07:30

Direction Anticlockwise

Saturday 5 October


Practice 3 03:00-04:00

S Vettel, 2011

Qualifying 06:00

Full throttle 62%

Sunday 6 October


Race 07:00

Winners from pole 1

Live coverage Sky Sports F1 (available in HD)

Tyre compounds TBA

Highlights BBC One (available in HD)

Circuit Korea International Circuit

15

18

16 2 Sector 1

1

DO YOU REMEMBER…

LAST YEAR Winner Sebastian Vettel Retirements 4

…Mark Webber crashing out of championship contention? At the

Overtaking moves 27

inaugural Korean GP in 2010, Webber spun out of second place

DRS overtakes 17

and lost his championship lead, dropping from points leader to

Weather Overcast, 21°C

third. His team-mate Sebastian Vettel went onto win the title.

QUALIFYING

RACE

ILLUSTRATION: ALAN ELDRIDGE. PHOTOS: STEVE ETHERINGTON/LAT; ANDREW FERRARO/LAT; ANDY HONE/LAT

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The Japanese GP preview

11-13 October 2013 / Suzuka, Japan Running in two directions, this sweeping classic is a favourite with fans, drivers and engineers – but don’t make the mistake of thinking it’s easy


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545 metres

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– THE RUN FROM POLE TO THE FIRST CORNER

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Suzuka in 2009

10 of Suzuka’s 18 corners are taken between 105mph and 168mph

60%

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13

14

11 12 10 JAPANESE GP RACE DATA

F1 debut 1987


Length 3.608 miles

Friday 11 October


Practice 1 02:00-03:30

Laps 53

Practice 2 06:00-07:30

Direction Clockwise &

Saturday 12 October

anticlockwise

Practice 3 03:00-04:00


Qualifying 06:00

K Räikkönen, 2005

Sunday 13 October

Full throttle 71%

Race 07:00


Live coverage

Winners from pole 12

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Tyre compounds TBA

BBC One (available in HD)

Circuit Suzuka

LAST YEAR

16

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9

7

8 Sector 2

6 5 4 3 1 2

DO YOU REMEMBER…

Winner Sebastian Vettel …when Typhoon Ma-on cancelled

heading straight for Suzuka. Everyone

Overtaking moves 15

qualifying? During Friday practice at

stayed away from the circuit on

DRS overtakes 5

the 2004 Japanese GP there was a

Saturday and qualifying was held on

Weather Sunny, 24°C

warning that a super typhoon was

the Sunday morning instead.

SUZUKA TELEMETRY

QUALIFYING

ILLUSTRATION: ALAN ELDRIDGE. PHOTOS: STEVE ETHERINGTON/LAT; CHARLES COATES/LAT; ANDY HONE/LAT; GLENN DUNBAR/LAT

Retirements 5

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F1’s greatest rivalry

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“One snapshot from my Berger memory bank is Mexico 1986, where Gerhard won his and Benetton’s first grand prix”

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“Do I still remember Gerhard Berger? How could I possibly ever forget!”

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