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That’s the trouble with being a Formula 1 driver: there’s always someone younger, faster and more ‘of-the-moment’ fashionable wanting your ride. Four-and-a-bit years ago that young gun was a 24-year-old Daniel Ricciardo to four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel, then 26, at Red Bull. Dan’s pace and punch had seen off Jean-Eric Vergne and Daniil Kvyat at junior team Toro Rosso, demanding his elevation to Red Bull Racing, where he’d be partnered with Seb, who was king of the F1 world: four straight world titles, if you please. Tough gig? Maybe Dan didn’t get the memo, for 19 races, three wins and 238 points later, he’d completely shaded his starry team leader, finishing as best non-Mercedes driver, with Vettel only fifth in the championship, winless. Chastened, Vettel jumped ship to Ferrari,…

A young engineering student was handed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to kickstart his F1 career during the Canadian GP weekend. Carlos Sainz revealed that Chase Pelletier, 22, was the Infiniti Engineering Academy 2018 Canadian winner. His prize is a six-month placement at the Renault F1 Team at Enstone and another six months at Infiniti’s Technical Centre in Cranfield. Pelletier was one of ten finalists for the region’s annual competition to find engineering talent, and impressed judges over two days of challenges.…

OLYMPIC GOLD FOR HAMILTON? Are we about to see motor racing in the Olympic Games? This was one of the talking points of the 2018 FIA Sport Conference in Manila, which featured high-level thought leadership panels looking at the future of the sport. Another was the steady rise of esports as a funnel for new fans and competitors to the world of motor racing. The Olympic Charter has long contained a rule that bans sports with mechanical propulsion. But the word in Manila was that this rule is now quietly being dropped. And at the 2018 Youth Olympics, taking place in October in Buenos Aires, an event where new sports are tried out such as sport climbing, karate and roller sports, there will be a demonstration event of electric karting.…

Max Verstappen’s response to yet another enquiry as to why he was having so many incidents suggested immaturity and a lack of capacity to learn. Both of which are a significant part of the answer to the question. All F1 drivers make mistakes, but Max has made so many this year and is reluctant to take responsibility for most of them. After his practice crash in Monaco, which consigned him to the back of the grid, he admitted he would “need to look into it”. But that aside, the only other incident he has spoken of as being his fault is hitting Sebastian Vettel in China. In fact, every single one of his incidents this year has been entirely or partly his fault. Christian Horner has avoided criticising him too…

F1 Racing : Once everything is unpacked for a race, what do you do next? Dave Redding: The event starts at 10am on Thursday morning and that’s when the FIA remove the seals from the power unit so we can fire up the car for the first time and make sure everything works. Then we take the cars to the FIA weighbridge to ensure we are technically compliant. The first curfew comes into force at 11pm on Thursday and lasts until 7am Friday. F1R : Are you responsible for ensuring that you are compliant with the rulebook at all times? DR: That’s one of the many responsibilities, but yes, during sessions I sit on the pitwall and have an intercom that connects with Race Control, so I can…

F1 Racing : How hard is it to manage drivers at a GP? Sophie Ogg: We give them a schedule so they know what to do and where to be. Whether it’s an engineering debrief, a fan session or the FIA press conference, they don’t need to worry about timekeeping: it’s all mapped out for them. F1R : What happens when a driver causes a media storm with his comments? SO: We had that in Austin in 2013 when Pastor Maldonado blamed his poor qualifying performance on the belief that we had ‘sabotaged’ his car. When that happened we sat him down to try to understand what he meant, because we all work flat-out for our drivers and clearly no one had sabotaged his car. After realising something…

Esteban Ocon The current holder of the record, having finished in the first 27 grands prix of his Formula 1 career. Max Chilton The British driver made his debut at the 2013 Australian GP for Marussia and finished the next 25 races – just two shy of Ocon’s record. He scored a best result of P13 twice (in Australia and Bahrain 2014) and ended his streak in Canada 2014, after tangling with Marussia team-mate Jules Bianchi. Tiago Monteiro Starting his F1 career at the 2005 Australian GP for Jordan, the Portuguese racer was let down by engine failure in Brazil, halting his record at 16 races. Meanwhile Heikki Kovalainen was classified in his first 16 races for Renault in 2007. He failed to finish his fourth race at Monaco due…

FERNANDO ALONSO isn’t well-known for his love of 1990s dance music. But in the early hours of the morning at Le Mans, at the end of a mesmerising quadruple stint in his Toyota, he practically begged to be allowed a fifth, declaring that he now had “the rhythm of the night”. And he certainly did, in a much more convincing way than anyone from Corona – the Italian eurodance act responsible for the 1993 anthem – ever managed. Le Mans is, of course, legendary, but it’s only when night falls that it becomes truly emblematic. The backbone of the famous race is located between midnight and sunrise, traditionally the time when the competition is won or lost on pace, with lower track temperatures and the engines able to gulp dense,…

Nationality Russian Age 19 Role Force India test driver 2018 Completes two days of F1 testing with Force India at Barcelona (in February and May); wins a race in GP3 with ART 2017 FIA European F3 with Hitech (3 podiums); F1 test driver at the Hungaroring and Abu Dhabi with Force India 2016 Competes in FIA European F3 and British F3; completes two F1 test days with Force India at Silverstone 2015 Formula Renault 2.0; scores one podium 2012-14 European and world karting championships…

YOUR BOOKING INCLUDES: ★ Choice of hotel accommodation with daily breakfast ★ Weekend general admission ticket ★ Welcome drinks (Friday Night) ★ Sunday return coach transfers between your hotel and the circuit ★ Representative staff in resort ★ Merchandise pack including ticket wallet, lanyard, poncho, sun cream, pen and bag ★ All service charges and taxes ★ Optional extras (at a supplement) ★ Ticket upgrades ★ Saturday (qualifying) circuit transfers…

MATT YOUSON When we’re afraid your YATQ posers are going to net us a punch in the mouth, we send Matt instead. He takes one for the team on p46 ADRIAN MYERS In his spare time, ace portrait artist Adrian plays rugby at Farnham RC. Photographing Dan Ric for our cover feature (p36) was less risky JAMES ROBERTS Our associate editor has been industrious, taking a detailed inside look at Williams (p54) and grilling Esteban Ocon in Paris (p66) GLENN DUNBAR Glenn has been shooting Williams (p54) for so long, he’s almost part of the team – no other snapper enjoys such privileged access…

14.06.18 Renault signs senior Mercedes engineer Matthew Harman as deputy chief designer 15.06.18 New Michael Schumacher exhibition opens in Germany 15.06.18 Belgian Grand Prix secures three-year contract extension 19.06.18 Red Bull announce Honda engine supply deal from 2019 season 22.06.18 Mercedes reveal enhanced engine upgrade after Canada delay 24.06.18 Action on poor traffic management promised for future French GPs 25.06.18 F1 and FIA to look at removing chicane from Ricard layout 29.06.18 Renault introduce new engine mode for extra power in qualifying 04.07.18 Eric Boullier leaves McLaren as part of another management reshuffle…

RICARD: WHEN ALL WAS RIGHT WITH THE WORLD Back then, though, back in 1973, there was in effect no choice: you drove down to Paul Ricard in your 1969 Ford Escort 1100, worrying a little bit about the water pump gasket but ultimately, disproportionately, amazingly happy that it was all about to happen. We slept under the car in a lay-by, Peter Collins and I, believing we were safe. I folded up a Firestone jacket into some sort of pillow; feet plodded around us outside on the gravel, apparently in circles, tied to the smoke of Gitanes, linked to oaths, muttered in local French. Eyes scratchy, limbs stiff, we splashed water over our faces in the public toilet. In a motorway café we sipped something hot and ate croissants. Then…

2014-present Appointed managing director of Williams Advanced Engineering 2014-present Non-executive director of Transport Research Laboratories 2013-2014 Head of Commercial Operations, Williams Advanced Engineering 2012-present Co-founder of Oxatec, 2007-2011 Director, Holden Special Vehicles 2005-2011 Managing Director, Walkinshaw Performance/Holden Racing Team 2000-2005 Managing Director, TWR Group 1992-2000 Project Manager/ Business Director, TWR Engineering 1988-1992 Production/ Engineering Manager, JaguarSport…

Who are they? Axitea Security Evolution are a company who specialise in advanced cyber security. They state their goal as being to protect the digital assets that increasingly represent a critical element for both corporate strategy and all competition-related activities and initiatives. Where are they? Axitea’s corporate brand will appear on the sidepod floorline of the Sauber C37 and, during the Monaco and Italian GPs, on the upper side of the car’s sidepods..…

There’s a bone of contention between Daniel Ricciardo and F1 Racing: in conversation at a recent grand prix, F1R made the tactical error of describing him using a word for which he did not care. In proper Aussie sporting tradition, he called us out on it – but we stuck to our guns. We have the statistics on our side and the courage of our convictions. Next time out, it’s still hanging in the air: not so much the elephant in the corner, as the 800-pound gorilla. Daniel looks at the stack of questions F1 Racing is holding, then raises his gaze to give us the stink eye. Clearly he’s not forgotten we called him ‘mature’. Despite his protests (and he doth protest quite a bit) Ricciardo is not the…

F1 Racing : What do you need to create a successful team? Claire Williams: Most obviously money, state-of-the-art resources and brilliant people. People are your critical asset. You need the best people working in harmony with their objectives very clearly laid out. Ultimately, talent wins. Culture is also hugely important. When you have a team that is as large as ours, trying to establish the culture is hard but crucial. If your talent is imbued with a culture that doesn’t promote winning, then you’re not going to win. F1R : How do you change that culture? CW: In Frank [Williams] and Patrick’s [co-founder, Head] day they worked with 200 people and knew their names and their wives’ and kids’ names – and so they found it relatively easy…

F1 Racing : Where do you source food for the team? Tom Fitzpatrick: Condiments and tea and coffee we buy in bulk at home and ship it over to the races. Then everything fresh is bought at supermarkets close to the track. The exception to this is Australia, which has strict customs restrictions, so we can’t take any food in and have to buy it all there. I was once stopped at customs there for having too many M&Ms in my bag! F1R : What is the most important commodity? TF: I’d say it has to be coffee. We will usually serve up to 2,000 cups a week from coffee machines in the hospitality unit, the garage and the engineering room. We even have back-up machines in case…

Alonso wasn’t the only F1 star making his debut at the Le Mans 24 Hours. Also starting for the first time were fellow triple-crown challenger Juan Pablo Montoya (in LMP2), and Jenson Button, in a privateer LMP1 car run by SMP Racing. In theory, Jenson’s car was among the best of the rest, but any hopes of a decent result were gone within 20 laps when it returned to the pits with a sensor issue, staying there for three hours. By the time Jenson got behind the wheel the car was 60th and last, but over the next 18 hours he did help to haul it nearly 20 places up the order before the engine expired with an hour to go. “It was a lovely experience; at least I got…

WHILE THERE HAD BEEN GRAND PRIX RACING for nearly half a century, it was not until 1950 that Formula 1 was born, and with it the world championship. Silverstone in May started it all, and the man on pole position also won the race and set the fastest lap. Giuseppe Farina went on to become the first world champion. Born into a wealthy Turin family in 1906, Farina won several major races in the 1930s, driving Maseratis and Alfa Romeos, but it may be said that, as with Hermann Lang, his greatest years were surely lost to the Second World War. In 1936 ‘Nino’ joined Scuderia Ferrari, then racing Alfas, and when two years later Tazio Nuvolari left for Auto Union, he became Enzo’s number-one driver. Even at this early…

July 21-22: Silverstone Classic Sale (Silverstone Auctions) July 20-22: Masters FIA Historic F1 Championship, Silverstone Classic July 20-22: Historic Grand Prix Cars Association races, Silverstone Classic July 28-29: Shelsley Walsh Classic Nostalgia: F1 through the ages August 3-5: Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix August 10-12: Masters FIA Historic F1, Nurburgring Oldtimer Grand Prix August 23-26: Masters USA Historic F1, Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion August 25-26: RM Sotheby’s auction at Monterey, California September 1-2: Masters FIA Historic F1 Championship, Zandvoort Historic Grand Prix September 5: RM Sotheby’s Auction, London September 6-8: Goodwood Revival September 8: Bonhams Goodwood Revival Auction September 14-16: Masters FIA Historic F1 Championship, Spa-Francorchamps October 12-14: Masters FIA Historic F1 Championship, Dijon-Prenois…

Where’s the best place on the circuit to spectate from? The Silver grandstands, as well as the Red Bull stand, are all clustered around the final few turns 12-14, and they sit on a hill overlooking the end of the lap. What do you suggest doing away from the track? Take time to soak in Budapest, go on a tour, wander the streets, sit and watch the world go by. It’s gorgeous and is certainly up there among the most stunning cities in Europe. One evening take a river cruise along the Danube or dine in one of the many good-value restaurants: you’ll get an amazing meal for a fantastic price. What local specialities do you recommend? It has to be a pint of local beer, Sporoni, and a bowl…

MCLAREN MP4/4 OWNERS’ WORKSHOP MANUAL Author Steve Rendle Price £25 haynes.com Haynes manuals used to be the preserve of the amateur mechanic, but since modern road cars are less user-serviceable than they used to be, the company have established a sideline in giving subjects as diverse as Hadrian’s Wall and nuclear submarines the workshop manual treatment. Historic F1 cars fit the format too, and this tome focusing on the McLaren MP4/4 sits alongside others devoted to such as the Williams FW14 and Lotus 49. The cover – colour-matched to the Marlboro red of the car itself – sets the tone for the meticulous detail within. Author Rendle had the full cooperation of McLaren, and the result is definitive. Should you ever need to strip and rebuild an MP4/4, the torque…

Your helmet design is part of your identity, so although I’ve altered the details of the design all through my career, I always use the same basic four colours: the dark blue, light blue, the red and the yellow. Those colours represent my region – Asturias – and also the Spanish flag. How you combine these four colours is always difficult because you need to put the sponsors on it as well, so there are always requirements from the team, but it’s good fun every season to design your own helmet, and make different little touches to it. I’ve also worked very closely with Bell, my helmet supplier, to make one-off designs for some specific races – reflective ones for night races, one with added black for the Indianapolis 500…

Q1 When was the last time half points were awarded for a race because 75 per cent of the race distance hadn’t been completed? Q2 What do Lorenzo Bandini and the Stewart GP team have in common? Q3 Which current driver has the most podiums without a win: Sergio Perez or Romain Grosjean? Q4 True or false: Fernando Alonso has never recorded a fastest lap at the Spanish GP? Q5 How many British winners of the British GP have there been: 10, 11 or 12? Q6 Who made their first appearance in an official GP practice session in Canada this year? Q7 How many podiums did Dallara manage in their time as a fully-fledged Formula 1 constructor? Q8 Which circuit is further south – Monaco, Paul Ricard or Sochi? Q9…

2019 CHANGES ARE WELL OVERDUE Formula 1 has long been resistant to change, a situation that was brought about by a perverse governance system, variable amounts of disunity between enfranchised bodies – and, most importantly, teams that guarded perceived competitive advantage to an extreme degree. The past twelve months have brought a sea change in this situation. Firstly the governing body and the commercial rights holder are aligned in the desire to bring entertainment back to racing and the teams are also seeing the merit, both from a financial and a sporting viewpoint, of providing closer and less predictable racing. Much of the work is longer term but the FIA took the initiative earlier this year to see if some of the research into the 2021 aerodynamic regulations could be…

Adapting Formula 1 engineering know-how to improve productivity and performance in adjacent industries has the potential to become big business – provided customers understand it’s not just about adding a sprinkling of motorsport ‘fairy dust’. Craig Wilson, managing director of Williams Advanced Engineering, explains how F1 innovations can service industries as disparate as defence and human high performance F1 Racing: Williams Advanced Engineering was incorporated in 2012 but the team had been involved in other partner projects before. What was the new company’s mandate? Craig Wilson: Williams have always undertaken bespoke projects from time to time – the Metro 6R4, a British Touring Car Championship entry with Renault, a BMW Le Mans prototype – but they were mostly opportunistic projects that benefitted the Formula 1 project directly. 2010 was…

F1 Racing : How do you prepare before a GP? Sergey Sirotkin: As well as the physical training, we run in the simulator the week before. There is also a lot of homework: I had a 120-page report from the last GP and an 80-page brief to read for the next race. F1R : Talk us through the first part of a weekend… SS: I arrive on Thursday morning and walk the circuit with my engineer, discussing setup, strategy or issues from the last race. In the afternoon I have media and autograph sessions and sometimes an evening sponsor event. F1R : Are you relieved to get in the car on Friday? SS: Yes! I warm up in my room, before I go out on track for…

The following is not based on fantasy. This is a calendar based on reality, so no Nürburgring Nordschleife or circuits that don’t exist any more, such as the old Österreichring. It’s also worth noting that the current 21-race schedule really isn’t at all bad, so what follows is only a minor shake-up – and certainly no more than 20 races. Damien Smith suggests a schedule. 1. Melbourne, Australia  This is the classic season opener. No need to change. 2. Sakhir, Bahrain  The Middle East is a must and this is better than Abu Dhabi. 3. Baku, Azerbaijan  A new street race that oozes character. Well worth keeping. 4. Imola, San Marino  The challenging layout makes this a real drivers’ circuit. Bring it back. 5. Barcelona, Spain  Traditional, and doesn’t get…

Where did your interest in racing come from, because motorsport isn’t particularly big in Russia, is it? No, it’s an exclusive sport to get into and we don’t have that many kart tracks, but I did visit one at the age of six and slowly started to develop an interest. One of the first people I met was Pavel Guskov, a former racer who used to coach [fellow Russian F1 driver] Daniil Kvyat. He helped me in karting and from there I progressed through the Moscow, and then the Russian karting championships. You clearly showed some natural aptitude… When you start off at a reasonably low level, you either stand out or you don’t. In karting I was always one of the quickest and that gave me extra motivation to…