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PITPASS NEWS, OPINION AND ANALYSIS 4 PITPASS TECH THE SCIENCE BEHIND CIRCUIT DESIGN 32. PETER WINDSOR WHY F1 MUST MOVE WITH THE TIMES 35 DIETER RENCKEN HIGH RUNNING COSTS STRANGLE F2 37. VALTTER! BOTTAS LOOKS FORWARD TO ANEW SEASON 38 HAVE WE SEEN THE LAST OF MSCHUMACHER? 16 SUBSCRIBE AND GET A FI e 77. COMPETITION WIN SENNHEISER VETTEL HEADF aoe 0 SECOND SECTOR: x ° 42 VETTEL: “THE BEST IS YET TO COME” 4 so NOW WAS A CAR: RB7 SPECIAL hat con bulk s¢ LUNCH WITH ADRIAN NEWEY fm reer spent designing 62 MARK WEBBER'S ULTIMATE TRACK 6s THEY ASK THE QUESTIONS A2 Ssoertunranstdseees 7) THE RENAULT V8 - UNCOVERED 75 RED BULL RACING IN STATS 0 WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON AT LOTUS? AB Mr Bpemsin te ean a5 MAX CHILTON IS KING OF THE HILL s3 MAN OF THE YEAR 93 WNC Aeehias sac H ¢ 7 aos BRAZIL 2008 ‘THIRD SECTOR: x20 |EPORT SEB SETS RECORD FOR STRAIGHT WINS N 7 THEN IMMEDIATELY SHATTERS IT LOZ EN Satertema st 7 us 130 DN MARK WEBBER'S LAST HURRAH \ YOU JUST CAN'T FAULT YOUNG SEB. ie has intrigued oe} ery cn ea peter aeAfter four seasons of searing, opposition-crushing succes, you nigh think there's tle moe to he sid or, indeed, writen abot the Red Ball Rocing cnning machine. But, dear reader, we would beg differ Wed diret you, for starters, to oneor the most revealing interviews with Adrian Newey you're ever Tiel o read (page 54), Our man Maurice Harton comered Adrian for neh n Austin aver the USGP ‘weekend and, sith another so championships tucked ocke, this famously reticent ut intensely competitive man relaxed, opened up and shared some fabulous stories shout hw the team once ‘now as Jaguar Racing have boon taken from ako-rans to world-eaters. It's gone from that sor of ight dlosenroden but atthe some time arogantfecingto & Inge energy through the place,” Newey tells us, before soingon to entertain with anecdotes about his time ‘working with F legends ncading Nigel Mansel, “Mario Andre, Mika Halkknen and Sehastin Vettel, ‘Weed also recommend you cast an eye oer the ariling to which Christian Horner was subjected by his paddock pees fora unique “They Ask The Question’ feature on page 65. An Test you think we've overdoked ¥ scertuin young prodigy from Heppenheim, we have an extended chat with Sebastian Vettel in which he reveal, somewhat ominnl for thos attempting to finda ehinkin his armour, that The mind boggles as to howe Seb thinks he an top four 3 John Fisher Buns Dieter Renken fier, Johnhasmet—20%g prand-penning lentyofauthortsian —— toamstands atthe de Chek out page Bo or Dita’ tus potion Ignition / Anthon No Bull: we've got the inside! ine on F1's mega-team wlinson / 01.14 back-to-back drivers ites atthe ageof 26. ut clear he does, ashe explains on page 42 “Theres, of course Formule 1 beyond Red Bll, even AfUhei ecent dominance hasbeen enough make yo think otherwise. The postion of Lotus, one of 20198 most creditable performers, remains alive off-season topic as they seek esoaton tothe ancl dienes ‘hat have plagued them throughout the year, resulting {nthe premature departure of Kimi ailknen. Deter Rencken attempts to unravel ther travails om page 80 And one thing’ for sure: the neva the Venezuelan petrodellars attached to Pastor Makdonada's nee contract won't come a seecnd too soon, Talk ash leads, inevitably to Berne Beeston, theman who has done moreto enrich Forma x han anyone ese, but ako, nv, a man facing mone challenges this absolute authority than ever before Veteran New York Times frei corespondent.ohn Fisher Bums, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, met andntervewed Boelestonecarir this year and we subsequently invited Johto commit his thoughts to paper for Fs Racing Pechaps the fairest thing say of the Formal hie” Fisher Burs refet inhi feature on page 102, stat he is deeply complex man, if lo deeply ‘aed; widely feared, tals for what he has made ofthespor, widely admired” Whateveryourview of Mr E, isa right riveting ead James Mann Tom darkson Thedoyenofinstudioear —Heeyced rom John Groat totands End Mark Webber, hotngraphy (and regular ontsbtor to ur month feature) worked magic Max Chilton (page'86) ought on Red Balls RE7(p48) tobe inh, giRAT °CoolTec ~ ast aN Puts skin irritation on ice. 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Running on the harder compound tye, he Sets the third quickest timein the final ree practice session before qualifying, ee ee eee eee Ets Tne cee tear) ee Ces ote ested ners raat}tam: RedBulZ& ¥ 1 mw NFINiti NYPTT ARGS ew sme on Kevin Magnussen: fast. imetigent ond techicaly eed A ' Magnussen’s move to McLaren: the truth Why did Sergio Pérez lose his prized McLaren seat to rookie driver Kevin Magnussen for 2014? ‘The Ft driver market proved was, om average, 0.2 seconds alap People who have worked themselves ina situation where pariculrly wlatileas-20x3 drew slower in qualifing and scored with Buttom say he occasionally not only wa their ear not very toaelose, and nothing illustrated 94 fewer pits struggles to find the imitafthe good, but ther drivers were often ts unpredictability better than ‘And MeLaren know exactly ear. Ona day where hethinks__letving at Teast 0.2 secands in the Metaren's decision to drop Sergio how good Button is—hemight he's found the limit hut hasn't, garage - sometimes more. Péree for ]2014 in favour of Danish be the best in the work in mixed team-mate ike Pénev won't push Magnssen, meanwhile, ha ookle Kevin Magnussen conditions, but i terms of Jhim onwards. But pairhim with a proved in various tests that he Itisabrave decision hased on absolute pace hes about .2secs team-mate such as Hamilton and is fast, intaligent and good in the team’sbelief that while Pérez behind benchmark drivers such Button wil realise there is more terms of technical knowledge is competent Fi driver, heis not a8 Less Hamilton, Not only that, to-be found from the ca, and endl and feedhack Péree might not future champion material Theit but chey believe that to extract the up around o 5 seconds faster bea future world champion, but logic is simple: Pércz was not as best from Button, he needs tobe ‘So ith the Pérez/Button iLaren believe Magnussen dose 00d as team-mate Button. He pire sith benchmark driver. paring, McLaren found ‘have that potentil and concluded 20 FL Racing January 2014replaced Pérez at McLaren / Formula 1 snakes and ladder: mrgneing nar ee foie oneme es (i) WINNERS + SPINNERS however, unanimous. McLaren _status within the team and has UPS AND DOWNS ON THE Fl ROLLER COA: ‘Pérez was kepton, One source time Whitmarsh as been sived Aeserbed the situation as“the from making a questionable driver midale-management zanging _dovison. Hack in 2000, he wanted ‘upon Whitmarsh ‘Accoas to the hidden corners of FL ‘Trane to Gooal's Steet Vie you con noe withsome _tosign Nick Heidfeld for 2010 to viel tour around part of McLaren's Technology engineers even threatening to partner Lewis Hamilton; indeed, in Woking. Ener tough the front door and check out the sign if Pérez kept his mace seat he had negotiated a deal toda Ine of esesic FL ears ané trophies in the MICs bauevard for the fllsrng seeon, exactly that, He went om holiday verooiina te ake, 4 Yet Whitmarsh as unmoved, before it was signed and hile he Heeven told Pérezeaely inthe was away, other members of the ‘week ollosing Abu Dhabi thst senior management tear ~ Ron 5 Ihe ad the drive Hut then, out of Dennis being key among them ng thebluc,he phoned Pérez back ~ seized the eppertunityto sign > con the Friday ofthat week say Jenson Button instead that decision had heen retracted ‘The stakes are high forall E and they werenow taking on —__favelved in the decision to replace De Helm Marko Z ‘Magnussen instead Peévez, though. I Magaussen Both hean¢ Jean Toot found themselves tre but of ‘So what actully happened? struggles in 2014, thse who Sebastian Vette! jokes as the four-time champion Sst not entirely ear but t—_angued so freely for his neformes impersonations of them during is acceptance fs widely known that all isnot promotion wil not look so clever. speech, on being named imernational Racing river i wel at senior managementlewel ‘But if he succoeds then fresh (of the Yer at December's Autosport Awards d at MeLaren.Group chairman questions willbe asked about Ron Dennis’ relationship with how the team is ru. Geet bits Z teas been announce of ZOLA, he 8 tiaec 2 ney installed foodahing system at 3 i sportcarracein loveree 2013 3 ‘Sensible rulemaking E he FA have announced fr 2014 cvs wil be able to i 2and 99 to keep for t ow be awarded davtle pains Mare sensibly, tion of tei cars wl come into fore for 2025, Martin Whitmarsh wanted to retain Péces for 2014; Ron Deonis dd not Fi.Racing January 2014 21———————____———_—_—_—__—_——— s—t” PITRASS / Test your kni (EC nen Avinatstatsticallandmaredd Which famous racing car ‘esigner was boron Boxing Day _zvmhatoationaltyleNanssiatest in 19582 iver Rode GenzilesGetow le? 7 Who wonthecrening round o Binwhich year Sauber frst Jenson Button each n Brae? the 1979 Fermula 2 season? ‘For ich team did Max Papi bendscaled Double-Gauchede At ich grand pcx da Fernando laBretele and Courbe ce Fouas? Alonso elo ght Score Ns rst Stich creut held ust ne wade podium in Formula 1? championship Flerand prc and 4 hich diver aces withthe had only tne comers? nub ‘169 hie cain 20222 former Lect hac cin 19057 Pee es naa cose La eapeins aR opeuoee 158d OF x puEIS VeIsteRy ENDZ B>!oNnON WaIYsET sorboeT & AaMaN LeLEY 8: sou Bisg=feyg CAN DRIVE Anything else we need ‘to know about him? Who is he? Eiessoniea23-yearoksSHedsh _sticsson comoleted ates day ives wh raced for tre OAM team in GP2in 2013 young onver test for Brawn GP ‘December 20093 ever And ting the 2013 Graptian sweohand, Ecsson who fished siethin GP2in 202) nas inked to ‘2 Caterham FL sive for 2014, How good is he? Eatlon he career Ecazen won te 2007 Formula BMA champlonshiain the UK ding forFertec Atersoendrgsome FL chances tine acing nies F3.he moved eno secret that Caterham are elapan ane wasF3crampion ooking foradrver who ean ben therewth TOMS Since 2010hne _greaterfuncing to theteam next yeas ut while Enczson has the has acedinGP2 wth vaning ogres of success, He haswen cash. he would stillbe a suring choice ahen that hee 50 ince wyhaneng atthefront, mieageinan Pleat theo race, buthasat been 22 FL Racing January 2014 ledge / Ferrari furore over stev arding Massa’s ral penalty topped Ferra to third nthe ord Demands made for permanent Fl stewarding Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo seeks consistency in race stewarding, after Massa’s Brazilian Grand Prix penalty The controversial decision creiility, forthe work of the teams that invest money and for to hand Felipe Massa adrive- through penalty at the Krazlian the drivers who risk ther ives.” Grand Prix could have far Di Montezemolo isa powerful reaching effects on Formal. force in Ft He is head ofthe ‘That decision cost Ferrari company that runs F's most second place in the constructors’ significant team, and Ferrari are championship and £émillion in the only’ team with a seat on the prize money. Their president, FIA World Council where the Luca di Montezemolo, has made rules that govern Ft are adopted ‘abundantly clear that he ‘While di Montezemoto did feels the stewards were wrong, not elaborate on what ehanges deseribng their deision as he wold ike to se, nsiders report that he believes the dea Hasn't just the money that of permanent stewards should “disproportionate and wnt motivated Di Montezemol's ine: be on F's agend He also made it clear that he wnded to Lewis was un Ihe used the same deseription for the penalty spp about what he sees Hamilton following his collision asa too-enient punishment with Williams’ Vater Hottss given to Mercedes for their Sere’ tre test in May. He sald he expects “strong changes" in Todt’ second term as FIA president “becase for too eabitridievlousand Di Montezemelo added: “Every co often, the gentlemen who come to the races to act as stewards make decisions tha years the federation has snachronistic,Qne neede to _aivays been the same and, asin be carefl hat we maintain everthing, a change is required’Every time we build a new race car, we question every single part. Except for one. Mission 2014. Our Return. ‘ter more than a decade Porsche is returning to tondevel racing in 2014 to the FA World Endurance Championship andits highlight, the 24 Hours of Le Mans Cur strategy? The same that we follow when developing every Porsche ~ starting from ‘the ground up and questioning every deal We take nothing fr granted. Except fr the principle behind everything we've bul for more than 60 years: Intligent Performance. {Come along on ou mission at porsche.coal/mission2014 and watch us develop our rototype frst and PORSCHEPITPASS / Where next for former Mercedes GP boss? leaves Mercedes But his immediate future in Formula 1 remains unclear oss Braven's departure from Mereedes was Ginally onfirmed few days afer the end ofthe 013 season ten months after its ikelhood was frst revealed. Brawn was never going to beable stay on steam principal in 2014, following Mercedes! deci Love to run their Fu programme, Mercedes were willing to retain Brave in adiferent position, the insisted that ihe stayed he o bringin Toto Wolf and Paddy ede to he “the reference” within the team. In other words: the person in charge That ‘option was not available, so he chose to leave, The question now is what will he do nest? At 50, he smearing retiremer that he wanted to stay on as team principal at Mercedes suggest quitting to spend his time fishing, hs favourite hobby snot on his rind age ut the fact There have heen all manner of rumours concerning Brawn's future, but few of them are realistic The most recent was that he could return to Ferrari as team prinipal, with Stefano Domenicli taking on a diffrent role, Bt senior insiders atthe Italian team have 24 FL Racing January 2014 Ross Brawn bbe dismissive ofthat idea. Another is that Ihe could mave to MeLaren, whestrgaled dover the course ofthe 2019 season. But, gain senior insides say thats a non-tarter, ‘hen there s Williams, who also Took from the onside as if they could do with someone of Brawn's experience and expertise. But, again insiders say tha is not on the agenda, and sources close to Brawn say he snot Sntorested in obuilding a straggling team Another suggestion is that he could return to Honda as head oftheir Fu programme 2s the Japanese company begin their lationship with Maren ahead ofthe debut of thir new «engine in 2015. Honda are said tobe keen, and MeLaren insiders believe aman of Brawn’ standings just what is needed at Honda to censure MeLaren deliver thelr best But would Brain want to work with Honda again? he company lft hr in the lreh when ‘hey pulled out of Fat the end of 2908, even Sf that contributed to the launch of Brain GP. And one of the aepects of working with Honda tht Brawn ied least, according to insiders, vas dealing Which leaves the FIA. Could Brawn be reunited with bis old Ferrari with the senior ae smanagemen in Japan, and quent rps toToig. Wi FIR president Jean Todt make Ross Brawn his Fl commissioner? partner Jean Tod now the president ‘of motorsport’: governing body? Might Todt {think that Brawn the man he needs as his F4 ‘commissioner ~a role he promised to create at the start of his ist term but is stil yet to l2 Brave could sharpen up the technical ‘department, which some believe has lot its rp in econt yoo poling Red Bulls developments. He could also be instrumental i helping Todt drive through eost-cuting ‘of 2013, Uravm was voluble in hie belie that especially in terms of the FIA mt get involved in ek emsFORMULA 1 PETRONAS MALAYSIA GRAND PRIX PTW FTL ee Bre DE ed af = NN ee Ro TP. 7 CKETS FROM £17° One race fcket unleashes more thon jus the thrill of the race, be amongst the crowd at the after race concert ond enjoy the best shopping deals in town. Unleash the power of your ticket and experience it UVE only at Sepang International Circuit. be Cua a Enjoy the afer roce concert with the king of elecronic donce music fre adniaion fer randord icket holders or lop up your hilltond elt ere, | gall Dare: 20 March 2014 = re YL 77 7 a eater ere te el Cee been ie i) teas! fs See Rr cence ae tL een (eer Pi li orreetet coe msienationeni hotly PETRONAS|PITPASS / Maldonado beats Hiilkenberg to Lotus drive Maldonade's money ‘wil be wall ecsived at strapped Lotus Maldonado confirmed at Lotus... ‘Team choose well-funded Venezuelan over the talented Nico Hillkenberg for 2014 The final pieces inthe driver-market thei nabityto pay Kimi Raikksnen in rivers Giedo van der Garde and Charles igsaw puzzle are falling into place as itwas 2x3 ~ mean they need a eash-injection Pi, both of whom bring substantial income, Announced that Pastor Maldonado will join now, notin a year’ time ‘Sivedish GPa driver Marcus Ericsson Romain Grosjean at Lotus for 2014, Hillkenberg will move hack to Force and Heikki Kovalainen, Of these, only Lotus were keen to sign Nico Hilkenberg, India, where he's expected tobe paired Kovalainen does net bring money with him. 2, Adrian nvestment deal with the mysterious Sutil il swap drives with Hillkenberg and (Quantum consortium meant they had 2 Sauber are expected to stek with Mesiean :4omilion Back hoe to 1. The £30m of Esteban Gutiérres s their second driver, Veneauelan funding Maldonado brings with They will use Russian teenager Sergey him means team owners Genii have to find Sirotkin (who has joined them as part of ‘only an additonal £1omillion, as opposed an investment dea), as thei reserve dever but the delay in completing their mooted with MeLaren reject Sergio P to £40m plus salary for Hulkenbery “The teams preference was for meanwhile looks likely to drop ont off. Hilkenberg because they believed they Marusi's Max Chill was hoping to i to Force Indi, but tl ‘of Pérez means he ie more likely to lee gains experience Paul Di Resta, ‘would score more points with im, Finishing move up the higher in the constructors’ championship artiva sand thas earning more prize money, But stay pt, Caterham are etl choosing their Geni? cashflows issues highlighted by drivers. Current contenders inchide 20:3 Mikenberg: returns to Fore India for 2014 26 FL Racing January 2014/ Uncertainty over Di Em ... but Di Resta set to lose seat? After three years in the sport, the Scottish racer is struggling to find a seat for the coming season Resta sHkely tobe missing from team make a mistake, and rid, station brought about rumours about how he partlyby the parlous financial state of many’ deals with team members ‘ofthe teams and partly by the Sot himself, behind the sens. In Fi Di Resta comes with a small amount of word gets around, personal sponsorship, butts nothing even Dept team principal approaching the kind of funding Pastor Boh Fernley said Force Maldonado and Sergio Pérez bring with them, India were not affected by Paul | Resta’sfutue with Force India is ooking very uncertain “This means he has to rely on convincing thee issues, bt admitted teams that he isa worthwhile investment, others might be made an effort to presenta better image to (On that fran, he has two problems. One “Tn today’s world, you've got tohave two the media, taking a much more loquacious ‘was summod up earlier this yearby the bess sides in and out ofthe team,” said Fernley, and amenable approach to nows conferences, ‘of championship-vinning team, who said: “In the corporate world, dont think it would Unfortunately, a reputation is easy to win Name me one great Paul Di Resta drive.” go down well and could limit opportunities.” and har to lose. Having been passed ver ‘The other is the way he acts within Fi “Those words were utered in Canada, by MeLaren and Ferrari, the man who beat Thisis evidenced by his oceasionaly brusque after Di Rests most infamenss outburst this Sehastan Vettel to the German F3 title when ‘manner on the ear-to-pit radia when the Seaton, and since then the 27-year-old has they were team-mates looks tobe Tos to Fi Eaa_ Are F1 rookies getting enough mileage? Lewis Hamilton ran more than 5,000 miles of testing before he started his first grand prix — here's how the novices of today compare. oD 4.232 mies i, Es 3,789 miles a 3721 miles ce 3.500 miles ono, TS 2424 miles owen MEE 680 miles wm M95 Fi.Racing January 2014 27‘one? / 2014 schedule unveiled Ecclestone tips Horner as successor ls Bemie serious about passing F1 baton on to Red Bull boss? “Who will replace Bernie Keclestone? Wsa questo to decades. “Iemeeds someone who knows the sport,” ecestone said. "People del wth me Deas they know me and they trast me a's been asked for at east it has become even more in the wake ofthe hebery eases lly envelop Formula 's boss. German company Constant They know am straight with them, Thats how itis with Christian. Uhope we can do it Horner has distanced himself rom the Medien are igh Court lover alegations that he bribed Gribkensky toundervalue the 47 per cent stake in Ft that sing Beclestone in London! this team forthe ftesceable future. can't see how any individual ean replace Bernie What he does nique snd twill bea sad Aay forthe sport when he's no longer here.” ‘When Eeelestone makes thie sor of was sold to CVC Capital Partners in 2006. ‘hat tral was due to end just after this issue of F Racing went to press. Donald MacKenz forchairman of CVC remark, i's hard to know if he is joking, Capital Partners, admitted Ecclestone would Ferrari president Lica di Montezemolo, iy isn't taking seriously: "Eecestone sees Horner as is successor? As the years 40 by, he mare and more enjoys making jokes. 1m happy be still asthe deste todo so.” be fired if convicted. Eeclestone himself crt ackaowedged that was so, and weat onto say that he sees Red Bull team prineipal Christian Horner asthe “ideal” successor. = eral New calendar confirmed = == ces aioe Proposed races in Mexico and Korea have been dropped 1 Spain from the 2014 schedule to leave a total of 19 grands prix "= Monaco BMay oo te The mooted Nev Jersey race had always been graced with septicism, anditis tothe orginal four The Russian Grand © Japan sl unelear why is been postponed for Prat the Black Sea resort of Soc wil me Ruesla second year. Keelstone ays the organisers beheld 12 Oetober,awoekafterJapan, MUSA 2 November failed to raise funds; the organisers say they and the Austrian Grand Pris returns on = Brasil 9 Noves Ihave the money; and its also thooght there 22.Jumest che Red Bull Ring, two weeks KEE Abu Dhabi ZBNovemnber were problems getting the track ready 28 FL Racing January 2014 new additions to the calendar, as opposed before the British race, SingaporeThe Official F1° Review of the 2013 FIA Formula One Championship” On sale from 16th December! 4 ‘The Official F1 Review on DVD or Blu-ray is the ulti- Pe hee ete or cee Sr a ee eg - ; what you want in over 3 and a half hours of tightly ed- arias ta: aia ian 1 ited review with outstanding technical quality, and in 2013 FIA FORMULA ONE 2013 they've got it spot on again! ao Pe ee ee ee ne WORLD, CHAMP: wh: ay Pee a eee eet rete errs significant overtaking manoeuvre, incident, pit drama, Err a enti a a oi eros view of team activity from Australia to Brazil and all CE Lecce cia SOAR ea eco are behind the wheel or watching from the edge of the Nee ue ca PR rm Ree Cue mers g Pint eee neta ee ‘There's also loads of detail you don't get anywhere else like the inside view Ce eu ae eee oe eer ree eRe er nes whilst the Blu-ray disc also has full on-board laps from every circuit. Crank pore ELC La ean) Sen eae cee Lo a Bro eee eC YU tC ease) We've a huge range of motorsport products available online yy T ey. Celilo) www.DukeVideo.com/F1R13 erie annettePat Symonds PTTPASS TECH Explaining the hidden brilliance that drives Formula 1 forward THE SCIENCE BEHIND. Circuit design We often hear complaints that the new circuits are not as exciting as the traditional tracks ~ why is this? Well think might challenge that stateme Ofcourse some ofthe old tracks have fabulous features, bat equally some ofthe so-called classes preduce some rather unelting racing Before the advent of DRS, Monza fr example produced very processional racing. Ofthe new Sree we have had oth good and bad, with Tetanbul and Singapore among the bes, and ‘he Valencia etroet circuit being the worst, Monaca is often regarded asthe jewel in F's erown, but thats more because of what's eet ti ee a ee Iappening offtrackrater than the quality ‘ofracing thatthe cteit itself produces. Personally I think the til of seing something leas the sight ofa Formula cae ts way between the narrow rib ‘of Armeo is spectacular, but a sporting ‘competition Monaco is rarely exelting ‘So why can't every new circuit resemble Spa? "teresting, Spa is no longer the challenge ‘once was and this raises the question of hove a iri can p pace with the constant improvement in capabilites ofF cars. It wasn’t solong ago that Eau Rouge was considered 2 formidable challenge now i's merely Kink on the straight and is taken Mat-out by even the least capable ears, The reason i that cars develop constantly, wheres eiexit infastructire i harder to ater, so eventually even the toughes cooner will be handled with ese (Currently Suzuka presents the challenge even though the infamous 130R corner has been neutered, the complet iret provides both a technical and a deving challenge, oth the engineers and d Hermann Tilke is quoted as saying that building a corner that is right on the limit might work for one set of regulations, but just a year later that same corner could easily be taken flat-out. Does this mean that the fault lies with the car designers rather than the circuit designers? The car designers job i toextract maximum performance front wear and to develop that performance in an incremental manner Unfortunately we can'expect cuits to remain inline with aca’ capabilities in uit th same way, since tightening the curvature ofa 1g0-metre rads curve is no small undertaking ¥en more importantly eicult must remain safe when having to deal with the ever inereasing commering capabilities of Fears, At maximum speed, a Formula cat has ‘huge amount of kinetic energy and the circuit designers must, before any other consideration, ensure that in the event of any acsdent this energy despated ina way that gives maximum protection tothe driver and spectators, This reans that many aspects of creut design ne far from random, The FIA uses computer simulation program known as CSAS (Cireuit Safe tocaleulate the appropriate siz of un-off rea needed andthe typeof barrier required Analysis System), whichis designed In each corner. OF course, the teams use such simulations to predict ap times and handling characteristics of the carson the racing line bot what i unique bout C8AS isthat i predicts 30 FL Racing January 2014‘Turns 13 and 14in 9 ane 10 in Ba at Tis. Is Tis typO Ct comerthat becomes A Icealy youwant a comer that becomes laysia and Tans increasingly eff rather than opening so rain are good examples of and becoming eask A tisening rads requires braking while generating sic lateral forces alvays dice oan eer and punishing te aes ales ‘he trajectory and impact signatures of car once ‘contro has been lost Ifthe topography ofthe land on which a circuit is bute permits, then there is no reason why it ‘should not have fst and eballenging comes ‘These comers wl, however, alays e bordered by the lage run-off areas that in themacves appear to lessen both the challenge and reward for a perfect lap. These run-off areas present both pros and eons while they do detract from the everall spectacle they have the advantage ‘of keeping cari the race rather than heaching them in beds of gravel smearing them along, ‘the walls of Arm ‘Tum. at Austin features the wide un-of areas that a¢0 now a feature of ll modern Formula celts All fans enjoy watching drivers overtake. So do wider entrances to corners offer more overtaking opportunities? In theory they probably do male i eases, since they give competitors the choice to enter the comer witha line that goos deep into the apex, fllowed bya sharp tur, ora mare gentle that the cormer and choose a ows the driver to roll the ea nto exit. In reality, what often negates this opportuni ‘hat has inereasel overtaking in general namely, oft tyes. ‘Sticky tyr that have high degradation make for exciting racing when Aiferent ears have divergent performance profile through race, Unfortunately, the consequently high rate of wear leaves litle rubber marbles scattered all over the racing line “These marbles don't just diminish the grip when ear runs onto ‘hem but, as they stilt the tread surface, they ean compromise grip for several comers until the tyre fs the very factor & “Tike unfaiy accused of designing dul tracks ‘We can't really have more than one racing line through a corner then? Itis possible, although it would certainly be January 201452a okt |ee er pee eo ee eee ect mn ted Pee See nounced clampdown on exhaust blosng Dee toe es ec eet ee eed eee Se See St en HOW RED BULL CONQUERED F1 Re ee) ee oe es eet as See ee Dee eee ret er etry eee ees Pee ets eee et ery Grande and attack atthe Roggia chicane eee ete Cee ene ee nce Se ea the engine," says Rob Seen ecceer er ee es rs eee igengine modes, eens Ss ee anes See ete oe eet eo ee! ene cen eer] Or et eet a Tine wit Penny Pen eT Peet eee eee ee Ee ee Se ene tee etn en FL Ra ig January 2014 53“When | started at Red Bu it was a team of low morale. It took a while for Christian and | to create the cultural change we needed to Set away from the ‘we're nappy to finish seventh’ mentality” From lucking into a first job due to his choice of motorbike to world domination with Red Bull, Adrian Newey has built up a career as F's tech powerhouse RATS GLENN DUNBAR/LAT y first encounter with Adsian [Newey was in April 1988, “Typically, he was siting quietly on the sidelines daring an informal Butopean launch ofthe Leyton Howse March 881 at La Vie en Rose, a restaurant on the feinge of mela. Adrian's fist Fu car hail made ts debut atthe previous race in Brazil. Straight way it wns noted fora waisted monocoaue and aro footwel features that vould become a Newey trademark, The turquoise 881 with ts Jud engine would become the only non-tarbo carto lead a grand prix albeit briefly — during 1088, as int of what vas to come from Newey's drawing boa. ‘Leyton House, like so many smal F ventures, eventually ran into financial trouble, but Newey’s reputation was continuing a momentum that had started quietly in Group Csportscars and become widely regarded in IndyCar. He had Aone enough to eatch the attention of Wiliams sind then McLaren before his move to Red Bul, “The rest ~as every other team in Fi knows oly too well ~ishisory. Adrian has not changed one ot, despite the Aeserved acclaim, is difidence hides a steely 54 FL Racing January 2014 resolve todo the ob better than anyone else, ‘the only ise being his reluctance to talk aout itn public. knew from past experience, when researching a ook about Williams that he can ‘be engaging eloquent, self-deprecating toa fault and, a you might expect, possessing full recall, ‘fever detail. Ifonly we could find time tosit oven for act ‘After a couple of false starts, twas agreed that ‘we would have lunch together after qualiying forthe 2019 US GP. I thought this would be less ‘than deal. But with a Red Hull on pole an the championship already won, itturned out to be perfect timing. He was on top frm ~ in is awn quiet way, of course Maurice Haritton: I: surprise to see you ‘ hought, with the championship wrapped up, ‘you'd be full-on back a base withthe 2014 ca. ‘Adrian Newey: This sa social race forme. Tye go friends out here and Tm taking the ‘opportunity to havealook around. But Pm not going to Brazil next weekend. As far asthe 2014 ‘aris concerned, all the big bits are done; the ‘monocoate, the gearbox, suspension, radiators and soon, Nowe we're ant the bodywork, hich seans there's ait ess pressure in as much as ‘we ean change that during the year. (Mu Is it hard foryom as technical dineetr to have so mach at stake with this ear and yet, nti itrunson the track, you don't really know if ‘everything works? When you lok around, youve got a factory, hundreds of people, sponsors and ‘soon. and it'll hanging on this ear. AN: From my awn personal point of view, 'm re and jas geton,domy job and try ot to worry about that- One ofthe mes rastrating ‘things is when the car performs in a way in which you don’t understand. ve been in that situation fom time to time and it's ad position to bein because you don't know what todo next. ‘Mi | can imagine. Has that happened often? >FN HAMILTON INTERVIEW ‘Adrian Newey ANE guess there were two main ‘ccasions. The fst was with Leyton House in 1989-1990. It vas partly overambition in as rmuch as we'd come up witha ood litle ear in 1988, one that changed the direction of Fa Title bit That ear was purely conceived arcind aerodynamics and then the mechanical side was squeeved around it tas Dit oo tight in places — as hasbeen wel documented! But considering we were a team of shout 50 people with five of us inthe drawing office, we were punching above our weight Having got that under our belt, ‘we overstretched ourselves. The design was too ambitious, too much ‘om ege, not only fom the diffe ‘of manufacture, but also fom the complexity of aerodynamics, We tried to understand that through the 89 season and, to be honest, we did't make mush progress 1 Wok the view that there ‘would eno point ins doing anything new for 1990 until we understood the present ea, because you could easily design whatever the faults were into the next one ‘We developed the existing ear and the season started badly. as learning lesson because in "8, wel eome from nowhere with sch a bang 1 was being interviewed tothe point where, technically, had boccme the golden child of the paddock. Then 89 happened and 1 weat from hero to zero. The same people who had writen slowing articles about this new kid on the block ‘were now sticking the knife in, Which is one reason hy'I tend to shy away from the public ee, beeanse if you're not prepared t take the clam you shooldn’ be secking the plaudits, [MBE assuie you got tothe hottom of the problem beesuse suddenly the exr came good ANE Yes, i908 asily problem, We used the Southampton University winds ridiculous, but the moving ground plane was a composite of aminiam and wood sn it 5 a. Ttsounds starting to bend. Ifwe were acing ears that alveays went over hil, we'd have heen fantastic! nce we realise ited to the new bodywork ap there ain (Mit: And what was the second oceasion when the car didnt wore ae expected? 0d, bang, we were 56 FA Racing January 2014 Newey with Red (patos [ANE That was the McLaren MP4-196, which was ‘the 2003 car: the one tet didn't race. Ferrari had started their incredible of success and ve did fee that the FIA was giving ws fair playing field elative to Ferrari. Every time we her be ‘ame up with something ne, i would ‘banned or decisions would go agains Feeling disiasioned with how things were ing, [took the view that we needed to make a Dig step. So, similar tothe 89 March, we were ‘overambitiousin the design. We came up with an aerodynamically complicated ear that was great inthe windtunne, but just didn work om track, “Trying to understand why was important Tt led tothe 198 — which was a much better can i ree pa and shoud have won tBu ~ and then the 4-20, th bich we wom on aes but sornchow lst bth championships ll don't ite Know bat we manage that tt: Did you akoays want tobe a designer? AN: oy ambition always was to hea racing-car designe, right from the age often or something When I graduated, Iyroteto all the teams could fnd addresses for — this was 1980, long before the interme. Most didet reply and those ‘that did gave the Cateh-22 answer: We only take people wit todo, Then Harvey Postlethwaite rang up one experience” Twasn' sure what evening and asked iT could come to an interview stthe Fittipaldi Fs team,MH: Did Harvey know you? ANE He dida't know mea ll. My final yea projet at Southampton University had been om ground-effect aerodynamics. Ip that om my CV. twas a good area tobe in atthe time because ground effect was starting to takeoff I didn't havea ca, so rode to Reading on bike and satin reception in my leathers. Harvey ‘ame ont, took ane look at me and sid: “Oh, yourve obviously gota motorbike; what have yo ot?" sald Ducati 90088. He said he had a “Moto Guzzi Le Mans. When he asked if he could havea gon my ike, told him to go ahead. tt was a noisy hike an you could hea him ing round the industrial estate He came hack about te minutos Iter with hig grin om his ace ana asked: "When can you start?"That was the intervie! Very diferent dayshack then, [was hired as junior aerodyamicit~ which st =the sizeof aero teams in those days. Tt turned ou to also he senior aerodynan ‘was a luge earning curve for mo. remember _gettng tothe end of the frst month, being given a payslip and thinking: Tve got n doing. Tsit here doodling all day ~ and they've paid me for it Tiss fantastic and half t Fittipaldi, bat they sponsorship and people were iden what Pm HOW RED BULL CONQUERED F1 @ leaving, among them Harvey and guy called Peter Macintosh. Petr offered me ajob as ace ‘engineer onthe March F2 cara the weekends and a junior draughtsman during the week. 1: Did you have experience as a race engineer? AN: None tal. My fist race weekend was at Siversione, engineering Christian Danner. Pa ‘never worn a pair of headphones before. I was case of "Here's your drive, here's the car; off yom go" Tid knoe what I sas dong, ut it ‘was a wet race and Christian did a good jb. He ‘was Tea ‘lap from the end. Christian went ballistic and, when theear ran out of fel about assuming [had not pat enough fel in, red recon the spt. My carer asa race engineer appeared tobe over after one race In fact, it ‘urmed out the metering unit had sprang aTek vasa thtee-carteam and Johnny Cecotto said he take me race-engincered him forthe year and we bad great ime; Johnny was super to\work with. The championship went tothe wire and he came sesond. 1 was then shown a Group C car that had ‘een lying around gathering dust. [approached Robin Herd, the boss of March and asked what ‘the plans fr this car were boeause If could do something with i. Robin sid there was no budget fora windtunnel mode! or anything ike that He said could haves go, but Iwas going, tohave w doit allby eye. That's what did, 1 managed to get rid of about sok by going Uhrough it very carey Robin sold the carton guy had a Ferrari Testarossa road car but fancied ‘msel sa racing driver and entered the March forthe 1983 Daytona 24 Hours —as you dot Tilt ‘Needell shook the ear dann and I vent off vith {oso mechanics from March, and added a couple ‘of mechanics from the Sates Randy Lanler was ‘oneof the drivers, alongwith a guy with slasses that appeared to have rillcbotle bottoms for Tenses: you could ony see these huge eyes! The third driver lived on Daytona Beach and had dilated pupils, Itwasa complete shambles T managed to persuade the owner to delay’ his Swiss movement, English heart AS eae Pe ea Ra caco er ol Petr aT Tene BUCS Pe Cone me~ despite winning races and soring pot , Monaco Historic OUR UK TRAVEL TEAM WILL LOOK AFTER YOU . THROUGHOUT THE TOUR = Milts\Miglis Coach Tours RACE TICKETS. 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St etronag 2@8 8A EOO8Red Bull RB9 Every passing year teams aim to make a car sir ighter and ‘nore aerodynamically cent. The basic concept ofthis year's Rg has fictive emained the same as that ofthe RBS, 2012's Car ofthe Yeu Ltt hing have ben ed up, uti’ essential the sme machine The RB rns let fake, s the ont ride height very ow and the rear ride heights relatively high yon get the rake working correctly not easy by any means, you geta lat aero map, By thal, I mean the sare will move relative to the foree pushing down on the cr ofthat, youl havea very diver ilendly machine. ithe contre of pres ‘nl, mre The frst thing hat hits the rn that is fandamentl tothe rst of the chassis. Ifthe airflow coming off the font wings plane hit ansider that 80 per eet of «car's performance comes fram aerodynamics, loud. you bulent, then it ha a similar effet to then Bo per cent ofthe sereamic performance comes from the front and Red Bull have done just that wing, Is crucial to gti ri At the back of the cr, Red Bul were the fs team to get a goed understanding ofthe Coanda exhaust system, where tach theieeves tothe surface ofthe ear and fed into the diffuse. In produce ational dovenfore, so they the exhaust gases nition, they have brake ducts th have expleited the rear ofthe ear very well ‘There was a notable change in performance when the tyres itched ‘twthe older construction mid-season. With thee tyres, the fronts grow Pees ceo) in height swith speed so the ar wil i itself ofthe grea by a couple ‘of millimetres. That allows you to have a different aero map. On the REQ the aero map ill shout maximising the rake with the very lw front ride height. The pre-iverstone tyres did't grow in height, so Red Bul had ‘torun thei front higher than they wanted. With the older construction, tyres, they could eof millimetres lover, there exploiting their whole philosophy. So the tyre change fel in ine with the aerodynamic principe ofthis ca asthe RBO concerned, it all about detail aspect of the cars fully optimised and understood, The way look a it back to running ac Asta evenhere, Every Adrian Newey wil basically sketeh out theca then cat it up ike a giant jigsaw puzale and give exch member ofthe design affiee one of those pices to optimise. They go aay and work Mato on their pve, then when t ‘comes back to Newey all the pieces neatly it ack together. Other teams will work an their individual bits too, only they don't have the genius of Newey fitting al the pisces seamlessly back together again Gary Anderson Honourable mentionsRed Bull's internal tensions laid bare "In the end, seb made his own decisions today and will have protection as usual and thats the way'it goes.” BOOM! “There it was, Mark Webber laying bare the in-team discard between im and Sebastian Vettel, wich had simmere four seasons and quite frequently boiled over ‘The moment was Martin Brand's postrace Sepang podium interview with Webber and Vettel inthe wake of ruiti-at-gate. We've made it our moment ofthe yer, instead of the intense on-track hatte preceding it, because its so rare for anyone in F,t tell it ike it isin public. OFF he-record chats are al very well nd many Ft acks who havefllowed the Vettel/ Webber tussle since 2009 wil atest to having been briefed tis vay o that about how things really were inside the team. For sheer balls, though, this moment took the biscuit andthe looks on the faces of senor team personnel as they watched their carefully constructed medi edifice unravel before their eves, said ital about just how off: message Webber was being, Lotd knows wel miss him, Anthony Rowlinson Honourable mentions Kimi Raikkonen Time was when sn ccolnde such as this would fall tothe most loquacions| the block. Things, clearly, have changed. In a sporting environment where the ned to serve the internets 2 ‘oes top ofthe agenda, people are talking too much ~ but not sing anything worthwhile 7 demand for soundbite-based ne kim Raikkdnen doesn’t seek adulation, He ust was to drive cars quiekly ~ and preferably tobe pid fort. But his no-nonsense outlook, coupled with his bracing tam of speed ~ largely unblunted by two abortive seasons in the WRC ~ and reticence to play "he soundlite game have woven a remarkable magi, He now enjoys elt status, The breakdown of his elationship with Lotus as played out against a pubic backdrop in Jeremy Kyl fashion, thanks to FOM broadcasting those tetchy in-race ado exchanges (and Kim himsel using an FTA press conference asa platform to complain about Lats sympathy fora multi of Kimi-lovers worldwide are held in thrall, Weal are sek of liquidity). You'd hardly expest anyone to express rebeing left slightly out of pocket, and yet stil the millions Putt this way —you haven't seen anyone wearing a T-shirt beating Lewis Hamilton’ words, “Just let me focus, man!” have you? Stuart Codting Honourable mentions 3: Picea)Ferrari Tough call, this. rhespees oft than! may foo the eye, but the stopwatch doesn’ ie: Red Bul’ piterew have performed the fastest stops at most ofthe 2019 races, Anything yo can do, they «an do faster ~ as proved at Austin when Fernando Alonso was stationary in the pit fora record-breaking L95ses, ony for Mark Webber to waltz out ofthe Red Bull bo ater telemetry-recorded 1.925 And yet we mist be harsh, Thi ame pit crew made a conspicvos fimble at Honourable mentions Fernando Alonso, Spanish Grand Prix In an era of high tyre degradation nd DRS zones, i's unusual to see an overtaking mo ‘rough atic means, But Feruando Alonso's feisty opportunist in the opening corners ofthe 2013 Spanish GP vas a texthook example of oss to postion hat hasnt been enacted you car tooutwit your vals. And ‘hose rivals were none other than Lewis Hamilton and Kim Rane ~ to world champions, who heevertook in his Ferrari around the outside Starting 6h at his home rac, Alonso ‘made his enstomary quick getaway. On Honourable mentions the German GP and the result Toase ‘wheel thundering down the plane, srk and injured cameraman So we Jooked towards ere that hs been consistent among the gickest, hil raking fewest eros, Ferrari locked upthe fastest tops at five GPs, and were fractions off Red Bul at most others There's been the od slip, buto drama ~ and that, when every nanosecond counts, e wit matters Stuart Coding his way torn he saw Hamilton, ahead, Jock up in his bid to try to pass Sebastian Vettel fr the lead Raikkinen tucked up behind Hamilton, so Alonso cut a tighter Tine through Tito get onthe power earlier and straigtline the corner at Turn 2 He judged it to perfection, getting a ran ‘on Kim and keeping up the momentum to go wheel-to-wheel with Lewis around the outside of Turn 3. Finally he defended Inte onto the brakes into Turn 4 to ement third place. This double mave past twa ‘world champions wassimaply stunning James Roberts WERT Solace e-trtel! are ee ae eee! Peete eee ee ce ee eee tt eee Poe cena ere een ee) Seen et et ee ae 5 See enecn ee ery Pa When a measure of how unprecedented his performance Se oe ee eee eres eer esheets Eee ee a eee le conditions, and Valter best lap ee ot Pern aera Sone eer are Hono)Fernando Alonso, Singapore The Alonso force-of-nature tsunami atts ines. From seventh ‘on the grid tothind by the fist commer, this was Femando stil inthe fight far the drivers championship and simply refusing tobe denied ~ whatever {he limitations ofthe machinery beneath him, ‘On the font row were Seb Vere ‘were on their hate, fr Nien id Nico Rosberg, and al eyes inital aged to edge ahead of poesitter Seh into 11, But in doing so he ever-so-sightly outhraked himsel, ting Ve back nto tlent and'T3 and sneak into the lead. From there, the race, in any But nobody had told Fernando, From the right-hand side ofthe grain rhe initial and was carleng the drop ona shngaish-starting Hamilton in P5 ahead, clear by the time he tated to turnin t’T Inside squabbling Romain Grosjean, Mark Webber and qualified P3, Pa and P6 respectively. As the slowed him tose, sere Felipe Masi, whe to void colliding with each cther into the tight fennel of Ts, Alonso came steaming down the outside, ignoring the Tt apex completly, apparently nly tomake it through T2, Alonso being Alonso, the move came off beautifully eutfoxing the bickering to alongside and setting him up for an eventual second-place finish ae Rosberg faded to fourth, And te best James Allison Last year, Lotss operated ona Toadget of around £:gom. big figure, yes ut ess than haf ofthat om which the likes of Re ull, Ferrari, Mercedes and MeLaren do their business So pound for pound, even allasng forthe enius of RedBull, Lomas make a strong argument fr being F's hes eam, They are eiclent and race-sawy, and ako, a8 proved by the Alison-penned a, capable of producing chassis good enough to carry Lotus toa close fourth in the constractors' chase, the respect of ll heirivals. A race-winner in Austalia anda podium finisher at Austin, the Ea lacked nothing elegant efciney, and with a iggee budget who knows what Lotus might have achieved this yee, The key tothe Bay's success was a capacity for maximising tyre ife—an attribute that, in an era of fragile Pitli rubber, let Kimi and Romain hold ‘onto their tyres when all aon them were lasing thers, Result? Often one stp fewer than their rivals; 20-plus seconds of race time gained ‘So how good was Alison? Good enough for Ferrari to come calling Anthony Rowlinson Honourable mentions bit about all this? He revealed ‘elieving such an audacious move was posible ead it filly Alonso's season may’have heen band lage a disippintment by ‘exalted standards, but the memory f that start shouldbe enough to keep him warm ll winter long Anthony Rowlinson Honourable mentions Ptr Ss eaeoes[Cree TTT) In January 2013, on he dry afer the news broke that Paddy Cer Snares eat eet eae team prinepal, Ross Brawn laid down a marker."Tam the team Pee eet A major management reshufe followed a disappointing second Haare eer rear ares Romain Grosjean Soe Ea are tee oe tae ce the months went by, it Perception is everything int. A few moments ofopeninelap ttt exuberance in 2012 almost cost Romain Grosjean his career; the truth is renee en {hat the paddockad defined him asa“frst nutcase" Tong before Mark Jie oo Webiver gave voee to that phrase aftr eoliding with Grosjean in Suznka coer Its been along rod hack for Grosiean, Behind the scenes, he began to eee at consult psychologist. Meanie, Lotus, who share ownership wth his escent And nowhe has, in his ova word, Tearat how to put everything together ener There's no doubs that the mid-season change of tre construction eons ceo harmed Lotus competitiveness. But you have todo the best with the tools hha aia svalale and Grosjean stuck with thefontrunners whietean-nate Kini aa ikknen began to flounder. And then, year on from ‘nutase-gate eee delivered the perfect iposte: lean stat to Tea the race at Suzuka stra Stuart Codting Honourable mentions en Mercedes Until the end of 2022, secostes' much vaunted return to Ft vas ooking al that impressive. ln three yeas baek, they had just one ‘win (Nico Rosberg, China 2012) and fu front-row starts to thei ret Last winter Norbert Haug boeame a casalty of that poor form, an fresh blood arsived in the form of Toto Wolf, Paddy Lowe and Lewis Hamilton “Team principal Ross Brawn exaded atempts a ousting him to see his structural changes finally begin to bear fut ten China and Spa, only ‘once dd a car ether than a Wos stat on poe. Converting pace into race wins proved trickier, particlany after old-style Pirli rubber was ‘e-intrduce from Germany onwards, But Rosberg drove a canny race to ‘win in Monae, and Hamilton, ashe so often does, exon he Hungeroring As Red Bul established superiority over the emaining aes, Meroedes could be forgiven fr shifting thei focusto 2014 given the seismic change in engine eps for next season, With Ross Brawn gone, the pressure is now Honourable mentions fon Wolffand Loweto take the fight to Red Bull James Roberts Pet roe onLewis Hamilton, Hungarian Grand Prix challenge ‘opportunity Vettel = both of ut thereat Anthony Ro rable m gepiacd@erry - — hes en a a cs Driver of the year eG eum -iae-) Peeneeneat ae Se eee eee Mark Webber had the same car, And he CO ene ee a eee ee? os Reece Peer ae ere Bere ee ta ance eer eee Schumacher's records. As one Se | eG DO ese ee Pea eet ee his rushing erect nning celebrations inti, Pc eerVAs \ i aS ne! Pee a 2 \ ¥ FT Cs eee)Man of the year Adrian Newey ‘Holistic’ is a weasel Word coved of management ants and other such fi-flan merchants, but when it sles forth from one man’s mouth you know what he means. That man isthe quiet spoken, unassuming but fercely competitive chet techneal officer of Red Ball: Adrian Newey. Iman era of such inereasing eompexity that every car onthe aris the work of dozens of designers and aerodymam soften working in groups semi-independent of one another, only Newey = ors it appears — is able to take an (ahem) holst view ofthe ‘eatin eto map. That's why his design team, now theyre in the 20ne have been creating pace-seting eas ar the pas five seas Ws Newey’s capacity to process the big picture aswell s focusing inom tiny details that gives him the edge titled by management Interference at MeLaren, and rang ~ not for te fist time in is ‘atecr~ a competitive stumble bronght about hy tying to take too biga technical eap, he tok his drawing board to Red Bull in 2006 and as Tooked back. It took thre seasons to bed in, understand the asi important) to restructure the dosign office and insti a grater sense of eompetitiveness~to purge the notinvented-here syndrome work ou the windtunneleorelation, and (most that had plagued the team during its days as Jaguar Recing, Ron Dennis once desribed Advian Newey a the most competitive person hed ever met, Thats the stme Ron Dennis, who had worked with the ike of Nigel Mansell (briefs), Niki Lauda, Alin Ayston Senna and Mika Hikkinen, Newey does not wear this ot, ‘competitive heart on his sleeve, being guarded and poker-faced in Interviews. He permitted a look of mild annoyance to it eros his bers bows at Sepang in 2013, Foran outsider to see the ire, they have to stand trackside face as Vettel chopped seross Mark Wi sin storie racing and onc Newey’s irregular outings witness him spanking his thoroughly reengineered Jaguar E-type and Ford G14o (both of which he as erashed, it mast be sai) sa mark of Newey’ craft that while the Red Bull echnical oie have occasionally heen caught ut by athe team's innovations, such asthe double difser and the F-duct, they have aways managed lw craft their own solution and improve upon it Tht read has led them to master the current set of regulations, such that thei rival have —in effect ~ folded, Red tl’ dominance in the second half of 201g can be attributed in part to their closest rivals taking an cay 202 FL Racing January 2014BERNARD CHARLES ECCLESTONE‘globalised sports coverage in an age when millions of our website readers live outside the States, asked me to work doser to home, writing shout sports that havea wide following cross ‘the world than the baseball basketball and American football that form the paper's core ‘sports coverage back at home, Te was thus that I found my way hack to Formula a passion I embraced as an English schoolboy inthe 19505, sneaking out of Stowe School and scrambling two miles across open fields and under perimeter fencing to reach the paddock at Silverstone, and the Berraris, Maserati and Vanwalls then dominating grand privracing. The sport vas simpler grittier and, T date say, purer ‘endeavour then, with Silverstone bite changed from the bomber airfield it had ‘een during the var The paddock was & tented camp, many of the cars were worked ‘on in the open alt, seatbelts end fireproof overalls were unknown, and driver's uniforms and the cas alike were not yet adorned with forest of sponsors decals, Drivers shared hotel rooms for economy’ sake, and prize money, most inthe hundreds rather than the thousands of pounds, played an ‘important parti team budgets. Even the crowds scemed different ~ smaller, of course than now, ‘ut perhaps beter informed, at east about the sports ich histor: \No boyhood jay could have heen greater ‘than seeing Peter Collins win the 1958 British Grand Prix his face streaked with oil and rubber dst, his Ferrari team-mate Mike Havthorn ‘beside him wearing «bow te. And there was no _veater despair than what followed two weeks later, when Collins somersauled ofthe tack ‘while runing second atthe Nisburgring’s old Norschleif, With my father, an RAF ofcer based in Germany, we were encamped afer hundred yards from the erash, and watched asthe enum the paddock with ts aro serwen smashed, ts led Ferrari was brought hack to steering wheel buckled and other signs that Collins must have hen seriously hut. Notlong afterwards, we watched as Hawthorn, Romolo Tavoal the Ferrari team manager, and Lonise Collins, Pte's wife, emerged ashen: faced from the Adenau Hote, en route to the Bonn dinie where, we learned as we crowed around the family cart iste to the BBC World ‘Servie's nine o'clock news, that Collins bad died. Though l coulda have guessed i then, tht experience — ofthe eruel margin between life and death, triumph and disaster, benign providence and the harshness offate~ give mea taste of ‘what I was to eneounter so often in the years spent covering distant wars But just as the lessons of boyhood carried forward into my adult life, so the years of & Bernie with Russia's Vindmir Putin (above left, who he calls “a super guy’ and Ecclestone’ paddock H0(abowe right ricknamed the Krein’ ‘working in difficult places schooled me for a life now lived closer to home, Perhaps the most compelling of those lessons has en howe predictably arbitrary authority behaves, and dow the aceretio of powerby one man, and the sustaining myths woven by these who surround him, inexorably fosters mounting chapter of troubles that end only when the system itself collapses and new rulers build aesh on Hessons leaned from theo Formulas enrent woes, of comrse, eannot be compare to those of whole societies that hase endured the miseries of dictatorship. Butt ‘witty reverence alone that has led some in the Fi paddock to refer to Ecelestone’s motorhome asthe Kremlin”? Modest though that singe- storey structure of grey fibreglass seems beside ‘the fold-out palaces that are the hases for teams such as Red Bull, Ferra, Mereedes and ‘MeLaren, Helestone's pace forres is where ‘many ofthe decisions that determine the sport's future and the division ofits spoils are made often, to listen to the frastration voiced fartively in the paddock for Beclstone, with sean input from the racing teams or others who have made the sport what iis. is teling thatthe image of the Fi chief asthe sport’ absolute ruler is one Eoclstone himself seems keen to fester, In aur motorhome ‘Aiscusson, he laimed not to have read the then ‘ertent copy of Autasport in whi Si Sting Moss, when asked which ving perso he most admired, had responded: “Bernie Becestone, for what he didi taking contol of Formula 1 and putting it where iis today." took that ‘aseoming from the same insouclance inthe year-old Moss that prompted him to tell BBC Radi § Live ear this year, to Feminist fry that he aide aptitude to race hard, wheel-to-shoe”, and ‘thus to compete in Formal ‘But when I put the same question to Boelestone, his men he has met seemed posit ‘te contrarinese In en encomium about the nk women had “the mental anthem ofthe greatest wilful in “ictators® he bad met and admired on his former Ralian prime minister, Sivo Berlusconi, and Leonid Brezhney the longtime leader ofthe Soviet Union during the Cold War, who Ihad abserved from close quarters during iy years in Moscow. For good measure, he tse in Vladimir Putin the curtent Russian leader, with whom eelestone negotiate for the grand pis tobe held at Sochi next October. “A super guy”, Was how he desribedt Putin, “Could do with him As for demoeracy be said Formulas could never eran democratically hecause ofthe “anarehie" narre ofthe teams, I wondered if this was another cas of Beclestone mischief Was he paling the chain ‘ofa reporter who arrived at his door with ‘comfortable retest with no grasp of the realities of running a mulibilion-dellar business that involies legions of sleight-handed people jn more than 20 countries, a hos of hard-nosed ‘multinational companies with roles a sponsors team oveners and engine builders, and a1 teams Who have spent years manoeuvring against each ‘other for on- and off race advantages? Perhaps. Whimsy seems to run powerfully in his charactor, along wth the exhaustion that any powerful man might fee, judging himself tobe a Galliver among the Lilpatians, when his ies ‘work is under assault. >BERNARD CHARLES ECCLESTONE but three months after aur Spa meeting, heard him van and his distaste for sharing power anew, this time inthe Chancery Division ofthe High Court in London. There, hes defending a $170milion Civil suit brought by Constantin Medien, a ng the virtues of one-man ral German media company that elaims: defrauded in 2006 when Kecestone brokered ‘he sale ofa controling interest inthe Formal x Fights to CVC Capital Partners London-based ‘venture capitals frm ‘Constantin contend thatthe price set for that sae, nearly ‘So0omilion, el far below the rel value of the rights. The petitioners? aim engineered the undervalued sale that Beelstone becase CVC boss Donald Mackenzie had promised to keep him fm as the Formula supremo, with a5 pet contstake nthe new ‘business, worth about S120milon, No ruling isexpected before the spring, but the events under Hgation goto thehear oft Teast four other cases pending against him, There are two other ei suits, in Munich and New York, where ane of the losing bidders in the CVC sles eng for ‘s6somnllion, as well as the theeat of exit ‘vial in Havaria, where state prosecutors have alleged fraud and embezzlement by Eelestone ina secret $44milon paymes the prosecutors have called it~ 1 Gerhard Crihowsky, the lawyer wih had the decisive role in approving the CVC transection. Beclestone has denied any wrongdoing. ‘at witha candour surprising fora man who ‘has rarely acknosledged vulnerability, he has sccepted that the lawsuit, f they go against h could land him inal, end his decades as the boss of Formula 1, and eost him upto S2ilion ~ bribe, as In back taxes in Beta. The taxes might be de, has sid, ifthe courts rule that he, nd not is former wife and twa 20-something, property magnate daughters, ceversised effective contol in the past decade or ashe has maintained, has 2105 FI Racing January 2014 “Ihad c ontrol Clase ome and | still do. {emle Ecclestone with his wit Fablana Fos, inthe paddock a the 2013 US GP more aver a §hillion ari trst Fel rn from his London headquarters at 6 Princes Gate. Ina word, what Eolestone faces, by his ‘own measure, fru, ut dis has not deterred him from sefing atthe very notion that he might have done better to involve others in ‘he Formula x chain of command before the CVC eal went through. Inthe Landon cout he has ‘repeatedly insisted that Formula 1 hasbeen, tall intents, and for 30 years and more, the Bernie Eolestone show. At no point has he allowed any suggestion that the wrongdoing alleged against him might have involved others the Formula. hierarchy, however expedient that might have been “Thad contol of Formal and til, 1 never lst," e told the judge, Sie Guy Newey, atone pont. "It has upset an afl at of poop He fllowed this with another assertion ois sen supremacy. “I didnt work Alongside anybody. id my job exsely the way But itis fact 1 wanted to.” And this: “I dide'teare who the bard was, or who the shareholders were, oF anything, The minute T couldnt run the company the vay’ I wanted to, would ve le.” there are powerful men in the world in crisis, who fll quikdy to Baring others, but aclestone seems tohave chosen to stand or fall ‘on his owe, Indeed, much af the eomportn seen in court has been 2 parody of what we have come to expect ofthe mest indomitable men of coor age, He began swith an almost Chaplin-esque routine, gully posted on YouTube, that had him arvving at the courthouse in et Lane for = the opening ofthe hearings and allowing himself to be spun back conta the street by a reveling door, this pained bemusement and uff of merriment among the banks of waiting reporters and photographers ‘On the witness stand, that was followed by a pantomime ouster and confusion inthe face of battery of hostile questions from Constantin Medien's counsel, which {he Formula 1 boss explained to the jude, apologetic, a. faction of advancing age and failing memory. This was not the Bernie edestone who has held the sport in tral for so long with his mental acuity and an agility in negotiations that has had him boast that hes never knowingly been bested in a deal. Nor wast inthe tradition ‘ofthe great dictators who, to the end, ave never dared to admit the slightest suggestion of debility or decine Perhaps the Formula. ees that he ia deeply complex ‘man, ifalso deeply awed: widely fared, but leo, for what he has made ofthe spot, widely dire. Not for nothing does the entire rest thing tosay ofthe paddock, tea prinipal, drivers and journalists included, call him "Bernie, first mame only, ike the godfather he hasbeen for so long, Sit ean seareely com of hisera coming to an early end raises as much alarm aeros the paddock ast does expectation Toborrow a phrase commonly used in China ‘toiolise Mao atthe height of his power Formula without Bernie iit comes to that, as any surprise thatthe possibii may yet prove to be ike sailing the seas without ahelmsman,TEMA os gh Uso Ol Ca Na ae LU VOM ae ao (od | = B/EBRAZIL 2008mS NOW! Here, in their o' . and protagonists present their of that extraordinary Poe g denouement FL Racing January 2014 109BRAZIL 2008 BA fer ten months oferisserossing the globe, slugaing tout on-track and of, weaey’ Px soul ofall stripes traditionally indulge ta drink ortwo.on the Sunday night of the Britian GP, a fev hours after the chequcred lag has come dawn on another season of racing. Raiaad coe} ers Backin 2008, I bumped into a disconsolate-Tooking, berbotte-hugging Timo Glock at a post-race bash laid on by Red Bll yout the second ‘most famous Formula 1 driver in the UK tonight?" He looked up, shrugged his shoulders and replied "Yeah, in Bra also ‘Do you know Tima,” Tsai to the then Toyota Fs star Hours before, the hapless Timo had run wide on the rin-sotked Interlagos circuit on the final corner ofthe last lap, letting MeLaren's Lewis Hamilton into the fith place he nesded to secure the Lie, otoments before that, Bra’ Felipe Massa had won the race, sending the packed grandstands Ito detivious celebration, or, at that moment, their bay had done enough tobe crowns champion. But when Hamilton passed Glock’ Toyota, the grandstands and the whol of Brazil fll silent. Their hea had een upstaged by a 23-year-old in only his scone season of F, In few dramatic moments, 1 had delivered possibly its most dramatic championship twist in 58 years. Now, five years on, the ‘major players at Ferrari and MeLaren share their recollections ofthat unforgettable ADL FORMER NGINEERINGD Braz 8 was one of the Iie 1 didnt go back there 1009 because T couldn deal ith lew like 1 surved an air crash, MeLaren ve always ad a great habit of coming second, We missed cu by one pont in 2003; in 2005 we threw it sway with unreliability and then we had the chance to win the championship Fight up until he last rae in 2007. 0 when the hydraulics played up. Awery small o7, Lewisbad abit of an aff at Turn 3 plece of metal had bloked the valve andi took 5 seconds to fash itself through the system. If that had act happened then Levis would have won the world championship thet year So est forward 12 months and there Tam, thinking that we're going tolose it again and that there's 10 Justice in this worl When you make a good car, it takes so mach effort from so many people, and the dey y Jose the championship is just so disheartening You have to pick yourself up and start the whole process allover again MCLAREN TEAM PRINCI ‘We were definitely scarred hy the experience fof 2 months earlier. A Ny championship got aay < from both af our driver boone point, andthe team hada particulary torrid time that season. In 2008, expetations of Laws had increased and here he was at the hom iret of his prinelpal opponent There was a function in Sio Paulo om the Saturday evening where someane had thrown 320 FA Racing January 2014 a black ct om the stage infront of Lees to give him bad hack, Understandably, he was feeling the ofthe ‘crowd played its part that weekend, To cap all, it certainly wasnt a nice, dry processional race pressure and tension an eran the wi FORMER FERRARI TECHNICAL DIRECTOR between MeLaren and Ferra in 2008 and it wasnt only between vivers. twas myself against Paddy Lowe; it was ‘engineers and mechanics against cach other, ‘oo. From the teehaeal working groups, tothe th Hamion legality ofthe cars, every aspect was a big ight. Heading into Brazil the points big Hamilton 94; Massa 87]. So all we focused ‘on was ensuring Felipe erossed the line first torwin the race. We thought it was too much to hope for Lewis to finish in sith place or lower. Felipe started on pole and although race conditions werent great because of the ran, dae pled aay atthe head of fel, ELPEMAL Most ofthe season Felipe was just fw points behind esis and it as ig Blow to have the engine fare D in budapest just before the ‘summer bre, In the ces that followed he art Aida very good job, and he was Fading again - Singapore before the Crashgate’ controversy roblied him of victory In Bra, we knew victory would not be i ‘enough. But ap after lp we thonght it would be possible, and he hada fantastic weekend, Under all that pressure, he was nbeatale, >BRAZIL 2008 MeLABEN CHEF ENGNEER My abiding memory of| Brazil 2008 is one of “This cannot he happening, W again’ In 2007 wed had huge points advantage but lost the championship. Lewis qualified Pg nd despite Felipe being in font of us, we were thinking we just needed Pin the race to win, Asa result we were quite conservative and perbane tle eutions in coming in fortes the changing conditions, beeause we didn totakeariskatany tage. As the race developed vw ete quit comfortably in P the, with ve Taps to go, the radar indiated ran was coming. With three laps to go, everyone pitted for ned intermediates, But the rxin never really eame snd we started to overheat the intermediate tyre ‘nd lst grip. Thats when Sebastian Vettel in ‘the Tono Rosso overtonk Lewis and sddenty we were in sath and on the wrong tye. The world fell apart. It was a horrible Feeling made worse because twas so similar to what happened in 2007. Then we saw the Toyota, 1 was tyre-sposting, on the pitwall on my own. was watching Leis, wondering fhe could re pass Vettel and the reaisaton was so depressing ven though we'd lost the previous year we'd had a fantastic party that night twas relly amazing and I remember at that moment thinking: Stu? that party. Fm not doing that agai a2 FL Racing January 2014 With halfalap to go, Lwas thinking to myself that I didn’t want to be here any more.