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Rejuvenated Hamilton on ‘World Champion’ ambition

Lewis Hamilton has spoken positively about the 2012 Formula 1 season. Check out Hamilton v Webber from the 2011 Korean Grand Prix! The McLaren man had a disappointing 2011 of course, but he says that he is feeling refreshed and ready to launch a World title bid this year. The 27-year-old said: “I feel very [...]

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Lotus: It’s very difficult to know where Raikkonen should be

Lotus have been speaking about Kimi Rakkonen’s successful return to Formula 1. The former World Champion took part in his first test for the team this week following two years away from the sport. Speaking about how it went, Trackside operations director Alan Permane said: “From the first run he was pretty much there.” “It’s very [...]

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McLaren – Hamilton is ‘getting himself together’

Ahead of the 2012 Formula 1 season, McLaren have spoken about Lewis Hamilton’s progress in the winter months. The 2008 World Champion had a difficult 2011 – both on and off the race track – but team director Jonathan Neale is convinced that positive times are ahead. Speaking about Hamilton, he said: “He’s winter training [...]

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Dominant car? Great driver? Or a bit of both?

Sebastian Vettel’s second world championship title was as remarkable for its control as much as the blinding speed of the German and his Red Bull.

Vettel based his season on a strategy of taking pole position, blitzing the first two laps and from then on going only as fast as he needed to.

The plan generally worked to perfection – Vettel took 11 wins and 15 poles from 19 grands prix – but it left you wondering just how fast he and the Red Bull could have gone.

In Brazil, I asked him if, with the title already in the bag, he had ever been tempted to just go for it, to really push the car and himself to the absolute limits. He replied that he had done just that in Korea and India, the scenes of two of his most dominant wins. “We were able to explore and sometimes take a little bit more risk,” Vettel told me.

Despite Vettel’s domination in 2011, there were very few of the runaway wins normally seen when one car is superior to the rest. Quite often, the races looked competitive, with Vettel tantalisingly close to – but frustratingly just out of reach of – his leading rivals.

Vettel and team boss Christian Horner often insisted the Red Bull had less of an advantage over McLaren and Ferrari in 2011 than in 2010. Yet Vettel won only five races and recorded 10 poles in 2010 on his way to winning the championship for the first time.

Let’s examine the two seasons in a little more detail.

In 2010, Vettel’s advantage in qualifying over team-mate Mark Webber was only 0.053 seconds when averaged out over the season. In 2011, it was 0.414. Likewise, Vettel’s average advantage over the fastest driver not in a Red Bull was 0.077secs in 2010. In 2011, it was 0.317. That is a massive percentage gain from year to year.

There are reasons why Webber was so far adrift of his team-mate. Unlike Vettel, he struggled with the new Pirelli tyres, which affected both his pace in qualifying and his tyre wear in races.

The Australian is also physically bigger than Vettel so was occasionally at a disadvantage with the car’s weight distribution, which again impacted on both his pace and tyre wear.

Sebastian Vettel leads the field at the first corner of the Australian Grand Prix

Turn One, race one; Vettel already has a big lead as the rest squabble. The story of 2011. Photo: Getty

The DRS overtaking aid, which gave drivers within one second of a car in front a boost in straight-line speed, also influenced matters.

But it is the tyres which were key. Asked to produce ones that spiced up racing, Pirelli came up with rubber that wore out rapidly, forcing a greater number of pit stops and resulting in more unpredictable races.

It is also worth looking at Red Bull’s race strategy in 2011. The team may have had a car whose aerodynamic superiority made it the fastest by far, but it lacked a little straight-line speed compared to the McLarens and Ferraris. On top of that, I understand Vettel thought some of his rivals were perhaps better at wheel-to-wheel racing.

As a result, Red Bull’s strategy was based on Vettel taking pole position, then opening up enough of a gap by lap three to prevent anyone from being close enough to make use of the DRS system, which couldn’t be used for the first two laps. After that, he would measure his pace to those behind, producing a super-fast lap or two if he needed to.

Such a strategy did have its risks. If Vettel found himself in the pack during a race, he would have problems overtaking as the car was set up for lap time not straight-line speed. In other words, an error in qualifying or at the start could mess up an entire race.

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Red Bull were caught out a couple of times, notably when Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso rocketed to the front on the run down to the first corner in Spain and Italy.

In both cases, Vettel managed to get past again. In Spain, he did it by pit-stop strategy, although it took two attempts, while in Monza he achieved it a brave overtaking move around the outside of the flat-out Curva Grande.

Had it been a McLaren that passed Vettel – a car that was faster than the Ferrari over the lap and down the straights – he might have been sat behind for the entire race.

But team boss Horner was adamant the strategy that Red Bull employed was the right one. “As a team, you have to attack the events,” he said. “If you are conservative, sometimes you can pay a penalty. If Vettel was in a situation where he needed a big overtake, yes, a gamble was taken. But it was a calculated risk.”

So how dominant was the Red Bull, really?

It had a clear performance advantage in at least nine of the races, of which Vettel won eight – Australia, Turkey, Valencia, Belgium, Italy, Singapore, Korea and India. The other one was Brazil, where he hit trouble.

That leaves five races at which it was not possible to ascertain whether Vettel’s was the fastest race car, although it almost certainly was in most of them. They were Malaysia and Monaco, which he won, and China, Canada and Abu Dhabi, which he did not. And the remaining five races where it definitely was not, out of which he won only in Spain.

The first obvious conclusion is that the Red Bull’s pace advantage was restricted by the tyres. On many occasions, Vettel could have gone faster but chose not to because he was concerned about over-using the tyres.

At the same time, Red Bull insiders insist Vettel was not always in the fastest car. There were weekends, they say, when they did not think the car was quick enough yet Vettel still managed to put it on pole. Equally, there were times when Vettel was having to drive on the edge to break the DRS and to hold his advantage at the head of the field.

The Pirellis required something new of the driver – an exquisite feel for the limits of the tyres, the intelligence to drive measured races at exactly the pace the tyres and car could cope with and the consistency to do it at every race.

How many drivers could do that?

Jenson Button had a great season for McLaren, finishing second behind Vettel in the standings. The 2009 world champion treats his tyres delicately and, at his best, is as good as anyone. However, his form tends to fluctuate depending on outside circumstances, while he is not the best qualifier.

As for Hamilton, his speed and feel are at least equal to Vettel’s but the 2008 world champion struggled in 2011, making too many errors and perhaps not fully grasping the demands of the new F1.

Then there is Alonso. The double world champion boasts speed, consistency, adaptability and mental strength. However, the Ferrari was nowhere near fast enough this year and it’s rare that the Spaniard transcends the car’s abilities in qualifying, although he nearly always does in races.

That is why, in 2011, Vettel was generally in a league of his own, even on the occasions when his car was not.

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My Japanese Grand Prix preview

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel looks set to clinch his second successive title and become F1′s youngest-ever double world champion. Watch my preview to this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix to see why I think there’s still plenty to look forward to this season.

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Has Hamilton finally turned the corner?

Somehow you suspected that, after all his problems this year, there was going to be a happy ending for Lewis Hamilton somewhere along the line – and it came with a top-class, controlled drive to victory in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

As he celebrated on Sunday, the healing nature of the weekend’s events was clear in the McLaren driver’s face.

Suddenly all the bad things that have turned this into what Hamilton himself has called his worst season in Formula 1 took on a new perspective in the wake of his first win since the German Grand Prix back in July.

This was a Hamilton that has not been seen in 2011, calmly ticking off the laps at the front, resolute in the face of a challenge from Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso, the sport’s most relentless competitor, doing just enough to keep the Spaniard at arm’s length without extending his car and tyres more than he needed to.

In that sense, it was very like many of the wins taken this season by Sebastian Vettel, whose domination has left Hamilton over-striving, increasingly frustrated in the face of the Red Bull’s generally uncontainable speed.

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Brilliant as they were, Hamilton’s two previous wins this season in China and Germany came about on weekends when Red Bull were slightly off-form in one way or another.

But Hamilton did not have to worry about Vettel in Abu Dhabi after a mysterious puncture pitched the German into a spin at the second corner of the race.

The flailing tyre did so much damage to the car as the world champion wrestled it back to the pits that Vettel was forced to retire at the end of the first lap.

Whatever the cause of the failure, it means it will remain a tantalising mystery as to whether Hamilton could have beaten Vettel had the Red Bull remained in the race.

The Englishman was certainly confident that he had a good chance. He had looked the form man all weekend, to the extent that it was something of a surprise that Vettel pipped him to pole position on Saturday. As much as it can be a surprise that a man who has taken all but four pole positions all season should get another one, anyway.

Hamilton drove superbly throughout the three days in the desert, showing none of the mental instability or driving misjudgements that have stymied him in recent races and led to so many of his well publicised contretemps with Ferrari’s Felipe Massa.

Hamilton said after the race that he had felt much more positive this weekend than at recent races, and it certainly looked that way.

It was, as McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh pointed out, “a great recovery from where he’s been in the last few months”.

Certainly, it was a marked contrast from previous races, where his state of mind -
about which Hamilton was unusually open in Abu Dhabi – was clearly anything but peaceful.

He talked of his “problems”, saying he had lost the “happy bubble” around him that he sees benefiting team-mate Jenson Button – and he wanted to get it back.

The end of his four-year relationship with pop singer Nicole Scherzinger last month has clearly affected him – he mentioned that he did not intend to stay single for long.

And after his victory on Sunday, Hamilton added that he wanted to get his father Anthony and brother Nicholas – both of whom were at his side at all the races until this season – back to provide him more support.

As well as the issues in his personal life, he also talked about a “negative vibe from everyone” that had surrounded him recently as he was faced with “negative questions” from the media about his troubles on the track. All this, he said, “affects your judgement”.

Hamilton’s willingness to discuss these problems in public is to be applauded – it gives an all-too-rare insight into the inner workings of one of world sport’s biggest stars, and in Abu Dhabi at least he found the means to rise above it.

Hamilton is a truly great racing driver. But if Sir Jackie Stewart, for example, were to hear those remarks, he would be tearing his hair out.

Stewart – a three-time world champion and one of the greatest racing drivers in history – has long talked about the importance of removing emotion before climbing into a Formula 1 car. It is too easy, he says, for that emotion to cloud your judgement – and with that comes mistakes. In his era, that meant serious injury or worse.

Safety has improved and the risks are lower now, but nevertheless Hamilton seems this year to have been living proof of the truth of Stewart’s remarks.

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Hamilton is an emotionally driven man, and some would argue that this is what allows him to access the stunning highs that none of his rivals are able to match. To take away the emotion, they would argue, would be to take away some of his gift, too. The one is not possible without the other.

But others would say that, whatever support mechanisms you create around you, life is unpredictable, and that whatever happens away from the sporting arena, it is a top-class athlete’s job not to let those problems affect their performance.

In the euphoria of victory, Whitmarsh said of Hamilton: “There is no reason in my mind why he can’t raise himself to another level now.”

On the evidence of Sunday, that was exactly what Hamilton did this weekend in Abu Dhabi. Which suggests that if Hamilton can continue to keep his personal life out of the cockpit of his car, there is every reason to believe Whitmarsh’s remarks are more substance than spin.

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Why Webber must come out of the shadows

One year ago Mark Webber went into this weekend’s race at Abu Dhabi knowing that if he won the race and other results went his way then he would become World Champion. By Matthew Roulstone Unfortunately, It didn’t go the Australian’s way that day as he saw his team-mate Sebastian Vettel become the youngest ever [...]

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Webber pushes Button

Jenson Button set the fastest time of the first practice session in Abu Dhabi, with Mark Webber in hot pursuit in his Red Bull. Lewis Hamilton was third fastest, with World Champion-elect Sebastian Vettel fourth. The two Ferraris were next up with Fernando Alonso ahead of Felipe Massa (as per usual), although both men had [...]

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Alonso the new favourite



Fernando Alonso is the new favourite for the title
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Fernando Alonso is the new favourite to win the Formula One drivers’ title, said David Coulthard in his column for The Telegraph.

“He is the man with the momentum and, on the same basis that I backed Mark Webber to win the title before Korea, is now my favourite to claim the world title in Abu Dhabi on Nov 14.

“When the cars are so evenly-matched you have to back the man in possession. Especially when that man is a two-time world champion and arguably the finest driver of his generation.”

The Mirror’s Byron Young drew comparisons between Alonso and seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher as the Spaniard bids to become the sport’s youngest ever triple world champion.

“Like Schumacher, Alonso accepts no opposition within his team. Ultimately he fell out with McLaren over their refusal in 2007 to bring Lewis Hamilton to heel.

“He returned to Renault on condition he was No.1, only to be at the centre of the Singapore cheat scandal – engineered to hand him victory.

“The Spaniard has always denied involvement but at the German GP in July he was brazen enough to radio Ferrari to rein in team-mate Felipe Massa so he could start the winning streak that has taken him to the brink of history.”

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Reflections on Japan and Korea

Greetings from Seoul. It’s 0800 on Monday and I’m sitting in bed with a coffee, contemplating when to prize myself out of a comfy bed and into the shower.

We are now playing the waiting game and twiddling our thumbs until we can clamber aboard the plane home. A further 12 hours and an epic fortnight in Japan and South Korea is over.

There are many wonderful pleasures attached to this job, and arriving home in the UK is certainly one of them.

After two weeks of emotional, fraught, pressurised and dramatic television – the kind I think only live sport can deliver – walking in through the front door always feels strange, and it takes a couple of days to adjust emotionally as the adrenalin melts away.

I normally help the process along by heading out to my local pub for dinner with my wife, just to really feel like I’m home. By the time you’re reading this I may well already be there – pint of bitter in hand.

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In the fortnight we have been out of the UK, history has been written.

Sebastian Vettel has been crowned the Formula 1 world champion, Red Bull have defended their constructors’ title, and I have turned 33.

Many thanks, incidentally, to the person on Twitter who tweeted simply, “4 months and you’ll be a third of the way to 100-Happy Birthday”…

Well, perhaps using my advancing years – but, I’m glad to say, not receding hairline – as an example, let’s consider how impressive the achievements of the past two weeks actually are.

Let’s start with the team of the moment – Red Bull.

I think what team principal Christian Horner, chief technical officer Adrian Newey, adviser Helmut Marko and all at their Milton Keynes base have achieved is incredible.

Consider the dedication at McLaren, the blueprint for success at Ferrari, the wealth of Mercedes and the casualty rate of new teams. For Red Bull to achieve what they have in just six years is stunning.

I know they weren’t a start-up like Virgin Racing or Team Lotus, they were a reincarnation of an existing team, but as an example it has been a similar amount of time since the Jordan name left F1. In that time Midland, Spyker and now Force India have operated from the same base and their achievements are incomparable to Red Bull’s.

Yes, the company’s commercial success in selling fizzy drinks means they are able to fund big salaries and huge budgets, but only a fool would think money alone could buy the titles.

I have been impressed by the passion in the squad. They are racers and there is a huge desire to win, true disappointment when they don’t, and an ability to have a good party when things go their way. Which I also like ;-) .

There is a strange ethos in F1 that you don’t stop to smell the roses.

I often wonder whether Robert Kubica revelled sufficiently in his 2008 Canadian Grand Prix win, or whether Lewis Hamilton really absorbed what an incredible start he had to his career in 2007.

The thing I say most to my wife is “savour it” and I’ll be the same with my children. I think that’s the most important lesson a person can learn.

It was John Lennon who said “life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans” and you, me, Vettel, everyone should avoid that at all costs. Life is too short – so savour it.

And on that front I’m happy to report that, having been just feet from him as he won title number two, Vettel is well aware of his achievements and just how lucky he is.

Whether you like him as a driver or not, he is very impressive as a person. Without naming names, there are a number of drivers who not only are reluctant to speak to the media, but, even worse, are quite dismissive or condescending.

I guess that the F1 paddock is just a snapshot of everyday life and so therefore it is to be expected, even if some might consider it unforgivable.

However, you can trust me when I tell you that Vettel is as impressive as anyone who currently drives an F1 car, for all the right reasons. He is approachable, accessible and, most importantly, genuine.

Those who have known him for a while say he’s always been the same and so credit to his parents for bringing up a person who realises that being the fastest driver in the world is just a phase. World champion isn’t who Vettel is; it’s a title he wears.

On Sunday he talked about when he retires in many, many years, and he is already aware that even he doesn’t possess the talent of immortality among his many skills.

When the fawning has died down, the trophies have become tarnished and the attention has turned to someone younger and faster, the man left behind is what matters. On that score, Vettel is also a champion.

My highlight of this whole trip was the F1 Forum after the Japanese Grand Prix. I remember a few grumbles at the start of the year about the new-look forum, where we move around the pit lane rather that sit in a motorhome by a big TV. Well, Japan – or Monaco – this year, are exactly why we don’t do that anymore. To be in the heart of that drama, the celebrations, the rare display of emotions in the scientific world of F1 is great to see.

I loved Japan, particularly the racing history it has seen. The past couple of weeks I’ve been out running the tracks with a couple of members of the BBC production team, producer Tom Gent and video editor Robin Nurse.

It was great fun, particulary Japan, where we pointed out where Nigel Mansell had a couple of big accidents, and stopped at the exact places where Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost had their famous incidents.

Those are just a few examples where, in those moments, the people involved thought of nothing but what had just happened on track.

It would have been all-consuming, no time to stop and appreciate the moment. Yet suddenly, here we are 20 years later. The bodywork has long been swept up, the tears of joy and happiness have dried, and all we, and they, have left are our memories and Murray Walker‘s wonderful voice.

With that in mind – and particularly having seen the sad events in Las Vegas on Sunday that led to the death of British driver Dan Wheldon – whatever you are up to this week, wherever in the world you are, my only advice to you is very simple – savour it.

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Stats, speed and success spur on Vettel

It is an open secret in Formula 1 that Sebastian Vettel, who became the youngest double world champion in history this year, is motivated at least partly by statistics.

The Red Bull driver himself, though, has been a little shy about admitting it so far – but on Wednesday he went as far as he ever has towards acknowledging that, yes, he would not mind having a crack at the all-time records.

Until Vettel’s remarkable run of success, particularly this year, Michael Schumacher’s landmarks of seven titles, 91 wins and 68 pole positions looked unbeatable.

But Vettel, at the age of 24, already has 20 victories and 27 poles, as well as those two titles. Suddenly, Schumacher’s records don’t look quite so impregnable after all.

Sebastian Vettel

Vettel on his 2011: "Seasons like this don’t happen too often… we want to enjoy it." Photo: Getty

“I like statistics,” Vettel said, “as in I care about the sport, I know the sport, I know ex-F1 drivers, the big names, and know a little bit the numbers according to the drivers.

“The only thing I like from time to time is to see if my name is somewhere there. I don’t really set myself a target of wins and poles, I am not racing for statistics, so I know some numbers, but not all. I love Formula 1, I always did as a small kid and that hasn’t changed.”

A little later, the mask seemed to slip a little further when someone asked him who was the youngest three-time world champion.

“I don’t know,” Vettel replied. “Michael is the youngest seven-time world champion.”

So that’s the ambition?

“That is a long, long way to go,” Vettel said. “Obviously we have had two phenomenal seasons and sometimes then you get over-excited and start to talk about those things.

“But really we know how much it takes to win a race, and a whole championship. That really puts things in perspective. It’s a long, long way. I don’t think you can set the target to say I want to win seven world titles. What Michael achieved in many ways was outstanding.”

Vettel was talking at Red Bull Racing’s Milton Keynes headquarters, where a news conference on Wednesday morning preceded a private team party in the afternoon.

Vettel – and Red Bull – have every reason to celebrate, after putting together one of the most extraordinary seasons in F1 history.

With 16 races down and three still to go, Vettel has won 10 races, taken 13 pole positions, finished on the podium in every race but one (when he was fourth) and tied up the title in Japan 10 days ago with four races to spare.

But he admitted that it took the most mundane of things for the fact that he was a double world champion to finally sink in properly.

He arrived home in Switzerland on Monday from the Korean Grand Prix to find that his heating had broken. “It was quite cold, so I put the fire on,” he said, laughing. “I won’t go into details.”

Regardless, he said, “I really enjoyed the moment of opening the door, going into the house, knowing what we have achieved. It’s those small things that really make you realise what has happened.

“I really like it when nothing is happening, to enjoy the peace, to enjoy time. I didn’t do anything special on Monday – just surfing the internet, sleeping, just enjoy the peace and no stress. That’s when things really start to sink in.

“It’s a nice feeling, because you know all the hours you have spent in the gym, on the race track, it paid off.”

Vettel was in a sunny mood on Wednesday – as he so often is. But there was no mistaking the underlying steeliness that is part of what makes him such a formidable competitor.

Anyone who thought his ambition might have been dulled by such towering success so young will need to recalibrate their expectations.

Can you be as dominant next season, he was asked.

“We try,” he said. “You never want to come back and do worse than you have done. We set the benchmark very high, and it has been a special season for both sides.

“I had a very good run and the team had a phenomenal run, reliability was great – we’ve had no technical failures so far. We’ll see. We are working hard and we are extremely motivated.”

Sebastian Vettel celebrates in front of photographers in Korea

Sebastian Vettel “drove perfectly” all season, according to Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso. Photo: Getty

None of their rivals at McLaren and Ferrari are under any illusions that Vettel and Red Bull will be anything other than formidably tough to beat next year.

After a 2010 season in which, as Vettel has admitted himself, a series of mistakes made winning his first world title much more difficult than it should have been, he and the team have moved on to another level.

He did make mistakes this year. One thinks of the half-spin on the last lap in Canada that handed victory to a charging Jenson Button. Or another spin when trying to stay in touch with the leaders in Germany, his least competitive race of the season. Or his couple of crashes in Friday practice sessions.

But none of them badly affected him, and overall he “drove perfectly”, as Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso, the previous youngest double champion, described it.

Vettel looked at the new form F1 took on this season with deliberately high-wear Pirelli tyres and the DRS overtaking aid, realised what was needed to succeed in races, and ruthlessly used the best car on the grid to crush his rivals.

Race after race, he took pole, used the car’s inherent pace advantage to build the lead he needed to protect himself at the first pit stops while taking only what he needed to out of the tyres, and held the cushion for the rest of the race.

This strategy formed the bedrock of his season, and generally worked even on the few occasions when the Red Bull was not the fastest car in the race.

His driving was matched by a team that, operationally as well as in terms of the performance of its car, was in a league of its own.

“After every race, I get a print out of the race results, the championship standings and everything and the first thing I do is rip the championship standings off, because the only thing that matters is what we did on that day,” Vettel said.

“If you get beaten, you have to accept it. You shouldn’t like it, because then you would be in the wrong sport, but there are other very smart people and other very good drivers, and you never get beaten for no reason.

“This year some of the racing has been close, but if there was a chance to open a gap and benefit from it for the rest of the race we were always in a very strong position and many times used that to go for that.

“But I don’t think it’s fair to say we had a massive advantage all year long. Seasons like this don’t happen too often and that’s why we want to enjoy it.

“I am extremely proud and to see my name alongside some of the great names is really special. As much as the first world title, the second one people can’t take away from you. Many things in life come and go but this will stay forever.”

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Five ways to improve F1



Emerson Fittipaldi in his heyday
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In an interview in the Times, former world champion Emerson Fittipaldi’s outlined his five-point plan to enhance Formula One.

Cut costs “They spend a fortune in wind-tunnel testing alone. Reduce costs and the slowest teams would catch up and make it more even.”

Limit downforce “They need to reduce enormously the downforce in the cars, the only way to bring back overtaking. We need more mechanical grip so that you have longer braking areas, can set up the car coming out of a corner, get in the slipstream and then overtake.”

Close the pitlane “When the safety car goes out they should close the pitlane. Now it’s just a lottery.”

Lift ban on team orders “It is a very stupid rule. It’s why they are called teams, it’s why they have two cars. If a driver is leading in the championship, everything has to go in his favour. What is wrong with that? It’s so easy for teams to camouflage their orders anyway. All they need to do is tell one guy on the radio he has a problem with his brakes. They can bend the rules very easily. In the old days they would even swap cars, so why do we have this ban now?”

Retain traditional grands prix “These places are the soul of racing. The Americas are under-represented. We have Canada back, but there is no USA, no Argentina, no Mexico. We need to stay in the heartlands.”

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What next for Felipe Massa?

On November 2nd 2008 Felipe Massa won the Brazilian Grand Prix and for a few fleeting seconds was Formula One World Champion. That was until Lewis Hamilton overtook Timo Glock with only three corners left to clinch 5th place and steal the title from the Ferrari driver. That was the last time that Felipe Massa [...]

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