Indholdsfortegnelse for September 2022 i AUTOSPORT

“Lawrence Stroll won’t be too sad to see the back of Seb Vettel,” murmured a paddock insider to me ahead of the summer break. “After all, he’s just sold a chunk of his road car company to the Saudis, he’s got Aramco sponsoring his Formula 1 team – the last thing he needs is his star driver telling everyone we shouldn’t even be going there…” The question of whether Vettel pre-emptively jumped into retirement or was pushed is one which may only be answered in time. But, let’s face it, competitively speaking it was time for him to go; Seb’s only win this season has come not on track but in the TV studio, where he comprehensively outshone a group of lightweight political dullards (including an aspiring Prime Minister) on…

PICTURES When a set of regulations reaches maturity, a mid-term report during an F1 season will often state the obvious. Some teams will continue to do well and others will fail. There may be some anomalies which have determined results, such as a specific reliability problem for a team or a driver change that isn’t working out as expected but, in general, the status quo doesn’t change much from year to year. 2022 is somewhat different. An entirely new set of regulations was introduced that didn’t just change detail but actually altered the essential way a car is conceived and, as often happens in cases like this, some got it right and others struggled. However, just like in 2009 when fundamental changes were made, the interest lies not just in…

PICTURES RED BULL CONTENT POOL AND LAMBORGHINI “Adrian was eager to do another car… and we felt the time was right to do it as a Red Bull car.” With casual, if almost apologetic ease, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner outlines why his company is expanding into the car trade – if such a humble sounding term can be applied to the first project out of the blocks, a carbon-composite hypercar combining ground-effect aerodynamics and an 1100bhp engine, retailing at £5million “plus taxes”. One of the costs of keeping superstar engineer Adrian Newey on board, besides his salary, is that periodically he requires a side project which enables him to operate outside the kind of tightly prescribed rules which he feels stifles his creativity in F1. Ally this with…

AUTOGRAPH HUNTERS Shirts, programmes or photographs – the medium doesn’t seem to matter, but fans are always keen for autographs and drivers are, on the whole, more than willing to scribble their names NATIONAL PASSION Ferrari’s Tifosi (right) and Max Verstappen’s Orange Army (bottom) back their drivers fervently, but but Japanese F1 fans set a high benchmark for sheer creativity (middle) A VIEW TO A THRILL There are some stunning places to watch Formula 1 from, although not all are necessarily available to the average spectator. One such venue is the rooftop of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore (right), as are spaces above the pitlane at most circuits (below). Or there’s Monaco (bottom), where pretty much anywhere is a fantastic vantage point to watch all the action unfold…

OLEG KARPOV Oleg had an exclusive interview with McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo in Hungary (p36), just as the driver market was exploding… LUKE SMITH Luke analyses the challenges that F1 teams have faced at pitstops this year, dealing with the new 18-inch wheels (p48) MAURICE HAMILTON The first part of a four-part history of Tyrrell, one Formula 1’s most-loved teams, is on Maurice’s radar this month (p60) MATT KEW Matt, Autosport’s F1 editor, takes over the reins of the Flat Chat column this month (p106) and goes all Top Gun: Maverick on us Thanks to Sophie Almeida, Harry Bull, Steve Cooper, Maddy Coe, Jamie Fox, Will Hings, Gemma Lusty, Will Ponissi, Katharina Rees, Richard Wilson…

@_markgallagher Assuming you follow F1 closely, chances are you consume it through multiple devices across a number of social media platforms. You know the form. Streaming races on TV while running live timing through the F1 app on a tablet and interacting with the Twitter feeds of teams, drivers and fellow fans on your mobile. When F1 revealed its 2021 media figures back in February, it was again the fastest-growing major sporting championship on social media. Across Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitch, YouTube, TikTok and the Chinese platforms – Weibo, WeChat, Toutiao and Douyin – followers were up 40% to 49.1 million. The statistic which really shone was the number of video views. At 7.04 billion across formula1.com, the F1 app and social media platforms, it made you think. Yes,…

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Snookered in scarlet The best place to photograph a Ferrari pitstop is from the McLaren garage, where I’m allowed to stand, and at this point of the race I was thinking, “Well, I’ve done two Ferrari stops already – I’ll drop the shutter speed for the next one.” A slower shutter speed is riskier because it’s blurrier, but that can convey a great sense of speed. And this turned out to be the crucial stop where Ferrari fitted Charles with the hard tyres. I don’t pretend to be an expert, but pretty much everyone else was juggling softs and mediums. I hate to say it, but it’s been embarrassing watching Ferrari at times this season… Where Hungaroring, Hungary When 3:55pm, Sunday 31 July 2022 Details Canon EOS-1DX MkII 70-200mm lens,…

PICTURES @benedwardstv The prospect of the Belgian Grand Prix no longer providing the annual kickstart for the second part of the Formula 1 season is a downer for me. The essence of the current layout appeared on the calendar in 1983 at a time when I was becoming immersed in motorsport and it bowled me over with its speeds, dips, climbs and forested borders. Ten years later, winning a one-make series race there gave me a huge lift. But not everyone feels the same about Spa. My former co-commentator and five-time GP winner John Watson raced there for McLaren in 1983 when it hosted a grand prix for the first time since 1970. He had high hopes of enjoying a track which had been revamped from the former road course…

CV 2021 Founder, New Quebec Advisory 2017 - 2021 Director of Hospitality and Experiences, F1 2003-2021 Commercial Counsel, F1 1996-2003 Senior Counsel, TWR Group GP Racing: You’ve been in Formula 1 for a very long time, and been hugely influential and well known, while maintaining quite a low profile outside it. How have you managed that? Kate Beavan: Because there is no life outside F1! I’ve been doing this for nearly 25 years now, I started as a young lawyer with Tom Walkinshaw Racing even before he bought Arrows. He had the V8 racing in Australia and was doing the BTCC with Volvos, and then he bought Arrows. And that was my first introduction, really, to F1. I stayed with Tom until the TWR-Arrows empire went bust and then got…

Did winning at Silverstone provide a confidence boost? Or is it something you feel more in yourself elsewhere? It’s just not having the question of ‘when are you going to win?” – that was the biggest thing! I was pretty clear in my mind that the moment was going to come sooner or later and I’d been close a couple of times before. And this year I kept believing it was going to happen. It didn’t relieve any sort of stress or anything, because in Austria [the first race after Silverstone] I felt very similar to any other race weekend. But it keeps giving me the feeling that I’m closer and closer every time this year, and then in Austria it was a good example of being in the fight…

How different has the mindset been this year – playing catch-up after so many seasons leading? From a mindset point of view, it’s challenging because as a team we’ve not been there. On the flip side, once you strip away the pressure and the disappointment, it’s actually quite a good thing. It’s a new challenge. It’s a way the team can be stretched. And if we can get ourselves through this and we can start catching up that gap to the front, then I think we can feel a sense of pride in getting on top of the issues and then trying to move ourselves forward. Mercedes isn’t a team to play the blame game, but what was the reaction of you and your staff? From me and my team,…

PICTURES WHATEVER HAPPENED TO F1 drivers being allowed to get on with what they do best? It seems every move has become regulated to the point where a measuring tape, protractor and overhead images of corners are needed to decide which driver has the right to exit ahead of the other. There was a time when F1 racers were credited with enough common sense and spatial awareness to work out the difference between a move that was marginal – as they all ought to be, given the very definition of driving at the limit – and one that was downright dangerous. In the case of the latter, drivers proved capable of policing themselves – with the shameful exception of their kangaroo court wrongly accusing Riccardo Patrese of causing Ronnie Peterson’s…

facebook.com/gpracingonline Hollywood history runs the risk of repeating itself when it comes to projecting motorsport on the silver screen. Thirty years after the first poorly received attempt to set Top Gun several thousand feet lower down, plans are afoot to give Formula 1 the blockbuster treatment this time. Apple TV earlier this year landed the rights to an F1 feature film starring Brad Pitt. The red carpet regular will play a seemingly over-the-hill ace who must come out of retirement and pair with a young hotshot to show the world how it’s done. If that plot sounds familiar, it’s only a couple of F-18 fighter jets short of 2022 smash hit Top Gun: Maverick. Oh, and for good measure, Maverick producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joseph Kosinski will reprise those…