Indholdsfortegnelse for November 2023 i AUTOSPORT

It’s a good thing Max Verstappen got his well-deserved third world championship over the line in the Qatar GP weekend’s Saturday sprint event, even if (unusually) he didn’t win the race in question. For while Max returned to his customary position of being first to the chequered flag on Sunday, post-race the news agenda was dominated by hand-wringing over the circumstances that left several drivers checking in to the medical centre with symptoms of heatstroke and exhaustion. F1 is no stranger to hot, humid environments – even before Singapore joined the calendar, Malaysia was a very challenging venue – but in Qatar the effects of the ambients were exacerbated by the frenetic nature of the racing around what is a much higher-tempo circuit. As early as Saturday it was becoming…

While Formula 1 is among the world’s most glamorous and high-tech sporting categories, sometimes it comes down to a repurposed waste bin… 15 years after the first Singapore Grand Prix, sports science practictioners are well versed in the means of coping with the Lion City’s heat and humidity. One such method is the ice bath and, while Kevin Magnussen wasn’t actually very keen on the idea, his physio Nikolaj Madsen was determined the dunking should happen. This was after FP1 so just the first of many over the course of the weekend. They’re only in for 20 seconds and it makes for an unusual image from a GP… Where Marina Bay, Singapore When 18:35pm, Friday 15 September 2023 Details Canon EOS-1DX MkIII 240mm lens, 1/1250th @F1.4…

Singapore is no longer F1’s only night race but it still has several unique features, including the ability to get an overhead view from one of the largest observation wheels in the world. Standing at 165 metres, it opened just a few months before the first Singapore GP in 2008. Normally a ticket costs a premium if you want to ride the wheel during a session (at 24cm per second, you orbit at a stately pace so it’s not over too quickly), but the race organisers kindly let a select few photographers aboard. I captured this angle early in Q1 just as Carlos Sainz was gearing up for a lap. A four-pointed star filter helps make the floodlights ping. Where Marina Bay, Singapore When 9:09pm, Saturday 16 September 2023 Details…

Q1 Before 2023 who was the last driver to win the first race of the season and go onto win the title? Q2Who won their third world title in the fewest seasons: Max Verstappen or Lewis Hamilton? Q3 Who was the driver for all of Wolf’s three F1 victories in 1977? Q4 In 1965 nine of the 10 world championship F1 races were won by British drivers. Who was the only non-British driver to win that year? Q5 How many victories did Jordan GP achieve in its time as an F1 constructor? Q6 Who am I? I started 95 GPs from 1972 to 1980 for Tyrrell, Ligier and Alfa Romeo, winning twice and claiming one pole position and four fastest laps. Q7 Oscar Piastri is the sixth Australian to claim…

THE HEART OF THE AMERICAN DREAM I don’t often go hunting for motorsport films on long-haul flights but made an exception back in September when I noticed British Airways was showing Monaco Grand Prix: The Legend, the 2019 documentary directed by Franck Florino and written by Yann-Antony Noghès. It was Noghès’ grandfather Antony who founded the Monaco Grand Prix in 1929 and the documentary, narrated by Prince Albert, tells the story of how the race was conceived and funded. Ultimately it fell to René Léon of the Société des Bains de Mer, manager of the principality’s major hotels and the Monte Carlo Casino, to come up with the money needed to transform the city streets into a racetrack. I was watching this while flying to Formula 1’s latest addition to…

I am American. I was born in Romania – my father was of German descent, though his father was US-born, and my mother was Romanian. But I grew up in America, and most of my life lessons were learned there. AMERICANS ARE GOOD AT NEVER GIVING UP. WORK HARD AND YOU CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING. I believe you make your own luck. IF YOU PUT YOURSELF IN THE RIGHT POSITIONS, THE PROBABILITY OF YOU GETTING LUCKY IS HIGHER. MY DAD, WHO WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY, ONCE WON A CAR IN A LOTTERY. BUT HE DIDN’T THINK HE SIMPLY GOT LUCKY. HE WAS CONVINCED THAT THE DRAW WAS FIXED BY THE GOVERNMENT, just to make him stay. Was he right? I guess we’ll never find out. But if you…

Family I spend a lot of time away from home, not only at races but also in Italy since I’m in Faenza four days a week and my family live in the UK. With this job, you just can’t be home at 6.30 every night. So when I do get home, we really focus on spending as much time together as possible and trying to make the most of it. And that’s a big thing for me. I’ve got a wife and two kids, 14 and 18, and we really try to do things together when I’m back in the UK or when they come to visit me in Italy. MotoGP I have been a huge fan of MotoGP since the late 1990s but in recent years, as well as…

F1 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 16 THE SINGAPORE GP IN 5 KEY MOMENTS 1 Sainz’s tactical masterclass While the final three laps of the 14th Singapore Grand Prix were a thrilling contest, it was in the dying moments of qualifying the day before when the course towards this outcome was set. And the margins could not have been finer. On this year’s shorter track layout Carlos Sainz set a time of 1m30.984s, just 0.072s quicker than Mercedes’ George Russell and a further 0.007s faster than Sainz’s Ferrari team-mate. The red die was cast. Charles Leclerc duly became the only driver in the top 14 to start on the soft tyre and his mission was to wrestle second place from Russell at the start (which he accomplished before Turn 1) and sacrifice…

OLEG KARPOV Oleg talked to some of the people who know Fernando Alonso the best to find out exactly what makes the Spaniard tick (p32) MATT KEW Autosport’s F1 Editor tries to decipher whether the Red Bull RB19 is a masterpiece or just simply a decent all-rounder (p44) JAMES NEWBOLD James delves into New Zealander Liam Lawson’s tough journey to F1, and how he overcame a few bumps along the way (p60) JAMES MANN Yet another stunning photoshoot from James for our Now That Was A Car feature. This time it’s the often derided Lotus 43 (p66) NEXT ISSUE ON SALE: NOVEMBER 16 Thanks to Rebecca Banks, Jasper Codling, Steve Cooper, Will Hings, Rebecca Leppard, Bradley Lord, Sara Malocco, Sophie Ogg, Fabiana Valenti…

Having shot the start of the race from the Singapore Flyer I made way way to Turn 16 because I reckoned it would be a good overtaking spot – and, of course, was quickly reachable. The circumstances of the race made this image fall into my lap. It’s the restart after the Safety Car and, although Max Verstappen looks to have decent track position here, he gained it by not stopping for tyres. Qualifying 11th forced Red Bull onto a very different strategy. George Russell attacked hard off the restart and got by – statisticians tell me this was the first time Max had been overtaken on track this year. Unfortunately for Max there was more to come! Where Marina Bay, Singapore When 8:43pm, Sunday 17 September 2023 Details Canon…

01 ANDRETTI: CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR (YET) The FIA has officially given Andretti Formula Racing the go-ahead to join Formula 1, but it’s far from certain the number of teams in the world’s premier racing championship will rise to 11 any time soon. For now, the prospects of a major brawl breaking out are greater than those of the grid expanding. The process of inviting new teams was formally launched in February by FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem, who remains the main proponent of grid expansion and the most high-profile of the Andretti supporters. Seven projects eventually responded to the FIA’s invitation but only one bid was deemed viable after a seven-month vetting process. In theory, it could make its debut as early as 2025. NONE OF THIS, HOWEVER, MEANS…

AMERICA FIRST: 45 YEARS ON FROM A GROUND-EFFECT GREAT F1 returns to the USA at a time when national interest in the sport is rapidly expanding, helped by having a US driver on the grid. Logan Sargeant will experience a new level of spectator passion as he attempts to consolidate his role at Williams. This hasn’t always been the case in recent years as F1 struggled in the US; in fact it was a surprise a few weeks ago to realise I was attending an event on the 45th anniversary of the last time an American F1 driver became world champion. September’s Goodwood Revival corresponded with the weekend at Monza in 1978 when Mario Andretti took the title with Lotus, and the car which served him so well was being…

CV 2021-present Global Chief Marketing Officer, OKX 2020-present Global Chief Marketing Officer, Okcoin 2018-2020 Head of Growth, Blockchain.com 2014-2018 Director of Product Marketing, CA Technologies 2011-2014 Head of Product Marketing/Verticals, Microsoft 2009-2011 Account Director, J. Walter Thompson 2008-2009 Manager, McCann Worldgroup GP Racing: Before we discuss the special livery McLaren competed with in the Asian leg of the calendar, tell us about your personal interest in Formula 1 and how you built the relationship between OKX and McLaren? Haider Rafique: I grew up obsessively watching Formula 1 and MotoGP and was of the generation watching Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard race. Then I remember Juan Pablo Montoya and Fernando Alonso coming onto the scene, although my hero before them was Ayrton Senna. I was fortunate to be in the role…

Perhaps it’s not quite true to label the Red Bull RB19 a ‘Jack of all trades, master of none’. Formula 1’s trip to Singapore proved that the car is indeed fallible: the bumps and staccato corners of the Marina Bay street circuit finally pushed the current performance benchmark beyond its incredibly wide operating window. That weekend was unlike the end of the McLaren MP4/4’s winning streak at Monza in 1988, which came about through bad luck and poor judgement – engine trouble eliminated Alain Prost before Ayrton Senna then stumbled over Williams substitute Jean-Louis Schlesser. In Singapore the RB19 lost its 100% record when its inherent shortcomings were exposed. But it’s by zeroing in on these scarce weak spots that the car’s – for the most part – brilliance can…

Liam Lawson’s Formula 1 debut couldn’t have come in much trickier circumstances. Dropped into an AlphaTauri at Zandvoort after Daniel Ricciardo shunted during second practice, breaking a bone in his left wrist, Lawson had a wet track to contend with in FP3 as he drove a ground-effect F1 car for the first time since last December’s Young Driver Test in Abu Dhabi. Matters didn’t get much easier on race day when rain hit shortly after the start, making it difficult for Lawson to gain confidence with his unfamiliar machine. But the 21-year-old Kiwi didn’t disgrace himself and kept it on the island in the late-race deluge when many more experienced drivers did not. Bringing the car home an undamaged 13th, he had every right to be “reasonably satisfied” with his…

FELIPE MASSA CRANKED THE clock back 15 years when he came out of the Brazilian woodwork and claimed he had been robbed by the outcome of the 2008 world championship. Massa wasn’t referring to having the cup dashed from his lips when Lewis Hamilton passed Timo Glock at the final corner of the season to finish fifth and snatch the title. His belated grievance has been directed at the Singapore GP a few weeks before when so-called ‘Crashgate’ – a deliberate crash by Renault’s Nelson Piquet Jr – dramatically changed the outcome of the race. Massa’s Ferrari was leading at the time, but a Safety Car-inspired pitstop ended in a disaster that cost him a likely win. And, questionably, a championship which, Massa’s lawyers claim, would have earned their man…

F1 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 19 UNITED STATES GP 20-22 October 2023 Circuit of The Americas THE MAIN EVENT 11 years after its first appearance on the F1 calendar, the Circuit of The Americas remains a popular venue thanks to its challenging and distinctive layout, a full events programme and the track’s proximity to the fascinating Texas state capital, Austin. Indeed, watch those clean-living F1 drivers sneak out into town to queue up for smoked brisket once the racing is done… This track’s signature feature is its climb up to the sharp first corner, followed by a quick descent and a snaking, downforce-dependent section inspired by Silverstone. New for this year is the addition of a sprint race to proceedings. Another novel element to look out for is the first appearance…

@mattkewF1 facebook.com/gpracingonline THE REAL LOSERS IN F1’S POPULARITY CONTEST Given it was the FIA’s idea to launch a formal entry process to potentially allow an 11th team into Formula 1, you might have expected governing body president Mohammed Ben Sulayem to welcome sole successful bidder Andretti with a rousing fanfare. Instead, it was abundantly clear he was having to walk a legal tightrope. When the FIA finally announced that it had given the proposal the green light, the accompanying quote attributed to him read: “The FIA is obliged to approve applications that comply with the Expressions of Interest application requirements and we have adhered to that procedure in deciding that Andretti Formula Racing LLC’s application would proceed to the next stage of the application process.” Hardly a warm reception. But…

This is a very rare shot from the inside looking out as a newly crowned world champion celebrates their achievement. I actually have Oscar Piastri to thank for this because, as McLaren’s official photographer, I was granted access to parc fermé after he won the race. After taking care of business with Oscar – who was very pleased, naturally, with his win – I was in the right place to capture the eruption of joy in Red Bull’s corner. Christian Horner and Adrian Newey were there looking like proud parents. It was fascinating to be on the other side of the barriers as my colleagues in the media were fighting to seize the moment. Where Losail, Qatar When 9:12pm, Saturday 7 October 2023 Details Canon EOS R3 24-70mm lens, 1/1300th…

It was a funny old weekend weather-wise at Suzuka, with flat light and leaden grey skies for the most part. Then the sun suddenly came out in time for qualifying so of course you push to make the most of it. I shamelessly raided the back catalogue for this angle. It’s one I’ve used many times before because the big wheel in the background is striking combined with the low angle. I’ve got one of Ayrton Senna here after winning in 1993. What really makes this shot is that Yuki Tsunoda has obligingly added a bit of drama by locking his wheels. He didn’t need to use these tyres again so he was testing to see how late he could brake for the pit speed limit line. Where Suzuka, Japan…

DRIVERS WHEELS In an effort to reduce the weight of F1 cars, a switch away from the current 18-inch wheels is being mooted for 2026. 18-inch wheels were only introduced in 2022 but it is believed a switch to 16-inch wheels would save somewhere between 20 and 50 kilograms. MONEY Mercedes and Alpine posted profits of £89m and £26.2m respectively for their F1 operations for 2022, while Aston Martin’s F1 team posted a £52.9m loss for the same period. TYRES Pirelli has been confirmed as F1’s tyre supplier until at least 2027 with an option to extend for an additional season. RIP South African Basil van Rooyen, who won non-championship F1 races in his homeland, and raced in the 1968 and 1969 South African GPs, has died aged 84.…

IN THE FUTURE, LIFE WILL BE A GAS As the world moves away from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources, hydrogen is often mentioned as a pathway to a low-carbon future. It’s already making its presence felt in motorsport through Extreme H and various sportscar projects, but will it find its way to Formula 1? Hydrogen is often thought of as a fuel but in reality it is, like electricity and synthetic fuels, an energy carrier. The difference being that naturally occurring hydrocarbons can be extracted from the earth and burned to release energy with a minimum of processing. It’s true that the finer cuts of oil need considerable refining but crude oil, like coal or wood, is a naturally occurring fuel. Hydrogen on the other hand, although one of…

HE COMPETES. IT’S WHAT HE DOES. And at 42 years of age Fernando Alonso shows no signs of slowing down – or of forsaking his abiding passion. “He loves it more than others.” Pedro de la Rosa – podium finisher with McLaren, Bahrain lap record holder, Aston Martin ambassador and Alonso’s compatriot and friend – doesn’t have to think too hard when GP Racing asks him what keeps Fernando in Formula 1, and why he’s still ferociously quick. “The thing is, if I knew exactly why he’s so good, I’d be in that car,” Pedro laughs, nodding towards the Aston Martin garage. “But I don’t think there’s any other reason he’s still here. He has a very strong love for motor racing. And I don’t mean Formula 1. I mean…

Ever felt like taking a nap while watching the first practice session of a Formula 1 Grand Prix? If so, you may as well apply for a job as reserve and simulator driver for an F1 team – provided, of course, you can handle 1000bhp four-wheelers and don’t get dizzy from being bounced around inside a carbonfibre capsule on pneumatic rods for hours on end. Mick Schumacher isn’t bad at all of that. Although, he confesses to GP Racing as we sit down for a chat in Mercedes’ enclave within the Singapore GP paddock, sleeping through FP1 isn’t always easy. But it’s also part of the job to be able to work well past midnight in that phase of a grand prix weekend… “No, luckily I’m in a hotel,” he…

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