Innehållsförteckning för July 2020 från AUTOSPORT

@BenAndersonF1 The 1996 world champion Damon Hill joined me recently on a ‘Race of My Life’ Autosport podcast, discussing the best race of his F1 career: the 1994 Japanese GP. A big part of what made it special to Damon was producing a performance under pressure that proved to himself, and to Williams, that he belonged at the highest level. Hill continually wrestled with doubts from Frank Williams and Patrick Head that he was suited to being the team’s leading driver after Ayrton Senna died. Damon now readily admits he didn’t deliver consistently enough for Williams, so endured the ignominy of racing for the entirety of his title-winning season knowing that the team had already replaced him. Thus Hill knows something of what this month’s cover star, Carlos Sainz, and…

TEAM-MATE RIVALRY IS NEVER SIMPLE Combat between team-mates is one of the fascinations of Formula 1. The balance of cooperation and single-mindedness shifts constantly and there’s no simple equation for delivering the best results. Sometimes a team surges ahead thanks to intense rivalry between two top campaigners, on other occasions the same outfit may benefit from a more holistic approach. Ferrari has won five times in Austria, the venue of the first two races of this delayed season; team cooperation helped Jacky Ickx take the first win at what is now the Red Bull Ring in 1970 thanks to his rookie team-mate Clay Regazzoni waving him through and providing a resilient doorstop to the opposition. In 2002 Rubens Barrichello waited until the end of the last lap before handing victory…

Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen is Polish-based but with a growing international footprint. The state-owned energy corporation, which supported Robert Kubica’s return to Formula 1 and is now title sponsor of the Alfa Romeo team, began expanding internationally in the early 2000s and now operates fuel stations all over Europe. And wherever you go in the world, you may be driving on asphalt it supplied… GP Racing: How does Formula 1 fit into your marketing strategy? Daniel Obajtek: PKN Orlen is already a global brand. You’ll find our asphalt as far afield as Mauritius or the Samoan Islands. Our oils are severely tested during the Dakar Rally and we have a chain of over 2,800 fuel stations in Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia. Nevertheless, we aspire to enhance our…

Rubens Barrichello is one man who knows all about the pressures of racing for Ferrari alongside one of the best drivers of your generation. Having made his name at Jordan and Stewart, Barrichello replaced Eddie Irvine as Michael Schumacher’s team-mate in 2000. Rubens won nine races in six seasons with the Scuderia, and it’s fair to say he found the whole experience tough going. He advises newcomer Carlos Sainz that mental stability is the key to surviving perhaps the toughest driving gig in F1. “He’s mentally prepared and he’s physically prepared, but he needs to control his anxiety,” Barrichello says. “He’s going to be anxious to get going. My suggestion is for him to do stuff that can control his mind. Meditation was key for me, to keep my anxiety…

THE LAST CHAMPION of the 1950s also became the first of the new decade, his success symbolising a radical change in the design of racing cars. Jack Brabham was a former flight mechanic with the Royal Australian Air Force and a national champion in midget cars before he moved into road racing. On arriving in England in 1955 he went to the Cooper works in Surbiton, bought one of its cars, and spent so much time hanging around the garage and making himself useful that by 1957 he had become a member of its grand prix team. Brabham’s practical experience was vital to the development of the little Cooper-Climaxes as they evolved into full-blown F1 machines capable of winning the world championship, as they did in 1959 and 1960, capturing…

DON’T BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU… Given unfettered spending, racing series really do develop a practical and philosophical parallel with wedding cakes – they all end in tiers. Arguments about how to rein in that spending, at least in Formula 1, have been raging since not long after the recession before the recession before last. What’s interesting is that while the competitors have (grudgingly for the most part) knuckled under to FIA clampdowns on testing, mandatory long-life gearboxes and engines and such, a new ecosystem has gradually emerged – one in which smaller teams end up as clients or vassals to larger ones. Currently, if you want to win in F1 you have to drive for one of the big three teams. But are the clients about to upset…

ALEX KALINAUCKAS Alex thinks Daniel Ricciardo's switch to McLaren for 2021 is a smart move and on p44 analyses five reasons why this is the case DAMIEN SMITH Mansell, Prost and the fantastic Williams FW14B, are all included in part 3 of Damien's superb history of Williams (p64) LUKE SMITH As on-track racing gets set to return, Luke talks about the positive effects that enforced sim racing could have on the F1 grid (p94) NIGEL ROEBUCK This month Nigel recounts the F1 career of Jacky Ickx, the man who, in 1970, didn't want to win the world championship (p72)…

01 LEWIS HAMILTON TACKLES SOCIAL JUSTICE 02 WHO WILL BUY FORMULA 1’S FALLEN GREATS? 03 POWER BEHIND MERC POWERTRAIN TO GO F1 JOINS HAMILTON’S DIVERSITY PUSH 01 Lewis Hamilton has moved decisively to use the full weight of his star power to add momentum to the Black Lives Matter movement. Both the FIA and Formula 1 have responded with initiatives to promote diversity, and Hamilton himself has teamed up with the Royal Academy of Engineering to launch a ‘Hamilton Commission’ with the aim of making motorsport “as diverse as the complex and multicultural world we live in”. Using a self-penned article in the Sunday Times as a platform from which to announce the project, Hamilton added: “the time for platitudes and token gestures is over”. Against a wider tapestry of…

NEW MEASURES FOR RETURN TO RACING The FIA has always put safety at the forefront of everything it does in motorsport. This mantra is embodied in the International Sporting Code that all competitors in every category of racing must adhere to. Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak it was always understood that this safety referred to the hazards of racing, but the current pandemic has brought a new meaning to the provisions of the code and required a completely new approach to how we return to racing. In response to the events of this year, the FIA and F1 have taken extraordinary measures to protect motorsport, culminating in a raft of new regulations for 2020 and beyond which were passed recently by the World Motorsport Council. While these regulations protected the…

5 McLAREN IS A TEAM ON THE UP At the end of 2020, Daniel Ricciardo will be on the move again – this time from Renault to McLaren. His decision closed the Ferrari/ McLaren seat swap saga that began when Sebastian Vettel’s impending departure from Maranello was announced and Carlos Sainz was revealed as Vettel’s replacement. Of the many factors behind Ricciardo’s decision to join his fifth F1 squad, following stints at HRT, Toro Rosso and Red Bull, the headline selling point is McLaren’s recent resurgence. After the three years of misery and pain with Honda, followed by a revealing first year using Renault customer power, the eight-time constructors’ champion squad finished fourth in 2019 – its best result since 2012 – one place and 54 points clear of Ricciardo’s…

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Q1 Jenson Button won the title in 2009, but finished in the top three in which two other seasons? Q2 Which constructor achieved its sole Formula 1 victory in the 1976 Austrian GP? Q3 Zeltweg only ever held one Austrian GP. What year was it and who won the race? Q4 True or false: Nigel Mansell failed to qualify twice in his career, at the 1980 Italian and 1981 British Grands Prix, both times driving for Lotus? Q5 Olivier Panis, Jacques Lafitte and which two other drivers won F1 races driving a Ligier? Q6 True or false: the Spanish GP has never been held in August prior to this season? Q7 At which circuit are Mario Andretti and Lewis Hamilton the only drivers to have started an F1 race from…

WILL BUDGET CAP BE A SAVIOUR, OR IS IT TOO LATE? After decades of wondering what it would take to level the playing field in Formula 1, we now have the answer – a change of commercial leadership, two years of agonising negotiations and a vicious global pandemic. Like some unexpected superhero, the solution has turned up in the nick of time, although instead of wearing its underpants on the outside it comes in the form of a USD$145m budget cap. It’s a nail-biting moment for McLaren and Williams, the former group having lost £133m in the first quarter of this year, the latter £13m for the whole of 2019. Job losses are in focus, McLaren pre-empting publication of its first quarter results with news that a restructuring of the…

Carlos Sainz finally has his date with destiny. It’s not arrived in quite the way he probably expected when he started the journey, but in this game you must take your chances when they come. Racing for Ferrari in Formula 1 is something else; they all say so. It is never smooth sailing, often it’s chaotic, shambolic even, and rarely does it end well, even for the winners. But it is special – a Formula 1 team with culture, history and passion like no other. Irresistible you might say. Sainz certainly couldn’t resist, and very soon he will be turning out resplendent in scarlet red, enjoying the unique emotions savoured only by those who ride the mythical horses of Enzo’s stable, living the life dreams are made of – the…

IN 1958… Jacky Ickx was taken by his father Jacques, a prominent journalist, to the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps, and was so bored that he asked to be taken home. “Maybe I have always been a bit unusual,” Jacky smiled. “The truth is that I never wanted to be a racing driver – never thought about it. Yes, I went to Spa, but I was absolutely not interested. I remember seeing Stirling [Moss] and others at home in Brussels for a cocktail party before the race – even that didn’t impress me!” Ultimately Jacques Ickx came to dislike motor racing, explaining that he had lost too many friends. “Exactly,” said his son. “So many had gone that it was hurting him, but still he supported me when I started.…

MUCH ADO ABT NOTHING? As the motorsport world begins to edge back towards normality and the resumption of on-track racing, the Esports scene will also face a transitional phase. The spike in interest in virtual racing will undoubtedly have converted many fans and racers but let’s face it, nothing quite beats the ‘real thing’. For some drivers, incidents over the last few months will have a profound impact on their racing futures. In the case of Formula E driver Daniel Abt, it may have ended his career entirely. Abt was revealed to have used a professional sim racer to take his place in a Formula E ‘Race at Home’ event. The Audi driver later apologised and explained it was all meant to be a joke, and that he had envisioned…