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@BenAndersonF1 The inevitable finally happened… Formula 1’s August summer break is here, and hopefully a short holiday will help cool the jets of those – on both sides – who’ve become inflamed by Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen finally putting niceties aside and going at each other full pelt on the track. What happened on lap one of the grand prix at Silverstone was almost inevitable. Verstappen is the first of F1’s new generation to be in position to genuinely threaten Hamilton’s pre-eminence. Max and Red Bull sense their time is now and have been in full attack mode since Bahrain. Not since Nico Rosberg’s final season has Hamilton been so on his back foot – and arguably never has he faced a rival of Verstappen’s ability and aggression combined.…

After so many races behind closed doors or with very few spectators allowed in, it was a bit of a shock to the system to see Silverstone so packed. The atmosphere was truly remarkable, especially when Lewis raised the roof by chasing down and passing Charles Leclerc for victory. We were blessed with nice weather and great light. I chose to photograph parc ferme side-on by going along the side of the Armco. The sunlight was so intense that every shot was bound to be very contrasty, and I got this lovely moment where Lewis turned towards the fans and the sun picked out his face and the flag he was waving. Where Silverstone, UK When 5.08pm, Sunday 18 July 2021 Details Canon EOS-1DX MkII 600mm lens, 1/640th @ F4…

Q1 How many times did Jim Clark qualify outside the top 10 in his 73 world championship F1 starts: 4, 7 or 13? Q2 Which race in 1983 did the McLarens, driven by Niki Lauda and John Watson, fail to qualify for? Q3 True or false: both of Nico Hülkenberg’s two fastest laps in F1 were achieved in Singapore. Q4 How old was Jack Brabham when he claimed his last world championship F1 win: 42, 43 or 44? Q5 Esteban Ocon has had four team-mates so far in F1: Sergio Pérez, Daniel Ricciardo, Fernando Alonso and which other driver? Q6 Which future world champion made his F1 debut at the 1973 Monaco GP? Q7 Which team has managed to get both cars to the finish of every race so far…

@_markgallagher ‘BIG OIL’ IS THE NEW TOBACCO FOR ADDICT F1 Just as Ferrari was celebrating Charles Leclerc’s unexpected pole positions in Monaco and Baku, one of the Scuderia’s important, long-term sponsors was dealing with a surprise of rather more significant proportions. A court ruling which sent out shockwaves. While we are used to court cases involving the tobacco industry, this time it was not Maranello’s friends at Philip Morris who were in the dock. Instead, it was Shell which found itself at the wrong end of a ruling. Big Oil has replaced Big Tobacco. The charge is that they’ve smoked the planet. Somewhat appropriately, things have heated up due to the cumulative effect of public opinion, successful lobbying by environmental campaigners and governments keen to fulfil their obligations under the…

PICTURES Mercedes had an inkling as long ago as last winter that this year’s world championship might be tougher than any it had experienced since its domination of Formula 1 began in 2014. As the engineers at the world champion team’s base in Brackley worked hard on developing the W12 car, the final one of an era before the introduction of swingeing rule changes for 2022, the numbers coming out of the computers did not make for happy reading. Not only had rule changes over the winter badly affected their car, but the gains they were finding as they looked for more performance were not as big as they were used to. There was concern, but at that point Mercedes had no idea whether its rivals were suffering the same…

PICTURES IS there a photograph that better captures the euphoria of victory than Steven Tee’s black and white image snapped at the 1985 Portuguese Grand Prix? The image, one of Formula 1’s finest, is seared into the fabric of grand prix racing folklore, as Peter Warr – wearing signature Peter Sellers specs, flat cap, black JPS jacket and an expression of exuberant jubilation – opens his arms wide to welcome home his conquering hero. It’s tipping down, but who cares? Certainly not Ayrton Senna – at least not now the hard work is done. The belts have been thrown off so he can shoot an arm into the air and mirror Warr’s celebration. You never forget the first time. Thirty-six years later, the most vivid images of Senna we carry…

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FINISHING STRAIGHT F1 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 10 1 Hamilton’s win overshadowed by Verstappen shunt While the peak-end rule means the 2021 British Grand Prix will be remembered as a thriller – even if much of it was a tyre-management slog before Lewis Hamilton’s crucial pass for the lead on the antepenultimate lap – the result remains mired in controversy owing to the collision between Hamilton and Max Verstappen on lap one. Later the world champion, who was also subjected to racial abuse on social media in the aftermath, aptly summed up the state of affairs by speaking of the need for he and his title rival to restore “respect” in their on-track conduct. The chain of events which ended with Verstappen making a 51G impact with the tyre barrier at…

ANDREW BENSON The perfect storm that faced Mercedes this season (p46) and Carlos Reutemann (p60) come under the gaze of BBC Sport's chief F1 writer DAMIEN SMITH The demise of Team Lotus is the focus of part five of Damien's superb history of the outfit founded by Colin Chapman (p70) LUKE SMITH Autosport's F1 reporter chats with Esteban Ocon about the Frenchman's first long-term deal in Formula 1 (p54) STUART CODLING In this month's NTWAC feature Codders investigates the potential of BRM's P201 and why it turned out to be a failure (p82) Thanks to Caterina Capelli, Lucy Genon, Silvia Hoffer-Frangipane, Clarisse Hoffmann, Rebecca Leppard, Jonathan Noble…

PICTURES 01 HAMILTON RENEWS CONTRACT World champion signs on for two more years 02 MIXED RESPONSE TO TRIAL OF NEW SATURDAY FORMAT 03 MORE RACES UNDER COVID THREAT HAMILTON EXTENDS TO 2023 01 Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton has signed a new two-year contract with Mercedes which will keep him in Formula 1 until the end of the 2023 season. The timing of the deal – announced at the beginning of July – is significant, since it is the earliest Hamilton has committed since 2015, when a three-year deal taking him to the end of 2018 was announced in the run-up to the Monaco Grand Prix weekend. By contrast, Hamilton ended last season out-of-contract and only in February reached a one-year deal with Mercedes covering 2021. Negotiations for that had been held…

@benedwardstv PICTURES ALLISON ON A PAR WITH TECHNICAL GREATS OF F1 James Allison recently stepped back from his frontline role as technical director at Mercedes after 30 years of working with some of the greatest drivers and engineers Formula 1 has seen. Allison will continue as the team’s Chief Technical Officer, but as he explained at a recent event organised by the British Motorsport Marshals Club, the job of ‘truffle hunting’ within the new regulations has been taken on by Mike Elliott. James was candid and fascinating as he answered questions from volunteers who form the backbone of motorsport, taking us on a journey from his first involvement in motor racing to combining his efforts with drivers who would win a dozen titles with his input. World champions were on…

That Red Bull is on a roll at the moment is obvious – we can measure its advantage not just in terms of laptimes and race results, but also in the quantity of innuendo directed at it by rivals. Mercedes might have landed a couple of blows by lobbying for new wing-flexibility tests and pitstop timing rules, but the fact remains that Red Bull’s RB16B can still outpace Merc’s W12 on pretty much any circuit – by a quarter of a second or more per lap. Part of that margin comes from the engine bay but isn’t a factor of horsepower alone. In Azerbaijan ExxonMobil, Red Bull’s fuel and lubricants partner, introduced what it described as a “revolutionary” new oil which incorporates components not traditionally used in lubricants. For the…

PICTURES ALPINE & FROM THE SEASONED VETERAN TO the hopeful debutant and all points on the career trajectory in between, stability is a commodity all Formula 1 drivers covet. For those looking to gain a foothold in F1 that usually means a manufacturer team’s junior academy or a wealthy benefactor – even the most talented prospect might not be able to flourish without powerful support and investment. That’s something Esteban Ocon has rarely been able to rely on. He’s seen a lot that most Formula 1 drivers haven’t. He’s lived out of a caravan with his parents, who sold their family home to keep him karting. He’s faced uncertainty in junior series despite a stunning record (it is often overlooked that he beat Max Verstappen to the European F3 title).…

PICTURES BACK IN THE DAY WHEN APRIL ALWAYS MEANT IMOLA… I used to delight in evening trips with Denis Jenkinson into the mountains, where we would find chunks of the Mille Miglia course, and he would share his memories of the greatest sportscar race there ever was. Having accompanied Stirling Moss in the winning Mercedes in 1955, he knew whereof he spoke. One day Jenks said what fun it would have been to do the Mille Miglia in a Porsche 917. With Rodríguez? Siffert? “No, no,” he replied. “Given a choice, I’d have gone with Redman – he was as quick as they were, and far more intelligent. With Brian, there’d have been a much better chance of getting to the finish…” Redman drove in only a dozen grands prix,…

FINISHING STRAIGHT F1 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 9 1 Norris lays down a marker for resurgent McLaren Lando Norris was genuinely disappointed to finish only third in the Austrian Grand Prix, which shows how far McLaren has come recently, and how brilliantly Norris is driving. There’s a convincing argument to say Lando’s been Formula 1’s best driver so far in 2021. He’s obliterating a highly-rated team-mate, making few mistakes worth mentioning, and often achieving results considered beyond McLaren’s reach. This was Lando’s third podium finish of the season already, and it was the best simply because it owed nothing to faster cars retiring. Although Norris barely troubled the top 10 in practice, come qualifying he hit form: second in Q1, fifth in Q2 – on the more durable medium compound tyre…

FINISHING STRAIGHT BREADVAN: A FERRARI TO BEAT THE GTO Author Richard Heseltine Price £45 porterpress.co.uk 2819GT, better known by the disparaging sobriquet attached to it by the British press, is a one-off racer born out of one of Ferrari’s rancorous moments. Maranello products were successful on the GT racing scene and a lucrative earner, but the focus detracted from F1 and stretched the workforce to breaking point. In late 1961 a group of employees including engineers Carlo Chiti and Giotto Bizzarrini walked out to form their own team – with the backing of Scuderia Serenissima owner Count Giovanni Volpi di Misurata, one of Enzo’s best customers. Raging, Ferrari cancelled Volpi’s order of a pair of 250 GTOs. The Count responded by having Bizzarrini convert a Scuderia Serenissima 250 GT into…

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PICTURES THE TRUTH ABOUT BAKU AND PIRELLI The high-speed accidents experienced by Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll in Baku raised once again the subject of tyre durability. The somewhat obscure nature of the press release issued by Pirelli after its analysis of the failed tyres led to some rather ill-informed comments in various publications, so it’s worthwhile trying to understand both the nature of the failures and why the case was effectively closed as ‘unproven’. To fully comprehend the problem, we need to understand a few different facts about tyres and basic mechanical engineering. First and foremost is to know how a tyre is constructed and how it carries load. Of course, a tyre contains a lot of rubber and other polymers but the real load-carrying capacity of a tyre…

The 2005 Spanish Grand Prix is remembered chiefly for a crushing Kimi Räikkönen and McLaren victory over home hero Fernando Alonso. Supporting Alonso in the Renault pit that weekend was World Rally Champion Carlos Sainz Sr – a huge F1 fan in his own right – alongside his 10-year-old son. The connections between modern Spanish motorsport’s most famous names are well known, but there was another, less well-known trip the Sainzes made that weekend which ultimately proved far more significant. Being taken to the Ferrari garage by his father left a lasting impression on the younger Sainz, who was beginning to forge his own racing career in karting, and it became his dream to one day race in the scarlet red of the Scuderia in Formula 1. Sixteen years later,…

PICTURES IN MANY WAYS, Carlos Reutemann came to be emblematic of an era in Formula 1. The Argentine, who died aged 79 on 7 July after a long battle with cancer, was not the most famous driver of his time. He didn’t become world champion. His career was not as dramatic as Niki Lauda’s. He was not a notorious playboy in the manner of James Hunt; nor as outspoken and high-profile as Mario Andretti. But with his film-star looks, his sublime ability, and an enigmatic personality, he was an especially glamorous and evocative figure. In the complexity of his appeal, talented but mysterious, handsome and unknowable, few have come closer to the popular image of a racing driver than Reutemann. Tall and lean, with striking blue eyes, dark skin, dimpled…

FINISHING STRAIGHT @CoddersF1 facebook.com/gpracingonline PICTURES TOO EARLY TO CLAIM SPRINT SUCCESS Call it what you like (after all, even the people who came up with the idea can’t seem to get its name right every time), but Sprint Qualifying – officially ‘the F1 Sprint’ – could become a fixture of F1 weekends if further trials prove successful. Indeed, based on its first outing at Silverstone, the auguries are that it will be declared the greatest innovation since the disc brake regardless of whether it’s any good or not; F1’s website presented a gloriously Pravda-esque compilation of team and driver quotes after the event in which you would struggle to find a crumb of negativity. All this despite prominent drivers, including Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel, saying it shouldn’t be used…