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F3000 Report - Webber wins the big one

Mark Webber did it all right at Monaco - even if he did total a car in qualifying. The accident came after he had taken pole position for the big Formula 3000 event of the year. In the race Webber was in total control and so became the first Australian to win on the streets of Monte Carlo since Dave Walker won the Formula 3 Grand Prix in 1971.Full Story

Technical - Carbon Fibre Technologies (CFT) Ltd.

Carbon Fibre Technologies (CFT) Ltd. is one of those companies that make up the backbone of the British motorsport industry. Full Story

News Feature - Sauber v Prost

They have identical engines, but the fortunes of Sauber and Prost in 2001 could scarcely be more different. One has been the talk of F1 after its best-ever performances, the other's pre-season hopes have been dashed by feeble efforts. So why is one doing so well and the other so badly?Full Story

Big Al - Can Rockingham change the balance of power?

This coming weekend sees what could be a seminal moment in the history of British domestic motorsport as the Rockingham Speedway opens its doors officially with Nigel Mansell demonstrating a Champcar - albeit at reduced speed - as part of the promotional razzmatazz surrounding the event.Full Story

Technical - Electromagnetic Valve Actuation (EVA)

When Renault announced they were returning to Formula 1, they declared that they were planning a radical approach to the design of their 3-liter V10 engine. That engine is now running in the Benetton, giving everyone involved a headache, and there has been much speculation about which radical technologies are incorporated. Renault admit that the V-angle is unusually wide at 110 degrees, in order to lower the center of mass of the engine, and there have been rumors that both direct fuel injection (GDI) and electromagnetic valve actuation (LVA) are used.Full Story

News Feature - The Rise and Rise of BMW Williams

The rise to full competitiveness of BMW Williams has been one of the talking points of the 2001 season. But what does technical director Patrick Head feel about the team's new dawn?Full Story

F3000 Report - Wilson wins as Webber is taken out

The Formula 3000 series has been struggling a lot this year and the first signs of that came in Austria where Kid Jensen Racing (the entry having been taken over from the British team by Monaco Motorsport) failed to appear, reducing the entry to just 12 teams. The need for better performance had led to the disappearance of Indonesia's Ananda Mikola from Team Astromega and his replacement by Dino Morelli, an Ulsterman with an Italian name.Full Story

Exclusive Interview - Phil Hill: Still a Champ, four decades on

Today he can walk through an F1 paddock and very few will recognize him. Indeed, in San Marino recently it was son Derek who made the headlines after a spectacular accident in the F3000 race. But none of that bothers Philip Toth Hill as he enters his 75th year. The first American ever to wear the World Championship crown remains what he has always been, an immensely likeable, laconic man relaxed in his own company and devoid of any need to aggrandize himself.Full Story

Big Al - Fighting against F1's mathematical tide

Everbody would like the immensely popular Mika Hakkinen still to be in with a chance of winning his third World Championship title this season, but I fear his chances went up in smoke - literally - when his McLaren-Mercedes suffered clutch failure on the last lap of the Spanish Grand Prix.Full Story

News Feature - Michael no mates

Juan Pablo Montoya has said he wouldn't do it, and Ralf Schumacher says that it would be less fun. Nobody, it seems, wants to be Michael Schumacher's team mate as Ferrari puts feelers out for a new man to step into Rubens Barrichello's shoes. Although the team has publicly stood by its second driver, insiders have pointed to disharmony as Barrichello chafes at the non-appearance of the ?equal number one' status he feels contractually entitled to, and that contract ends at this season.Full Story

News Feature - Charming man, hard racer

When you close your eyes, Michele Alboreto told himself when he carved out a career as a sportscar driver, you can almost believe that you are still driving in Formula One. Though his friends Gerhard Berger and Riccardo Patrese pleaded with him to stop driving, Michele enjoyed it just too much. These are some of the memories left by one of the great characters taken by the sport following an accident his Audi sustained during a test session at the Lausitzring.Full Story

News Feature - Forgotten lessons in Ford history

They say that those who do not know history are condemned to make the same mistakes as those who went before them and one wonders if there is anyone in Dearborn, Michigan, the world headquarters of the Ford Motor Company, who remembers the story of Fordlandia. Full Story

News Feature - Can Coulthard really be a champion?

A win, two second places and a third - all things considered it's not been a bad start for David Coulthard in 2001. Joint leadership of the World Championship after the fourth of the 17 rounds, and 22 points more than his team-mate Mika Hakkinen, left him feeling a warm glow after Imola as he faced his best-ever chance of succeeding Jackie Stewart as Scotland's first World Champion since 1973. But does DC really have what it takes to put it all together over a long, long season?Full Story

The Youth of Today - Uncle Henry wins again

Motor racing has, from its very inception, been intended to sell cars. You and I are supposed to thrill to the sights and sounds of our chosen sport, then toddle off down to the local dealership to order a little bit of that sporting pedigree to put on the drive. Presumably therefore BMW's sales have rocketed since San Marino and a batch of Ralf Schumacher stickers and gear knobs are being prepared to shift the some base model 3-series as this year's dark horse makes his title bid. The car market has preoccupied me of late, as the swanky motors of my salad days are put up for sale as parenthood rolls over the horizon and sensible shoes are required.Full Story

Big Al - Jaguar in F1: The best is yet to come

When Ralf Schumacher accelerated across the line to win the San Marino Grand Prix, the Williams F1 team sent out a firm message which should offer a degree of hope to at least a handful of rival Grand Prix outfits which have yet to win their first race.Full Story

News Feature - Why Montoya will be the man to beat Schumacher

He's led his first GP, made his first passing move on Michael Schumacher, and shown that he is fulfilling all of the expectation heaped upon him when he joined BMW Williams. Small wonder that everybody is still talking about Juan Pablo Montoya long after his ill fortune in the Brazilian GP has been consigned to history.Full Story

Big Al - The King Maker is not always the King

The scene is Silverstone, just four days after David Coulthard won the Brazilian Grand Prix. Rain is teeming down to the point where the Scot has abandoned traction control testing on the near-flooded track. Instead, he is sitting clutching a cup of coffee, pondering on his success at Interlagos which stopped Michael Schumacher's winning streak which extended back to last year's Italian Grand Prix. Coulthard looks back on Interlagos on a particularly satisfying win, reflecting on the fact that he ran from the start on compromise chassis settings which only paid off when the rain started to fall. "Compromise chassis settings meant that the car was not quite a sharp, a little softer, than usual," he said. "But I managed to keep in touch and it all paid off. But the speed of Montoya's Williams-BMW was certainly impressive. They will be a factor for the rest of the season, no question about it." David has always been a realist. Six years into his career with the McLaren-Mercedes team, the Scot understands beFull Story

News Feature - McLaren needs a nose job

A front-end aero problem is hurting the turn-in of McLaren's new MP4/16 and preventing it from offering the expected challenge to Ferrari's all-conquering F1-2001. But how soon can the former champion team incorporate the changes to make the car fully competitive?Full Story

The Youth of Today - Heroes, revisited

I'm told that meeting your heroes is, more often than not, to be avoided unless you're prepared to have illusions shattered. For me though such disappointment has seldom been a problem because, for the most part, my heroes have departed for the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.Full Story

News Feature - Slip sliding away

Anyone who watched the Australian and Malaysian Grands Prix will have noticed how much more controllable the 2001 F1 cars look now that they are running on softer compound tires. Opposite lock slides no longer mean sudden breakaway and a spin that takes forever to stop. Once more they are glorious expressions of the drivers' art. But just as F1 is looking good again, traction control is about to kill the spectacle.Full Story

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