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News Feature - Peugeot's F1 plans

The 1994 season may well be remembered as the year Peugeot finally came to Formula 1, having long resisted the challenge to battle it out with other manufacturers where it really matters. For years Peugeot Talbot Sport, under its own little Napoleon - Jean Todt - had collected Trophies and titles in World Championship rallying, on rally raids like the daunting Paris-Dakar, at Pikes Peak hillclimb in the United States and more recently in the World Sportscar Championship and at the Le Mans 24 Hours. In June last year Peugeot achieved an historic 1-2-3 at Le Mans.Full Story

Interview - Jean-Pierre Jabouille

Jean-Pierre Jabouille is back in Formula 1. In the late 1970s he was one of the stars of the sport but after a huge accident in Canada in 1980 which left him with two badly broken legs he drifted away from Grand Prix racing, unable to drive F1 cars competitively. He did a bit of racing in France and ran a restaurant in Paris.Full Story
News Feature - Mercedes-Benz returns to Formula 1

Mercedes-Benz is one of the great names of motor sport, the Stuttgart company's involvement in racing going back to 1900 when the Austro-Hungarian consul in Nice Emil Jellinek asked Gottlieb Daimler to build his a run of 36 new racing cars. Daimler agreed that these could be called after Jellinek's daughter Mercedes. Success was immediate and at regular intervals the company has appeared in Grand Prix racing, won and then disappeared again.Full Story
News Feature - Alain Prost describes his last Grand Prix

"I came to Adelaide to try as hard as usual and try to win the race. In fact I was probably trying harder than usual in qualifying so as to have the best car possible for the race on Sunday.Full Story
News Feature - Young Guns

A new era is dawning in Formula 1, regenerating the sport and producing a new age. The hugely paid mega-stars of the greedy 1980s are now thin on the ground. These are men who have made perhaps US$60 million in their careers, which have lasted 10 years or more. Formula 1 is not as dangerous as once it was and so they have stayed longer and look at the sport as a business rather than a sport.Full Story

News Feature - The new FIA

The reform of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) and the disappearance of its politically-independent - yet financially-dependent - sporting federation, the FISA is a great step forward for motor sport.Full Story

Interview - Mika Hakkinen

Mika Hakkinen put his McLaren third on the grid in Estoril, ahead of Ayrton Senna. It was a remarkable performance for a man who has spent the year testing. But if he had been flying in qualifying. he really took off in the race. The problem was that it was not the right kind of take-off. On lap 33 he came through the final corner too fast and went off, launching the McLaren into the air and across the track - where a solid barrier awaited.Full Story
Interview - Olivier Panis dreams of F1

Olivier Panis, the new Formula 3000 champion, does not know what he is doing next year. The newspapers in France say that he will be in Formula 1 but no deal is yet done. But it probably will be. Racing is in his blood and with a little help from Elf Panis will now take the next step in his career.Full Story
News Feature - Why has FISA been abolished?

FISA will disappear in October. It has been abolished because there is no need for it. That may sound odd, but it is important to consider what the FISA was and why it was created.Full Story
News Feature - The Formula 1 stars of tomorrow

Have you ever wondered who will be the big names in Formula 1 in the year 2000. Who are the next Ayrton Sennas and Alain Prosts, John Barnards and Patrick Heads? We asked the experts.Full Story
Interview - Damon the conqueror: Damon Hill

The name 'Damon' comes from the Greek meaning 'conqueror'. This year Damon Hill is second in the World Championship, Full Story
News Feature - GP drivers from the motorcycle world

There is nothing new about Grand Prix drivers who started their careers, racing on motorcycles. A quick look back through the record books reveal some great names in Grand Prix racing started out on two-wheels: Tazio Nuvolari was a top bike racer in the 1920s in Italy and his motor racing rival Achille Varzi started out as one of his two-wheeled rivals on bike, Varzi being the first Italian to compete in the Isle of Man TT bike races. German Bernd Rosemeyer was also an accomplished bike racer before he joined Auto Union.Full Story

Interview - The real Ayrton Senna revealed

It is just over 10 years since Ayrton Senna sat in Grand Prix car for the first time. In that time he has made himself a legend. And yet the man himself remains a mystery. Some call him arrogant, ruthless and cunning and others say he is shy, gentle and compassionate. He doesn't seem to care. Deep down he probably does.Full Story
Interview - John Barnard

When you talk about Formula 1's top engineers the name John Barnard is soon part of the conversation. He's back at Ferrari this year and is as strong-willed as ever - particularly when it comes to rule-changes.Full Story
Historical - Japanese drivers in Formula 1

Japanese involvement in Formula 1 is not new. It dates back nearly 30 years to the days when Honda ran its own F1 effort in the Sixties. The team won twice in its 35 GPs, but the winners were American Ritchie Ginther and Englishman John Surtees. There were no Japanese drivers involved.Full Story
News Feature - Is Alain Prost slowing down?

How can it be that Alain Prost, one of motor racing's all-time great drivers, has been matched this year by Formula 1 new boy Damon Hill, who never showed anything more than a solid talent before he arrived in Formula 1?Full Story

Financial - Who pays for Formula 1 and why?

Ask a Formula 1 marketing man why companies are involved in Grand Prix racing and before you can say: "Positive interface situation" they are firing tracer bullets of jargon at you. They talk of "corporate motivation" and "image transfer", of "synergy" and "global brand awareness" and of "positioning in the market place", just like they used to do with stalls in vegetable markets.Full Story
Interview - Jackie Oliver

A couple of years ago the Arrows Formula 1 team disappeared. Instead there was a team called Footwork. In fact nothing much changed apart from the name. The team was still the same beneath its pseudonym.Full Story
Interview - The adventures of Mr Todt

After his Peugeot 905s finished 1-2-3 at Le Mans, Peugeot Talbot Sport boss Jean Todt packed his bags and at the French Grand Prix in Magny-Cours "Napoleon" joined the Ferrari Formula 1 team. It was not to be one of the great debuts for an F1 team chief, Jean Alesi retired with engine failure and Gerhard Berger struggled home with an evil-handling car to finish 14th.Full Story
Interview - Jean Alesi

Jean Alesi used to be a pane-beater. Some say that his knowledge of this trade taught him that no matter how many dents you put in a car, they can always be knocked out later. Formula 1 cars don't dent these days, but the spirit of the panel-beater-turned-racer lives on in Jean Alesi's lurid F1 driving style. Show Jean a kerb and he'll drive over it. Give him a gap and he'll put a Ferrari through it. Ferrari number 27 is driven with the same kind of brio that it was in the days when it was driven by the late Gilles Villeneuve.Full Story

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