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News Feature - Hopes dashed: Damon Hill in Germany

Damon Hill was on his way to victory in the German Grand Prix when the left rear tyre on his Williams deflated suddenly with only one and a half laps to go. Hill had dominated the race, taking the lead at the start and running away while Alain Prost tried to fight his way back after yet another bad start. Hill's cause was helped by a dubious 10 sec stop-go penalty imposed on Prost, but even before that, Damon had been well in control. He was over 10 seconds ahead of Prost and running to the finish, not forcing the pace, when the first sign of trouble came.Full Story
News Feature - Damon's dreams come true

It was in December that Frank Williams decided that Damon Hill should partner Frenchman Alain Prost in the Williams team in 1993. Hill had raced in only two Grands Prix for Brabham but he had completed 18,000 miles of testing in his two years as the Williams test driver.Full Story
Interview - Frank Williams

In her book A Different Kind of Life, Ginny Williams, Frank's wife, remembers when she first met her husband.Full Story
News Feature - The F1 World Council: Who are those guys?

In the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the two outlaws are pursued by a group of law men who they cannot identify and who don't give up. Motor racing folk feel the same way about the FIA World Motor Sport Council, which decides the rules of the sport... Who are those guys?Full Story

Interview - Michael Andretti

You wouldn't wish Michael Andretti's first season in F1 on anyone. It has been miserable. In the first three races he had three accidents and completed just four laps. The San Marino GP ended in a sandtrap after 32 laps, but in Spain he finished fifth. The Monaco and Canada were annoying because of a first lap incident and a mechanical problem. After seven races, therefore, the 1991 Indycar champion has scored two points, 40 fewer than his McLaren team mate Ayrton Senna.Full Story

News Feature - Steve Parker, head of Ford's F1 programme

Ford's F1 programme has never looked better but the company's F1 boss Steve Parker has a problem. McLaren is too successful. Benetton is supposed to the Ford factory team.Full Story
News Feature - Senna arrives late for work

At 07:00 on Friday morning, as Rome was waking up to the news that Ayrton Senna might not race for McLaren at Imola, Ayrton was on his final approach to the city's Leonardo da Vinci airport at Fiumicino on board an Alitalia flight from Sao Paulo.Full Story

Interview - Mark Blundell

Mark Blundell is back in Formula 1 this year after a year testing with the McLaren team. With Ligier he reckons he can make an impact.Full Story
Interview - Philippe Alliot

When Philippe Alliot was young it never crossed his mind that he would ever become a racing driver.Full Story

Interview - Keith Wiggins

Keith Wiggins wants to do Formula 1. His Pacific Racing team has won a championship at every level it has contested and now Grand Prix racing beckons, even if there is a recession.Full Story

Interview - Bertrand Gachot

Bertrand Gachot qualified his Venturi Larrousse-Lamborghini 11th on the grid at Silverstone. It was a fine showing for the Belgian in what was once his adopted country.Full Story
Interview - Gerhard Berger

Gerhard Berger is 32 - the same age as Ayrton Senna. Of the top F1 drivers Berger is the least controversial. He doesn't make a fuss if a team mate is quicker than him - he merely learns how to go faster...Full Story
Interview - Flying the flag: Johnny Herbert

Johnny Herbert has been one of the stars of Formula 1 this year. He hasn't been winning racing like Nigel Mansell, but then Johnny doesn't have the same machinery. In fact his car is over two years old.Full Story
Interview - Michael Schumacher

Earlier this year Michael Schumacher did not really believe that he could win a Grand Prix in 1992. He would not even dare to dream that such a thing was possible.Full Story

Interview - Patrick Head

Patrick Head doesn't admit a great deal when journalists come visiting. He puts on a gruff exterior, answers questions with succinct "yes" and "no" replies, and he is happy to sit through long silences, without needing to keep on talking.Full Story
Financial - Formula 1 - what does it cost?

It is no great secret that Formula 1 is a sport for the rich, but just how rich does one have to be to run a Formula 1 team? What does it really cost? There was a time when people like Lord Hesketh, Walter Wolf, or more recently Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, were able to fund their own teams, but even for these extravagant folk the dream is now over. Money is the only master of the game. Dollars are counted in tens of millions, soon it will be hundreds of millions for the wealthy teams like McLaren, Ferrari or Williams-Renault.Full Story
News Feature - Is Honda really going to pull out of Formula 1 in 1993?

The Formula 1 world is buzzing with the rumours that Honda - the most influential engine manufacturer in Grand Prix racing Full Story
Interview - Super Mario: Mario Illien

Mario Illien and Paul Morgan established Ilmor Engineering at the start of 1984. With backing from Roger Penske and Chevrolet the pair built a highly-successful Indycar engine, but at the start of last year Ilmor entered F1, to take on Renault, Honda and Ferrari in Grand Prix racing.Full Story
Interview - Poacher turned gamekeeper: Max Mosley

Max Mosley, the president of the Federation Internationale du Sport Automobile and nominally the most powerful man in the sport, is an intriguing character. He was elected in October last year, defeating Frenchman Jean-Marie Balestre, who had held the office for 13 years. It was a dominant victory with polling 43 votes to Balestre's 29.Full Story
Interview - Martin Brundle

Martin Brundle had a difficult time at the start of the year. The 1988 World Sportscar Champion - a veteran of 97 Grands Prix and the winner of the Le Mans and Daytona 24 Hour races - finally got a good break with a top F1 team. His mentor Tom Walkinshaw insisted that Martin be Michael Schumacher's team mate at Benetton, but for a while the drive looked like being the kiss of death to Martin's F1 career.Full Story

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