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Interview - Out of the limelight: Jean Alesi

Jean Alesi hasn't been in the headlines much in the last recent months. The sensation of the 1990 season in the dramatic trend-setting Tyrrell 019 was signed by Ferrari at a time when the famed Scuderia was coming apart at the seams. Today everyone is talking about Michael Schumacher while Jean battles to get Ferrari back up to speed.Full Story
Interview - Ten years on: Keke Rosberg

Keke Rosberg won the Formula 1 World Championship in 1982. He was 34. At the end of 1986 he retired and today looks after the careers of two young Finnish hopefuls: Mika Hakkinen and JJ Lehto.Full Story
News Feature - Mansell quits F1

It is Sunday morning at Monza. Rugged race ace Nigel Mansell has just set the fastest time in the warm-up - by the enormous margin of two seconds, but trouble is brewing... Mansell heads for the Media Centre. He seems in a relaxed mood as he arrives in the Monza media centre.Full Story

Interview - Michael Schumacher

A year ago Michael Schumacher was a little-known Mercedes sportscar driver. He had won the German Formula 3 championship the previous year, but had moved into sportscars rather than progress into F3000.Full Story
Interview - Ron Dennis

McLaren's Ron Dennis is at the centre of the Formula 1 'silly season', which traditionally kicks off at Hockenheim. At Hockenheim he was in the spotlight. Rumours suggest that Honda is going to pull out.Full Story
Interview - Bernard Dudot

Nigel Mansell is World Champion and a considerable part of his success has been due to the Renault V10 engine. Nigel has been trying to win the F1 World Championship since 1980, but Renault Sport's engine wizard Bernard Dudot has had to wait three years more than Nigel...Full Story

Interview - Bob Judd

You might have heard of Bob Judd. He writes novels about motor racing. Go to an airport and you will probably find copies of Formula 1 and Indy on the shelves. It sounds a great life, doesn't it? How does one do it?Full Story

Interview - In the shadow of Senna

You would think that driving for the best Formula 1 team in the world would be every driver's dream. But it isn't always like that...Full Story
Interview - Peter Collins

Peter Collins, the boss of Team Lotus was not quite sure whether to laugh or cry after the Canadian Grand Prix. Johnny Herbert and Mika Hakkinen had both run in the top six - but both had retired. Full Story
Financial - Pressing on regardless: Formula 1 and the recession

In the last 12 months the recession has hurt the world economy. But is it hurting Formula 1? Is Grand Prix racing really facing a crisis or is the money being badly managed?Full Story

Interview - Peter Wright

Peter Wright is a self-confessed boffin. Generally regarded as the man behind the introduction of ground effect in F1 in 1978, Wright was later involved in the development of active suspension for Lotus Engineering. Today he has given up being managing director of Lotus Engineering and gone back to his spiritual home Team Lotus. In Barcelona he unveiled the Lotus 107 which he hopes will take the famous team back to the front of the F1 grids. As technical director, he has instigated a programme where technology once again leads the way.Full Story
News Feature - What is wrong with McLaren?

Ron Dennis gets mildly annoyed when people ask him the question of which all F1 fans want to know the answer. What's gone wrong with McLaren this year? Five Grands Prix into the season, Nigel Mansell has 50 points, Ayrton Senna has eight. In the Constructors' World Championship Williams-Renault has 74 points, McLaren-Honda 16.Full Story
Interview - The battler from Faenza

Giancarlo Minardi has been trying to break into the F1 winners' club since 1985. He reckons everyone from the Romagna region of Italy is stubborn and will not give up. Motor racing history suggests that Giancarlo is probably right. The region is the home of the Italian motor racing industry and always has been. It was here that the Maserati brothers set up shop in Bologna; it was here that the Ferrari factory still stands. Lamborghini is in Modena and Dallara at Parma. There are the circuits too: Varano in the north, Misano in the east and Mugello to the south. And right in the middle is Imola.Full Story

Interview - Michele Alboreto

For four years Michele Alboreto was a Ferrari driver. He won five Grands Prix and was second in the 1985 World Championship. In 1988 his F1 career went off the rails.Full Story
Interview - Damon Hill

Motor sport seems full of sons of famous fathers. The list is long and impressive: Ascari, Brabham, Andretti, Unser, McRae, Toivonen, Villeneuve, Stewart, Fittipaldi and Hill.Full Story

Interview - Ken Tyrrell

Ken Tyrrell is a pensioner but he is still hard at work in F1 circles. The team recently announced another first for the Ockham organisation - its first exclusive factory engine deal. The deal is with Yamaha Motor.Full Story
News Feature - The Impressive Mr Wendlinger

Before the South African Grand Prix Karl Wendlinger's racing mileage in F1 amounted to less than 16 laps. Over the winter he did 10 more. And yet at Kyalami he was seventh on the grid in his March-Ilmor. F1 was impressed.Full Story
Interview - Giovanna in the spotlight: Giovanna Amati

Being a woman racing driver in Formula 1 racing means that you are the centre of attention. You have to perform or else you are quickly written off. Giovanna Amati has been struggling to show the F1 circus that she has what it takes.Full Story
Interview - Frank Williams

Frank Williams has every reason to be delighted with the result of the South African Grand Prix. It could scarcely have been a better weekend, nor a better start to a World Championship. The Canon Williams-Renault team was dominant in South Africa. Nigel Mansell was the fastest in every session - timed or free - and the Englishman led the race from lights to flag, set the fastest lap and was followed all the way by team mate Riccardo Patrese.Full Story
Interview - Erik Comas

One wonders what Guy Ligier would have made when the two Ligier of Thierry Boutsen and Erik Comas collided on lap 37 of the Brazilian Grand Prix. Whatever the case, the team was a lot more competitive - and Erik marked himself out as a star of the future.Full Story

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