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Interview - Bernie Ecclestone

Bernie Ecclestone is the man who runs Formula 1. Grand Prix racing has made him very rich - and he has made the people in F1 rich. Today he controls a worldwide sport, with billions of television viewers - and billions of dollars.Full Story
Interview - Andrea de Cesaris

Andrea de Cesaris has been in Formula 1 for 12 years and despite the fact that he is still trying to win his first race he retains an enthusiasm for the job. He still wants to win but nowadays he is a realist about his chances.Full Story

Interview - Ligier's new owner Cyril de Rouvre tells all

Cyril de Rouvre is a politician. He should know better than to upset his fellow-countrymen by hiring two Englishmen to drive for the Ligier team. The French media are up in arms. The Union Jack, they say, is now flying over the Ligier factory at Magny-Cours. De Rouvre, the mayor of Chaumont, does not care.Full Story
News Feature - Formula 1 gossip

There are no Grands Prix until the middle of March - so what is it that the Formula 1 teams are doing during the off-season? Well, they are gossiping, but they are busy as well getting ready for the F1 season which kicks off on March 14 in South Africa.Full Story

Interview - Christian Fittipaldi

Christian Fittipaldi was one of the quieter stars of 1991. While Michael Schumacher overshadowed all the F1 new boys, Christian had a solid first season in F1. He has a lot to live up to, of course. His father Wilson was a Formula 1 driver in the mid-Seventies and Uncle Emerson is a legend, having won two F1 World titles (1972 and 1974), run his own F1 team and then gone racing in America and added the Indianapolis 500 and the CART championship to his curriculum vitae in 1989.Full Story

News Feature - Team by Team Review 1991

McLaren The team started the year with both Ayrton Senna and Gerhard Berger complaining that Honda's new V12 engine was not good enough. Senna promptly won the first four races of the year, but in the mid-season the team was unable to stem the tide of Williams-Renault.Full Story
Interview - Four out of four: Ron Dennis

Ron Dennis and McLaren International won both the drivers' and constructors' titles in 1991. It was the team's fourth consecutive double title. An impressive statistic. But Dennis is never satisfied.Full Story
News Feature - Reviving Team Lotus

Team Lotus has more relaunces in recent years than it has had Grand Prix victories, but the once-great team which looked like going to the wall a year ago is on the up again. In December 1990 Peter Collins and Peter Wright (both former Lotus men from the days of the late great Colin Chapman) announced to the world that they were going to run Team Lotus, with the help of German Horst Schubel. When Collins and Wright took over they found a demoralised team, with no engine, no sponsorship, no drivers and a design - the 103 - way behind schedule for the 1991 season.Full Story

News Feature - The rising stars of tomorrow

Formula 1 is a consumer society. Everyone involved from drivers to engineers, team managers to mechanics, motor home hospitality to journalists has to deliver.Full Story
News Feature - The Mansell-Senna showdown

Ayrton versus Nigel. It as been the story of the 1991 Formula 1 season, with the Brazilian and the Englishman dominating the year. Each, of course, is supported by massive organisations: McLaren International, Williams Grand Prix Engineering, Honda and Renault. But whn it comes down to it, at the 16 Grands Prix this year, everything boils down to the men behind the steering wheels - and each is handsomely financially rewarded for their skills.Full Story
News Feature - Why Ferrari fired Alain Prost...

Claudio Lombardi is team director of Ferrari and, in theory at least, the man who makes decisions in the Ferrari racing team. We asked him why Alain Prost was not racing in Adelaide. This is what he had to say:Full Story
Interview - Mika Hakkinen

Mika Hakkinen has done a remarkable job for Lotus this season. It is all the more remarkable when you realise that the Finn has come straight to Formula 1 from British Formula 3.Full Story
News Feature - Formula 1 fan for a year

John Grainger is a Formula 1 fanatic. He loves Grand Prix racing so much, in fact, that he went to all 16 Grands Prix in 1991 - and paid for it all himself.Full Story
News Feature - Gianni Morbidelli joins Ferrari

This year is Gianni Morbidelli's first full season of Formula 1. He is not the youngest F1 driver, nor is he the best-known of his generation, but in Adelaide he finished third on the road - driving a Ferrari.Full Story

News Feature - Ayrton Senna attacks Jean-Marie Balestre

Ayrton Senna launched a bitter attack on ex-FISA President Jean-Marie Balestre after the Brazilian had won his third World Championship in Suzuka. Speaking publicly for the first time since Balestre was defeated in the FISA election by Max Mosley, Senna reiterated his 1989 allegation that Balestre had manipulated the World Championship result, following the collision between Senna and Alain Prost in the Japanese Grand Prix and accused Balestre of meddling with the championship again in Suzuka in 1990, when Senna and Prost again collided while fighting for the World Championship.Full Story
Interview - The new president: Max Mosley

Last Wednesday in Paris Jean-Marie Balestre was ousted after 13 years as the president of FISA. Max Mosley is the man who beat him - with 43 votes to Balestre's 29 - in the election.Full Story
News Feature - Ligier's woes in 1991

The 1991 season was always going to be an interim year for Guy Ligier's team -- an excuse which has been used far too often in the recent history of what is, effectively, France's national racing team.Full Story
News Feature - Eric Bernard's accident

In the final moments of Friday morning's free practice session at Suzuka Eric Bernard crashed heavily on the exit of the hairpin after the underpass. His Larrousse Lola went a little wide as he put the power down and it slid on to the kerbing. Earlier in the session Pierluigi Martini had done the same and had had a large accident. Eric's would be even larger. The car snapped to the right and crashed into the barriers, virtually head on. It was a massive impact with almost no deflection of the energy involved. The Lola stood up remarkably well.Full Story
Interview - Bertrand Gachot

Bertrand Gachot was released from prison on the Tuesday before Suzuka. He flew straight out to Japan, but he no longer had a Formula 1 drive. He had been jailed just before the Belgian Grand Prix in August, convicted of causing actual bodily harm to a London taxi driver after a collision at London's Hyde Park Corner in December last year. In the ensuing altercation Bertrand sprayed CS gas into the face of the cabbie. In Britain CS gas is illegal. Bertrand was sentenced to six months for possession and 18 months for assault.Full Story

Financial - The French connection - motor racing and politics

To understand the complicated relationships between the French government and French motor racing takes a lot of explaining.Full Story

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