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News Feature - Want to be a racing driver?

Unless you are born and brought up in the sport - and many these days are - it can seem from the outside to be very complex and sometimes impenetrable. You may have watched Formula 1 on the television and thought: I would like to be a Grand Prix driver but you have no idea what to do about it. The answer is karting.Full Story

Exclusive Interview - The thoughts of chairman Richards

David Richards admits that he is pedantic by nature. He likes things neat and tidy. His offices are immaculate. Radiators and air-conditioning units are hidden. Apples must be green and healthy-looking. People must be presentable. The man himself is more of a free spirit and his Don Johnson, nearly-shaved look seems somehow incongruous sticking out of the top of a neat suit and tie. He seems a little weary. He has flown in from Japan the previous day and did not sleep much. He is two minutes late arriving but apologizes for it.Full Story

News Feature - The new rules

The last few months have seen major changes in the way in which Formula 1 will be run in 2003 with wholesale changes in the structure of events and some important reinterpretations of the technical regulations. The cars will remain fundamentally unchanged but certain electronic systems have been outlawed as the FIA has ruled that they contravene the rule which states that drivers must drive their cars "alone and unaided". Here are the major rule changes.Full Story

News Feature - The State of the Union

Formula 1 is a world which is never without issues and never without drama. But in recent times too many of the issues and too much of the drama has been taking place in the paddock and not enough of it happened on the race track. The sport suffered as a result but it did not suffer as much as some people would have you believe.Full Story

Exclusive Interview - Patrick Faure

Patrick Faure is the boss of Renault Sport, the man to whom Flavio Briatore reports and the team's representative at the highest level within Renault and as one of the men behind the GPWC.Full Story

Exclusive Interview - Max Mosley

Max Mosley has always been an impressive politician and this week he gave evidence of that once again as he presented the Formula 1 team bosses with a new set of Formula 1 regulations - without changing the rules. This little piece of magic was achieved by taking the existing rules and simply re-interpreting what they meant. It was the work of a fertile legal brain and left the team bosses with little room to maneuver.Full Story

Eff One - 13 January 2003

Spare a thought for the poor Formula 1 freelance journalists at this time of year. Money from last season has now stopped trickling in and this is the moment when we poor artistic individuals have to spend a fortune, booking all our flights for the coming season. They say that necessity breeds invention and in the finest tradition of starving poets, this is the time of year when many of us do our most colorful and creative writing: otherwise known as our tax returns.Full Story

Eff One - 23 December 2002

There has been lots of talk this year about Formula 1 being in crisis, but currently I am more concerned with my annual crisis of getting through the forthcoming festive season while avoiding my relatives.Full Story

News Feature - Jaguar's new boy

One would think that coming from the Amazon jungle is not really an advantage for a racing driver in Brazil - but it is. The logic is simple. The local region wants to attract business to the city of Manaus and so offers incentives for firms to settle there. As a result a lot of big companies are there.Full Story

News Feature - The F1 World According to Professor Gordon Murray

Gordon Murray, one of the great innovators of modern F1, who built cars which took World Championships with Nelson Piquet in Brabham-Ford and Brabham-BMWs, and later with Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost in McLaren-Hondas, reckons that Ferrari made one mistake this year.Full Story

News Feature - A thought for Thanksgiving

You may not know the story of Thanksgiving. This great American tradition - held on the last Thursday in November each year - is when families and friends gather to celebrate the good things in life. They eat turkey and cranberry sauce and follow it up with pumpkin pie.Full Story

News Feature - At the crossroads

When Max Mosley declared to the world that Formula 1 was "at a crossroads" he didn't need the dictionary to explain to people what he meant. A crossroads is more than just an intersection, it is a critical moment, a metaphor for a time of change and decision making.Full Story

News Feature - Denny Hulme

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the death of one of the most popular Formula 1 drivers of the modern era: Denny Hulme, the 1967 World Champion. Denny died on October 4, 1992 at Mount Panorama, Bathurst, from a heart attack while at the wheel of a BMW M3 touring car. He was just 56.Full Story

News Feature - What to do in the Silly Season

It has been about five years since I read a book all the way through. It's not that I don't enjoy reading, I just haven't had the time. A few weeks ago I decided that it was about time I started reading again and, with high expectations, took myself down to the local bookshop. After about an hour of searching I came to the unhappy conclusion that I hadn't been missing much. To be honest John Grisham just doesn't do it for me and no matter how much my deluded Mother insists I read Harry Potter, I can never seem to get past the second page. Then something caught my eye?Full Story

News Feature - Schumacher versus Fangio

Who was the best fighter pilot of all time? Was it Manfred von Richtofen with his 80 "kills" in World War I or was it the virtually-unknown Erich Hartmann, who shot down 352 planes in World War II? And how do these men compared to Colonel Yevgeny Peplyaev who shot down 23 planes in Korea, when aerial warfare had moved on to jet fighters?Full Story
News Feature - Seventy-six years ago today

The summer recess in Formula 1 has led to a certain amount of boredom amongst Formula 1 fans, used to the daily comings-and goings of the Grand Prix circus. But today is nonetheless a significant one if one looks back in history because on Saturday, August 7, 1926 Grand Prix racing arrived in Britain for the very first time, a little over 20 years after the first Grand Prix was held at Le Mans in France.Full Story

News Feature - Ruminations on Formula 1

"Formula 1 racing, once European, now worldwide, is less boring to watch that the rival American versions: its circuits do actually have corners to go round, not just an eternal oval," wrote The Economist recently. "But to non-addicts it is still - crashes apart - a non-event, like watching paint dry, and this year's procession of Ferrari victories has made it duller still. Why watch, when you already know the winner? Yet hundreds of millions of televiewers do."Full Story

News Feature - Farewell Mika Hakkinen

In the pressroom in Brazil in 1991 a senior Formula 1 journalist looked up from his computer, peered at a television screen for a few moments as Mike Hakkinen's Lotus was passing through the picture and declared with a certain nonchalance that "That boy is going to be a World Champion one day".Full Story

News Feature - Blind Britannia

There was once a time when Britannia ruled the waves. Her Empire covered every continent and every language. Her industry was groundbreaking, her expansion unhindered, her power unquestioned. Britons made the rules and the rest of the world just sort of went along with them. Just over a century ago however, it all started to crumble somewhat. Today there is no great Empire, just a Commonwealth to behold. Her industry ruined, her expansion turned inwards, her power unnoticeable. Britannia has no more waves to rule.Full Story

News Feature - The stars of tomorrow

Guessing who will be the stars of the future in Formula 1 is not an easy business, particularly in an age when Formula Renault drivers can leap straight in the top echelon. However there are a number of drivers who are making a good impression in the junior formulae and could become big names in the sport in the years ahead.Full Story

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