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News Feature - The Schlumpf Collection
They call it "The Louvre of the Automobile" and although the Schlumpf Collection at Mulhouse is in French territory, it is just a few miles from German border and within 20 miles of Switzerland as well. This is Bugatti country and the Schlumpf Collection is reckoned to have collection of Bugattis in the world.Full Story
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Interview - Webber's path to the top
The announcement that Mark Webber will race for the KL Minardi Asiatech team in this year's FIA World Formula One Championship marks the culmination of six years hard work by the 25-year old from Queanbeyan, New South Wales.Full Story
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Big Al - Tightening belts and feeling the draught
Formula 1 teams were tugging at their commercial seat belts yesterday as the turbulent after-shocks of the Prost $35m bankruptcy rippled out through the sport. Desperately, they were trying to read the tea leaves to understand the long-term implications for the sport.Full Story
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News Feature - Willy Rampf: the unknown technical director
Willy Rampf does not go around making a lot of noise. Unlike some technical directors he can walk into the paddock without having to have an oompah band walking ahead of him. He believes that results speak for themselves.Full Story
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News Feature - What happened to all France's racing drivers?
No Frenchman needs to be reminded that his country was the original home of motor racing. The first motor race was held there in 1894. The first Automobile Club was founded in Paris the following year and all the early races were between Paris and other European cities. The French racing industry was way ahead of the rest of Europe in the early years of the Twentieth Century with firms such as De Dion Bouton, Panhard, Mors, Renault, Peugeot, Darracq, De Dietrich and Richard-Brasier. Delage, Ballot, Bugatti, Salmson and Delahaye took up the challenge after World War I and it was not until the 1930s that the French had been eclipsed by the Italians and the Germans.Full Story
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Big Al - I hate team orders, but Ferrari has proved their worth
Listening to various members of the Ferrari F1 team, Michael Schumacher included, it is quite clear that the Italian squad is extremely confident it can hit the ground running at Melbourne on March 3 and get its title hat trick bid off to a spectacular flying start.Full Story
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News Feature - Pre-qualifying
Nowadays Formula 1 consists 11 teams (22 cars). Next year if everyone turns up there will be 12 teams. All of them qualify if they can lap the track with 107% of the time set by the pole position man. But it was not always that.Full Story
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Big Al - My instinct tells me Villeneuve will be on the move
I've always felt that weather forecasters rely as much on instinct bred from long experience every bit as much as on the apparent scientific analysis of previous trends and other evidence at their disposal. So it is with Formula 1. You can analyze all the facts on the table in front of you in a bid to determine just how future events will unfold. But ultimately, a sniff of the air and a dampened finger held up in the breeze has very often proved the best way to reach the correct conclusion.Full Story
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Technical - Lotus T88
The history of Grand Prix racing is littered with cars that were built in hope, but that never made it to the start line of a Grand Prix. Few can have tried as hard as the Lotus T88 of 1981, three of which were built and presented for racing at the Long Beach, Brazilian, Argentinian and British GP's, and rejected each time.Full Story
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News Feature - Speaking the Formula 1 language
Formula 1 can be a baffling world for those who have not grown up with the terminology. Journalists and insiders use expressions which seem somehow unrelated to the sport and now that Murray Walker has retired from being a commentator there is no-one to explain the basics. You may be familiar with a wishbone on a chicken or a turkey but do you know where to find one on a Formula 1 car. And what part do butterflies play in Grand Prix racing?Full Story
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Big Al - Anyone out there seen Tony Blair? Well get him up to Silverstone and sort out that traffic
On the one hand it was a measure of just how crucial the motorsports industry is to the British economy. On the other, it gave rise to smirks all round from the more irreverent members of the F1 community.Full Story
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Year in Review - Ferrari
Michael Schumacher recently affirmed his belief that F1 is in the middle of a Ferrari era, an era which the team has dreamed of creating for a long time. He added that this process started a long time ago and it is his hope that it can be sustained for a good while yet.Full Story
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Year in Review - McLaren-Mercedes
The McLaren team last went a season without a win in 1996, their second year in partnership with Mercedes-Benz. This year the alliance won four races, but such had been the level of expectation prior to the start of the 17 race season that you might have been forgiven for thinking they'd again won nothing in 2001.Full Story
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Year in Review - Williams-BMW
Four wins in only the second year of the BMW Williams F1 partnership represented one of the great achievements of the 2002 season. After being away from the F1 winner's rostrum since Jacques Villeneuve triumphed in the 1997 Austrian Grand Prix, Williams was back in the big time thanks to the efforts of Ralf Schumacher and the team's new prodigy Juan Pablo Montoya.Full Story
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Technical - The future for Formula 1 engines
This year has not been one of the safest in recent motorsport history, with fatalities and major injuries in most of the premier series gaining worldwide publicity.Full Story
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Year in Review - Sauber-Petronas
There is no getting away from the fact that the Sauber-Petronas squad deeply embarrassed the likes of Benetton, Jordan, BAR and Jaguar throughout 2001. No matter how one argues the point, Sauber was paying for customer engines - it was effectively a private team like Minardi with no factory backing - no matter that the 2000 spec Ferrari V10s made available by Maranello must have seemed something of a bargain even with lease fees approaching $20m for the season.Full Story
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Big Al - If it looks like a duck, squawks like a duck, then it probably is a duck
US presidential aide James Rubin spoke those words on a UK television interview earlier this year. My mind won't recall what the hell he was referring to, but it could well have been the hugely damaging split between US racing factions CART and the Indy Racing League.Full Story
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Year in Review - Jordan-Honda
Head-to-head with BAR as the second official Honda factory team, Jordan started the year in upbeat mood with the new EJ-11 which highly impressed regular drivers Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Jarno Trulli at first acquaintance. Former BAR teamster Ricardo Zonta signed as test driver.Full Story
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News Feature - Enzo's American Dream Machine
It was the unfulfilled dream of Enzo Ferrari that his cars should add the Indianapolis 500 to the list of achievements on the Scuderia's roll of honor.Full Story
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Year in Review - BAR-Honda
To a large degree British American Racing remained throughout 2001 a hostage to the philosophy behind its own foundation. Back in 1999 it seemed a novel concept to found an F1 primarily driven by promotional requirements rather than underlying engineering capability. But the sun has long since gone in on that approach and BAR has singularly failed to establish itself as anything more than a struggling midfield also-ran.Full Story
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