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Exclusive Interview - Jean Alesi: The Tribulations of Jean D'Avignon
You're standing in the F1 paddock at Spa, minding your own business and holding a conversation. Suddenly, from behind, a hand smacks the back of your head. Somebody laughs. Bouncing into view comes the smiling face of Jean Alesi. He waves a cheerful greeting. He might be leading the World Championship, so sunny is his demeanour. But this is Friday morning, the calm before the usual storm. The way his season - his career - is going, he should be crying, for his situation is a tragedy.Full Story
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The Youth of Today - Shooting a gift horse in the mouth
Hakkinen, Coulthard, Michael Schumacher, Barrichello, Frentzen, Irvine, Herbert, Button, Wurz, Heidfeld, Diniz, Salo, Gene, Villeneuve... a fair slice of Formula 1 talent in that little lot I think you'll agree - and all with one thing in common. While we're at it, let's add Gilles Villeneuve, Nigel Mansell and Ayrton Senna to this colourful collective of racers (and I use the term advisedly). You see they all learnt a fair proportion of their art in simple, skinny-wheeled single seaters powered by the Blue Oval.Full Story
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Big Al - Mosley fends off F1 teams
Despite all the speculation in the run-up to Wednesday's meeting of F1 Constructors at the Hilton Hotel next to Heathrow airport's Terminal Four, Max Mosley has successfully fronted down disjointed attempts by various team owners to dislodge him from his post as FIA President.Full Story
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The Youth of Today - Back to the Future in Belgium
The very mention of Belgium does, it has to be said, make me chuckle. Nothing to do with Euro sausages or institutionalized tedium. Oh no, it's the bewilderment that swept through thousands of FC Bruges fans when the visiting Chelsea rose to their feet to chant: "Are you French or are you Dutch? Arrrrr-eee you French or arrr-eee you Dutch? Who are ya? Who are ya? Who are ya?"Full Story
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Big Al - In Praise of Paris
When Michael Schumacher climbed the steps of the rostrum after being roundly beaten into second place by Mika Hakkinen's McLaren in Sunday's Belgian grand prix, for the first time the Ferrari driver wore the expression of a man who knew that the game was up.Full Story
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Firm Guidance - West
West Cigarettes are the major sponsor of the McLaren Formula 1 team. The West brand is owned by the German tobacco company Reemtsma, which is based in Hamburg.Full Story
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F3000 Report - Mega Astromega
Team Astromega scored the perfect result at Spa with a 1-2 finish for Fernando Alonso and Marc Goossens. The cars were in a class of their own but both drivers did a good job, Alonso in particular impressing the Formula 1 teams with a mature drive to a crushing victory. The 19-year-old Spaniard may end up in F1 next year as a result.Full Story
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Firm Guidance - Compaq
The history of the Compaq Computer Corporation dates back to 1981 when three Texas Instruments employees Rod Canion, Bill Murto and Jim Harris sat in a Houston restaurant and sketched out the design of a personal computer on a table napkin. They established a corporation with backing from famed computer venture capitalist Ben Rosen (who funded the start-ups of firms such including Apple, Intel, Lotus, Silicon Graphics and Electronic Arts). Compaq produced its first computer in July 1982 and its Portable PC was an immediate success and in 1983 the company turned over $111m. The introduction of a Compaq desktop and increased sales of the laptop trebled that figure in 1984 when Compaq began operating in Europe under another former TI employee Eckhard Pfeiffer.Full Story
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Exclusive Interview - The enigma of David Coulthard
One minute he is the archetypal British sportsman: the square-jawed, relatively clean-living gentleman, Mr. Nice Guy. The hard trier who never quite gets it together, never quite gets close enough to win the cigar, let alone to light it. But the next, he'll suddenly drag out the sort of performance that won him last year's Belgian Grand Prix at Spa Francorchamps, one of the most demanding venues in the calendar and the one said to sort the Haves from the Have Nots. In the 1999 race at the daunting circuit in the Hautes Fagnes region, Coulthard beat his much-vaunted team-mate Mika Hakkinen so fair and square that the normally placid Finn got himself into a fair old snit about it.Full Story
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Big Al - Getting ready for Indy
With the US Grand Prix at Indianapolis a little over a month away, there is a huge sense of anticipation surrounding the return of the F1 world championship to the country it last vacated a decade ago after two unremarkable races through the streets of Phoenix, Arizona.Full Story
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Firm Guidance - Brembo
Alberto Bombassei established the Brembo company in the town of Paladina, near Bergamo in northern Italy, in 1961.Full Story
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Technical - When the wind blows
The prime factors that differentiate the performance of one make of Formula 1 car from another in the current era of a single tire supplier are the engine and the aerodynamics. After the engine, it is the aerodynamics that commands the bulk of the R&D budget, with the team's wind tunnel being a major capital expenditure.Full Story
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Big Al - Soccer Games
I'm really curious to know what Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley honestly think about Colin Sullivan's new Premier 1 Grand Prix operation. To start with, this novel marketing concept to merge top-line European soccer promotions with a new motor racing category has been developing for the past 18 months behind the scenes.Full Story
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Firm Guidance - General Electric
General Electric may only be a small sponsor on the rear wing of the Ferrari but it is a vast conglomerate which builds everything from aircraft engines to light bulbs, nuclear power plants to railway locomotives not to mention advanced plastics and medical equipment. It owns a huge financial services company and the NBC television network. The Fairfield, Connecticut-based company supplies Ferrari with technological information from its research into advanced plastics and ceramics.Full Story
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Firm Guidance - Champion
The Champion spark plug company is one of the most successful in Formula 1 history, having supplied spark plugs to around half of the cars to have won events since the start of the World Championship in 1950. The familiar bow-tie Champion logo has been seen in the sport since the earliest days of competition but there are no records from the pre-war era as to which cars used which spark plugs although it is quite likely that Champion supplied Bugatti in the 1920s.Full Story
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Firm Guidance - Orange
The principal sponsor of the Arrows Formula 1 team is mobile telephone company Orange which is now owned by France Telecom. It was started in 1994 by the Hong Kong real estate development company Hutchison Whampoa, which is controlled by Li Ka-Shing, who was named by Forbes magazine last year as the 10th richest man in the world with a fortune estimated at $12.6bn.Full Story
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- Yahoo!
Prost Grand Prix sponsor Yahoo! is one of the top Internet companies in the world. It has been in operation since 1994 when Jerry Yang, a Taiwanese who had been raised in San Jose, California and David Filo, a fellow graduate of Stanford University, began to compile the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide.Full Story
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Technical - Too Hot to handle
The only time a Formula1 fan can be sure that all the drivers are driving at the limits of their skill and the capabilities of their cars is during the hour of Qualifying for each Grand Prix.Full Story
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Technical - Speed of Light
Racings cars have, and probably always will break. It is part of the very nature of motor racing, particularly at the level of Formula1, that designers push designs and materials to their limits, and occasionally over them.Full Story
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Firm Guidance - Sonax
The German car care products company Hoffman Sonax KG was established in 1983 as an independent company, being spun off from its original parent company Hoffmann & Sohne KG of which it had previously been a division. This company can trace its roots back to 1905 when it was established in the town of Neuburg (Donau), just up the road from the town of Ingolstadt, later to become famous as the home of the Audi car company.Full Story
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