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Firm Guidance - Nortel Networks

Nortel Networks is a vast telecommunications equipment maker, based in Canada. The company can trace its roots right back to 1880 when Alexander Graham Bell established the Bell Telephone Company of Canada in Montreal.Full Story

Firm Guidance - Korean Air

The Korean Air company was established by the South Korean government to be the country's national airline. It was state-owned until 1969 when it was sold by the government at the time to the vast Hanjin shipping and transport empire.Full Story

Firm Guidance - Benetton

In 1955 clothing salesman Luciano Benetton teamed up with younger sister Giuliana to go into business. Giuliana was knitting sweaters for her friends and legend has it that they sold Luciano's accordion and a bicycle belonging to their younger brother Carlo. With the money raised they bought a knitting machine. Giuliana made the sweaters and Luciano sold them.Full Story

Firm Guidance - Marlboro

Philip Morris opened a tobacco shop in London in 1847 and seven years later he began to manufacture his own cigarettes.Full Story

Financial - The future development of Formula 1 teams

In recent years the growth of Formula 1 teams has been dramatic.Full Story

Technical - Reliability

Nothing spoils a day at the races more than the car one is associated with breaking down. Whether one is the driver, a member of the team or the engine supplier, a component supplier (particularly if it is their component that has failed), a sponsor or a supporter, the disappointment experienced when the car falters and ceases to participate in the race, is deep.Full Story

Firm Guidance - Warsteiner Brauerei

The Cramer Family has been making beer in the town of Warstein, in the hills to the east of Dortmund, in the north of Germany, for as long as there have been records. The first recorded brewer was Konrad Cramer in 1753 and in 1803 his brother Johannes built the first actual brewery in the town. A steam-powered factory replaced the original in 1895 but this and its successors could not cope with demand and so in 1978 a huge new factory was built outside the town. It has been extended twice since then and now employs 12,000 people.Full Story

Firm Guidance - Computer Associates

Charles Wang is the son of a Chinese immigrant and grew up in New York City. After leaving university he began to sell Swiss software in the United States and within five years had built Computer Associates into a big enough company for it to be floated on the New York Stock Exchange. Using the money raised, Wang began buying up his competition and in the course of the next 15 years he spent $4bn to build Computer Associates into the world's third largest software company behind Microsoft and Oracle.Full Story

Technical - Head-up Displays (HUDs)

Head-up displays (HUDs) are now proven and fully accepted technology for use in military and commercial aircraft, but have not yet found a permanent place in either road or racing cars, although Cadillac have offer one, based on Hughes technology, for some years. Full Story

Technical - Exhaust pipes

During 1998, the Ferrari F300 appeared with one of the most visibly striking changes to a Formula1 car for some time. Instead of the twin exhaust pipes emerging under the car, carefully placed relative to the diffuser to gain the most benefit for the aerodynamics, they exited through the top of the bodywork alongside the engine. Full Story

Technical - Formula1 2000-a two horse race

Just three races into the 2000 Formula1 World Championship, and it is already clear that it is a two horse race. Full Story

Technical - Head and Neck Support (HANS)

Following Mika Hakkinen's accident in Adelaide in 1995, in which he fractured his skull, the FIA initiated a research programme in cooperation with Daimler-Chrysler Research, into driver protection in frontal impacts. The results of that programme will be seen in CART, DTM2000 and other series this year, and in Formula1 next.Full Story

News Feature - Toyota's mistake

All big companies which enter Formula 1 think that they know how best to run their operations. They have been successful in other forms of motorsport and they think they know what they are doing. Sooner or later they all discover that F1 is harder than they think. Mercedes-Benz built a factory for Sauber in Switzerland before realizing that it was a waste of time and money. Ferrari has spent 20 years trying to win the World Championship. The Ligier team was never a big success. Full Story

Financial - Formula 1's franchise system

Formula 1 has become a "franchise" sport. Following Toyota's decision to pay a $48m deposit to become the sport's 12 team in 2002, anyone wanting to become involved has to buy an existing F1 organization.Full Story

News Feature - A preview of the year

It will be hard for Formula 1 to match 1999 for sheer drama and the sport may suffer a little as a result.Full Story

Interview - Frank Williams

Some people in Formula 1 think that Frank Williams has gone barmy.Full Story
Interview - And then the telephone rang...: Jenson Button

Jenson Button was expecting to have a fairly quiet winter after a busy season racing in the British Formula 3 Championship. As there was not much happening in the middle of December Jenson decided to go off on holiday in Mexico with his girlfriend. And then the telephone rang?Full Story

Technical - Formula1 Technical Regulations for 2000

In so far as the Formula1 Technical Regulations are concerned, the year 2000 may prove to be the lull before the storm - that is, if you believe the forecasters. Full Story

Financial - The Paddock Club

About 15 years ago the Williams Formula 1 team was being sponsored by Imperial Chemical Industries.Full Story

Financial - Formula One and Morgan Grenfell

Twelve months ago Formula 1 folk thought Morgan Grenfell was a NASCAR driver and Scott Lanphere, director of Morgan Grenfell Private Equity Ltd, had been to one single Grand Prix in his life.Full Story

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