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News Feature - Winter update 1998-99
Team by team update, winter 1998-1999.Full Story
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Technical - Formula1 and road cars compared
Apart from the fact that both are 4-wheeled land vehicles used for conveying people, and powered by petrol-fuelled piston engines, there is very little similarity between a Formula1 car and a road car. Full Story
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News Feature - The Top 10 Moments of the Formula 1 Year
Choosing 10 moments from the F1 season is not easy because as usual there were many significant and dramatic events. It would have been nice to include the moment at Monaco when Mika Hakkinen bounced his McLaren off the wall at Ste Devote and got away with the error; it would have been nice to include the moment when Benetton youngster Alexander Wurz stood up to a bullying Michael Schumacher at Monaco, showing that while this generation of drivers may be overawed by the German's skill, there are new men out there who intend to tip him from his pedestal. But with only 10 choices, these are what I think were the most significant moments of the year:Full Story
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Technical - Setting up a Formula1 team
Formula1 is experiencing a sudden surge of interest by organisations, particularly motor manufacturers, to participate directly in the World Championship. Full Story
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News Feature - Goodyear's final fling
The Goodyear Formula 1 team of engineers had every right to be down-hearted after the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka. They had lost the World Championship to their rival Bridgestone - and in the worst possible way, a high-speed tyre failure.Full Story
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News Feature - All the reasons for the 1999 Benetton Crisis
Benetton did not have a good year in 1998 but it was always going to be a difficult season because for much of the 1997 season former team boss Flavio Briatore was fighting to keep his job rather than planning for the future. In the end Briatore was removed as head of the team and when his replacement David Richards joined the team it was too late to change very much.Full Story
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Technical - A Christmas Reverie
Last Christmas I fell asleep in front of the fire after a large dinner, and dreamt that the FIA had decided on a radical rethink of the Formula1 rules for introduction at the start of the new millennium. Full Story
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News Feature - Saward's Review of 1998
The most astounding thing about the 1998 Formula 1 World Championship was not that McLaren produced a scintillating car - which was spectacularly dominant in Australia in March - but that it took until the Japanese GP in November for Ron Dennis's team to win the World Championship.Full Story
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News Feature - Bridgestone goes head to head with Goodyear
In February 1996 the Bridgestone Corporation announced that it would be entering Formula 1 in 1998.Full Story
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Technical - Differential braking
It is not every day that technology flows from Super Touring Cars to Formula1 but, with both Benetton and Williams testing front axle differentials, this is exactly what has happened.Full Story
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Technical - Techno-driver
Five years ago there was much speculation that technology was eroding the role of the Formula1 driver, diminishing his contribution to conducting the car at the greatest possible speed around a track. Full Story
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Technical - Sidepods
When Grand Prix cars had the engine mounted in the front, ahead of the driver, the cooling system was placed head of it in the faired nose of the car. Full Story
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News Feature - Formula 1 Junior Teams
All the Formula 1 teams seem to have a Junior Team of some kind of other these days. But why? What are they trying to achieve and what do they gain from supporting drivers in the junior formulae?Full Story
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Technical - Formula 1 engines and chassis manufacturers
Until the 1940's, the sole reason for building a car to go Grand Prix racing was to advertise the quality of the production road cars bearing the same name. Full Story
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News Feature - Putting the Racing Back into F1
The 1998 Formula 1 season has not been very interesting to date. The two McLaren-Mercedes have dominated and only Michael Schumacher's victory in Argentina has dented the unblemished McLaren record. Race fans around the world may appreciate the McLaren efficiency but it is not making for fascinating TV viewing - unless, of course, you have trouble sleeping...Full Story
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News Feature - Jenson Button
Nowadays Formula 1 team owners keep a very close eye on what is happening in the world of karting. Most of the current Grand Prix stars spent their teenage years racing karts on a professional basis and drivers in top-level karting have risen rapidly into Formula 1, the most notable being Jarno Trulli, who went from karts to F1 in the space of 18 months. Six months later he led his first Grand Prix.Full Story
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Technical - Formula 1 Update
This year the designers and engineers have had to cope with new limitations on brake equipment - calipers that must be made from a material that has a Young's Modulus no greater than 80Gpa; single calipers with a maximum of six pistons and two pads; and a maximum disc thickness of 28 millimetres.Full Story
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Technical - Champcar and Formula1 compared
The cars of the two premier single-seater open-wheel racing formula - Formula1 and Champcar - look quite similar to the eye but underneath their sleek, sponsor embellished exteriors they are as different as chalk and cheese. Full Story
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News Feature - Honda on the way back to F1
The Honda Motor Company is expected to announced on March 28 at the Twin Ring Motegi CART race in Japan that it is about to launch a major Grand Prix campaign which will be ready in time for the 1999 season. Although it is yet to be officially confirmed we believe that Honda has settled on a two-pronged attack with a supply of V10 engines for British American Racing and for a completely new Honda F1 team, which will build its own cars in Japan and will be run by former Grand Prix driver Satoru Nakajima.Full Story
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Technical - The 1998 Formula 1 cars
Writing this article following the opening race of the year in Melbourne, it is easy to judge which of all the different details of the new 1998 Formula1 cars are the right solutions. In every detail, as well as overall package, the McLaren has got it right. Full Story
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