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News Feature - Alain Prost - World Champion

Alain Prost is the 1989 World Champion. In the public imagination, therefore, he is the fastest man in the world.Full Story

News Feature - Crawling from the wreckage: Derek Warwick's demolition derby at Monza

Derek Warwick has wanted to be in the limelight this season, but he didn't want to make an impact in quite the way he did on Sunday. Still If anyone had any doubts about Derek's commitment, his actions at Monza last weekend must be evidence aplenty that he has lost none of his determination...Full Story
News Feature - Life as a Formula 1 mechanic

Formula 1 is a circus which travels round the world. It includes the top performers in many fields: there are the world's best drivers; brilliant technical brains; high-flying marketing men. And then there are the mechanics.Full Story
News Feature - Renault Sport

The head office of Renault Sport stands on the grandly-named Avenue President Kennedy in Viry-Chatillon. The name conjures up images of a tree-lined boulevard with marble buildings but the reality is rather different. This particular Avenue President Kennedy is a small road running through an industrial park beside a motorway in the southern suburbs of Paris.Full Story

Interview - The dog has his day: Chris Murphy

"It's not a well-known fact that I designed this car," said Chris Murphy, looking at the Larrousse Formula 1 team's Lola-Lamborghini. "It's a difficult situation. The team is very French, all the sponsors are French. Officially Gerard Ducarouge designed the car.Full Story
Interview - A question of self-image: Aguri Suzuki

People have the funniest ways of achieving success in sport: last summer the Olympics suffered the Seoul-destroying assault of the pill-poppers. A few days ago in Las Vegas Frank Bruno and Mike Tyson tried to out-hypnotise each other before belting each other's brains out. Sports psychologists, dietary specialists and chiropractors have quietly become an increasing part of sport. Motor racing has its own peculiarities. In NASCAR some drivers believe they are on a mission from God, while it could be argued that some Grand Prix drivers think they are God. The new Zakspeed Formula 1 driver Aguri Suzuki has his own theories about achieving success.Full Story
Interview - Nelson Piquet

On Sunday at Hockenheim the Benetton team looked a very real threat for victory against the mighty McLaren and Ferrari. This increased competitiveness is due both to the new Ford Series IV V8 engine and to the fast-developing B190 chassis. Although Nelson Piquet retired, Sandro Nannini led the race for 16 of the 45 laps. Ultimately Senna took the lead, but Sandro finished second, matching the performance of Piquet at the Canadian GP.Full Story

Interview - Riccardo Patrese

Riccardo Patrese is having a tremendous season. With the new Williams-Renault combination he is enjoying his best results for years. In Rio, on the day he became the most experienced Formula 1 driver in history, he started from the front row of the grid and led the race in the early stages...Full Story
Interview - Starting over: Michele Alboreto

For four years Michele Alboreto was a Ferrari driver. He won five Grands Prix and was second in the 1985 World Championship but in 1988 his F1 career went off the rails. Michele fell from favour at Ferrari and was looking for a new team for the 1989 season...Full Story
News Feature - Leyton House surprises F1 at Paul Ricard

They were drinking champagne and bouncing off the walls with joy in the Leyton House pit. The team had pulled off the greatest comeback since Lazarus. A fortnight before neither Ivan Capelli nor Mauricio Gugelmin had qualified for the Mexican Grand Prix. Now they were celebrating. Capelli had been beaten, but it had only happened in the dying moments of the race when his fuel pressure suddenly dived and Alain Prost swept by.Full Story
Interview - Jean Alesi

Hard though it may be to believe, one year ago Jean Alesi had not won a Formula 3000 race - and he hadn't really looked like winning one.Full Story
Interview - In the shadow of Jean: Eric Bernard

Eric Bernard was right on the pace during pre-Grand Prix testing at Silverstone. It was no big surprise. If it wasn't for Jean Alesi, Eric Bernard would be a very successful young Grand Prix driver. The amazing Jean has stolen much of Eric's thunder with his sparkling performances in the Tyrrell 019.Full Story
News Feature - Nigel Mansell profile

Fifty years ago the British armies in France were driven into the sea by the marauding Panzer divisions of the German army. With their backs to the beaches, the British fell back on a place called Dunkirk. The armies were rescued by an armada of little boats and suddenly, somehow, Dunkirk became a famous victory. It had been a disastrous defeat, yet the British turned it into an episode of glory -- and success.Full Story
Interview - Martin Donnelly

British race fans like to have a hero to cheer. After James Hunt there was John Watson and then along came Nigel Mansell. With 'Our Nige' retiring at the end of the year Martin Donnelly is the obvious candidate to replace Mansell as Britain's new racing star and the object of the public's affection...Full Story

Interview - A breath of fresh air: Ivan Capelli

Ivan Capelli had gone for a walk. This being the silly season in F1 a walk can cover a multitude of sins. Was he holed up in some motorhome? No, Ivan was standing around -- just chatting with anyone who happened to pass by - having a breath of fresh air.Full Story
News Feature - Formula 1 and the United States

Formula 1 observers do not generally believe in coincidence. If something happens there is a logical reason for it. It is just a matter of finding out what that reason may be. Michael Andretti and Al Unser Jr are being linked with F1 drives and then, suddenly, there is talk of a Formula 1 race at Indianapolis.Full Story

Interview - A note in a notebook: Stefano Modena

At Monaco Stefano Modena scored his first Formula 1 points -- finishing third to the two McLarens. It was only his 14th Grand Prix. A look in the records reveals that there aren't many drivers who can match that statistic.Full Story
Interview - Cesare Fiorio

Cesare Fiorio spends his time during Formula 1 qualifying sessions sitting on the pitwall with his eyes glued to the timing monitors.Full Story
News Feature - The tale of two theories...: Uncivil war at Benetton

In motor racing there is a theory that in order to become competitive, a team must improve faster than the opposition. The question is: How fast is too fast? There have been many flashy organisations which have come and gone in Grand Prix racing and often it is the long-term, carefully-constructed, teams which have proved to be the most resilient -- but not always.Full Story

Interview - Olivier Grouillard

Olivier Grouillard has made quite an impact in Formula 1 circles. Johnny Herbert might have stolen the limelight as top new boy in Rio de Janeiro, but Grouillard took a new, untested car to ninth. More importantly he has outpaced his team mate - former Ferrari and Renault ace and winner of seven Grands Prix - Rene Arnoux.Full Story

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