Formula One Features

Max Mosley has perfect qualifications to be the FISA president and now he wants the job. He explains why...

Gianni Morbidelli is not the youngest Formula 1 driver, nor is he the best-known of the young generation, but he is making a good impression. The San Marino Grand Prix was only Morbidelli's sixth Grand Prix but he was eighth on the grid.

Christian Fittipaldi has a lot to live up to, of course. His father Wilson was a Formula 1 driver in the mid-Seventies and Uncle Emerson is a legend, having won two F1 World titles (1972 and 1974), run his own F1 team and then gone racing in America and added the Indianapolis 500 and the CART championship to his curriculum vitae in 1989.

Eric Van de Poele's career has been sustained by winning prizes. On Sunday at Imola he nearly walked away with one of racing's top prizes - World Championship points on his Grand Prix debut.

Formula 1's newest team has made waves in the first two Grands Prix of 1991. Despite having to pre-qualify Team 7Up Jordan is challenging the established order.

Enzo Coloni is a dreamer. Since entering Grand Prix racing in 1987 his team has competed in only 13 GPs, the last successful qualification coming in Portugal in 1989 with Roberto Moreno behind the wheel. If anything, Coloni is proof that there is no room in Formula 1 for such dreamers.

Emanuele Pirro was a star in qualifying in Phoenix but in the race the Roman was less fortunate. It was symptomatic of a Formula 1 career full of highs and lows.

After 11 seasons in Formula 1 with few results, the old Osella team was taken over at the end of last year by Italian industrialist Gabriele Rumi of the Fondmetal wheel manufacturing company, which had previously sponsored the team. Team founder Enzo Osella and Osella designer Antonio Tommaini both left the outfit and the race team was relocated in new workshops at Palosco near Bergamo in northern Italy. Rumi, it seemed was serious.

After five seasons with Leyton House, Ivan Capelli is on the verge of finally breaking into a top F1 team, a team for which, perhaps, he can become a race winner.

With the benefit of foresight, 1991 looks like being one of the closest Formula 1 seasons in many a year. No longer do we face the prospect of McLaren-Honda wiping the floor with the opposition. Last year the competition between McLaren, Ferrari, Williams and Benetton was tight.

Ron Dennis is never comfortable with the media and so getting a good interview out of him is not an easy task. But what is the problem? Why doesn't he just relax and talk...

Rather than produce a definitive 1990 F1 car, the philosophy at Maranello was to constantly change and update.

Ayrton Senna is delighted to be the 1990 World Champion, but he does have his regrets over how the title was won at the Japanese Grand Prix, when he collided with his championship rival Alain Prost at the first corner.

"You had better sit down," said the Minardi Team Manager Jaime Manca Graziedei on the phone the other day. "This is going to be a bit of a shock. Minardi has an engine deal for next year."

Stefano Modena will replace Jean Alesi at Tyrrell next season and there are many in Formula 1 who believe Stefano has just as much -- if not more -- talent than F1's current rising star.

Roberto Moreno made a big splash in the Japanese Grand Prix, finishing second to Nelson Piquet in his first race for the Benetton team.

Jean Alesi will be Alain Prost's number two at Ferrari next year - after just 18 months as a Formula 1 driver. The Frenchman's rise to Formula 1 stardom has been remarkable.

The Australian Grand Prix was a complete disaster for Aguri Suzuki. He qualified 24th after a catalogue of disasters in practice and he was the first retirement in the race - after just six laps.

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

I hate the motoring editor of the Adelaide Advertiser. He's not a bad bloke - when he's sober - but he does make unreasonable demands from time to time.

With just eight minutes remaining in Friday's official qualifying session a terrible hush fell over the pitlane at Jerez. The red flag was being shown. There had been a huge accident involving Martin Donnelly's Lotus.

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.

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.

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...