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CONTENTS / OCTOBER 2014

FIRST SECTOR: THE REGULARS

10 IGNITION WHY MICHAEL SCHUMACHER MATTERS

12 PARADES THE VERY BEST F1 PHOTOGRAPHY
18 F1 INSIDER NEWS, OPINION AND ANALYSIS
26 INSIDE TECH MAKING THE RULES
28 PETER WINDSOR F1 NEEDS TO INVEST IN ITSELF
31 EMERSON FITTIPALDI YOUNG FANS ARE F1’S FUTURE
RACING 33
36
DIETER RENCKEN WHAT HAPPENS IN A POST-BERNIE ERA?
NOW THAT WAS A CAR THE BRAWN BGP 001
106 SUBSCRIBE AND GET A FREE TEAM MCLAREN BAG
76
SECOND SECTOR: THE FEATURES Jean Todt on his
path from rally
38 THEY ASK THE QUESTIONS co-driver to
COVER STORIES From Häkkinen to Horner, the great and the good of F1 quiz
president of F1’s
one of the sport’s finest current talents: Fernando Alonso
53 governing body

48 GO FIGURE
A numerical investigation into Alonso’s impressive career
38

A CHAT WITH KIMI RÄIKKÖNEN

92
50
50
The Ferrari racer on why this season isn’t going his way 50
Kimi expresses
53 #KEEP FIGHTING MICHAEL his hopes for
A special celebration of the incredible life and career of
next season
the man who has won more championships than any other
– and even

54 PAT SYMONDS ON MICHAEL further ahead

As race engineer to Michael Schumacher in the Benetton
days, Pat recalls that high-pressured first title in 1994

60 SCHUMI’S 91 WINS
It’s a record that could stand for years to come. We count
down through every one of Michael’s F1 victories – and
38 ALONSO On how he’ll feel if he never
wins that elusive third championship
highlight a few absolute classics along the way…

70 PETER WINDSOR ON MICHAEL

The F1 community pauses to reflect and struggles to
make sense of Michael Schumacher’s terrible accident

76 LUNCH WITH JEAN TODT

The FIA President and former Ferrari boss talks to Maurice
Hamilton about his friendship with Michael Schumacher

86 MIKA ON MICHAEL
50 KIMI Explains why he never listens
to rumours when times are tough
Häkkinen and Schumacher were two halves of a classic
F1 rivalry. Here, Mika looks back at a late-’90s golden era

92 IS RUSSIA READY FOR F1?

100
As the countdown begins to the first Russian GP in 100 Quadrilingual
years, the track looks ready… but the locals seem unsure Kvyat explains
how to stay on
100 MEET DANIIL KVYAT the right side of
We sit down for a chat with Toro Rosso’s rookie Russian
racer, who has all the makings of a future star Dr Helmut Marko
54 MICHAEL His former race engineer on
that first championship-winning year

104 FIELD OF REIMS

F1 Racing visits the remains of the former street circuit that
hosted Mercedes’ memorable comeback victory in 1954

THIRD SECTOR: FINISHING STRAIGHT

110 BELGIAN GP DEBRIEF RANCOUR AT MERCEDES
114 SINGAPORE GP PREVIEW A HOT AND HUMID SLOG
116 JAPANESE GP PREVIEW THE FIGURE-OF-EIGHT CLASSIC
92 SOCHI A look around the new circuit
– and a chat with some of the locals
118
120
RUSSIAN GP PREVIEW F1 RETURNS AFTER A 100-YEAR GAP
INBOX LET’S VALUE EXPERIENCE OVER YOUTH
122 MURRAY WALKER ON F1’S EXPANDING TERRITORY
 KEEPFIGHTINGMICHAEL

90 53
Mika Häkkinen A celebration
on his classic of the life and
rivalry with times of F1’s
Michael only seven-time
Schumacher world champion

92 38
F1 visits the site Ferrari ace
of the Winter Fernando Alonso
Olympics – now is subjected to
the home of the a grilling by his
2014 Russian GP paddock peers
 Ignition / Anthony Rowlinson / 10.14
We pause to reflect on the
legacy of Michael Schumacher
What is Michael Schumacher’s Formula 1 legacy?
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his continued recovery. as any F1 has ever offered, Mika reflects on a competitor
Group International
In an attempt to provide an answer, we’ve gathered who set the standard by which his peers always knew Managing Editor Commercial
a stellar ensemble of voices in this issue to contribute they would be judged (p86). “There were many great Stewart Williams Managers
Deputy Editor Chris Gowland,
their unique perspectives on a champion who, while racing drivers and it was great to learn from them,”
Stuart Codling Jamie Thomas
often the catalyst for on-track controversy, nonetheless Mika tells us. “But all the time in my thinking, there was Associate Editor UK Sales Manager
came to define an era in grand prix racing. Michael. He was always the man to catch.” James Roberts Ben Fullick
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For Pat Symonds (see p54), who worked as What unites each piece is a common recognition of
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title campaign in 1994, he’s a driver who showed uncompromising commitment to success. And perhaps Frank Foster
Designer MANAGEMENT
incredible team commitment and leadership in pursuit it is this that Formula 1 misses more than anything,
Jack Woolrich Haymarket
of a singular goal, while also being able to kick back with through Schumacher’s continued absence – the Principal Specialist Media
a beer and relax in the company of those he trusted. knowledge that in the form of Schumi, something Photographer Group Director
Steven Tee Tim Bulley
FIA president Jean Todt meanwhile, interviewed over approaching the ultimate competitor was embodied.
Office Manager Group Commercial
lunch by Maurice Hamilton (p76), recalls a driver who The closest Michael has to a spiritual F1 successor is Joanne Grove Director
was essential in returning Ferrari to title-winning form Fernando Alonso, the man who went Michelin-to- Editorial Tel Ben Guynan
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from 1996 to 2006. To this day, Todt recalls Bridgestone with him for the 2006 title and won. The
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Licensing Director
Columnists
he clinched Ferrari’s first drivers’ title since 1979, as the Alonso faces an unorthodox challenge in this month’s Alastair Lewis
Peter Windsor,
Licensing Manager
most emotional moment of his vivid motorsport career. issue: a grilling by paddock luminaries. It’s probably no Dieter Rencken
David Ryan
Our own Peter Windsor considers Schumacher in the surprise to learn that he rose with aplomb to the Emerson Fittipaldi
Murray Walker
context of other great figures who have been lost from occasion, and you can enjoy the full interview on p38. PRODUCTION
Technical Consultant
Production &
the sport; his remarkable and moving essay on F1’s A last word, then, for Russia. Next month, F1 makes Pat Symonds
Publishing Manager
inability to reflect on loss, absence and the departure of a first foray to Sochi… but we’ve been there already. Agency
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heroes should give us all pause for thought (see p70). Read our report on p92. Za vashe zdorovie!
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Parade
The calm before the storm Every driver loves to race at Spa,
but for Lewis Hamilton the 2014 weekend will live long in the
memory – for all the wrong reasons. The coming-together with
Mercedes team-mate Rosberg in the race has increased the
tension simmering between the two drivers to boiling point
When 10.29am, Friday 22 August 2014
Photographer Steven Tee/LAT
Details Canon EOS-1DX, 600mm lens, 1/1000th at F6.3
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Parade
Sparkling display Since Canada, Daniel Ricciardo has scored
more points than any other driver. In the past six races he has
acquired over 100 points and with seven GPs to go (plus the
double points available at the Abu Dhabi season finale), he is best
placed to take advantage of the warring Mercedes drivers
Where Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium
When 3.38pm, Sunday 24 August 2014
Photographer Charles Coates/LAT
Details Canon EOS-1DX, 600mm lens, 1/500th at F8
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Parade
Out of control Lotus’s Pastor Maldonado gets himself in
a tangle while trying to wrestle his recalcitrant E22 during
practice for the Belgian Grand Prix. Later that afternoon
he would lose control and head straight into the barriers
– an incident he would later describe as “unlucky”
Where Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium
When 10.41am, Friday 22 August 2014
Photographer Steven Tee/LAT
Details Canon EOS-1DX, 200mm lens, 1/1000th at F6.3
MAX VERSTAPPEN 22 THE DRIVER’S WIFE 24 AUSTRALIAN GP 25

INSIGHT

Russian Grand Prix will go ahead

FIA to grant licence to Sochi
Autodrom, despite security
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Q1 Which driver’s retirement from
the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix was
put down to electrical discharge
from a nearby tram?
Q2 What is the middle name of
Mercedes racer Nico Rosberg?
Q3 British racing driver Tony
Trimmer failed to qualify which
Japanese marque’s car at Fuji
Speedway in 1976?
Q4 When Formula 1 made its
return to Fuji in 2007, which driver
qualified on pole, won and set the
Q5 Vitaly Petrov was the first
Russian driver ever to start a
Formula 1 grand prix. In which
year did he do it?
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which circuit featured the Double-
Droite de Villeroy?
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Hamilton’s two dogs?
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orange sidewalls, what compound
are they?
Q10 All Arms And Elbows Q11 Mexico City Q12 Lorenzo Bandini Q13 Jenson Button Q14 35 Q15 Nico Hülkenberg
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died 21 years ago this month.
What was the title of his ribald
autobiography?
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October, John Surtees clinched the
Formula 1 world championship in
his Ferrari at which circuit?
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championship victory?
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prix in a Honda-powered car?
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celebrates his birthday this
October. How old will he be?
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lap of the race at the 2012
Singapore Grand Prix?

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Finding the stars of tomorrow, today
Esteban Ocon is 17. He was born in Évreux, France, and
is currently driving for Prema Powerteam in the Formula 3
European Championship
Who is he?
A hotshot ex-kartist, and former team-mate of Daniil Kvyat,
who has rebooted his career in Formula 3 after being slightly
outshone by Kvyat, Pierre Gasly and Oliver Rowland over two
seasons in the Formula Renault Eurocup.
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What’s he been doing recently?
After being signed up by Gravity Sports Management – who
look after Romain Grosjean, and whose shareholders also
run the Lotus F1 team – he finished runner-up to the highly
rated F1-bound Max Verstappen in the 2011 European
KF3 series, then graduated to single-seaters. He won two
races for ART Grand Prix in the Formula Renault Eurocup in
2013, finishing third in the championship behind Rowland
and Gasly. He’s currently leading the European Formula 3
Championship after a season-long battle with Verstappen.
How good is he?
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season and is very quick – if not quite as exciting to watch
as Verstappen. There are still some rough edges to be
smoothed off, though: he can be a little bit ‘physical’ with
other competitors on track, and his team admit that they
occasionally need to coach him to drive for points rather
than to stake everything on a risky pass for the lead.
Will we see him in F1?
On current form he is almost certain to make his way into an
F1 cockpit – if not with Lotus then as a test driver for another
team. Gravity’s Gwenael Lagrue, impresario of their F1 Junior
programme, has been seen flitting between motorhomes…
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Verstappen jumps queue
to grab Toro Rosso drive
The Dutch teenager will become F1’s youngest ever racer
when he joins the grid in 2015 – at Jean-Eric Vergne’s expense
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Your essential F1 briefing
#7 Flavio Briatore
Name Flavio Briatore
Age 64
Appearance
Leathery former
knitwear magnate
Wasn't he banned from motorsport for life a few
years ago? Why are we talking about him now?
Bernie Ecclestone recently floated the possibility
of hosting a powwow between team bigwigs and
Flavio, to look at how to make F1 more popular.
Presumably Bernie had too many other things
going on to appreciate the irony of appointing
someone who isn’t particularly popular to head
up a popularity work group. What next? Sending
Genghis Khan to act as peace envoy to Ukraine?
Ours is not to reason why. Still, Flav’s lifetime ban
was lifted on appeal in 2010, and he’s been free
to work in F1 since January 2013. He didn’t have
to go back to selling jumpers for Benetton.
Damn – I’d been working on a joke. You know,
along the lines of: “Shakespeare walks into a
pub. The landlord says ‘Get out – you’re bard.’”
You’ll need to be more entertaining than that
if you want to impress the popularity working
group. How about some ideas to engage today’s
easily distracted youth, and the TV viewers who
are allegedly switching off?
Ooh, I dunno. Perhaps FOM should hire a PR and
marketing department and do more stuff online?
Some might argue that there’s a fair bit of PR
going on even though the sport doesn’t have a
PR department…
Ah yes, I had to help a fellow in the Hockenheim
pressroom who choked on his bratwurst after
reading a piece on why F1 doesn’t need to
change its social media strategy.
Did you do that thing that we’re not supposed to
call the Heimlich Manoeuvre any more?
Yes. A piece of gristle came rocketing out,
hitting a passing cat on the nose.
You should have videoed it and sent it to
Buzzfeed. That would have engaged the kids.
You can’t video within the circuit boundaries.
Broadcast regs, don’t you know…
Perhaps Flav could pop that on his agenda?
Do say: All that clothes retailing and F1
experience will no doubt enrich the debate
Don’t say: Get knitted
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framing an image. He just sends ultra-closeups with such a short constitute an admission of guilt DGPLWWHGLWZDVDPLVWDNH
window of time to view them before they disappear that I can
never quite work out which way is up.
Anyway… so it turns out after a big night of post-recording
margaritas last night, the Snapchat icon looks a lot like the
Instagram icon. Or maybe it’s because they are next to each
other on my phone?
I have over a million Instagram followers. Now that’s
oversharing.
I got a lot of likes, though.
My grandma also says ‘all truths are not to be told’ – but at
least the lighting was great, Vovó!
#AdrianasBrazilian is still trending.
God bless you, especially if you’ve broadcast something
inappropriate to 1.3 million followers.

Beijos,
Adriana

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Safety is one of the
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DIETER RENCKEN
POWER
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The stories F1’s bigwigs
would rather you didn’t know…
A fter a long wait, Formula 1 has gone
back to business as usual. Key issues that have
lain unresolved while stakeholders awaited the
outcome of Bernie Ecclestone’s Munich trial
can now be addressed – apart from one. And
that could be the biggest problem of all.
The backstory is well known; in 2012
Gerhard Gribkowsky, a former senior executive Formula One Management. CVC had
at BayernLB, was jailed for eight-and-a-half
years after being convicted of tax evasion,
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of £30million to Gribkowsky.
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maintains he was “shaken down”
by Gribkowsky over tax matters;
Gribkowsky claimed he was bribed
to ensure BayernLB’s controlling
stake in F1 was sold to an entity
willing to keep Ecclestone as CEO.
That stake was acquired by
CVC Capital Partners, a private
equity fund with a reputation for
wringing maximum dollars out
of investments before exiting,
usually via stock market listings.
“F1 will still be be run by an octogenarian
with no intention of handing over the reins”
The case is settled –
not the succession
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poor health of the global economy, and the
uncertainty surrounding the court case, put
the brakes on the whole process. CVC ended
up selling off half of its original 66 per cent.
Crucially, though, it retains overall control.
When offered the chance by prosecutors,
Ecclestone availed himself of Section 153a
of Germany’s criminal procedure, which lets
accused parties settle cases in exchange for
a fee paid to the state and/or a recognised
charity, subject to the judge and prosecution
agreeing. Under this procedure, which
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£60million, with £600,000 going to a child
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thus every year, though this one sets a record.
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undertaken to sack him if, in the words of co-
founder and chairman Donald Mackenzie, it
had been “proven that Mr Ecclestone has done
anything criminally wrong”. The settlement
closes the door on this, and, while a court
statement made clear civil action could not be
excluded, Judge Peter Noll’s parting shot to
Ecclestone was, “I assume we will only see one
another again on television.”
The trial had been held for two days a week
since April to enable Ecclestone to continue to
discharge his duties, and within hours of the
settlement he was back at his desk in London.
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surely the lesson of this lengthy and expensive
court case, in which an 83-year-old with a
history of heart disease faced the prospect of
a jail term if found guilty, is that CVC need
to devise some form of succession planning.
And they must announce that plan to appease
the anxieties of the governing body, teams,
partners, sponsors, broadcasters, promoters,
and that oft-forgotten group – the fans.
There was universal fear in the paddock
about F1’s future should Judge Noll pronounce
Ecclestone guilty with no suitable replacement
in sight, for the sport faces cash-strapped
teams, disappearing spectators, diminishing
TV audiences and dwindling sponsorship
revenues across the board. Yet CVC appeared
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return on their original investment, and have
approached the markets for a billion-dollar
loan to pay shareholder dividends. That loads
F1’s debt pile, a move observers fear spells a
phased exit, possibly as soon as late 2015.
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remaining 35 per cent, or an IPO [Initial
Public Offering], likely in Singapore. After two
aborted attempts – one of which stalled at
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F1 Racing October 2014 37

 Fernando
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starting from lower than third on the grid

A statistical celebration of the

career of F1’s most ferocious
fighter: Fernando Alonso
His current number of Twitter followers

24 YEARS
164
The number of points he scored
in his first season in cars, in Euro
Open by Nissan. It was enough for
58 DAYS
his age when he won the 2005 world
championship, making him the youngest
him to win the title by a single point ever champion at that time

The number of races he
has retired from while in the
lead: Belgium ’04, Canada
’05 and Hungary ‘06
2 ZERO
His number of front-row
The number of times he starts in 2014, the first time
has driven for Renault in since his debut that he
F1, in two separate spells: hasn’t started from either
2003-2006 and 2007-2008 pole or P2 all year

48 F1 Racing October 2014

109 WINS team-mates during his time in F1: Tarso Marques
(2001); Alex Yoong (2001); Jarno Trulli (2003-04);
Jacques Villeneuve (2004); Giancarlo Fisichella
(2005-06); Lewis Hamilton (2007); Nelson Piquet Jr
(2008); Romain Grosjean (2009); Felipe Massa
(2010-13); and Kimi Räikkönen (2014)

5
retirements each at Spa and
Montréal during his career: his
worst circuits in terms of reliability
at tracks beginning
with the letter ’M’
Magny-Cours (1), Marina Bay (2), Melbourne (1),
Monte Carlo (2), Montréal (1) and Monza (2)

FOUR THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND TWELVE

miles of testing over 33 days during his year as a Renault test-driver in 2002

1,898 22
*ALL STATISTICS CORRECT AS OF THE 2014 HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX

pole positions, of which

race laps spent in 21 have been converted Alonso’s permanent F1
second place: more than into podium finishes – in number, which he used in
in any other position Hungary 2009 he retired karting and believes is his
from the race lucky number

F1 Racing October 2014 49

In conversation with

Kimi Räikkönen
The 2007 world champion is on less taciturn form than usual as he explains
that life is good, despite demoralising press reports and a bruising year
INTERVIEW STUART CODLING PICTURE ALASTAIR STALEY/LAT

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KEEPFIGHTINGMICHAEL

20 years have passed since Michael Schumacher won

the first of his incredible seven world titles. As he continues to
recover from his skiing accident, we celebrate a very special
competitor whose achievements defined an era in motor racing.
Formula 1 legends – including his race engineer Pat Symonds
and on-track rival Mika Häkkinen – write exclusively in F1 Racing
about what it meant to work with and fight against Michael,
while FIA President Jean Todt speaks of the remarkable bonds
they built during a dominant era at Ferrari.

#KEEPFIGHTINGMICHAEL
PAT SYMONDS p54
MICHAEL: THE INSIDE STORY

SCHUMI’S 91 WINS p60

PHOTOS: MICHAEL COOPER/LAT; STEVE ETHERINGTON/LAT; GLENN DUNBAR/LAT; XPB/LAT; LAT ARCHIVE
PETER WINDSOR p70
THE SPIRITUAL LEGACY OF
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER

JEAN TODT p76

TALKS TO MAURICE HAMILTON

MIKA HÄKKINEN p86

THE GOLDEN YEARS
 KEEPFIGHTINGMICHAEL

MICHAEL THE
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F1 Racing technical consultant Pat Symonds became

Michael Schumacher’s race engineer at Benetton in 1992.
They quickly came to be an effective fighting force as
Michael grew from a raw talent to a contender for the title
in 1994, a season beset by tragedy and controversy…
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began to rain, the race was stopped.
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re-start when Ayrton appeared. He
had already got changed, but decided
to come and ‘discuss’ the incident with
Michael. I acted as referee!”

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 KEEPFIGHTINGMICHAEL
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Every one’s a winner

Ninety-one – count ‘em – wins, equals

an incredible strike-rate of nearly one
in three. We take a fond look back at
the F1 victories of Michael Schumacher
the sport’s most dominant driver ever

WORDS JAMES ROBERTS & STEWART WILLIAMS PICTURES LAT ARCHIVE


01
06 Monte Carlo, Monaco
15.05.94
Car Benetton B194
Grid 1st
Podium Martin Brundle, Gerhard Berger
Schumacher beat Häkkinen to pole
and was dominant thereafter. He
made a clean start to the race and
took victory by 37 seconds.
10 Jerez, Europe (Spain)
16.10.94
Car Benetton B194
Grid 1st
Podium Damon Hill, Mika Häkkinen
A masterful return after a two-race
ban. Michael’s eighth win of the year
was another three-stop strategy.
When would Williams catch on?
07 Montréal, Canada
12.06.94
Car Benetton B194
Grid 1st
Podium Damon Hill, Jean Alesi
Another straightforward win –
Schumacher’s fifth of the season. He
pulled away from the Ferraris at the
start to win via a one-stop strategy.
11 Interlagos, Brazil
26.03.95
Car Benetton B195
Grid 2nd
Podium David Coulthard, Gerhard Berger
After claiming victory when Hill’s
gearbox failed, Schumi’s result was
taken away due to fuel irregularities
but reinstated on appeal.
Spa, Belgium
30.08.92
Car Benetton B192
Grid 3rd
Podium Nigel Mansell,
Riccardo Patrese
A year on from his F1 debut,
Schumacher won the Belgian GP
thanks to a tactical masterstroke.
As rain fell in the early laps, he
quickly switched to wets. Later in
the race, a dry line emerged and
with worn tyres he skated off the
road. This allowed his Benetton
team-mate Martin Brundle to get
past – but as he did, Schumacher
noticed his blistered rear tyres.
Michael duly chose to pit for
slicks, and when the rest of the
field stopped, Schumacher led
from Nigel Mansell. A decisive call
from the inexperienced youngster
secured him the first of 91 wins.
08 Magny-Cours, France
03.07.94
Car Benetton B194
Grid 3rd
Podium Damon Hill, Gerhard Berger
From third on the grid, Michael
outdragged both Damon Hill and F1
returnee Nigel Mansell. Three stops
beat Hill’s two.
12 Barcelona, Spain
14.05.95
Car Benetton B195
Grid 1st
Podium Johnny Herbert,
Gerhard Berger
From pole, Michael pulled comfortably
away from the rest of the field. He’d
never made it look so easy.
02 Estoril, Portugal
26.09.93
Car Benetton B193B
Grid 6th
Podium Alain Prost, Damon Hill
Michael led the quicker Williams
after the first round of pitstops, then
decided not to stop again. Prost got
close, but victory was Schumacher’s.
03 Interlagos, Brazil
27.03.94
Car Benetton B194
Grid 2nd
Podium Damon Hill, Jean Alesi
Schumacher described this as the
most satisfying win of his career: he
beat Senna in front of the Brazilian’s
adoring fans, forcing him into a spin.
04 Aida, Pacific (Japan)
17.04.94
Car Benetton B194
Grid 2nd
Podium Gerhard Berger,
Rubens Barrichello
After an early shunt ruled out Senna,
Michael finished ahead of Berger’s
Ferrari by 74 seconds.
05 Imola, San Marino
01.05.94
Car Benetton B194
Grid 2nd
Podium Nicola Larini, Mika Häkkinen
A joyless victory for Michael in the
aftermath of the tragic accidents
that befell Roland Ratzenberger and
Ayrton Senna.
09 Hungaroring, Hungary
14.08.94
Car Benetton B194
Grid 1st
Podium Damon Hill, Jos Verstappen
Again, the strategy of a three-stop
race wrong-footed the Hill/Williams
combo and Schumi won easily, with
team-mate Verstappen third.
13 Monte Carlo, Monaco
28.05.95
Car Benetton B195
Grid 2nd
Podium Damon Hill, Gerhard Berger
Despite qualifying second behind
polesitter Hill, Schumacher’s one-
stop beat the two-stop strategy
employed by Williams.
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14 Magny-Cours, France

02.07.95 Spa, Belgium

Car Benetton B195
Grid 2nd
Podium Damon Hill, David Coulthard
It was the speed on his in- and out-
16 20.08.95
Car Benetton B195
Grid 16th
Podium Damon Hill,
laps during pitstops that brought Martin Brundle
Michael the win in this race, letting
him jump ahead of early leader Hill. A disastrous wet/dry qualifying
meant Michael started in 16th. He
15 Hockenheim, Germany scythed his way through the traffic
30.07.95 to run second behind Damon Hill
Car Benetton B195 by lap 16. As rain began to fall, Hill
Grid 2nd pitted for wets while Schumacher
Podium David Coulthard, Gerhard Berger remained on slicks. Once Hill caught
Schumi became the first German up, they banged wheels at Les
to win his home race, helped by Hill Combes. Michael won after Hill
spinning out on the second lap. Two received a stop/go penalty.
late stops helped outfox Coulthard.

17 Nürburgring, Europe (Germany) 18 Aida, Pacific (Japan) 19 Suzuka, Japan 21 Spa, Belgium

01.10.95 22.10.95 29.10.95 25.08.96

Car Benetton B195
Grid 3rd
Podium Jean Alesi, David Coulthard
Another wet/dry thriller. With 16 laps
to go Michael was 24 seconds behind
Jean Alesi, finally passing the Ferrari
for the win three laps from home.
Car Benetton B195
Grid 3rd
Podium David Coulthard, Damon Hill
All Schumacher needed to take his
second world title was P3. But he
produced stunning in- and out-laps
on his final stop to ensure the win.
Car Benetton B195
Grid 1st
Podium Mika Häkkinen, Johnny Herbert
Michael’s ninth win of the year
equalled Mansell’s 1992 record and
in the process netted Benetton the
constructors’ title.
Car Ferrari F310
Grid 3rd
Podium Jacques Villeneuve,
Mika Häkkinen
Made an opportunistic stop when the
Safety Car came out, getting ahead
of Villeneuve and staying there.

22 Monza, Italy 23 Monte Carlo, Monaco

08.09.96 11.05.97

20 Car Ferrari F310

Grid 3rd
Podium Jean Alesi, Mika Häkkinen
Mistakes by Damon Hill and Jacques
Villeneuve allowed Michael to take
his first win at Monza for Ferrari, to
the huge delight of the home crowd.
Car Ferrari F310B
Grid 2nd
Podium Rubens Barrichello,
Eddie Irvine
Schumacher chose the T-car with wet
setup. He left the pack behind, easing
up only on the final laps.

24 Montréal, Canada 25 Magny-Cours, France

15.06.97
Car Ferrari F310B
Grid 1st
Podium Jean Alesi, Giancarlo Fisichella
Michael was leading by more than
15 seconds when the race was red-
flagged and stopped early after Olivier
Panis broke his leg in an accident.
29.06.97
Car Ferrari F310B
Grid 1st
Podium Heinz-Harald Frentzen,
Eddie Irvine
Equalled Jim Clark and Niki Lauda’s
records of 25 GP wins, putting him
14 points clear in the championship.

Barcelona, Spain A switch to an uncompetitive Ferrari meant 26 Spa, Belgium 27 Suzuka, Japan

02.06.96 Schumi was in need of divine intervention. It 24.08.97 12.10.97

Car Ferrari F310 came in the form of heavy rain before the race.
Grid 3rd From P3, a bad start dropped Michael to ninth
Podium Jean Alesi, at the first corner. He fought up to sixth at the
Jacques Villeneuve end of the opening lap. By lap 12 he’d picked
off Berger, Hill, Alesi and Villeneuve to lead the
race. His car control was extraordinary as he
took a brilliant first win for Ferrari.
Car Ferrari F310B
Grid 3rd
Podium Giancarlo Fisichella,
Mika Häkkinen
After three laps behind the Safety
Car, Schumacher took the lead and
wasn’t headed again. Masterful.
Car Ferrari F310B
Grid 2nd
Podium Heinz-Harald Frentzen,
Eddie Irvine
In a race dominated by blocking
tactics, Michael’s win meant the title
was on a knife-edge for the final race.

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28 Buenos Aires, Argentina
12.04.98
Car Ferrari F300
Grid 2nd
Podium Mika Häkkinen, Eddie Irvine
Schumi tapped Coulthard’s McLaren
out of the way, but still had to push
hard. He negotiated late-race rain
and a trip across a gravel trap to win.
30 Magny-Cours, France
28.06.98
Car Ferrari F300
Grid 2nd
Podium Eddie Irvine, Mika Häkkinen
After an aborted start Schumacher
led from the second attempt, with
Eddie Irvine slowing the McLarens to
aid his team-mate’s cause.
33 Monza, Italy
13.09.98
Car Ferrari F300
Grid 1st
Podium Eddie Irvine, Ralf Schumacher
Schumi made an unusually poor start,
then took the lead when Coulthard,
then Häkkinen, retired. Brother Ralf
joined him on podium for first time.
35 Monte Carlo, Monaco
16.05.99
Car Ferrari F399
Grid 2nd
Podium Eddie Irvine, Mika Häkkinen
Despite being outqualified by
Häkkinen, Michael led into Sté
Devote. Mechanical woe at McLaren
then left him free to dominate.
37 Interlagos, Brazil
26.03.00
Car Ferrari F1-2000
Grid 3rd
Podium Giancarlo Fisichella,
Heinz-Harald Frentzen
Schumacher was forced to slow with
oil-pressure problems in the closing
laps, but still took a dominant win.
39 Nürbürgring, Europe (Germany)
21.05.00
Car Ferrari F1-2000
Grid 2nd
Podium Mika Häkkinen,
David Coulthard
In damp conditions, he beat arch-rival
Häkkinen. The pair battled hard until
Michael pounced on lap 10.
29 Montréal, Canada
07.06.98
Car Ferrari F300
Grid 3rd
Podium Giancarlo Fisichella, Eddie Irvine
Despite receiving a 10sec stop/go
penalty for contact with Frentzen,
Michael still managed to overhaul
Fisichella for victory. A brilliant drive.
31 Silverstone, Britain
12.07.98
Car Ferrari 300
Grid 2nd
Podium Mika Häkkinen, Eddie Irvine
Michael passed Häkkinen under
yellow flags and was told to serve a
stop/go penalty from the pitlane. He
served it on the final lap – and won.
34 Imola, San Marino
02.05.99
Car Ferrari F399
Grid 3rd
Podium David Coulthard,
Rubens Barrichello
Ferrari outfumbled the McLarens as
Häkkinen crashed out of the lead
with Coulthard four seconds adrift.
36 Melbourne, Australia
12.03.00
Car Ferrari F1-2000
Grid 3rd
Podium Rubens Barrichello,
Ralf Schumacher
32
Same old story. DC, then Häkkinen
retired from the lead. Guess who Hungaroring, Hungary Arguably one of the greatest wins of his career
was there to pick up the pieces? 16.08.98 and certainly one of Ross Brawn’s proudest. The
Car Ferrari F300 Ferrari clearly wasn’t as quick as the McLarens
38 Imola, San Marino Grid 3rd at the notoriously hard-to-pass Hungaroring.
09.04.00 Podium David Starting third behind the McLarens, Ferrari chose
Car Ferrari F1-2000 Coulthard, to switch their strategy mid-race from two to three
Grid 2nd Jacques Villeneuve stops. But that required Schumacher to pull out
Podium Mika Häkkinen, a 22-second lead over Häkkinen before his final
David Coulthard stop. A series of blistering qualifying-esque laps let
This time, Michael ran long before a Schumi find the gap and he emerged from his final
second stop – gaining 4.5 secs on his stop in the lead of the race. Truly impressive.
in- and out-laps to emerge ahead.
40 Montréal, Canada 41 Monza, Italy 42 Indianapolis, USA
18.06.00 10.09.00 24.09.00
Car Ferrari F1-2000 Car Ferrari F1-2000 Car Ferrari F1-2000
Grid 1st Grid 1st Grid 1st
Podium Rubens Barrichello, Podium Mika Häkkinen, Podium Rubens Barrichello,
Giancarlo Fisichella Ralf Schumacher Heinz-Harald Frentzen
Team-mate Barrichello helped The race was overshadowed by the Victory, despite a bizarre late-
out when Michael hit mechanical death of a young marshal. Schumi race spin caused by a lapse of
problems in the closing laps. equalled Senna’s record of 41 wins. concentration, was Michael’s.
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43

Suzuka, Japan
08.10.00
Car Ferrari F1-2000
Grid 1st
Podium Mika Häkkinen,
David Coulthard

The world championship title fight

went down to the wire between
Schumacher and McLaren’s Mika
Häkkinen. The Finn led from the start,
keeping his position at the head of
the field after the opening pitstops.
When the rain started to fall, true to
form, Schumacher began to close
the gap. This was a stunning battle
between two of the top drivers in
the sport. The emotion was huge as
Michael made up the time in the rain
and at the second pitstop emerged
ahead of Häkkinen. Michael took his
third world drivers’ title and the first
for Ferrari since 1979.

44 Sepang, Malaysia 45 Melbourne, Australia 46 Sepang, Malaysia 47 Barcelona, Spain

22.10.00 04.03.01 18.03.01 29.04.01

Car Ferrari F1-2000
Grid 1st
Podium David Coulthard,
Rubens Barrichello
Schumacher held off Coulthard to win
by less than a second and take his
ninth win of the season.
Car Ferrari F2001
Grid 1st
Podium David Coulthard,
Rubens Barrichello
A lights-to-flag victory in the season-
opener was overshadowed by the
death of a marshal during the race.
Car Ferrari F2001 Car Ferrari F2001
Grid 1st Grid 1st
Podium Rubens Barrichello, Podium Juan Pablo Montoya,
David Coulthard Jacques Villeneuve
When rain struck, Schumacher fell Häkkinen’s clutch failed on the very
to the back, before scything past last lap of the race, gifting Michael
everyone to win. Blistering pace. the victory.

48 Monte Carlo, Monaco 49 Nürburgring, Europe (Germany) 50 Magny-Cours, France 51 Hungaroring, Hungary

27.05.01 24.06.01 01.07.01 19.08.01

Car Ferrari F2001
Grid 2nd
Podium Rubens Barrichello,
Eddie Irvine
DC’s problems forced him to the back
of the field, which led to win number
five in the Principality for Schumi.
Car Ferrari F2001
Grid 1st
Podium Juan Pablo Montoya,
David Coulthard
Michael edged brother Ralf towards
the pitwall off the start... and after
a long battle, beat him to the flag.
Car Ferrari F2001
Grid 2nd
Podium Ralf Schumacher,
Rubens Barrichello
One for the purist. An easy win,
Michael’s 50th, with brother Ralf
his only serious threat in the race.
Car Ferrari F2001
Grid 1st
Podium Rubens Barrichello,
David Coulthard
Victory here tied Schumi with Alain
Prost on 51 wins and four drivers’
titles. A great day’s work in the heat.

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52 Spa, Belgium
02.09.01
Car Ferrari F2001
Grid 3rd
Podium David Coulthard,
Giancarlo Fisichella
When he collected his 52nd win,
Schumacher became the most
successful driver in F1 history.
54 Melbourne, Australia
03.03.02
Car Ferrari F2001
Grid 2nd
Podium Juan Pablo Montoya,
Kimi Räikkönen
Schumacher won after battling with
the feisty Montoya’s Williams after
two early-race Safety Cars.
56 Imola, San Marino
14.04.02
Car Ferrari F2002
Grid 1st
Podium Rubens Barrichello,
Ralf Schumacher
The threatened rain never arrived,
and with just one overtaking move
in the race, this was no classic.
59 Montréal, Canada
09.06.02
Car Ferrari F2002
Grid 2nd
Podium David Coulthard,
Rubens Barrichello
The landmarks kept on coming as
Schumacher notched up his fifth
win and Ferrari’s 150th.
61 Magny-Cours, France
21.07.02
Car Ferrari F2002
Grid 2nd
Podium Kimi Räikkönen,
David Coulthard
Schumacher took a fifth title to equal
Fangio’s record. Did he really need
those extra four points from Austria?
65 Imola, San Marino
20.04.03
Car Ferrari F2002
Grid 1st
Podium Kimi Räikkönen,
Rubens Barrichello
He worked hard after a bad start, but
this was a sad win for Michael on the
weekend his mother passed away.
53 Suzuka, Japan
14.10.01
Car Ferrari F2001
Grid 1st
Podium Juan Pablo Montoya,
David Coulthard
58
After cementing an 8.2-second
lead in the first three laps, Michael
collected his ninth win of the year.
55 Interlagos, Brazil
31.03.02
Car Ferrari F2002
Grid 2nd
Podium Ralf Schumacher,
David Coulthard
Michael took the new F2002 for a
spin, and in another fraught duel with
Montoya came out on top.
57 Barcelona, Spain
28.04.02
Car Ferrari F2002
Grid 1st
Podium Juan Pablo Montoya, A1-Ring, Austria There were so many supreme victories – but
David Coulthard 12.05.02 quite often there was controversy as well as
Four wins out of five races and seven Car Ferrari F2002 Schumacher and Ferrari dominated Formula 1 in
from the last ten. Impressive. A fifth Grid 3rd the early 2000s. This one was a grand prix victory
drivers’ title was on its way. Podium Rubens gifted to Michael by a subservient team-mate.
Barrichello, Juan Frankly, there was no need for team orders so
60 Silverstone, Britain Pablo Montoya early in the season, but such was Ferrari’s and Jean
07.07.02 Todt’s determination to succeed, they did so to the
Car Ferrari F2002 detriment of the sport – and the fans. You actually
Grid 3rd had to feel sorry for Michael as he pulled Rubens
Podium Rubens Barrichello, Barrichello onto the top step of the podium as the
Juan Pablo Montoya boos rang out around the A1-Ring. Rubens had
So dominant were Ferrari that pulled over having beaten Michael fair and square.
Barrichello went from last to second It was an embarrassment for all concerned.
in 19 laps. A 60th win for Michael.
62 Hockenheim, Germany 63 Spa, Belgium 64 Suzuka, Japan
28.07.02 01.09.02 13.10.02
Car Ferrari F2002 Car Ferrari F2002 Car Ferrari F2002
Grid 1st Grid 1st Grid 1st
Podium Juan Pablo Montoya, Podium Rubens Barrichello, Podium Rubens Barrichello,
Ralf Schumacher Juan Pablo Montoya Kimi Räikkönen
After years of trying, Michael finally Schumi eclipsed Mansell’s (and This was Schumacher’s 11th win of
won the German GP at Hockenheim his own) record with ten wins in a the season and Bridgestone’s 70th
in a Ferrari. The crowd went wild. season. There were more to come… win in their 100th race.
66 Barcelona, Spain 67 A1-Ring, Austria 68 Montréal, Canada
04.05.03 18.05.03 15.06.03
Car Ferrari F2003-GA Car Ferrari F2003-GA Car Ferrari F2003-GA
Grid 1st Grid 1st Grid 3rd
Podium Fernando Alonso, Podium Kimi Räikkönen, Podium Ralf Schumacher,
Rubens Barrichello Rubens Barrichello Juan Pablo Montoya
“We had a very tough race,” said A third consecutive win for Michael. A family one-two, with Michael
Ferrari’s Ross Brawn, after Schumi Not even a fire during his pitstop holding off Ralf to win by less than
beat Alonso by 5.7 seconds. could stop him. a second despite brake problems.
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69 Monza, Italy 70 Indianapolis, USA 71 Melbourne, Australia 72 Sepang, Malaysia

14.09.03 28.09.03 07.03.04 21.03.04

Car Ferrari F2003-GA
Grid 1st
Podium Juan Pablo Montoya,
Rubens Barrichello
This crucial Ferrari home win netted
Michael a three-point lead over
Montoya in the drivers’ championship.
Car Ferrari F2003-GA
Grid 7th
Podium Kimi Räikkönen,
Heinz-Harald Frentzen
Another win and another amazing
Schumi stat: 37 races without a
mechanical failure on his Ferrari.
Car Ferrari F2004
Grid 1st
Podium Rubens Barrichello,
Fernando Alonso
Third-placed Fernando Alonso spent
the afternoon watching the two
Ferraris disappear from view.
Car Ferrari F2004
Grid 1st
Podium Juan Pablo Montoya,
Jenson Button
This one was never in doubt. The
only question was how much Michael
would win by. The answer: 5.022secs.

73 Manama, Bahrain 74 Imola, San Marino 75 Barcelona, Spain 76 Nürburgring, Europe

04.04.04 25.04.04 09.05.04 30.05.04

Car Ferrari F2004
Grid 1st
Podium Rubens Barrichello,
Jenson Button
Another blistering start to the
season for Schumacher. Three wins
from three on the date 04.04.04.
Car Ferrari F2004
Grid 2nd
Podium Jenson Button,
Juan Pablo Montoya
Four wins from four and Schumacher
toppled race leader Button, jumping
him in the first round of pitstops.
Car Ferrari F2004
Grid 1st
Podium Rubens Barrichello,
Jarno Trulli
Michael’s 200th grand prix and his
75th win. He was very lucky a hole in
his exhaust didn’t force him out.
Car Ferrari F2004
Grid 1st
Podium Rubens Barrichello,
Jenson Button
After a Safety Car mishap in Monaco,
it was business as usual as Schumi
found his way back to the top.

78 Indianapolis, USA

Montréal, Canada 20.06.04

13.06.04 Car Ferrari F2004

77 Car Ferrari F2004

Grid 6th
Podium Rubens Barrichello,
Jenson Button
Michael became the first F1
driver to win the same GP on
seven occasions – taking his 77th
Grid 2nd
Podium Rubens Barrichello,
Takuma Sato
Clever tactics surrounding a restart
resulted in yet another win, despite
concern over brother Ralf’s accident.
79 Magny-Cours, France

victory in the process. Having 04.07.04

started in P6 on a heavy fuel load,
Schumacher and his team-mate
Rubens Barrichello decide to run a
very long first stint. Every lap the
Ferraris didn’t pit, Williams’ hearts
sank deeper. And when Michael
stopped for the second time on lap
47, one lap later Ralf Schumacher
came in for his third and final stop.
Car Ferrari F2004
Grid 2nd
Podium Fernando Alonso,
Rubens Barrichello
In a rare move, Ferrari employed
a four-stop fuel strategy and
Schumacher delivered perfectly.
80 Silverstone, Britain

Schumacher emerged five seconds 11.07.04

ahead – and it was game over. This
was a clever race, cautious in the
opening and followed by a series of
blistering laps to make the strategy
work. A great example of the Brawn
mastermind working in unison with
the pace of Schumacher.
Car Ferrari F2004
Grid 4th
Podium Kimi Räikkönen,
Rubens Barrichello
Michael’s tenth win in 11 races: the
80th of his career. The juggernaut
rolled on, with no sign of stopping.

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81 Hockenheim, Germany 82 Hungaroring, Hungary

25.07.04 15.08.04
Car Ferrari F2004 Car Ferrari F2004
Grid 1st Grid 1st
Podium Jenson Button, Podium Rubens Barrichello,
Fernando Alonso
Eleven wins from 12, with Button
the only driver to apply the pressure.
Another home win for Schumi.
Fernando Alonso
Michael broke his own 2002 record for
wins in a season and Ferrari took a
sixth consecutive constructors’ title.
85
83 Suzuka, Japan 84 Indianapolis, USA Imola, San Marino After a year on underperforming Bridgestone
10.10.04 19.06.05 23.04.06 tyres, with Fernando Alonso taking all the
Car Ferrari F2004 Car Ferrari F2005 Car Ferrari 248 F1 plaudits, this commanding drive reminded
Grid 1st Grid 5th Grid 1st everyone of Michael’s mastery. Alonso piled on
Podium Ralf Schumacher, Podium Rubens Barrichello, Podium Alonso, the pressure, but on the crucial final pitstop,
Jenson Button Tiago Monteiro Montoya Michael put in a sizzling lap to cover the Renault.
Not even the typhoon that cancelled Another controversial victory in a The changing of the guard had begun, but the old
qualifying could stand in the way of tyre-related six-car farce. But he beat master kept the youngster at bay.
Schumi’s relentless march to victory. all opponents put in front of him.

86 Nürburgring, Europe (Germany) 87 Indianapolis, USA 88 Magny-Cours, France 89 Hockenheim, Germany

07.05.06 02.07.06 16.07.06 30.07.06

Car Ferrari 248 F1
Grid 2nd
Podium Fernando Alonso,
Felipe Massa
A great duel with Alonso, with the
two sharing the same basic strategy.
But Schumacher came out on top.
Car Ferrari 248 F1 Car Ferrari 248 F1 Car Ferrari 248 F1
Grid 1st Grid 1st Grid 2nd
Podium Felipe Massa, Podium Fernando Alonso, Podium Felipe Massa, Kimi Räikkönen
Giancarlo Fisichella Felipe Massa The German fans came to see a
“A great day, a great weekend,” said His 88th victory was his eighth win in Schumi victory. Team-mate Massa
Michael. He meant Germany reaching France (another record). It made an understood, staying in second, less
the semi-final of the World Cup… eighth title seem possible. than a second behind.

91 Shanghai, China

Monza, Italy
10.09.06

90 Car Ferrari 248 F1

Grid 2nd
Podium Kimi Räikkönen,
Robert Kubica

This was an extraordinary

weekend. First, Fernando Alonso
was penalised in qualifying for
seemingly holding up Felipe
Massa’s Ferrari, and duly started
tenth. By the end of the weekend,
a victorious Schumacher was within
two points of Alonso in the drivers’
championship. More significant
was the emotion riding with Michael
during the race – made clear on his
slowing down lap when he radioed
the garage to say he was about
to announce his retirement from
the sport. On the podium, in front
of the tifosi, the atmosphere was
extraordinary. And in the post-
race press conference you could
have heard a pin drop as the king
informed his subjects that his
mighty reign was coming to an end.
01.10.06
Car Ferrari 248 F1
Grid 6th
Podium Fernando Alonso,
Giancarlo Fisichella
His very last win for Ferrari before he
bowed out of Formula 1, having set
records perhaps no one will ever
break. After three years away, he’d
return to race for Mercedes, but it
wouldn’t be the fairytale comeback
his fans longed for.

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dealt with the death of its heroes
as an almost routine occurrence.
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the seemingly innocuous, non-
racing, accident that befell Michael
Schumacher have encouraged the
F1 community to reflect on the
nature of mortality more deeply
than ever before. Peter Windsor
offers a very personal view of the
true nature of Schumacher’s legacy
– one, he argues, which reaches far
beyond mere sporting achievement
in this life.

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“It took a long time to be in a position to try to overtake
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92 F1 Racing October 2014
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has given the Sochi Autodrom the seal of approval.
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F1 venue is ready, what will Russia itself make of F1?
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PICTURES MALCOLM GRIFFITHS/LAT

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Russian Touring Car
championship round
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the World Cup, in our
country. I’ve watched
F1 and I’m a supporter
of both Michael and
Ralf Schumacher. It’s a
shame they won’t be
racing here in October.
I have heard of Vitaly
Petrov, but not of any
other Russian driver.”
96 F1 Racing October 2014
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Natalya Voronina
A lot of my friends
came to the Olympics
and they told me that it
was like a fairytale so
I wanted to come and
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see the venues, too. It’s
impressive how quickly
everything was built
here. I’ve seen the track
and I’m interested. Yes,
we will watch the race.”
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I haven’t heard of F1
and I didn’t know there
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was a race here. I
won’t watch it, I’m not
interested at all.”
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Sochi is the right
place to have the
race because of the
infrastructure. In the
past, Russian people
couldn’t afford to
travel abroad to visit
the races, but now
with it here they can
go. So the interest will
increase over the years
F1 spends racing here.”
98 F1 Racing October 2014
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THE MANY LAYERS OF
DANIIL KVYAT
Quick. Smart. Funny.
But not brilliant at
skipping (yet). Red Bull’s
latest protégé opens up
to F1 Racing…
INTERVIEW STUART CODLING
PORTRAITS GLENN DUNBAR/LAT
100 F1 Racing October 2014
How much did you know about Red Bull’s
Russian wonderkid, apart from the fact that
he’s very quick in a Formula 1 car? Daniil
Vyacheslavovich Kvyat started racing in
single-seaters before his 16th birthday, made
it to F1 before his 20th – leapfrogging other
Red Bull-backed talents along the way – is
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endearingly un-F1. You sense that, even at his
relatively youthful age and with a career recently
underwritten by the global soft drinks empire,
he’s had an eventful life – that he’s had to scratch
around a bit.
So there are no airs and graces, no sense of
entitlement, no entourage, no take-all-the-blue-
M&Ms-out-of-the-bowl megastar-ness. When
he walks from motorhome to garage he bowls
along the paddock in his civvies, pale shorts
hanging off spindly legs, looking like an excited
teenager who’s been lent a pass for the day. But
this doesn’t always come across in pictures; he’s
still a touch camera-shy, and this manifests itself
in a slight downturning of the mouth whenever
the lenses point his way. That temporary rictus
of disgruntlement leads those who aren’t in the
know to think he may be a bit… grumpy.
But he isn’t. He’s just the boy next door,
albeit one with stunning car control. He’s
registering highly on the JEV-ometer, too. Daniel
Ricciardo’s performances relative to Sebastian
Vettel at Red Bull this year have provided some
context to his two seasons alongside Jean-Eric
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more often than not, but Vergne was usually a
match on race pace. Thus far this year, Kvyat is
roughly on a par with Vergne in both qualifying
and race performance, though our view of
the latter is often clouded by the STR9’s poor
reliability. Exuberance has got the better of him
a couple of times – that clumsy pass on Sergio
Pérez at Hockenheim, for instance – but team
insiders speak in glowing terms of his sheer pace,
enthusiasm, and methodical approach to racing.
So there’s more to Daniil Kvyat than meets the
eye, hence our Matryoshka dolls and the slightly
unusual questions contained within…

What’s with the skipping?
DK: Ah… that was you guys, wasn’t it? [Many
drivers have a routine to get ‘in the zone’ before
a track session; Nico Rosberg, for instance,
plays keepy uppy with a football. F1 Racing
found Daniil skipping behind the Toro Rosso
garage in Hockenheim, but he bashfully asked
us not to take a photo because “I’m not very
good at it yet.”] Well I’m growing in skills, so I
can do it on one leg now for a long time. Yeah,
it’s a good exercise and I like it, especially before
qualifying and the race – you get your heart rate
up and it helps you focus. Pyry [Salmela, his
trainer] suggested doing it.
PHOTOS: MALCOLM GRIFFITHS/LAT; ANDY HONE/LAT
Danill with Dr Marko: “He’s not a bust-up type
of guy… but he can have some tough words”
102 F1 Racing October 2014
Rank the four languages you speak
in order of how often you use them.
DK: Hey, that’s a tough question! Let me think
about it… I speak Italian with many friends and
I speak it when I’m in Italy; I speak English with
my trainer, and we spend a lot of time together;
and I speak Russian, obviously, with my family.
So I’d say I speak those languages 30 percent
each of the time. Then maybe 10 per cent of the
time I speak Spanish.
F1R: Russian is a very complex language for an
outsider to learn – all those different cases for
nouns. Does mastering the grammar as a native
speaker help with learning other languages?
DK: I think it helps in a way, but I found English
grammar wasn’t easy to learn at the beginning.
I don’t think I speak perfect English. I started
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reach a point where without practice you can’t
go forward – you can speak English with your
teacher, but you’re doing it maybe twice a week
for an hour. So it gave me a good baseline, but
to get to a decent level in a language you need to
practice regularly, and I got much better when
I started racing single-seaters. And I’m living in
England now, in Milton Keynes.
F1R: Do you get recognised on the street?
DK: Sometimes. Not so much before, but since Daniil’s fourth retirement of 2014 in Montréal:
Silverstone it’s happened a couple of times. It’s “I’d rate myself between six and eight out of ten”
quite nice actually!
What’s the closest you’ve been to
a bust-up with Dr Marko?
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not a bust-up type of guy. But he can have some
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ever race in the Red Bull junior programme, that
was the closest we got – I had a few warnings!
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from karting. After one race at Silverstone [in
Formula BMW] I was told I was a bit slow – I
needed to push a bit more or I wouldn’t be in the
programme very long! At the next race weekend
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Sainz Jr, so that was okay. But Dr Marko always
tells you when you’re doing a good job as well
as when you’re doing a bad job – and that’s
something I should appreciate and not criticise.

Have you stopped growing yet?
DK: [Laughs] This is also a question Dr Marko
asks me! Did he write this one? [During his
teens, Daniil shot up by nine inches in one year,
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his body movements – his brain, in effect, didn’t
know how tall he was] I know some people
keep growing until they’re 25 years old, but my
height is 182cm now and I think I’ve stopped
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who was in Formula 1 a long time and was very
competitive. I don’t think I’ll end up any taller
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I was talking to him about it – he had a long and
successful career in Formula 1 so I’m not too
worried about it.
Rate your performance so far this
year out of ten.
DK: Hmm. I’d say… Well, I don’t really like to
judge myself, but… I’d say between six and eight.
It’s easy to look back now at the start of the year
and to say maybe I could have done some things
a little better, because I was very inexperienced
then. The team have been pushing hard at every
race, focusing on our own business, to do the
best job we can. And I think it’s been working
very well, especially the last few races.
F1R: Do you think you’re going to have some pain
in the last quarter of the season? You’ve already
gone through a lot of power unit components, so
penalties are on the way.
DK: Yeah, I’m not in an optimal position, to be
honest. I’ll have to be bit more careful, which
means slightly less performance in some places,
but that’s life – we’ll just look forward, we know How often would you say you
it’s going to happen at some point. We just have actually drink Red Bull?
to minimise the damage. If it’s at a race where we
have really good pace I’ll be disappointed, but at DK: I like the taste of it, but it’s a party drink for
OHDVWZH¶UHQRW¿JKWLQJIRUWKHFKDPSLRQVKLS me. Those very few times when I’ve been at a
party, I might have mixed it with something.
F1R: Whatever could that be?
“I’ll have to be DK: Ha ha! Well I allow myself a couple of drinks
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more careful,
nothing that affects my performance and
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which means We’re down to the tiniest doll. Daniil twists it
tentatively, to see if another one lurks within.
slightly less “All done, huh?” Swiftly but methodically he
reassembles them, brow furrowed, then sets the
performance”
completed doll on the table. “Thanks,” he says.
“That was fun – if a little crazy…”
F1 Racing October 2014 103
Field of Reims
On the 60th anniversary of
Mercedes’ winning return to grand
prix racing, we took a road trip
to the remains of the circuit that
hosted that era-defining victory
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Reims then and now:
The 1958 French
Grand Prix (right);
and the restored
remains of the track
(left) with pit boxes
and fenced-off
grandstands
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PHOTOS: STEVEN TEE/LAT; CHARLES COATES/LAT; MALCOLM GRIFFITHS/LAT

A result no one expected

Defying the odds, with a power unit 70bhp down on that of Merc, Ricciardo
takes advantage of Rosberg and Hamilton’s squabble to take a surprise win
REPORTS PREVIEWS

110 114 116 118

BELGIAN GP REPORT SINGAPORE GP PREVIEW JAPANESE GP PREVIEW RUSSIAN GP PREVIEW
War breaks out at Mercedes when Teams attempt to prepare themselves Narrow, undulating and fast, Suzuka Formula 1 gears up for the first
Rosberg punctures Hamilton’s tyre for Safety Cars and torrential rain is loved and feared in equal measure ever grand prix in Sochi

OPINION

120 122
INBOX MURRAY WALKER
Never mind his age – is Max Verstappen As F1 continues to expand its reach, Murray remembers
too inexperienced to compete in Formula 1? those classic tracks that have fallen by the wayside

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RACE DEBRIEFby Anthony Rowlinson

Belgian Grand Prix
24.08.2014 / Spa-Francorchamps

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Belgian Grand Prix stats

The lowdown on everything you need to know from the weekend at the Spa-Francorchamps…

THE GRID THE RACE

1. ROSBERG
MERCEDES
2min 05.591secs Q3
2. HAMILTON
MERCEDES
2min 05.819secs Q3
3. VETTEL
RED BULL FASTEST LAP
2min 07.717secs Q3
4. ALONSO Nico Rosberg, lap 36, 1min50.511secs
FERRARI
2min 07.786secs Q3 THE RESULTS (44 LAPS)
1st Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull 1h24m 36.556s
5. RICCIARDO
2nd Nico Rosberg Mercedes +3.383s
RED BULL
2min 07.911secs Q3 3rd Valtteri Bottas Williams +28.032s
6. BOTTAS 4th Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari +36.815s
WILLIAMS Sebastian Vettel Red Bull
5th +52.196s
2min 08.049secs Q3
6th Jenson Button McLaren +54.580s
7. MAGNUSSEN
7th Fernando Alonso Ferrari +61.162s
MCLAREN FASTEST PITSTOP
2min 08.679secs Q3 8th Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso +65.347s
8. RÄIKKÖNEN 9th Nico Hülkenberg Force India +65.697s Jenson Button, 22.588secs (entry to exit)
FERRARI
10th Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso +71.920s
2min 08.780secs Q1
11th Kevin Magnussen McLaren +74.262s*
9. MASSA DRIVERS’ STANDINGS
WILLIAMS 12th Felipe Massa Williams +75.975s
2min 09.178secs Q3 13th Adrian Sutil Sauber +88.447s 1st Nico Rosberg Mercedes 220pts
10. BUTTON
14th Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber +90.825s 2nd Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 191pts
MCLAREN
2min 09.776secs Q3 15th Max Chilton Marussia +1 lap 3rd Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull 156pts
16th Marcus Ericsson Caterham +1 lap 4th Fernando Alonso Ferrari 121pts
11. KVYAT
TORO ROSSO 17th Jules Bianchi Marussia +5 laps/gearbox 5th Valtteri Bottas Williams 110pts
2min 09.377secs Q2 *Includes 20sec penalty for forcing Alonso off track 6th Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 98pts
12. VERGNE
TORO ROSSO Retirements 7th Nico Hülkenberg Force India 70pts
2min 09.805secs Q2 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 38 laps – handling 8th Jenson Button McLaren 68pts

13. PÉREZ Romain Grosjean Lotus 33 laps – handling 9th Felipe Massa Williams 40pts
FORCE INDIA Pastor Maldonado Lotus 1 lap – exhaust 10th Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 39pts
2min 10.084secs Q2 André Lotterer Caterham 1 lap – power unit 11th Kevin Magnussen McLaren 37pts
14. SUTIL
SAUBER 12th Sergio Pérez Force India 33pts
2min 10.238secs Q2 13th Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso 11pts
15. GROSJEAN 14th Romain Grosjean Lotus 8pts
THROUGH SPEED TRAP
LOTUS 15th Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso 8pts
2min 11.087secs Q2
16th Jules Bianchi Marussia 2pts
16. BIANCHI
MARUSSIA 17th Adrian Sutil Sauber 0pts
2min 12.470secs Q2 18th Marcus Ericsson Caterham 0pts
17. MALDONADO 19th Pastor Maldonado Lotus 0pts
PHOTOS: STEVE ETHERINGTON/LAT; GLENN DUNBAR/LAT; STEVEN TEE/LAT

LOTUS 20th Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber 0pts

2min 11.261secs Q1 Fastest: Nico Slowest: Pastor 21st Max Chilton Marussia 0pts
18. HÜLKENBERG
FORCE INDIA Rosberg, 195.17mph Maldonado, 147.45mph 22nd Kamui Kobayashi Caterham 0pts
2min 11.267secs Q1 23rd André Lotterer Caterham 0pts
19. CHILTON TYRE COMPOUNDS USED
MARUSSIA CONSTRUCTORS’ STANDINGS
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20. GUTIÉRREZ 1st Mercedes 411pts 9th Marussia 2pts
SAUBER 2nd Red Bull 254pts 10th Sauber 0pts
2min 13.414secs Q1 3rd Ferrari 160pts 11th Caterham 0pts
Soft Medium Intermediate Wet
21. LOTTERER 4th Williams 150pts
CATERHAM
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2min 13.469secs Q1 CLIMATE TRACK TEMP
22. ERICSSON 6th Force India 103pts
CATERHAM For comprehensive
7th Toro Rosso 19pts
2min 14.438secs Q1 Overcast
16°C 21°C 8th Lotus 8pts
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Round 14 / 19-21 September / Marina Bay
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Street Circuit (UK TIME) 17
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F1 races held 6 Practice 1 11:00-12:30
Laps 61 Practice 2 14:30-16:00
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Winners from pole 4 Sunday 21 September
Race 13:00
Live coverage Sky Sports F1
Highlights BBC One

WHAT HAPPENED IN LAST YEAR'S RACE...?

Winner Sebastian Vettel This was the start of a sequence of wins that put
Margin of victory 32.627s Vettel out of the reach of the opposition in the title
Fastest lap 1m 48.574s, S Vettel fight. He took a commanding win ahead of Ferrari’s
Race leaders 1 Fernando Alonso and the Lotus of Kimi Räikkönen.
Pitstops 54 Vettel’s Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber retired
Overtakes 35 with a blown engine just one lap from home.

SINGAPORE TELEMETRY 2014 2013

HOW A LAP IN THE NEW 2014 CARS WILL COMPARE TO LAST YEAR

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Winner Sebastian Vettel This was a fraught race with the Red Bulls up
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HOW A LAP IN THE NEW 2014 CARS WILL COMPARE TO LAST YEAR

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After the success of the Winter Olympics, President

Putin wanted the Black Sea resort of Sochi
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the stadiums built for the Winter Games. It looks
spectacular – let’s see how the racing turns out.

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