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Nigel Mansell leads the 1986 Australian GP, one of the PIT+PADDOCK most dramatic races of all time 4 Rebellion’s crack line-up for LMP1 return 7 Mercedes close to reaching 1000bhp

FEATURES Selecting the best from 20 The true cost of Formula 1 in 2017 28 F2 review: how rookie Leclerc starred 34 GP3 review: the ART of (not quite) war over half a century 38 2017 index: who wrote what, when WE’VE HAD A GOOD YEAR FOR GREAT DEBATES. RACE CENTRE During 2017 Autosport has argued about ’s all-rounders, 41 Gulf 12 Hours; Super TC2000 fi nest street races, best wet-weather performances and who the greatest British Formula 1 driver is, not to mention the pluses and CLUB AUTOSPORT minuses of recent developments such as the introduction of the halo. 53 Adam switches Aston teams for British GT This week, however, one man picks out his personal F1 highlights. 54 Celebrations for Escort and Chevron B8 Nigel Roebuck has been to over 500 grands prix (more than half of 57 Humble Pye: the voice of club racing the world championship events so far) and, in a special edition of his 58 Billy Monger’s road to recovery column (page 8), he looks back at the most memorable moments from FINISHING STRAIGHT his career, ranging from his fi rst visit to the British GP in 1965 to the 62 What’s on this week best drive of current world champion ’s career so far. 64 From the archive: 1979 Silverstone 6 Hours We also have the annual assessment of the fi nancial state of F1 from 66 Top five autosport.com stories of 2017 our political journalist Dieter Rencken. He’s pieced together a picture of the budgets and incomes for each of the 10 teams during the fi rst AUTOSPORT SUBSCRIPTION OFFER year of the post- era. He found a mixed bag… 56 Special January sale deal Two of the other stories of 2017 were rising star ’s domination of Formula 2 and Billy Monger’s fi ght to return to racing following his terrible British F4 accident at in April. We speak to both in this issue, as well as the three ART drivers who fought for the GP3 crown: FIND US ON George Russell, and . That just leaves me to wish everyone a Happy New Year. We look forward to seeing you in 2018, starting with the autosport.com Autosport International show in Birmingham on January 11-14. twitter.com/autosport

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DECEMBER 28 2017 3 Ex-Porsche men Lotterer (right) and Jani spearhead formidable line-up FEEDBACK O OPINION O

WORLD ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP Rebellion bids for revolution THE ANGLO-SWISS REBELLION RACING honours, combined with a massive increase in team will make a swift return to the LMP1 ranks the number of independents, has lured Rebellion

CONTROVERSY in the World Endurance Championship in 2018 back after a successful season in the LMP2 ranks after a single season away. The logic is simple that yielded the drivers’ and teams’ titles. O for a team that was the top P1 privateer in the Rebellion will be looking to continue the series from its rebirth in 2012. And it can be successes of the past — it has taken no fewer summed up in one word: competition. than 35 class victories since the rebirth of the Rebellion couldn’t compete with the factory WEC in 2012. That explains why it has brought hybrid cars with its R-One chassis and, before Porsche drivers Andre Lotterer and that, its fleet of venerable Lolas. And it didn’t onto its books for the 2018-19 superseason. That have anyone to race with in the privateer ranks is clearly a declaration of intent by the team. save the low-key ByKolles team. That has all Three-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Lotterer changed for the 2018-19 WEC superseason. and Jani, who made his name in sportscars with The WEC rulemakers were quick to shore Rebellion, are joined by team regulars Bruno up the P1 division in the wake of Porsche’s Senna and Mathias Beche and two newcomers

DEBATE DEBATE withdrawal from the top class of the series with a from the P2 ranks: Gustavo Menezes, who was

O promise of lap time parity with factory machinery given a first outing with Rebellion at the Petit for non-hybrid cars run by privateers. That built Le Mans IMSA finale in October, and Thomas on rule changes put in place for 2017 designed to Laurent have been two of the standouts in P2 increase the performance of the independents, over the past two years. and motivated Ginetta, and SMP Racing with Exactly what they will be driving isn’t clear for BR Engineering, to instigate P1 projects. the moment. Rebellion has only said that its car The promise from the rulemakers, made will be unveiled at the Geneva motor show in in September, further boosted the lot of the March. It can be expected, however, that it privateers, who will be no longer racing in their will be built by ORECA, which designed and

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4 DECEMBER 28 2017 against Toyotaagainst GARY WATKINS should heagree a deal forLeMansisunclear. month, could beincorporated into theline-up Alonso, who tested aTS050 inBahrain last with anunchanged driver roster. How Fernando the publication oftherules fornext season. series finaleinNovember wason madeofficial Murata intheimmediate wake oftheBahrain by Motorsport GmbHpresident Hisatake The apparent confirmation ofits return made black andwhite intherun-upto Christmas. commitment to race onintheWEC down in against apair ofToyota TS050 HYBRIDs. superseason. They willnow definitely go up a 10-car fieldofnon-factory cars inthe2018-19 to becalled that –willbepart ofwhat could be choice ofanon-turbo unitthemost likely. involved inRebellion’s P1return makes the aspirated P2V8. Thetruncated timescale version ofBritishbuilderGibson’s normally run by theteam last year. team in2014-16andsuppliedtheP2machinery TMG hasstated that itwillhead into 2018 The Japanese manufacturer finally put its The two Rebellions –andwe can expect them The engine, most likely, willbethe4.5-litre

PORSCHE BMW promotesBMW talent as Martin joinsas Martin Aston SPORTSCARS/DTM the start of2017 hadgiven himgreater to fully fundAMR’s GTE Pro attack from explained that Aston Martin’s decision been oneofhistargets forsometime. He GT programmes, revealed that Martin had Prodrive organisation that runsAston’s new car isperfect timing.” like Aston Martinwhen itisintroducing a so coming to theWEC withamanufacturer and dosomethingmore international. them was to go back to endurance racing to make thechange from BMW, andoneof as aBMWdriver. “There were many reasons switching to theDTM inhissecond season Martin, who notched upthree victories after racing, includingsomeraces inGTE,” said would have beentheDTM, butwithsomeGT in theWEC aboard its all-new Vantage GTE. Martin came knockingwiththeofferofadrive employer ofthepast five years, when Aston revealed that hechoseto leave BMW, his and BrunoSpenglerstay onintheDTM. Wittmann, TimoGlock, GT3 programme to filltheother. Marco Eng moves over from themanufacturer’s Championship to take one, while Philipp runner-up inthe2017 European Formula 3 from BMW’s juniorranks after finishing DTM squad. Joel Eriksson hasbeenpromoted Andretti hasfreed uptwo seats intheRBM Blomqvist’s new focusonFormula Ewith World Endurance Championshipline-up. BMW’s DTM squadto Aston MartinRacing’s motivated MaximeMartin’s move from ranks andto race intheinternational arena A DESIRE TO RETURN TO THESPORTSCAR John Gaw, motorsport bossat the “I’ve never doneafullWEC programme, “If Ihadstayed withBMWmy mainfocus Former Spa 24Hours winnerMartin Martin’s departure from BMWandTom

GARY WATKINS ambassadorial role withBMWNorth America. the long-distance races alongside anew veteran BillAuberlen willnow only contest manufacturer’s US-based line-up. American Sims andJohn Edwards, who stay oninthe from ’s GT pool. They willjoin Alexander while Connor DePhillippimoves to BMW full-time seat intheRahal-runIMSA squad, success intheGTD category inIMSA –to a BMW juniorranks –inwhich hehasachieved will betheotherfull-timedrivers. Antonio Felix daCosta andNicky Catsburg programme withtheMTEKsquad. Farfus, SportsCar Championshipto theWEC M8 in2017, moves over from theIMSA who leddevelopment ofthenew BMWGTE It’s fantastic that Ihave achieved this.” to make itto thetop, to make itto theDTM. “When Ijoined BMW, itwas al non-clashing Formula 2races in2018, said: hoping to continue hissingle-seater career in until we get furtherinto testing.” three cars. “We won’t make thosedecisions expand its GTE Pro classattack from two to run,” saidGaw, who hinted that Aston could beendecidedhowhasn’t many cars we will line-up hasyet to bedetermined. Adam. How they willfitinto theWEC Marco Sorensen, Darren TurnerandJonny and joins aline-upthat includes NickiThiim, driver roster fornext season after , budget to bringhimin, butIdonow.” years,” said Gaw. “Before, have Ididn’t the freedom inchoice ofdrivers. hasbeenpromoted from the Former DTM championMartin Tomczyk, Swede Eriksson, who isunderstood to be “The pairings have notbeendecided;it Martin isthesecond newcomer onAston’s “I have beentrying to signMaxforfive DECEMBER 282017 ways my goal goal my ways

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Its progress isthought dyno when itbroke the50% thermal-efficiency “I’m sure that’ll happenat somepoint.” for fourfigures. “We’re close,” saidCowell. 900bhp, andnow hereckons it’s oncourse in 2016Cowell saidMercedes had exceeded a power outputof1000bhp. producing apowerplant that can deliver Andy Cowell says histeam iscloseto MERCEDES FORMULA 1ENGINE BOSS S BLOXHAM/LAT DUNBAR/LAT While SaoPaulo hasbeen The move, announced in Thermal efficiency, whichis calculated onthe This year, Mercedes hitalandmark onthe Power-unit development hasbeensuchthat and execute areplacement. series withlittle timeto source planned finaleitleaves the only seven monthsbefore the out ofthequestion, butwith another Canadiancity was not told Autosport that racing in be foundfortheMontreal date. whether analternative event can date ofMarch 17 –itisunclear the Brazilian event’s projected It isunderstood that the Series CEO Alejandro Agag in 2014, hadanefficiency rate of 44%. Let’s seehow itallworks out.” aerodynamic andpower-unit performance. the technology onthec the bitwhere there’s work beingdoneto improve one thing. Whenyou go to total laptime, that’s the winter, andit’s abalance withthecar aswell. how thepower-unit development goes through for theearly part ofnext year. We needto see the dyno to thetrack, Cowell said: “It’s ananswer until 50% thermalefficiency is transferred from 100kg/hour. When asked how longitwilltake important because ofthestrict fuel-flow limitof for modernenginebuilders. InF1, itisparticularly LAWRENCE BARRETTO Mercedes’ first turbo-hybrid engine, introduced “There are engines runningonthedyno –that’s SCOTT MITCHELL ANDRENEFAGNAN afford to repeat. Plante saidthecity could not private sponsorship, something Hydro-Quebec andattracted no state-owned utilities company The event was backed by the $CDN6.2million inunpaid bills. for the2017 editionandhas authority –isyet to pay FE organisation formedby thelocal electrique’, anot-for-profit promoter – ‘Montreal, c’est ar to enhance both NEWS ANDANALYSIS/ SPM could become amulti-year deal. Sonoma. Shanksaidthepartnership with Petersburg, Long Beach, theIndy500and isexpectedRacing. Harvey to race at St run inconjunction withMichaelShank Peterson inaprogramme IndyCar Seriesraces in2018withSchmidt hassecured himselfat leastHarvey four Ex-British Formula 3championJack HARVEY’S INDYCAR DEAL to seemyteam withinthat,” hesaid. fracas. sad,andsadderstill “Thisisvery co-drivers. Massaapologisedfor the the win,withhissonDuduamong punching hishelmet. Barrichelloinherited pinned Rocha to theground, rep Rocha punted Dantas off, before Dantas kart to Massa’s, drivenbyRodrigo Dantas. Massa, whenhewas heldupbythesister was to lyingsecond, catch trying leader Barrichello’s squadto win.Tuka Rocha allowingRubens Milhas deKartevent, team beingexcluded from Brazil’s 500 A punch-upresulted inFelipe Massa’s MASSA TEAMINPUNCH-UP with twodriversyet to beannounced. juniorCallumIlott at thesquad, team ART Grand Prixfor 2018. Hejoins Mazepin hasgrabbed aseat at top GP3 Force IndiadevelopmentdriverNikita MAZEPIN’S GP3SEAT Manthey-run 911GT3-R. Dumas andDirkWernerwillshare a Challenge: Frederic Makowiecki, Romain of anattack ontheIntercontinental GT also sendingsomebiggunsaspart veteran Steven Richards. Porsche is stablemate PhilippEngandAussie BMW M6GT3 withnewBMWDTM the race thisyear, willshare aTeam SRM Hours inFebruary. whoalsodid Glock, Timo Glockwillcontest theBathurst 12 Ex-Formula 1racer-turned-DTM hardman ONCE ROUNDTHEGLOCK bruising to hischest andribs. fainting, andalsosustained heavy climbed outofthecar unaidedbefore failure ofhisGraff LigierLMP3 car. He Marina. Winslowhadsuspected brake shunt intheGulf12Hoursrace at Yas suffered abroken vertebra inaheavy Versatile Britishracer JamesWinslow WINSLOW INJURED M-Sport-run Continental. Vincent Abrilcontinuing intheother with AndySoucek, MaximeSoulet and drive withGuySmithandSteven Kane, Gounonwill Mazda-bound OliverJarvis. for nextline-up year inplace ofIMSAJoest joined ’s Blancpain Endurance Masters championJulesGounonhas Spa 24HourswinnerandADAC GT GOUNON FOR BENTLEY IN THEHEADLINES DECEMBER 282017 PIT +PADDOCK eatedly 7 FIFTH COLUMN/GREATEST RACES NIGEL ROEBUCK My greatest races As the doyen of Formula 1 scribes – 547 grands prix down and still counting – our weekly ‘Fifth columnist’ has witnessed many magic moments. Here are the best

8 DECEMBER 28 2017 second to none racecraft was The Professor’s was outgunned, but Prost’s McLaren-TAG AUSTRALIA ’86

MCKLEIN Q speed andStewart’s Matra ashadesuperior underbraking, matter, there was only athousand fortherace winner. what amanwould doforahundred quidin1969. For that –went to Jochen, anditdelighted him. Ah, Stewart took three ofthefour, butthe last –which decided bonus of£100forthefastest manineach 30-minute segment. and forthefinaltwo-hour periodat Silverstone there was a went hard at itfrom thestart, andthefightwent onandon…” obviously theothers would have got closer, wouldn’t they? We we mess around didn’t withany ofthat stuff, butif had, we friends, andforanother, there was noweaving orblocking– hard, butalsoso and thesamewas trueofourcars. was asgood asnodifference between Jochen and myself, to have arace like that? Theingredients were perfect:there wistfully ofitto thisday: “How many times are you going between andJochen Rindt, andJYS speaks did hefinishsecond inagrand prix. one that says muchaboutClark, Ithink, isthat only once brilliant improvising –no-oneelsecould have doneit…” to finishthat day,” Colin Chapman told me. “It was just there hasbeen. “There shouldhave beennoway forJimmy this was asconsummate ademonstration ofitasever flag themargin was three seconds. go, theLotus ledtheBRMby nearly halfaminute; at the by Graham Hillinacar that won’t stop!” With 10lapsto we’ve got JimClark inacar that won’t go beingpursued commentator, complete withcut-glassaccent: “So now his problems, beingshortofbrakes. started eating into Jimmy’s sizeable lead, buthe, too, had firing itupagain at theexit! Graham Hill, runningsecond, remember himcoasting silently through Woodcote –then eventually onoccasion was seriously low onoil, andto keep italive heslowed, duly pulled after passing RichieGinther’s HondaontheopeninglapJimmy I was free, soletmebegin withthat year’s race at Silverstone. that, maddeningly, Imissedmost BritishGrands Prix, by 1965 races formore than15 years. Althoughschoolterms meant working asajournalist, in1971, already I’d beengoing to race weekends, withemphasisonafew indeliblefavourites. regarded asaGoldenAge: what follows isacollection of on Formula 1, focusingparticularly onwhat hascome to be was at its apogee, Indycar racing inits pomp. Unforgettable. It was drama at thehighest level, at fearsome speeds, when CART – andonthevery next lapRickdidexactly thesameto Michael. 20 to go, Andretti passed Mears onthe fight between RickMears andMichaelAndretti. With less than any measure, mind asoneofthemost memorable Iever spentat arace track. Pedro –hisastounding superiority that day keeps itinmy per se Hatch in1970. Whilethiscould never beconsidered agreat race Given that Rindt’s Lotus was marginally better ontop Back intheday allpractice sessions counted forthegrid, “The great thingaboutracing inthat era was that itwas At Silverstone fouryears later there was afantastic battle Although I’ve never beenoverly concerned withstatistics, These days there’s alotoftalk about ‘managing arace’: All thisprompted apriceless quipfrom thecircuit On paper itwas going to beacakewalk forClark’s Lotus, and As akidIwas anobsessive fan, andby thetimeIbegan For thepurposes ofthisstory, though, Iwillconcentrate Then there was theIndianapolis500in1991 –andthis, by –intheatrocious conditions no-oneever threatened away. By away. By was clean a great race, coming down inthelate lapsto a at theBOAC 1000Kmat Brands be Pedro Rodriguez’s mesmeric drive inthe most momentous race weekends? races’ or, foronereason oranother, the seem: are we talking here ofthebest ‘pure as straightforward aquestion asitmight greatest races Ihave seen, andit’s not uite often Iamasked which are the the late laps, though, hisClimaxengine : for one thing, thedrivers: foronething, were allgood Very high onmy list, forexample, would switching off DECEMBER 282017 into corners –Iclearly outside going into Turn1 9 10 rejoice Iwas there days, andI’llalways “Rindt had hisday of FIFTH COLUMN LAT DECEMBER 282017 leader Stewart lost three lapswithamisfire. Now led, Jacky Ickxretired, thenJean-Pierre Beltoise, andthen run around…” And formost oftheafternoon that was what he did. chance,” hesaidto his wifeNinabefore therace. “I’ll just drive slept soundly through achoppy Friday night, Jochen didnot. “No close friendBernieEcclestone, andwhile thefuture czar ofF1 seasickness. Asusual at hewas sharingayacht with his Thursday time. Rindt’s problem, believe itornot, was poured down, andonSaturday, feeling queasy, hewas way off but almost two seconds from Stewart; thefollowing day it revert to thevenerable 49. Jochen feltitnolonger hadaprayer. and while fundamental modifications were madeLotus hadto latest wonder car, the72, hadsofar proved anything but, quite often hejust went through themotions…” Chapman said. “If hefeltthere was nochance ofwinning, close to indifference. “That was how he was sometimes,” started hislast lap, Rindtwas asecond andabitbehind. the finalcorner, where thedrama unfolded. AsJackBrabham and by luckIhadagrandstand seat at theoldGasworks Hairpin, prefer to spendthat weekend at . by which timeI’d hadenoughofaplace once loved, andnow the first timeto Monaco, starting arununbroken until2014, ever assembledforasingleevent. Thefollowing year Iwent for Formula 1, Indycar andNASCAR, aswell assportscar racing – won forFord, andsaw thegreatest collection ofdrivers –from for example, Iwas at LeManswhen DanGurney andAJFoyt – asfundsallowed –to attend theoddrace abroad: in’67, was I rejoice always with sixlapsto go, andultimately finishedalivid fourth. he went back out, still second, butthenran outoffuel his mechanics hadwrenched itoffwiththeir bare hands, the pits: alooserear-wing endplate was chafingatyre. After laps they passed andrepassed, butthenJochen headed for there was nothingto choose, asJackiesaid. For 62 ofthe84 By andby, though, hispositionimproved, albeitby attrition. In thefirst session, onThursday, hewas sixthfastest, At Monaco hewas inthat frame ofmindbecause Colin’s In truth, Jochen hadapproached therace withsomething The 1970 Monaco Grand Prix, though, was onefortheages, If Stewart won, Rindtduly hadhisday ofdays, andI’ll /GREATEST RACES there forit. By thelate 1960s I’d begun ” despite biglead improvise to win, Clark later hadto lead at thestart. Clark andGinther BRITAIN ’65 away away those days ital still thegrand prixpromised to because be something, in had already clinched hissecond world championship, but – six-tenths behindthewinner–finishedfifth. me take you back to the1971 race, when Howden Ganley my memories ofMonza when itwas aflat-out blast. Let but theghosts still abideof Nuvolari andAscari, andsodo these days therace itself isinvariably aboringprocession, weekend remains my favourite theyear round. Yes, Iknow as noothercircuit hasever done, andtheItalian Grand Prix and Iwas to seefurthertragedy there –still itstirred my soul was killed, never knowing that theworld championshipwas his. trip to Monza, anditwas there, that Rindt in finalqualifying, of that day, notleast because fourmonthslater Imademy first swinging thetrophy between them, staying untilwell after two. We were waiting forhim, andat midnightheand Ninaarrived, came down to theTip-Top Bar, asdrivers didinthose days. – anotherrecord –hadbeen2.7s quicker thanhisqualifyingtime. rolling down hisface, helooked like amanintrance: hisfinallap and Grace, accept thegarland andtrophy. Trembling, withtears near theRoyal Box intimeto seeJochen shake handswithRainier Rindt, flickinginto thecorner, shookhishead indisbelief. lock heslidstraight on, thumpinginto thebarrier at my feet. off theline, where no-onehadbeenall weekend. Onfullright As itwas, though, hetriedto get by before thehairpin, going Courage, forstill Rindtwas notcloseenoughto make amove. – and, ordinarily, would –have donewas duckinbehind across Piers Courage at thefinalhairpin. What Jackshould and hadto back off, leaving himunsettled when he came against Brabham. At Tabac hecame uponthree tailenders, side seconds to Rindt, who by now was unleashing allofhisgenius, problem, and–forced almost to stop –instantly dropped five encountered Jo Siffert’s March, stuttering alongwithafuelfeed set: withonly fourlapsleft, hestill ledby nineseconds. the retirement ofAmononlap61. Brabham, though, looked lapping at theleader’s pace, andwas furtherencouraged by victory –andJochen never neededmore thanthat. Hebegan and Amonwere ahead. Itwas awhiff the oldthing, ofpossible for hegot by Pescarolo andHulme, andnow only Brabham down, butthere were signsthat hisinterest was awakening, and Rindt. At thisstage, 28lapsin, hewas already 16seconds followed by ChrisAmon, Denny Hulme, HenriPescarolo – This was my first season insidethe sport, andthrough a Nothing more thanarace victory was at stake, forStewart If my first touch withMonza came at aterrible moment– Nearly halfacentury on, my eyes still moisten at thememory That night, after theGalaBallat theHotel deParis, Jochen When itwas all over, Iran thelengthofpitstraight, arriving Thus to thefinallap–andstill thefates were working Then everything began to unravel forJack. Onlap77he ways everywhere, for everywhere, ways ways was. ways cing theLotus beyond its limits.

LAT LE MANS ’67 Roebuck saw cream of Formula 1, Indycar, NASCAR and sportscars ply their trade in 24-hour enduro

DECEMBER 28 2017 11 12 among eightdrivers” changed 25times, day“That thelead FIFTH COLUMN MCKLEIN DECEMBER 282017 leapt a rear wingaboutthesizeofatea tray, heputtheMatra onpole. engine onpar with , ifnotFerrari andBRM. Running churning problem hadbeensolved, andAmonreckoned his the team gave Austria amiss, butby Monza apersistent oil off onpower. Sohopeless haditbeen theNurburgringat that chassis, but aV12enginethat soundedglorious, butwas well At thetimehewas withMatra, who hadprobably thebest me was Amon, who would become oneofmy closest friends. summer ofgetting to know everyone, ofparticular helpto feet ahead ofPeterson, with Cevert third andHailwood fourth. its limit before snatching : at thelinehewas acouple of lap –dived past them, taking hisBRMV12athousandrevs over shape, at which point –fourthgoing into thelast Parabolica together, butlefttheirbraking too late, andgot outof fight to watch. Onthelast lapCevert andPeterson arrived at to get fuelstarvation aswell…” makeend itdidn’t alotofdifference, because thenI started I pulleditoff, the whole bloody visor went! Actually, inthe it more firmly –too firmly, as itturned out, because when back. “I’d beenlosingtear-offs,” hesaid, “so thistime I taped more, andChris–onehandshieldinghiseyes –was dropping it stayed untillap47, when Peterson came by infront once asserted himself, theMatra screaming past inthelead, where all about,” helaughedafterwards. “I’d never doneitbefore…” car for six years. know“I didn’t what thisslipstreaming lark was including , who hadnotbeennear aFormula 1 so were Stewart andSiffert, butothers were coming through, high. Longbefore half-distance bothFerraris were gone, and granted, andat Monza theattrition rate was al Siffert close at hand. Amonforthemomentsat back. the Tyrrells ofStewart andFrancois Cevert, andtheBRMof Peterson’s March, withRegazzoni andteam-mate , caught him, and most oftheearly leading was doneby Ronnie at Monza. Gianclaudioduly ledthefirst lap, butthepack soon worry aboutthings like that, particularly when itwas aFerrari At thestart –orrather, Believe this ifyou will: that day thelead changed 25 times, Mortified asIwas by this development, still there was anepic After runningeasily in thepack, with20lapsto go Amon In thosedays reliability was notsomethingto betaken for away from from away /GREATEST RACES the fourthrow, butback thenthey didn’t before the start – ways p ways articularly for second place! Andwhen I saw thevideo, Iunderstood…” me, though, no-oneremembers who won –only thefight first winformeandRenault– andinFrance. Sadly for Gilles andReneArnouxisembeddedin racing folklore. is Dijon ’79 that most resonates withme. Thebattle between Jarama in1981, his last fullseason, more thanany otherrace it driver Ihave seen. Ifhisgreatest drives came at Monaco and a disarmingly honest man, hewas, Ibelieve, thefastest racing drive withMcLaren), thelegends began almost immediately: “ of Formula Atlantic. “Is hequick?” Iasked onthephone. car was taken over by oneGilles Villeneuve, thenthesensation ran next day’s headline in of Stewart, who won. ‘Bravo Stewart, butthankyou, MrAmon’ the heelsofsecond manFittipaldi –andtaking a minute out record, passing Peterson andCevert inasinglelap, finishingon began acharge from 10thplace, repeatedly shattering thelap puncture. After aslow lap back, anda50-second pitstop, he sportscar engine!–Chriscomfortably leduntilpickingupa the best Ihave seen. OnpolewiththeMatra –usingaLeMans Amon’s at majestic Clermont-Ferrand theyear before stands as things like, ‘Minus 25 Fangio’!” record, butIkept getting pitsignalsfrom Ken Tyrrell, saying speed anywhere. know Idon’t how many times Ibroke thelap a matter ofbeingfast to fourth–Ithinkitwas probably my best drive, because itwas the eighthlapIgot apuncture, andthencame through from last flat-out foralotofthelap, soit’s difficult tomake uptime.On testing corners –particularly theLesmos –butbasically you’re he chooses the’73Italian Grand Prix, arace win. hedidn’t when inappalling conditions hewon by fourminutes: rather not, asyou mightexpect, go fortheNurburgring in1968, Monza. AskStewart to namehisgreatest race, andhedoes They’ve ruinedtheplace withthese poxy chicanes…” result thanlast year,” Mike remarked, “but muchless fun. Fittipaldi’s Lotus to winfrom Hailwood’s Surtees. “A better the front row, butneitherfinished, anditwas leftto Emerson reducing thelapspeedby 20mph. Again AmonandIckxshared had beeninstalled, utterly changingthecharacter ofthecircuit, for Monza, forwhen we went back thefollowing year chicanes of thefastest grands prixever run:150.754mph. race victory, but46 years onheremains thewinnerofone time round. Gethinnever hadanotherworld championship eight ofthe55lapswas theorder unchanged from theprevious among eightdrivers –and, most remarkable ofall, ononly Quick “That was my best day,” saidJean-Pierre Jabouille. “The Once Gilles moved into Formula 1withFerrari (via aone-off When Amonretired in1977, the wheel ofhisWolf Can-Am This was indeed oneofthegreat comeback drives, but “The thingis, So they had, butstill there were to bememorable days at To somedegree that 1971 race was somethingofalast hurrah ?” Chrisretorted. “He’s asquickanyone I’ve ever seen!” a whiff of glory… a whiffofglory… effort –untilhe got making muchofan too fussedabout Seasick Rindtnot MONACO ’70 anyone and can go fast at Monza. There are some ultra-smooth, ofnotscrubbingoff L’Equipe .

LAT bad shapewiththetyres, butIcould stay with him–so down away That was that, we thought:Villeneuve’s gamble hadfailed. the cars were asone, andwithtwo to go Arnouxcame by ahead. and Arnouxbegan to reel himin:going into thelast five laps had already beeninfor achange. Villeneuve, though, stayed out, Scheckter –runningat nothinglike histeam-mate’s pace – said. “How hegot to theend, I’llnever know…” see histyres were finishedwhen Ipassed him,” Jean-Pierre Jabouille whistled past theFerrari onthepitstraight. “I could – runthird alltheway, andgo to sleep?” That was him. I knew Iwas hurtingthetyres, butwhat was thealternative For straightline speedwe hadto runvery low downforce, and Jabouille at asecond alap: “To go foritwas allIcould do. Renaults, andheduly ledfrom thestart, running But Gilles was notlike that. “I thoughtRenewould run In theFerrari pitthey hadnew Michelinsready, forJody Soon after half-distance theinevitable happened, and In qualifyingonly Villeneuve got near theturbocharged epic Monza race at thestart ofan Siffert andCevert Ickx, Amon,Ganley, Regazzoni leads ’71 the straight, like Jabouillehad:Iwas inreally away from from away third drivers’ title it secured himhis his finest driveand from last to fourth as comeback charge Stewart rates epic ITALY ’73 DECEMBER 282017 13 SUTTON 14 FIFTH COLUMN URENBEELD/LAT DECEMBER 282017 then Scheckter –who admitted to scaring himself–went runner, ’s Alfa Romeo, lappedin2m25s, as usedby Ferrari, were thethingto have. Thefastest Goodyear the tiny helmeted figure across thepitlane river to hiscar. And sure enoughthere was aFerrari mechanic, carrying got ourattention. “Gilles!” heshouted. “He’s going out!” the pits, taking what shelter we could, when that few drivers ventured out. DenisJenkinson andIwere in he won, butthefirst day ofpractice, when therain was sobad Glen at theendofthat year –andnotsomuchtherace, which unfazed: “From where they were, what thehellcould they see?” Scheckter andothers calling themirresponsible. Gilles was grilled at aGPDA meetingby otherelderstatesmen, NikiLauda, but at thenext race, Silverstone, Villeneuve andArnouxwere upset about–just acouple ofyoung lionsclawin’ each other”, Nearly 40 years on, we have seennothinglike itsince. because we were trying to pusheach otheroff. It was fun!” know how many times we touched –butitwas never wheels it’s easy foronecar to climbover theother. Idon’t heads,” Gilles giggled, “because when you start interlocking embraced. “I thought forsure we were going to get onour by Arnoux, andwhen they climbedfrom theircars, they Villeneuve gave awave ofrespect, immediately acknowledged than late, dived through ontheinside, andthat settled it. conventional linein–whereupon Villeneuve, braking later and at theuphillhairpinfeltsecure enoughto take the Halfway round thefinallap, Arnouxseemedto have itdone, banged wheels, slidwide, went off, rejoined, touched again. many times they passed andrepassed, how many times they the insideandleftmy braking really, really, late…” pit straight Iwasn’t really closeenough, butIwent for “because hewouldn’t beexpecting it. At theendof I’d try to get himback assoonpossible,” Villeneuve said, he hadto have aproblem, too…” Only eightdrivers took to thetrack, andclearly Michelins, While onthesubject ofVilleneuve, Ishouldmention Watkins described thescrap as, “Nothing to get An abidingmemory isthat ontheirslowing-down lap No-one –noteven Gilles andRene–really knew how He had, intheshapeoffaltering fuelpick-up. “I thought /GREATEST RACES of hand, alldeftness andflair: therest looked clumsy. start, andleaving hiswet-shod rivals behind. Itwas like sleight Keke scored hisgreatest victory, choosingslicks forthedamp struggling to stay withtheturbos. At Monaco in’83, though, was still usingtheCosworth DFV (now inits 16thseason!), and Rosberg, won only once. At thetimeRosberg’s Williams team two victories, andthemanwho took thechampionship, Keke produced 11winners, from seven teams. No-onehadmore than of Villeneuve’s death, seembarely credible: 16grands prix then Mercedes –which makes thestatistics of1982, theyear periods ofdomination by oneteam –Ferrari, thenRedBull, man who hassince reminded meofGilles isMarc Marquez. different from the rest ofus…” Sohe was. Theonly racing – seconds behindVilleneuve. round in2m11s. That madehimsecond fastest, 11– LAT A year later at Monaco came thecelebrated wet race that was In the21st century we have become accustomed to endless It was surreal. “Look at him,” murmured Laffite. “He’s ever witnessed is thebest he’s Clermont-Ferrand Amon’s fightback at Roebuck reckons ’72 eleven eleven “A driver who’s ahead ofhiscar…” all over again, it?” isn’t Jenks saidashetook theflag. came, appropriately, after adrive forthegods. “Villeneuve – Ayrton terrible conditions, andthisone–because hewas inthelead instead hewas incensed that therace hadbeenstopped. the time, we assumedhewould bethrilledby hisgreat showing; Stefan Bellofcatching bothofthem. Knowing little ofSennaat rookie Ayrton Sennaat hisheels–andtheTyrrell-Cosworth of AlainProstleading, took thechequered withtheToleman flag, of stopped before half-distance. After Nigel Mansellcrashed while but acluemay be hadfrom oneofNelsonPiquet’s many tyre ticket prices, thecrowd was generously estimated at 10,000. were there to seeit. Thanks to themiserable weather, andhigh it was anumbing performance, andthepity was that sofew his 16thgrand prix–andinconditions unthinkable today – Senna ledfrom thestart, anddrove Eleven monthslater, at Estoril, there was anotherrace in It’s noteasy to co first turbovictory eclipsed Jabouille’s second place dong battle for Villeneuve’s ding- Arnoux and FRANCE ’79 wanted to bestopped! Hisfirst grand prixvictory nvey how app how nvey alling therain was that day, away. For a a away. For man inonly flinging offhisbelts, wildly waving botharms, halfoutofthe passed andoutwent thechequered Sennaimmediately flag, that speed, you’re finished.” doing maybe 300km/h, andonce you start aquaplaningat it was impossibleto seewhere thedeeppuddles were –Iwas moments asunsighted drivers swerved around theWilliams. wheel flicked back –ran to safety, butthere were horrifying middle ofthetrack. Keke –thumbbroken when thesteering- at thelast corner, hiscar bouncingofftheguardrail into the a haltto it. They didn’t, though, even when Rosberg crashed and Sennafrequently signalledto officialsthat they should call continuing arace ‘under yellow’ untiltheweather improved, overalls. Well, there was nohurry, was there? the car anddisappeared, returning eventually inclean, dry, he came in–lapsbehindforthefinaltime, hegot outof stops. Sodire were thePirelli wets onhisBrabham that when After 67 ofthescheduled69laps, thetwo-hour mark was Next Prost went off–andonthepit straight: “Inthespray In thosedays, ofcourse, we hadnosafety car, nofacility for DECEMBER 282017 Watkins Glen wet practice at 11s advantage in a jaw-dropping Villeneuve had USA ’79

LAT 15 16 FIFTH COLUMN DECEMBER 282017 the way behindVitaly Petrov, allowing to take Fernando AlonsoandMark Webber were trapped formost of while themost unsatisfactory was AbuDhabiin2010, when to nothingintherace, leaving thetitle to anexhausted Piquet, 1981, when easy polemanCarlos Reutemann inexplicably faded settled at thefinal race, themost bizarre beingLasVegas in Estoril, itwas really…” nothing, but thecar was somucheasier to drive –compared with – Ihad considered hisgreatest drive. Ayrton snorted at that: “No way in thecourse oftheopeninglap, andputting inwhat many for McLaren at Donington Park, moving upfrom fifthto first everyone said, ‘Fantastic car control!’ Itwas just luck.” I hadallfourwheels onthegrass, totally outofcontrol, and but actually I’ve noidea how many times Onetime Iwent off! changed allthetime. Maybe peoplethinkImadenomistakes, car inhisjoy. “The bigdanger,” hesaid, “was that conditions LAT Over 40-odd years Ihave seenmany aworld championship Eight years later, insimilarconditions, Sennawould win drive’ claims poohed ‘gr legend, buthepooh- now part ofF1 Senna at Donington EUROPE ’93 second rate the rest looking damp track, andleft start onslicksa Rosberg opted to MONACO ’83 traction control /GREATEST RACES eatest eatest ! OK, make Ididn’t any bigmistakes, out after taking theflag. Alainhated theruleasmuchanyone, restricted to 195 litres, andifyou got itabsolutely right, you ran surpassing skillwas jugglingspeed andfuel:each car was else. Inthisfirst era ofturbocharged engines, hisother was withoutequal, andhemadefewer mistakes thananyone outpowered, heremained incontention because hisracecraft and Piquetfour. Alainfinishedsecond, ahead ofboththem…” So hehadto make two sets last, whereas Mansellneededthree, dareand didn’t to make asecond tyre stop, forfear of stalling. , butthistimehewas down acylinder forhalftherace, said RonDennis, “Alain hadalotless power thantheWilliams- in Mexico two weeks earlier. “Even innormalcircumstances,” would doitforNigel, whatever happenedto hisrivals. although PiquetandProst were still incontention, third place championship decider, though, was Adelaide ’86. an unexpected first title. Unquestionably themost If over theseason Prost’s McLaren-TAG hadindeedbeen Prost’s slightchance remained thanks to astupendous drive Going to Australia, theheavy favourite was Mansell, for dramatic went unheeded signals to call ahalt conditions, after win interrible Senna took hisfirst PORTUGAL ’85 and Mansell, into third place. starting intypically conservative style, moved past Senna end ofthefirst lap, andinto thelead by lapseven. Prost, after Rosberg, who hadqualifiedseventh, butwas upto third by the had its third leader! Themanreally onthemove, though, was then outbraked Ayrton, sointhespace oftwo miles therace initially before beingpassed by SennaandPiquet. Nelson Keke’s last grand prix, andhewanted to remember itwell. and I’mgoing to doeverything possibleto helphim.” Thiswas – formeitwould beajoke foranyone elseto beworld champion, was going to winthe title: “He’s thegreatest driver I’ve ever seen with Senna’s Lotus third, andProst fourth. between thetwo Williams-Hondas, Mansell edging Piquet, a perfectset-upforrace day. Thefightforpolepositionwas a contender andheconcentrated, inqualifying, asal but whatever ittook to win, ‘The Professor’ would adapt. third, where heneededto be, andonlap32 his title hopes undoubtedly letAlainthrough, butMansellcontinued to run McLaren allwas lookinggood, forifitcame to it, Keke would for second place, after which Nelsonspunback to fourth. At That was him, wasn’t it?That inexorable quality.” that hewas sixth, thenfourth, and you’d think, ‘Ooooh, Jesus…’ ahead ofhimat first, andthink, ‘Where’s Alain?’ Thenyou’d see in theirdriving,” saidPatrick Head. “With Prost, we’d beway “I always like to to like always “I The openinglapwas sensational, withMansellleading For allthat, Rosberg, Prost’s team-mate, insisted that Alain Given hispower deficit, though, Prost was never going to be By lap 23, withRosberg leading easily, Prost passed Piquet see these guys’ characters come through ways, on on ways, parked intheescape road, world championship gone. 190mph, hefoughtthebucking Williams to ahalt, and Straight, hadhisleft-rear tyre disintegrate. From around he shouldhave noproblem. the title, butaGoodyear engineerassured Williams that at that pointhecould have stopped fortyres, andstill won place, butstill Nigel hadthefourpoints heneeded–indeed flapping against bodywork: hisright-rear Goodyear was intatters. its bearings. Infact, what hehadheard was adelaminating tyre Keketo theflag, abruptly pulledoff, believing hisenginehadrun Piquet, Mansell, andacharging Prost. Then, onlap63, with19 close to 30lapsthere was stalemate, Rosberg still leading from I never doubted that was why we encountered tyre problems.” we were alsoableto runmore downforce thananyone else, and being well, they concluded, no-onewould needto make astop. tyres, andfoundthat thewear rate was less thanexpected: all as possible–even second place was nouseto me…” of record laps: “At that point, allIcould dowas pushashard stop, herejoined, now fourth, andimmediately set aseries seemed to beoutofthechampionship. After a17-second back then, soAlain, slowly makinghisway to thepits, vaulted furtherwhen Prost’s rightfront tyre punctured. “At notimedid we thinkwe were taking any sortofgamble,” Only alaplater Mansell, flat-out down theDequetteville As Rosberg retired, soProst passed Mansell forsecond At thisstage, though, Williams hadnocause forconcern. For Head again: “Because we hadquite abig power advantage, In thepits Goodyear technicians examined Prost’s discarded Tyre changes were far from anautomatic feature ofraces “Senna flung off his off “Senna flung belts, waving both the car inhisjoy” arms, half outof DECEMBER 282017 17 LAT FIFTH COLUMN/GREATEST RACES

said Head. “Goodyear gave us no reason to consider changing tyres, and anyway it wasn’t a wear problem – the bits that were recovered indicated that the carcass had failed, by fatigue.” Now it was simply a matter of winner take all – Piquet against Prost, three seconds apart, each needing the nine points for victory to take them past Mansell’s total. Then Nelson headed into the pitlane… “After Nigel’s tyre had failed, we were between a rock and a hard place with Nelson,” said Head. “If we’d left him out, and he’d made it, we’d have been heroes, but if he’d had an accident, and hurt himself, we’d have looked idiots. There was no choice: we called him in.” Piquet stopped at the end of lap 65, and was still in second place when he went back out. Now it was his turn to apply the pressure, but he made little impression on Prost until the last four laps, when Alain drastically cut his pace: “From the halfway point, my fuel read-out had been telling me I was five litres the wrong side, and wouldn’t finish unless I backed off – but of course I couldn’t do that, because I was so far behind after my puncture, so I just had to hope that, for once, the computer was wrong.” For once, it was. Although Piquet set another record on the final lap, Prost’s engine stayed alive, and he crossed the line four seconds to the good, at once pulling up in front of the stands, climbing out and literally jumping for joy. Jackie Stewart summed up the day: “You don’t often see a grand prix won by a slower car, do you? But this guy’s won the world championship in one…” For sheer unending drama, Adelaide ’86 remains without equal in my experience. So many other races, though, have had their moments. I remember that boiling day at in 1976, when “For sheer unending drama, Adelaide ’86 is without equal”

fears of a riot in the crowd kept James Hunt in the race, and There are so many memories of Schumacher, but perhaps the he went on to beat championship rival Lauda, only to be most unforgettable for me is Barcelona in 1996, his first year subsequently disqualified. And I think of Silverstone in ’87, with Ferrari, when – in a car nowhere near the best – Michael of Mansell’s instinctive pass of Piquet, selling him a dummy simply, stunningly, humbled his rivals in torrential conditions. into Stowe; of Estoril in ’88, when Senna chopped across I remember, too, a couple of extraordinarily intense races McLaren team-mate Prost, almost putting him into the at Imola, in 2005 and ’06, fought out between Schumacher pitwall in a move that profoundly shocked us at the time, and Alonso, the man to whom his torch would be passed. but nowadays wouldn’t raise much of a ripple. Fernando won one, Michael the other: on both occasions Very clear in my mind, too, is the championship decider the rest were nowhere. at Suzuka in 1989, when Prost and Senna tangled at the And what of Lewis Hamilton, who has won more than half the chicane, and the rerun at the same circuit a year later, when races in the four years of this hybrid era? It might surprise you, Ayrton took aim at Alain at the first corner, and at 150mph but looking back on Lewis’s career to date, the victories most pitched him off the road in the most reprehensible move memorable to me were scored not in a Mercedes, but during his I ever saw at a : behind them were 23 other cars, McLaren years. First, Silverstone in 2008, when he produced a and the wing of Prost’s Ferrari – sheared off in the impact wet-weather drive to rival anything by Senna or Schumacher, – could have come down anywhere. and second the inaugural race at Austin, in ’12, when he Suzuka has always been strong meat, and more than any relentlessly chased down Vettel’s faster Red Bull, ultimately other circuit has given us drama down the years, as in 1994, pressuring Sebastian into the mistake that decided the race. when – in conditions so awful that the race was stopped, I don’t have space enough to go into detail on these, and so then restarted – produced the drive of his life many other of my 547 grands prix, so maybe they will be the to beat , only then to be cynically basis of a similar story at a later date. For now, let me conclude taken out by his rival at the title decider in Adelaide. with the best pure race I ever saw, which was at Monaco in 1969 Five years after that we went to Suzuka in some trepidation, – and not the grand prix, but the Formula 3 race run the day only too aware that any failure by Mika Hakkinen or McLaren before. From the start a couple of youthful Swedes, Ronnie would make world champion. As it was, driver Peterson and Reine Wisell, cleared off on their own, swapping and team were faultless, and Mika took his second title. places constantly for the entire 24 laps, and ultimately lapping Hakkinen was the only driver Schumacher feared through three seconds faster than the pole time! Not for a lap – not for most of his career, and they had a particularly intense duel at a corner – did the action let up. Spa the following year, Mika resisting Michael’s intimidatory In the end it was Peterson by a nose, and years later he told tactics before pulling off a pass into Les Combes that ranks me he remembered it as the most exciting race of his career. with any the sport has known. If Ronnie thought that, it’ll do for me, too.

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LAT championship championship on hisway to second faultless inthefinale Hakkinen was JAPAN ’99 first Ferrari victory the wet to take his whole other levelin Schuey was ona ’96 DECEMBER 282017 super-intense battle Schumacher in Alonso sawoff IMOLA ’05 was Senna-esque wet-weather drive Hamilton’s brilliant BRITAIN ’08 19 ETHERINGTON/LAT LAT LAT 20 T recruited aslew of highly paid executives andtook plushnew Liberty Media, listed asFWONK ontheNASDAQ exchange, almost adecade, F1’s earnings are down onaper-race basis after Formula OneManagement. instalments during2017 by the operating company, totalled around $900m(£690m), disbursed in 10monthly DECEMBER 282017 That iswhere thebullishness stopped. For thefirst timein Their collective slices –crucially, calculated onearnings – How much F1 teams How muchF1teams Our annualstudy of Formula 1budgets looks at theups and downs ofLiberty Media’s first year incharge inequitably –approximately half. Of that, 10teams got to share –albeit revenues ofaround $1.8bn(£1.39bn). (£6.15bn) onanactivity withannual placing anenterprise value of$8billion purchase ofF1’s commercial rights, future. Liberty Mediahadcompleted its enthusiasm aboutFormula 1’s commercial he 2017 season started amidgreat By Dieter Rencken, SpecialContributor really spend basis. F1’s acidtest willbe the release ofLiberty’s 2017 which are known to fluctuate widely, andhave noscientific numbers, these statistics are based upon promoter figures, is saidto have availed itself ofthe offer. the longrun. Only oneteam, believed to beForce India, them over, butsuchsumsultimately needto berepaid in Liberty’s investments start to bear fruit. beyond. Teams are banking onatwo-year lean spellbefore This trend isexpected to continue into 2018andpossibly the third quarter alone(£210mversus aprevious £240m). resulting inadrop inrevenues paid to teams of12.5% in and marketing tools suchasF1’s new logo. of ‘the show’, andcommissioned expensive research offices intheCity. Inaddition, it invested inthequality Although Liberty reported an8%growth inspectator Yes, Liberty hasoffered bridgingfinance to teams to tide First-through-third-quarter earnings were down, inturn

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‘eyeball’ report – purifi ed TV audience rating by territory – commercial growth from the end of 2020, coupled with early next year. It will be the fi rst such report published in anticipated revisions to its sporting, technical and revenue- the Liberty era, and will shine a light on the way ahead. distribution structures, further cause for confi dence. This report is crucial to team wellbeing, for it provides the basis for sponsorship pitches. Here, F1 urgently needs Methodology to reverse an alarming trend of departing sponsors, both at With seven of the 10 teams based in Britain, mandatory FOM and team levels. True, the arrival of BWT at Companies House fi lings facilitate fi nancial analysis of UK buoyed spirits, but the deal remains a bright pink spot among operations. In addition, although Haas’s F1 headquarters are the exits of blue-chips Santander and Hugo Boss, worryingly situated in North Carolina and the cars manufactured by to football and Formula E respectively. in Italy, the race operation is based in Banbury. The fact is that TV fi gures and, by extension, teams’ abilities Such accounts are at least nine months in arrears, so this to attract meaningful sponsorship, are plunging (30% over information has been supplemented by discussions, analysis fi ve years), while F1’s calendar doggedly hiccups at the and educated estimates. Various sources were consulted and 20/21-race mark despite sales talk of 25 fi xtures. In addition, cross-referenced, including fi lings, known variables, informed there is increasing pushback from promoters over the assumptions and inside information. The same methodology hosting-fees-versus-income equation, with Sepang was applied for non-UK-domiciled operations. and Silverstone both giving notice of exit. As development costs for the major technical changes That the Manor team, which staggered along under various introduced for the current season were primarily incurred owners after entering F1 in 2010 on the back of constantly during 2016, there was a jump in budget and headcount levels broken promises to institute cost caps, eventually went bust of approximately 5% over ’15. According to most sources, is indicative of the commercial malaise F1 fi nds itself in. Its these levels have now generally stabilised, with only modest inequitable split of multi-billion-dollar revenues generated increases being reported in some instances. by playing to global audiences at 20 venues and 400m TV The Autosport ‘Bang-for-Buck’ (B4B) index, in which viewers sent a team with a budget of £80m to the wall. team budgets – excluding engine divisions – are divided by On one hand, the eff ects of Brexit continue to hit F1 as the respective championship advances made by teams over much as they hit the real world. On the other, both teams the season, was revised for last year’s edition and this and FOM benefi ted enormously, particularly in terms of methodology is carried over to ensure consistency (see page 27). dollar-derived income despite euro-invoiced expenditure FOM payments were calculated on the basis of a breakdown for items such as engine and tyres increasing markedly. provided by an insider, and are based on F1’s revenues for It’s not all doom and gloom. Renault’s eff orts to the year, disbursed to a scale paid out on the inequitable re-establish itself in F1 bore fruit with a fi ne sixth in the scale (see below) fi rst revealed by Autosport. constructors’ championship, with the French company New for 2017 is the inclusion of ’16 budget and headcount attracting BP as fuel/oil/lubricant partner – albeit as levels per team for comparison purposes. In closing, it is replacement for departing Total – while , which important to note that our analysis focuses on ’17 team budgets, had every reason to exit after another acrimonious year and not ’16 fi nancial fi lings. As a result, there may exist with McLaren, has chosen to remain in F1 in partnership considerable diff erences between the two sets of numbers. with Red Bull junior squad Toro Rosso. F1 continues to enjoy a robust following around the globe, one fundamentally unaff ected by the ‘booting upstairs’ of Notes Bernie Ecclestone as chairman emeritus and departure of some 1) Team budgets exclude engine divisions where applicable, with the of his henchmen. Where doom and gloom had been predicted assumption made that the FIA’s guideline charge of £18m for an annual in some quarters after the F1 tsar’s de facto exit, the teams two-car supply is applied internally. and legions of fans were gripped by a wave of enthusiasm. 2) Currencies converted from Euros (Ferrari/Toro Rosso), Swiss Francs After a fi rst season under Liberty, F1 has every reason to (Sauber) and US Dollars (FOM, plus team sponsor contracts) to Sterling for be cautiously optimistic, with expectations of progressive ease of comparison. Rates: £1 = €1.20/SFr1.30/$1.30

PROJECTED 2017 FORMULA 1 PAYMENTS TO TEAMS ($M)

Disbursed over 10 instalments during 2017, in order of payout

Figures rounded off COL 1 COL2TOTAL LST CCB OTHERTOTAL 2016 +/- 2016 CONST POSITION for simplicity Ferrari 36 41 (13%)77 68 35 -180 -9 3 COL 1 = Payments Mercedes 36 61 (19%)97 - 39 35171 - 1 are based on a team’s classification over two Red Bull 36 52 (16%)88 - 39 35 162 +12 2 of the past three years McLaren 36 31 (9%) 67 - 30 - 97 +18 6 COL 2 = Payments are Williams 36 33 (10%) 69 - - 10 79 -9 5 based solely on a team’s 2016 classification Force India 36 36 (11%) 72 - - - 72 +7 4

Toro Rosso 36 23 (7%) 59 - - - 59 +3 7 LST = Long-standing team

Renault 36 16 (5%) 52 - - - 52 -19 9 CCB = Constructors’ championship bonus Sauber 36 13 (4%) 49 - - - 49 -10 10

Haas - 19 (6%) 19 - - - 19 - 8

Total 324 325 649 68 143 80 940 965 (-3.5%)

DECEMBER 28 2017 21 22 further reinforces theteam’s commercial andmanagerial stability. end of2020,coinciding ofF1’s withtheexpiry current agreements, the increased turnoversuggests escalated income persponsor. turnover. Althoughnosignificant newdeals were announced, from parent Daimler, whichagain amounted to around 10%of through ’17.FOM revenues remained stable, asdidfinancialsupport new regulations, withstaff listed asdirector, whereas Laudais. Intriguingly, althoughHPPreports through Wolff director autonomously. Theformer isheld60/30/10byDaimler, motorsport (race operations), andHighPerformance Powertrains, whichoperate Daimler-Benz’s F1activitie FORMULA 1 ETHERINGTON/LAT The February extensionsThe February ofthecontracts ofWolff Headcount increased during2016 astheteam ramped upfor the (excluding engines,450estimated) 2017 BUDGET revenue. That’s afraction oftheexposure [F1]generates. marketing contribution from Daimlerisaround 10%of “I don’t want to saytheprecise number, butthe encouraging, andwe’ve seenit inall[streams].” DECEMBER 282017 It makes usprofitable. Therevenue growth is MOTORSPORT DIRECTOR MERCEDES GRANDPRIX BRACKLEY, BRITAIN  andnon-executive chairmanNikiLauda. £290m (excluding engines) /TEAM BUDGETS £135m FOM (including£57mbonus)  £30m Daimler EMPLOYEES 860 2016 2017 INCOME ing levelsremaining virtuallyunchanged s are splitinto two: Mercedes Grand Prix 850

| GERMANCONTROL  £125m sponsors break even B4B 2017 PROFIT/LOSS PROJECTED £290m £32.2m(advance ofnineplaces) TOTO TOTO 2016 BUDGET , heisnot WOLFF andLaudato the

£265m F1 shouldthecommercial playingfieldbelevelled. increase inroad-car sales.Asevere blot isFerrari’s threat to exit from ashadeunder$60to $110in12monthsdespite amodest performance was reflected inits RACE share price, whichshot despite havingthelargest headcount andoverall budget. This Morris smokeless-tobacco brand. But Santander hasdeparted, likely to bereplaced byaPhilip the red hue,andexploiting theteam for promotional purposes. £75m provided byPhilipMorrisinexchange for nominating Sponsors suchasShell,Santander andUPS complement the of FOM’s revenues. Itrakes inalmost aquarter oftheteam pot. to provide numbersfor ‘fear’ ofinsidertrading. Stock Exchange listing provides furtherexcuses for refusing the F1operation are not available. TheOctober 2015NewYork of advertising.Thiscomplicates things,asrevenues/profits for road-car operation, whichsupports Gestione Sportiva inlieu It shares facilities, R&Dandmanufacturing costs withits Ferrari isuniqueinproducing its F1car withinonecomplex. 2017 BUDGET In 2017,theteam putupavaliant struggle butfinishedsecond On therevenue front, theteam benefits from thelargest share estimated 440) (excluding engineoperation, “Budgets are underenormouspressure astheprice of getting performance keeps coming [up]because

everyone issearching foreveryone incremental gains.”  £170m licensing/sponsors (includingFerrari)£170m licensing/sponsors TEAM PRINCIPAL CHRISTIAN HORNER 2016 £350m (includingengines;estimated £305mwithout)

 estimated £140m FOM (including£80mbonus) EMPLOYEES 900 estimated 960 2016 BUDGET 2017 INCOME MARANELLO, ITALY break even (aft PROJECTED 2017 PROFIT/LOSS PROJECTED

B4B £330m £310m er Group contributions) £43.8m(advance ofeightplaces)

“The [commercial] dialoguehasstarted andwillcontinue to evolve.Wehavetimeuntil2020to findasolution,one have to beclear onthingswecan’t back downon.” which isgood for butwealso thesport, PRESIDENT SERGIOMARCHIONNE

HONE/LAT (adjusted for outside projects) MILTON KEYNES,BRITAIN 2017 BUDGET 

£125m FOM (including£56.6mbonus)  EMPLOYEES RED BULLRACING £35m (Red Bull) 740 2016 2017 INCOME £215m 740

2016 BUDGET profit of£5m B4B 2017PROJECTED PROFIT/LOSS  | £60m sponsors AUSTRIAN-OWNED £220m £30.7m(advance ofsevenplaces) £215m

remaining broadly at ’16levels– yet RBR wonthree grands prix. For therest, itwas a‘straight-line’ season, with overall metrics approximately £10m,yet theteam expects to showamodest profit. by around £12m,furtherreducing theparent company’s burden by partnership to atitlerole from ’18. ’15. ButAston Martinupgrades its current ‘innovation’ replace Infiniti,whichdeparted (to Renault) at theendof with arevenue boost, butfailed to secure atitle sponsorto from Brexit. Theteam acquired inplace Mobilsupport, ofTotal, and sponsors)oreuros (sponsors,including Red Bull),gained chassis designandracing operations. controls that focus F1’s third-largest budget oncrucial areas: manufacturer operations, mainlyonaccount of tightcommercial badged TAG Heuer–Red Bullcontinues to holdits ownagainst so Red Bull’s racing budget hasbeenadjusted to £215m. Toro Rosso, to anddeliversservices other group companies, supplies gearbox/hydraulics/other permitted technologies to toand services Red BullRacing,therace-team entity. RBT also companies: Red BullTechnology, whichprovides componentry Red Bull’s UK-based operation draws ontwointerlinked Due to second place in2016’s classification, FOM revenues grew During 2017,theteam, whichmostly earns indollars(FOM Despite beinganenginecustomer –Renault powerunits DECEMBER 282017 23 SUTTON how challengingF1’s sponsorshipmarket remains. income amounted to more than50%ofthebudget, indicating to break evendespite being‘disenfranchised’ byFOM. Still, FOM commercial portfolio. Theeffects ofBrexit enabled Force India with patron VijayMallya’s businessinterests –make upthe Perez’s Mexican backers, HypeandDiageo –thelatter associated their contributions, andthedebtors’ backlog to becleared. engineers, withthedeal furtherenablingshareholders to scale down water-treatment company BWT. Headcount increased by25,mainly India received afurtherboost byinkinga£14m deal with‘pink’ additional FOM revenues generated bytheperformance, Force Buoyed byfinishingfourth inthe2016classification, andthe FORMULA 1 “Delivering fourth place for thesecond consecutive year isahuge BWT, sponsorsincludingdriverSergio anumberofsecondary a highdevelopmentrate throughout theseason. Wecontinue contributed towards oursuccess andallowedusto maintain achievement. Thebackingachievement. ofnewpartners, includingBWT, to invest intherightpeople,withcontinuity inoursenior

“2017 was ayear ofgrowth; weinvested alot and  £7m other (includingshareholder/driver-linked income) worked hard both onandoff-track andmade CHIEF OPERATING OFFICEROTMAR SZAFNAUER MANAGING DIRECTOR CYRIL ABITEBOUL demonstrated bythethree-place jumpwe made intheconstructors’ championship.” significant progress since last year. Thisis SILVERSTONE, BRITAIN 2017 BUDGET roles, driversandenginepartner.” /TEAM BUDGETS MLYE PROJECTED 2017 PROFIT/LOSS EMPLOYEES FORCE INDIA 405 2016 2017 INCOME 

£35m sponsors £97m 380  £55m FOM

2016 BUDGET break even

B4B | INDIAN-OWNED £97m £16.2m(advance ofsixplaces)

£90m

SUTTON not constitute forward projections. reasons anyinformation provided isindicative, anddoes the increased fundingwillimpact primarilyonthe2018car. and shareholder. Williams’s future seemspositivegiventhat experienced brought inaschieftechnical officer although anupturn isexpected after a restructure, with the delivered amodest profit. a budget boost of£15mover2016,whenWilliamsplc income. Stroll andR&Dcredits provided thebalance to give their partnerships andcontributed around halfofnon-FOM by payment to hissuccessor . ‘selling’ to Mercedes, albeitmarginally offset sold to Canadianpartners. Atotal of£10m was derivedfrom , whosefamily acquired space, cars inturn andkit, and budgets remaining constant. 17isadeal Newfor’ with driver oftheeponymousgroup), withincomeWilliams F1(asubsidiary Commercially, 2017proved muchthesameasprevious years for Note: asalisted company, Williamsstresses that for legal Clearly, 2017on-track performance was disappointing, Title sponsorMartini,plusRexona andRandstad, continued WILLIAMS GRANDPRIXENGINEERING WANTAGE, BRITAIN (excluding engine operations,  £80m (Renault) estimated 450) 2017 BUDGET 2017 BUDGET £60msponsorsanddriver-linked income ENSTONE, BRITAIN  £60m FOM (including£7.5mbonus) EMPLOYEES MLYE PROJECTED 2017 PROFIT/LOSS EMPLOYEES 575 620 2016 2016 2017 INCOME 2017 INCOME

RENAULT F1 |

FRANKFURT STOCK EXCHANGE-LISTED

 £120m £150m £30m 520 530  £40m FOM (sponsors, includingInfiniti) 2016 BUDGET 2016 BUDGET | FRENCH-OWNED break even break even

B4B PROFIT/LOSS 2017 PROJECTED B4B £120m £150m £37.5m(advance of four places) £24m(advance offiveplaces) £130m £105m

Carlos Sainzopens theSpanish market. in ’18,providing further commercial benefits. Thesigningof performance trajectory could seetheteam finishinthetop five season, andupwards whiletheimproved ’18driverline-up BP replaced Total onalike-for-like basis. £10m asFOM revenues decreased by20%year onyear, while and commercial/driver funding.ButRenault injected anadditional all categories, halfofwhichisearmarked for F1;FOM income; which fundsmotorsport to thetuneof £150mperannumacross andisnotRenault SportinViry-Chatillon, includedinthisanalysis. 600+ dueto loomingcost caps. Theenginefacility operates from continued through ’17,withthestaff level reaching apl losses in’15.Facility improvements andheadcount increases Renault set aboutre-establishing anoperation that returned £60m Having acquired ailingLotus (formerly Benetton/Renault) for 2016, COATES/LAT Improved 2017results willdeliveranadditional£10mfor next Funding isderivedfrom three sources: Renault maincompany, extremely tough for independentteams, asituation that distribution andcost controls. Despite theenvironment can onlybeproperly addressed through fairer revenue “The widerFormula 1’s financialenvironment remains we havemadegood progress. Wehavecontinued to make good progress commercially, andacross the organisation asawhole.” CEO MIKEO’DRISCOLL ateau at at ateau faces anunequalstruggle. until F1’s costs are reduced, Toro Rosso, like allindependents, which previously pumped£60mannuallyinto McLaren. But appropriate revenue boost from theJapanese company, Casio) andFOM revenues (41%ofbudget) remained largely static. primarily ofRussiananti-virus brand Acronis andwatch company 10%. Thisiscovered byRed Bull,asthesponsorportfolio (consisting in theUK.Headcount increased 14%over2016,withbudgets rising accordingly for both its mainoperation andtheBicester windtunnel of retaining drivers for numerous seasons. running rookies Pierre GaslyandBrendon Hartleyafter aperiod drivers, andduringthelatter part of2017returned to its roots by Toro Rosso isafinishingschoolfor Red Bull’s cadre of development SUTTON For 2018,theteam partners Hondaandshouldreceive an The team hascontinuously expanded its Faenza base andrecruited the same time every pennycountsthe sametimeevery whenselling street cars to consumers. Furthermore, manufacturers will not accept thesebudgets forever. Thisisintolerable. [manufacturer] teams spend400mayear, while at We spendfar too much moneyinFormula 1.” “Costs haveto be reduced. Itcannot bethat 2017 BUDGET  £50m Red Bull FAENZA, ITALY TEAM PRINCIPAL FRANZ TOST EMPLOYEES TORO ROSSO 2016 400 2017 INCOME £110m

350  £15m other | AUSTRIAN-OWNED 2016 BUDGET DECEMBER 282017 break even (including £50m underwrite byRed(including £50munderwrite Bull) 2017 PROFIT/LOSS PROJECTED B4B £110m £36.7m(advance ofthree places)

 £45m FOM £100m 25 has beenslow. Thissuggests themarket isnot ready for aUS team. Banbury. Efficiency gains surely beckon. in Italy usingFerrari’s windtunnel,andrace team operations in jigs/models are produced), cars designedanddevelopedbyDallara operates to aconvoluted modelofabase intheUS (where tooling/ improvements were madeasthesquadgained experience. Itstill be lowerthanksto thereduced revenues. boost. Thisyear, that was worth$36m(£28m) to teams, butitwill in thetop 10twice inthree years (FOM providing policy), arevenue who usesF1asamarketing platform for hiseponymousproducts. This relieved thepressure onmachine-tool magnate GeneHaas, qualified for FOM Column2money, providing anincome of£15m. Having finishedinthetop 10inits first season last year, Haas 26 FORMULA 1 TEE/LAT Despite racing undertheAmerican flag,sponsorshipacquisition The team’s 2017budget remained stable, althoughefficiency From 2018Haasqualifiesfor Column1revenues after finishing “In oursecond season westreamlined theoperation and improved efficiency, enablingus increaseto headcount modestly withinthesamebudget level.From 2018 KANNAPOLIS, USA/BANBURY, BRITAIN which shouldenableusto improve ouron-track we qualifyfor thefullspectrum ofFOM monies, and commercial performances evenfurther.” DECEMBER 282017 2017 BUDGET  £75m Haas TEAM PRINCIPAL GUNTHER STEINER /TEAM BUDGETS EMPLOYEES 225 2016 2017 INCOME

£100m  £10m sponsors 210 HAAS 2016 BUDGET break even 2017 PROFIT/LOSS PROJECTED (including Haasunderwrite) B4B £100m £50m(advance oftwoplaces)

 £15m FOM | US-OWNED £100m  £30m drivers/sponsors results weplannedfor, andthat iswhywe’re restructuring our Marketing F1complement, 80) Formula 1businessandcoming away from ourrelationship with Honda.Itmeans short-term pain, butit’s theonlyway “Our Formula 1[division]hasnot delivered thefinancial we’ll beableto rebuild ourcommercial fortunes.”  2017 BUDGET £90m sponsors(including£60mfrom Honda) 2017 BUDGET (including McLaren  £75m FOM (including£25mbonus) MLYE PROJECTED 2017 PROFIT/LOSS EMPLOYEES EMPLOYEES McLAREN RACING GROUP COO JONATHAN NEALE HINWIL, SWITZERLAND 360 690 2016 2016 2017 INCOME 2017 INCOME WOKING, BRITAIN

SAUBER £175m £105m  730 320 £25m third-party  £38m FOM 2016 BUDGET 2016 BUDGET break even loss of £10m

2017 PROFIT/LOSS PROJECTED B4B B4B £105m £165m £105m(advance of 0places) £175m(advance ofoneplace)

 £185m £12m shareholders £95m

CONCLUSION

While in January the teams were buoyed by Liberty’s takeover, by December The light McLaren saw at the end of the tunnel after an encouraging there were long faces because of the prospect of reduced revenues, with second half of 2016 turned out to be a filthy goods train careering teams also concerned that in its quest to find new fans, Liberty risked towards it. After pre-season testing it was clear the relationship eroding F1’s traditional fanbase. with Honda was doomed, shifting focus to damage limitation. Up and down the grid, the overriding comments were of treading water Sixth place in 2016 increased revenues from FOM by £8m, until the end of 2020, when F1 has the opportunity of starting with relatively but sponsorship revenues dropped by £20m, resulting in an clean slates on its sporting/commercial fronts. F1 remains stymied by contracts operating loss of around £12m despite reductions in headcount. imposed by its previous ownership, the CVC Capital Partners venture fund, Having lost Mobil as partner, the team turned to BP as official and until these wash through F1 is essentially standing still. supplier, with a bright point being the arrival of Logitech Last year this feature concluded: “The biggest challenge facing Liberty remains backing. A title sponsor remains elusive. the task of levelling F1’s commercial playing field, for teams with £85m budgets Following the departure of former chairman/CEO Ron Dennis, are scrapping in the same league as teams with four times that spend. Crucially, and COO Jonathan Neale report to an executive half the advantage is provided by bilateral contracts. Scrap those and 90% of committee headed by Saudi entrepreneur Mansour Ojjeh F1’s commercial challenges are cured in one swoop.” That still holds true. and Sheikh Mohammed Al Khalifa of Bahrain. For every sponsor the sport gained in 2017 it seemed to have lost at least another, Losing Honda creates a £60m hole, plus previous commercial and that is alarming, particularly given that a team was lost and overall revenues are erosion needs to be halted – big asks. “We’re the only team owned on the slide. Domination by a single team, namely Mercedes – albeit with a worthy by two countries, so if anyone can carry us through, they can…” challenge mounted this year by Ferrari – is also bad for business, and this impacts said an insider. True, but for how much longer will they be patient? all the way down the grid due to the ‘switch-off’ factor. Yet, in the final analysis, some teams reported growth – albeit modest – and F1 has momentum on its side, which should see it through to 2021. There is every reason to believe that Liberty is a more committed and judicious manager of F1’s commercial affairs than CVC ever was. That is the brightest commercial development of ’17.

BANG-FOR-BUCK (B4B)

In calculating a team’s bang-for-buck index, the simplest formula is to divide its budget by the number of points scored in any given season, which provides a cost- per-point-scored factor. But, as the points structure (understandably) rewards wins and podium places, this measure benefits frontrunners. An alternative is to divide points scored by headcount to provide a team efficiency index. But this fails to take into account outsourcing, in turn flattering teams such as Force India or Haas, which outsource where possible. Equally, Williams and Renault, who manufacture in-house, are penalised. Combining purchase ledgers and payrolls would deliver fair results, but such information is not readily available. Thus the fairest metric is to measure championship classification advances made by teams over a season, expressing the positions gained as a function of their budgets. This index assumes all teams start from an equal position (10th where there are 10 teams, as in 2017), with the leader progressing nine places, and the bottom team

SUTTON making zero progress. Force India, for example, moved up six places to finish fourth.

BANG-FOR-BUCK INDEX

COST/ 2016 B4B POS TEAM BUDGET(£) ADVANCE POSITION (£) POSITION 1 Force India 97m 6 16.2m 1 2 Williams 120m 5 24m 2 3 Red Bull 215m 7 30.7m 3 4 Mercedes 290m 9 32.2m 5 5 Toro Rosso 110m 3 36.7m 4 This was a year of both upheaval and consolidation for Sauber, 6 Renault 150m 4 37.5m 9 which in June parted company with long-standing team principal 7 Ferrari 350m 8 43.8m 8 Monisha Kaltenborn having the previous year been acquired by 8 Haas 100m 2 50m 6 Swiss investment group Longbow Finance. Experienced motorsport 9 McLaren 175m 1 175m 7 manager Frederic Vasseur was installed as CEO, and under the Frenchman’s leadership team morale has improved. 10 Sauber 105m - - 10 That the squad ramped up its efforts is evident from its headcount, which increased 12.5% year on year. It did not request As expected, for the second successive year Force India is F1’s most cost-effective advances on FOM revenues, as had been the case previously. team, well clear of Williams, its natural foe. Intriguingly, both teams have similar A 2018 branding deal with Alfa Romeo in return for current- budget levels and use Mercedes power. specification Ferrari powertrains is further proof of Sauber’s Their performance differentials are down to drivers (both deployed experienced/ upward trajectory. Improved commercial performance is sure rookie pairings), management and operations, plus technical-resource deployment. to follow, although for now Sauber languishes at the bottom Saliently, Williams relies on an in-house model, including manufacture of its own of the constructors’ table, but ahead of McLaren on B4B. transmissions, whereas F1’s B4B champion procures complete powertrains, and outsources components and services where possible. There must be a lesson in that. A TEAM SPOKESPERSON “We do not comment on our financial situation.” I 28 FORMULA 2 would surely nothave beenaproblem the unpredictable racing intheseries, it fragile nature ofF2’s rubberand to letmomentum slide. Butgiven the reach thetop, andit’s important not risks, sacrifice andeffortit can take to aspiring racing driver’s career, given the absolutely amazing.” our title withavictory. That felt same asthisyear, where we celebrated from thefirst race], soitwas notthe clashed withSantinoFerrucci andretired [at the2016 GP3season finale, where he the championshipwhile beinginthewall finished abitonlow because we won to winachampionshipincars, butwe Prema team bossReneRosin. able to reflect onhisyear alongside the title withthree races to spare, heis increased from there. And, after sealing and excitement around hisyear only the 2017 F2season andtheexpectation two winsfrom thefirst three races of Sauber asaFormula 1rookie in2018. confirmation that hewould race for and FIA award wins, and, finally, Kimi Raikkonen at Ferrari, Autosport Sauber, speculation that hewould replace SF70H car, grand prixFP1 runningwith disqualifications, tests forFerrari inits eight polepositions, two high-profile His year featured seven race wins, Leclerc leaves Pressure naturally comes into any “Last year Iexperienced how itfeels Leclerc hittheground runningwith of therenamed Formula 2series in2017, Charles Leclerc dominated thefirst year By Alex Kalinauckas, Assistant Editor DECEMBER 282017 taking Prema Racingto its second GP2 ahead ofthecampaign. which hadrebranded from Formula 2championship, with arun GP3 title success of2016 sensation followed uphis year forCharles Leclerc. t’s beenanastonishing The Monegasque /REVIEW his mark consecutive drivers’ title away away win in the win inthe

@Nauckas had andopened oureyes that we had – that really showed usthepotential we because we were quicker than theothers flagged late on]andwinningtherace qualifying [theBahrain session was red Barcelona, doing thepoleinanormal was abigthinginF2. Sothencoming to year, asIknew that tyre management expect forthe otherraces during the Leclerc, “and know Ididn’t what to management [after Bahrain],” explains a lackofradio communications. Leclerc won thefeature race, despite picking uppolewithalast-gasp lap, use ofthefresh rubber. worries viaapitstop andmakingfull sprint-race win by abandoning any tyre Time’s –buttook the race –won majestically by Russian he fellfrom poleto third inthefeature in Bahrain. This proved to bethecase as in thesweltering heat ofthefirst round he would struggle withtyre management pre-season testing meant Leclerc knew at allwe have achieved.” I’m more thanhappy now looking I was fully convinced by them, and a brave choice ofline-upintheend, but wrong choice ondrivers!’ Maybe Imade joking withthem– ‘maybe Imadethe the first test,” says Rosin. “We were Ferrari juniorAntonio Fuoco. rookies –Leclerc andhisfellow in’16withtwo it hadsecured withPierre Gasly and defend thedrivers’ andteams’ titles higher onPrema asitattempted to 2014-15. Thepressure was arguably category, asStoffel Vandoorne didin had Leclerc taken two years to winthe “We really didn’t know aboutthetyre At thenext round at Barcelona, after That hard work they hadputinduring “We worked really hard together since

S BLOXHAM/LAT DECEMBER 28 2017 29 FORMULA 2/REVIEW the potential to win the championship.” rise from last to fourth in the third. And I was a bit lucky to finish third Having confirmed he was in the title feature race). He was also able to remain because we were on the limit with the hunt, Leclerc went about the business calm among chaos, as at Silverstone tyres, so I think it was the thing that of winning it. His victory in Spain was when he carried on to his fifth win of the made us do a big step for this year.” followed by triumphs in Baku (where a season, despite oil-leak-induced smoke There were low points for Leclerc, penalty for failing to slow for yellow flags pouring from his engine and causing his particularly on track in Monaco, where – he felt he did – cost him a double team mild panic. And the 20-year-old’s he retired with a suspension problem win), Austria and Britain. His Jerez work on the tyre-management skills after losing the lead during a safety-car victory from pole sealed his title and he needed to succeed in F2 was impressive. period. “I would say that a downside was capped off the season with one final win “I would say, more than anything, how Monaco,” reckons Rosin. “At his home in Abu Dhabi. “It couldn’t have ended quickly I understood the tyres and the race he was incredible in free practice, in a better way,” he says. tyre management,” he says when asked to qualifying, [and then in the feature race] Leclerc’s strength in qualifying was pinpoint the key reason for his success. The Baku (below) there was a safety car where we decided weekend was tough obvious – he ended up sharing the GP2/ “You don’t win a race if you don’t know off-track for Leclerc to stay out. It was totally our fault.” F2 pole record alongside Vandoorne and how to manage the tyres in F2, and we following the death Leclerc also had high-profile problems Gasly on eight – as was his overtaking saw that in the first race in Bahrain. I just of his father just at the and Spa, being prowess (witness his Playstation-esque wasn’t good enough at that, so I finished days earlier stripped of what had been a record- MAUGER/LAT

Bahrain Barcelona Monte Carlo Baku R1 Markelov R1 Leclerc R1 Rowland R1 Leclerc R1 Leclerc R2 Leclerc R2 Matsushita R2 de Vries R2 Nato R2 Markelov Markelov artfully Leclerc defies a radio Rowland claims his first Leclerc puts in a brilliant Leclerc prevails over overturns a 10-second problem on his way to second-tier category performance in Baku. Latifi in a nailbiting deficit to beat Nato and his first of five feature- win in the feature race, He wins the feature – contra-strategy affair, as Leclerc to the feature- race wins and shows which ends in heartbreak interrupted by two safety Prema and DAMS take race win with a well he has made tyre- for home hero Leclerc, cars – from pole ahead of different approaches to judged tyre-management management progress who tops qualifying de Vries and Latifi, with tyre choice. The fragile effort. In race two, since round one, with and leads early on before proceedings stopped super-softs leave Leclerc Leclerc and Prema make Ghiotto second ahead the safety car’s timing early when Gelael vulnerable at the end but their own bold strategy of Rowland. Latifi looks drops him down the crashes and the ensuing he just holds on against call – to stop in the sprint set to win race two until order and a suspension carnage blocks the track. rapid soft-shod Latifi. In

ROUND BY ROUND ROUND BY event. The Monegasque he spots his wing mirror problem puts him out. Leclerc wins race two on race two, Markelov wins makes it work, though, is missing and goes De Vries beats Rapax the road but loses victory from pole, ahead of gaining 13 places in just off late on, handing team-mate Cecotto to to Nato when a penalty Albon and Rowland, with nine laps to win ahead Matsushita the win the race-two win by for failing to slow for Leclerc out after contact of Ghiotto and Rowland. and Rowland second. seizing control at Turn 1. yellows is applied. with team-mate Fuoco.

30 DECEMBER 28 2017 breaking run of consecutive pole positions when a non-compliant brass shim was discovered in his diffuser in Hungary. “We all know that was not for performance and he reacted pretty well,” says Rosin. At Spa he lost one of his most impressive wins – with a 26s margin of victory – when his car’s plank was found to have worn too heavily. Other than in Hungary, Leclerc only failed to top qualifying at Monza and in Abu Dhabi after failing to nail his best lap in Italy and going the wrong way on set-up at Yas Marina, where a focus on the first sector left him vulnerable to the tyres going off later in the lap.

Azerbaijan was where Leclerc picked MAUGER/LAT

up his best points haul of the year – 45 Leclerc flourished the back end of the season. He had with pole, race-one victory, that race’s in the family-like experience of such runs, thanks to his fastest lap and second in the sprint. But atmosphere at Haas practice outings in ’16, where he considering the tragic events of the Prema Racing, as struggled to adapt back to his GP3 evidenced by the previous few days, with the death of his machinery on the same weekend. Leclerc title celebrations father Herve, it was a remarkable at Jerez (above) was therefore careful to ask that if Ferrari performance. “He managed incredibly could arrange for any more F1 weekend well,” reflects Rosin. “That was a moment running it would take place at races where we said, ‘Yes, this is the guy to where F2 was not on the support bill. win the championship.’” “Last year [I took] references in F1, but Leclerc ended the season with a then you try to take it back to GP3 and it 72-point margin of victory over doesn’t work at all,” he says. “That was Markelov, but, after explaining that he something I wanted to avoid this year and primarily focuses on himself rather than so this year I struggled a lot less on that.” competitors, he picks DAMS driver Over the summer, some observers as the rival who “was suggested Ferrari should replace Kimi fighting me more than the others.” Raikkonen with Leclerc. But the 2007 Rowland, a second-year F2 racer who world champion was re-signed for ’18 finished ninth in the 2016 GP2 standings and Sauber’s deal to use up-to-date with MP Motorsport, was magnanimous Ferrari power units meant speculation in defeat and offered his thoughts on the increased that Leclerc or Giovinazzi first rookie champion in the category (or both) would head to Hinwil. since Nico Hulkenberg in ’09. Such talk could have been a distraction, “He’s been strong,” says Rowland. “It’s but it did not knock Leclerc off his path difficult to come in being a rookie, and he to the F2 title. “It’s more an honour than had a rookie team-mate as well, so he had anything else,” he says. “I take it like that to learn everything for himself. It means – it’s amazing to see that people are that he has the ability to do that and saying that about you.” that’s what makes him strong. He’s of a Rosin was proud to give Leclerc, who very high level, and deserves to be in F1.” reckoned his team felt “like a family”, “a Leclerc will have that chance in 2018 bit of the Prema philosophy” of winning when he steps up to the highest level and losing as a team: “He is on my top with the Sauber squad, where he list of drivers – now is the moment to completed four FP1 appearances over send him on to the higher floor of

Silverstone Hungaroring Spa Monza Jerez Yas Marina R1 Leclerc R1 Rowland R1 Markelov R1 Fuoco R1 Leclerc R1 Markelov R2 Latifi R2 Matsushita R2 Sette Camara R2 Ghiotto R2 Markelov R2 Leclerc Leclerc survives a Rowland wins the feature Leclerc simply Fuoco is declared the Leclerc seals his title with Rowland defeats pre-start brake fire and race from first on the grid, disappears in the feature, winner of the feature race the feature race win from Markelov on the road a smoky oil leak to claim which he inherits after putting in a peerless after on-the-road victor pole, after sacrificing with possibly his best the feature race, while Leclerc is stripped of pole display to win by 26.6s. Ghiotto is demoted for his sprint-race tyres GP2/F2 performance but Nato keeps Rowland at following qualifying. He But an excessively worn cutting the first turn on to make certain of loses out post-race when bay for second. In race builds a gap to Markelov plank – with Rowland the final lap, where de topping qualifying. his car is found to have a two, Latifi takes a fine that is erased by the in a similar situation in Vries and Leclerc clash. A late safety car and worn skid-block. Leclerc win from pole, while safety car, and then second – means Ghiotto makes amends Prema communication obeys a team order to Rowland, who makes a defends just on the right Markelov inherits the in race two, while Leclerc problems nearly give give Fuoco third place, lightning start, clashes side of the rules when the victory. Sette Camara and Rowland – out of Rowland a chance to but then takes second with King and Markelov, Russian attacks late on. shoots off from third and race-one contention steal the win. Markelov when the Italian is also and tries to back up the Matsushita wins race two, goes on to win race two when his wheel falls off produces another fine disqualified. In the finale, pack at a late-race with Leclerc fourth in ahead of de Vries, while post-pitstop – fight tyre-management Leclerc charges from restart, earning a penalty both races after a series Leclerc and Rowland their way up but fall display to win race two seventh to win, passing that drops him to 17th. of sensational passes. climb to fifth and eighth. short of the points. after leader Palou fades. Albon in a last-lap battle.

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DRIVERS’ CHAMPIONSHIP

POS DRIVER TEAM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 PTS

1 Charles Leclerc (MC) Prema Racing 3114RR121R1544DSQ51791721282

2 Artem Markelov (RUS) 1889254581431791R9155116210

3 Oliver Rowland (GB) DAMS 5 3 3 2 1 9 7 R 4 3 3 10 1 2 DSQ 8 R 11 2 3 DSQ 7 191

4 (I) Russian Time 722754167144626823417435185

5 (CDN) DAMS 11 4 6 3 R 13 3 3 2 8 8 1 2 6 NS 9 3 16 4 2 5 3 178

6 (J) ART Grand Prix 81441 3 71266141085 116R 2 7181164131

7 (NL) Rapax/ 10 6 10 R 7 1 2 R 13 16 NS 7 3 3 5 2 18 12 13 6 4 9 114

8 (I) Prema Racing 9 10 13 R 11 10 R 12 3 5 16 13 R 17 3 7 1 3 3 5 DSQ 11 98

9 (F) 2 R 16 13 R R 5 1 R 7 2 6 7 5 8 4 13 10 11 10 13 18 91

10 Alexander Albon (T) ART Grand Prix 6 7 5 8 4 6 - - 5 2 18 11 8 7 12 18 14 8 12 9 7 2 86 11 Jordan King (MP Motorsport) 62; 12 Sergio Sette Camara (MP Motorsport) 47; 13 Gustav Malja (Racing Engineering) 44; 14 Sergio Canamasas (Rapax) 21; 15 (Arden International) 17; 16 Jr (Rapax) 16; 17 Louis Deletraz (Racing Engineering/Rapax) 16; 18 (/Rapax) 16; 19 (Campos Racing) 11; 20 Sergey Sirotkin (ART Grand Prix) 9; 21 Alex Palou (Campos Racing) 5; 22 Santino Ferrucci (Trident) 4; 23 Nabil Jeffri (Trident) 2; 24 Robert Visoiu (Campos Racing) 1; 25 (Campos Racing) 0; 26 (Trident) 0; 27 (Campos Racing) 0; 28 Rene Binder (Rapax) 0; 29 (Trident) 0.

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CHARLES OLIVER ARTEM NICHOLAS LUCA LECLERC ROWLAND MARKELOV LATIFI GHIOTTO Leclerc was the story If things had worked out Markelov gave Leclerc Latifi impressed DAMS Ghiotto’s consistency in 2017. He took five differently for Rowland, and the rest an early with his dedication this in the 2017 season was feature-race wins, losing then he’d have finished as the lesson in tyre management season, and his hard work impressive as he only failed another to a disqualification F2 runner-up. A lack of with a fine feature race win in was rewarded with a big to finish in the points on two in Belgium, and possibly two early-season qualifying pace Bahrain. That has always been improvement in his race occasions (in the Azerbaijan more at Monaco and Monza. (it was Silverstone before he one of his strengths across his performances, which he called and Austrian feature races). But his qualifying was even qualified in the top two) meant four seasons in GP2/F2, but “a night-and-day difference”. A mid-season dip meant he more impressive – eight poles he was often playing catch-up his consistency helped him He lost a first category win at fell out of title contention, but equalled the category record in races, where he was usually significantly improve his best Barcelona after an unfortunate he was resurgent in the final in just one year, with his a close threat to Leclerc and championship finishing off due to a missing mirror, third of the year. Monza was Hungaroring qualifying DSQ Prema when given the chance position. His win total is but he made amends in the his standout weekend. He preventing him taking the to compete. The final inflated by Leclerc and Silverstone sprint race, where charged from 11th to win a record for most consecutive. standings don’t reflect it – Rowland being disqualified he dominated from pole. chaotic wet feature race on A misjudged move on Nato in DSQs and reliability problems in Belgium and Abu Dhabi, Although he missed a target the road, but was demoted Monaco race two was his only cost him dearly – but he was but he put himself in the of third place in the standings, to fourth for cutting the major mistake in wheel-to- the second-best driver in F2 best place to benefit. He he did lose points due to first chicane on the final lap. wheel racing, while his clash in 2017 and his win in Hungary wished he had cut out mechanical dramas – including A determined drive from with Albon in Abu Dhabi and on-the-road victory in more mistakes, but ’17 a DNS with a blown engine fifth the next day won him was a little unfortunate. Abu Dhabi were sublime. was still a big improvement. after qualifying second at Spa. the sprint event.

32 DECEMBER 28 2017 motorsport, and let’s enjoy seeing him racing in the bigger formula.” Despite spending much of the season second in the points to Leclerc, Rowland ended up third behind Markelov. The trio were a step above the rest of the field, and only Fuoco’s delayed win at Monza prevented them claiming a sweep of the feature-race victories. After getting to grips with his early- season qualifying issues, Rowland and DAMS were a regular threat to Leclerc. The Briton won in Monaco and at the Hungaroring (not exactly easy venues) and lost a third feature-race win in Abu Dhabi due to a skid block being below the required thickness. He also lost MAUGER/LAT points for the same reason as Leclerc at Spa, had a gearbox problem while leading A new halo-shod, turbocharged V6-era Rowland pushed are expected to step up from GP3 the second Baku race, and a wheel fell off F2 arrives in 2018 and, with it, a chance Leclerc hard over the with ART Grand Prix. while he was in contention at Monza. for the established order to be shaken up. year, although at Spa “I cannot guarantee that we will be Markelov was consistent throughout While Russian Time – missing off the (above) the Prema there fighting to win every time,” says driver was unbeatable the year and took five victories after entry list released in November – may on the road in the Rosin. “What I can guarantee is to give inheriting feature wins in Belgium and not be there, Prema will. The team has feature race all of our expertise, all of our effort Abu Dhabi. He used his tyre-management signed Nyck de Vries (impressively quick and all of our technical knowledge.” skills and experience well, and made a big and a race winner in his rookie year with Although Prema will have an improvement on 10th place in the 2016 the Rapax and Racing Engineering squads experienced line-up in 2018, now that GP2 standings. His regular scoring – and in ’17) and Sean Gelael (15th this year Leclerc has redefined what rookies can that of his fourth-placed team-mate, with Arden International). Carlin returns achieve in the Pirelli era of GP2/F2, Luca Ghiotto – helped Russian Time to the second tier with Lando Norris, the pressure is on the new arrivals win the teams’ title ahead of Prema. and George Russell and Jack Aitken who come to claim his crown.

NYCK ALEXANDER NOBUHARU ANTONIO NORMAN DE VRIES ALBON MATSUSHITA FUOCO NATO De Vries was rapid in Albon began 2017 with The Honda protege was Fuoco’s poor season, Nato started qualifying – earning a string of fast qualifying the only driver outside compared to team-mate strongly with top-four grid spots three times performances and solid points of the championship top three Leclerc, arguably cost Prema second place in the Bahrain in the opening four races for finishes, with his second place to win more than once in 2017, a second consecutive teams’ feature, but his season didn’t Rapax, and two further front on the feature-race grid at but his triumphs at Barcelona title – a zero-points streak kick on from there, and he rows for Racing Engineering Monaco a particular standout. and the Hungaroring came from Bahrain race two to didn’t return to the points at Monza and Yas Marina. But he was forced to miss the in reversed-grid affairs. He Austria race one was striking. until Baku. But that weekend A mid-year team switch is Baku races when he broke produced a fine lap to top Fuoco blamed penalties and featured another strong usually guaranteed to be his collarbone in a mountain- Monza qualifying, but small mistakes for his troubles performance as he spent much disruptive, but de Vries went biking accident. With that ultimately went nowhere in – “everything went in the wrong of the sprint race in the lead. from taking a double podium in mind, his third place in the race. ART Grand Prix direction, it was difficult to Leclerc won on the road but for his first squad in Hungary qualifying in Austria was struggled to get its cars where come back” – and qualifying Nato was perfectly placed to to the sprint-race rostrum mighty, but thereafter his it wanted to through the year, speed was an occasional retake the win when the Prema one round later with his season tailed off as he and (Monza aside) Matsushita problem. But he did improve, driver’s penalty was applied. second. His Monaco win struggled with an highlighted qualifying especially in the final third of Silverstone was also a strong capped his year, he was the unpredictable car. He was struggles as a particular the season. Ghiotto’s demotion event for the Frenchman, second-best rookie, and rapid in Abu Dhabi at the reason why he could not hit and others colliding may have but he did not return to the should be a title contender season finale and would have his minimum aim of third promoted him, but his Monza podium after his second place with Prema in 2018. been a fine sprint-race winner. place in the standings. feature win was a highlight. in the feature race there.

DECEMBER 28 2017 33 GP3/REVIEW

Russell’s work of ART MAUGER/LAT

ART Grand Prix is all-conquering in GP3, but in 2017 it achieved its first 1-2-3-4 in the championship, which was won by Mercedes junior George Russell

By Alex Kalinauckas, Assistant Editor @nauckas

RUSSELL: THE VICTOR WITH THE SPOILS Russell was combative on GEORGE RUSSELL VINDICATED title protagonists suffered his way to title his switch from the Formula 3 reliability problems throughout European Championship with his the year. Russell’s came at the first international-level title, Hungaroring – “the lowlight”, which he took by 79 points as he put it – where a sensor and with four wins. problem stopped him starting He had to make up ground race two from second on the grid. after a low-key start to the year But the Mercedes junior – at Barcelona, where a pair of who followed his celebrations poor starts, caused by him being in Jerez with two Formula 1 FP1 unfamiliar with the GP3 car’s appearances for Force India hand-operated clutch, led to in Brazil and Abu Dhabi – his finishing fourth and fifth. maximised his opportunities FERRARO/LAT But Russell studied hard and over the year. He used DRS put things right from Austria, effectively to claw back places in where he won from pole – a Spain and climb to fourth in the Barcelona Red Bull Ring feat he repeated at Silverstone second Silverstone race, and R1 Fukuzumi R1 Russell and Spa – and he also took the charged brilliantly to follow up R2 Maini R2 Hyman single-race honours at Monza. his Spa race-one win with second Fukuzumi beats Russell’s title charge “I set myself the goal that place in the reversed-grid event. polesitter Aitken off the takes off as he claims his I could put it on pole every Russell was also not afraid to line and comfortably first GP3 pole and win in single race from [Austria] until get punchy on-track. He copped takes his first GP3 win race one ahead of Aitken. the end of the season,” he said, a warning for weaving as he ahead of Pulcini when his Hubert triggers a crash after sealing the title ahead of brilliantly battled Aitken and the team-mate retires with a with Arden’s Pulcini and Jack Aitken and Nirei Fukuzumi fourth ART driver, Anthoine sensor problem. Russell Schothorst on lap one, with a round to spare. “It was Hubert, in the sole Monza race takes fourth and fifth which costs him third almost there – I put it on pole – all three deserve praise for after start problems on place to Fukuzumi after three times [out of four between that fight – and was decisive at his debut weekend, with a penalty. Hyman wins a then and Jerez]. Throughout the virtual-safety-car restarts all year ROUND ROUND BY Maini winning the second dull race two that is season, I felt I had the team long. He put a pair of forceful race ahead of Boccolacci enlivened by Boccolacci around me to be able to do that moves on Aitken at Jerez, his after the pair clash wheels crashing into Lorandi and and win the races we won.” points advantage meaning he at Turn 2. Lorandi picks afterwards rolling three All three of ART Grand Prix’s had less to lose if they collided. up a pair of third places. times on the last lap.

34 DECEMBER 28 2017 AITKEN CLOSE YET QUITE FAR Aitken took pole and won JACK AITKEN STAKED HIS Fukuzumi by 4.4 seconds. in Hungary claim by topping qualifying at But at Spa, after being in the the Barcelona opener ahead of thick of the fight for the win Nirei Fukuzumi. He was beaten with Russell and Fukuzumi, by his team-mate off the line the he lost ground to the eventual next day, but an engine-sensor champion when he moved over problem shut down his car just on at the as he was mounting a fightback. end of the Kemmel straight Finishing 12th in race two meant and tumbled down the order. he was always playing catch-up Russell’s win at Monza meant in the standings, although Aitken faced a 43-point gap Russell’s Hungary problems approaching Jerez and, with few levelled things out. races remaining, he could not The Renault Academy driver afford to crash when his rival took well deserved podiums made his moves, which left him in Austria and Britain, but had unimpressed but not angry. struggled to fifth in qualifying “We’ve had a couple of at Silverstone, where things mistakes on my side and didn’t look right compared mechanical issues and a bit to his team-mates. of bad luck in other races,” he “I needed to adapt [to the reflected after the title was car] a little bit and the team lost. “It’s not the season I had to come to me a little bit wanted, but I learned a lot as well for the driving style,” he and I’m going to come back explained. “[Silverstone] was a stronger driver next year.” around the time when we were “Balance issues” and trying to adapt to each other and “problem after problem” left was the worst moment for that.” him down in 15th in Abu Dhabi In Hungary, Aitken put in qualifying, and flying debris his strongest qualifying and bent his left-front trackrod race-one combo of the year, in race one there. But, with claiming the maximum 31 points Fukuzumi non-scoring over after taking pole, putting in the the weekend, Aitken held on fastest lap and beating in the fight for second overall.

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Silverstone Hungaroring Spa Monza Jerez Yas Marina R1 Russell R1 Aitken R1 Russell R1 Russell R1 Fukuzumi R1 Kari R2 Alesi R2 Alesi R2 Alesi R2 cancelled R2 Lorandi R2 Boccolacci Russell has to battle Aitken delivers his best Russell produces “an A Saturday washout at Fukuzumi leads from Kari stops ART from Hubert hard for the win performance of the year almost perfect weekend” Monza means GP3’s grid lights to flag to record his sealing a race-one sweep after losing out from pole with pole and his first as he tops qualifying, is set by practice times, first win since Barcelona. in 2017 by stealing ahead on lap one. But he gets event win, after Russell race one and charges handing Fukuzumi a Russell muscles his way of polesitter Russell and back in front of his fails to start due to the through the pack in race first category pole. The past Aitken for second Pulcini at Turn 1. As they fast-starting team-mate same sensor problem two. Aitken and weather delays mean with a move on lap one. squabble for much of the to take the victory. Alesi that stopped Aitken at Fukuzumi follow him the first race is delayed Lorandi takes his first race (Pulcini later drops claims his first GP3 win Barcelona. In race one, home in the first event, and the second GP3 triumph from out with a puncture after from a net pole in race Fukuzumi and Hubert which is another thrilling cancelled, but Russell, reversed-grid pole as Russell gets by), Kari two, while Aitken – take second and third, intra-team scrap. Alesi Aitken and Hubert Russell puts another holds on to give Arden fourth in race one – while Alesi leads a holds on to win race two engage in a thrilling fight forceful move on Aitken its first win of the year. catapults up the order Trident 1-2-3 in race as Russell falls just short, for the win – finishing in and takes the position Boccolacci passes early on and finishes two as the ART drivers while Aitken misjudges that order – after a sensor he needs to seal the team-mate Tveter and second, as Russell (except Hubert) hit a pass on Boccolacci and and gearbox problem title when Kari and takes a maiden win rises to fourth. trouble in the pack. drops out of contention. stops Fukuzumi starting. Ticktum clash late on. in race two.

DECEMBER 28 2017 35 Fukuzumi lost title lead but BEST OF THE REST was always fast

Anthoine Hubert finished fourth, in the end just 11 points behind Fukuzumi despite not picking up a win. He kept his standings haul ticking over throughout the season and only missed on points in two races – the Spa and Abu Dhabi feature races, where he retired with a blocked radiator and finished 11th. He caught the eye with some feisty drives at Silverstone and Monza, but lost a podium in Austria due to some uncharacteristically clumsy driving that caused a crash at Turn 3. had a breakthrough year with three wins, with his Trident team-mate Dorian

Boccolacci shining in qualifying and winning MAUGER/LAT the season finale. started with a fine double podium at Barcelona and joined the maiden-winners’ list at Jerez. THIRD BEST FOR FUKUZUMI brought home a solid haul of points and podiums for Trident, which earned NIREI FUKUZUMI’S YEAR GOT OFF seventh in the standings. He returned him eighth in the standings, while to the best of starts when he won race with ART in ’17 and demonstrated an won at Barcelona and showed his speed across one at Barcelona, and the 25 points he ability to show a blistering turn of the year. Niko Kari’s form was inconsistent, but took away from the Red Bull Ring kept speed, so much so that, when Russell he was involved in many memorable scraps and him in the championship lead after a was pressed on which of his team-mates drove well to take his first GP3 win at Abu Dhabi. quarter of the season had passed. pushed him the most it was the One of stars of the end of the season was Dan Missing pole in Austria knocked his Honda-backed driver he chose. Ticktum, who transformed what became DAMS’s confidence, but reliability issues at “From the very first test we did he was final GP3 season with his speed at Jerez and Silverstone and Monza (where he was extremely fast,” Russell said. “He seemed Yas Marina, where he defied a time penalty to due to start from pole) cost him valuable to be able to throw a lap out there out of make the race-two podium. The Grand points, as did lap one clashes in the the blue, which is extremely competitive. Prix winner, who followed Fukuzumi, Russell pack in race-two at the Hungaroring and Knowing what he has in his locker and Aitken closely to fourth at Jerez, offered his in Abu Dhabi. “I think I did something and knowing what he can produce at thoughts on why ART is so strong in GP3. wrong in my life,” was his reflection any point, probably [had me thinking], “When you watch a car that is very balanced, on the mechanical problems. ‘Right, I always need to perform because you would say it looks slow, but actually it’s “I feel very bad for him because two this guy can pull a lap out.’” not, it’s fast,” he explained. “They just look all times we had a mechanical issue in The trip to Jerez produced Fukuzumi’s very under control, the car looks very balanced race one for him – this means we had greatest points haul of the year as he everywhere. Whereas with a few other cars, two complete weekends that [were] grabbed pole with a stunning lap for his you can see them moving around a bit more. destroyed not on his fault,” said ART first track-earned top grid spot and then For each track they have it pretty sorted boss Sebastien Philippe. “I think he converted it into his second win of the where they need to be.” did the step we were expecting from season, which made him “mega-happy”. him from last year to this year, and “Generally, I think [this year has he’s showed great pace.” been] not so bad a season for me,” Indeed, Fukuzumi’s results were a he said. “I always tried my best

MAUGER/LAT step up from 2016, when he finished because life is one time.”

DRIVERS’ CHAMPIONSHIP

POS DRIVER TEAM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 PTS

1 George Russell (GB) ART Grand Prix 451614NS11121-2424220

2 Jack Aitken (GB) ART Grand Prix R1225421R2182-36148141

3 Nirei Fukuzumi (J) ART Grand Prix 1633R162R34NS-151514134

4 (F) ART Grand Prix 54472835R73-53115123

5 Giuliano Alesi (F) Trident 1711627161716-97R999

6 Dorian Boccolacci (F) Trident 629178NS5451714-727193

7 Alessio Lorandi (I) 3378364R1214R-8151792

8 Ryan Tveter (USA) Trident 12 18 5 4 R 13 8 2 6 3 5 - 12 14 8 2 78

9 Arjun Maini (IND) Jenzer Motorsport 7 1 10 16 6 5 R 8 4 6 16 - 17 12 3 6 72

10 Niko Kari (FIN) Arden International 15 14 R 18 5 3 9 6 9 9 15 - 6 19 1 13 63 11 (DAMS) 36; 12 Kevin Jorg (Trident) 28; 13 (Campos Racing) 27; 14 (Arden International) 20; 15 Julien Falchero (Campos Racing) 16; 16 Marcos Siebert (Campos Racing) 13; 17 Steijn Schothorst (Arden International) 8; 18 Tatiana Calderon (DAMS) 7; 19 Santino Ferrucci (DAMS) 3; 20 Bruno Baptista (DAMS) 3; 21 (Jenzer Motorsport) 0; 22 Matthieu Vaxiviere (DAMS) 0.

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Autosport Awards Series insight: Citroen C1 simple (Feb 23) 5. Monte Carlo (May 18) ways? (Mar 2-LB) (Aug 24-BA) Voting nominations (Oct 26) Challenge (Oct 12-BA) When F1 played hunger games 6. Paris (May 25) McLaren must rise again Lando Norris on his F1 All the night’s winners (Dec 7) BTCC supports season review (Mar 2) 7. Berlin (June 15) (Mar 2-BA) McLaren test (Aug 24-KT) (Oct 19-SL) Over to you, Mr Brawn (Mar 9) New York: preparing for the Can Force India break the Toro Rosso’s climb back up Autosport International British GT season review Remembering Il Grande John unknown (July 6) glass ceiling? (Mar 2-GA) the F1 grid (Sept 14-LB) Show preview pt1 (Jan 5) (Oct 26-RL) (Mar 16) 8. New York (July 20) Is this Magnussen’s last How McLaren-Honda was Show preview pt2 (Jan 12) The old Alfa that beats GT3 Zak Brown’s new order (Mar 23) 9. Montreal (Aug 3) chance? (Mar 2-LB) torn apart (Sept 21-BA) The 2017 highlights (Jan 19) (Nov 2-MK) A geniune threat to Mercedes Season review (Aug 17) F1 test war: battle of the What is Aston Martin’s F1 BRDC F3 season review (Mar 30) Why needs to stay big three (Mar 9-BA) future? (Sept 28-LB) British Touring Cars (Nov 9-SMA) When drivers raced for free in Formula E (Nov 16) Technical focus (Mar 9-GA/GP) Crunch time for Red Bull and Season preview (Mar 30-MJ) Series insight: Pickups (Apr 6) Season preview (Nov 30) Rating performance (Mar 9-GA) McLaren (Sept 28-BA) 1. Brands Hatch (Apr 6-MJ) (Nov 16-JB) Faster is surely better (Apr 13) DS Virgin track test (Nov 30-GF) How much trouble is McLaren How Porsche can return to F1 2. Donington Park (Apr 20-MJ) Memories of 2017 (Dec 14-21-MP) Why Indy is the best medicine 1. Hong Kong (Dec 7) in? (Mar 9-BA) (Oct 19-ES) 3. Thruxton (May 11-MJ) Top 10 club drivers of the year (Apr 20) Is the threat to Mercedes real? Porsche’s 1991 disaster 4. (May 25-MJ) (Dec 14-21-JB) When drivers should suffer Formula 2 (Mar 16-BA) (Oct 19-AC) 5. Croft(June 15-MJ) Top 10 club rivalries of the year (Apr 27) Season preview (Apr 13-MS) Tech analysis (Mar 16-GA/GP) The moments that decided 6. Snetterton (Aug 3-MJ) (Dec 14-21-SL) Alonso: should he stay or 1. Bahrain (Apr 20-AK) Trackside view (Mar 16-KC) the F1 title (Nov 2-BA) 7. (Aug 17-MJ) Club pictures of the year should he go? (May 4) 2. Barcelona (May 18-AK) F1 season preview: Hamilton’s Vettel’s plan to strike back 8. Rockingham (Aug 31-JC) (Dec 14-21-SMA) Dark day for Monaco (May 11) 3. Monte Carlo (June 1-AK) quest for a fourth crown (Nov 9-BA) 9. Silverstone (Sept 21-JC) Intense, but good natured 4. Baku (June 29-AK) (Mar 16-AC) Who is Britain’s greatest F1 10. Brands Hatch (Oct 5-JC) DTM (May 18) 5. Red Bull Ring (July 13-AK) Bottas’s big break (Mar 16-JNO) driver? (Nov 23-NR/PW/ES/JR/LB) Season review (Oct 19-MJ) Loic Duval’s new challenge Why Indy makes sense for 6. Silverstone (July 20-AK) Ricciardo versus Verstappen Jackie Stewart’s greatest (May 4-GW) Alonso (May 25) 7. Hungaroring (Aug 3-AK) (Mar 16-BA) drives (Nov 23-KT) Club Autosport 1. Hockenheim (May 11) Alonso shows, Honda blows 8. Spa (Aug 31-AK) Ferrari’s revival (Mar 16-KC) Season review: the fight we Shootout (Jan 5-JB) 2. Lausitzring (May 25-JC) (June 1) 9. Monza (Sept 7-AK) McLaren’s pain (Mar 16-BA) wanted to see (Dec 7-BA) Rating 2016’s new 3. Hungaroring (June 22-DG) Hoping for affordable power 10. Jerez (Oct 12-AK) McLaren’s next superstar Top 10 drivers (Dec 7-BA) championships, and what’s 4. (July 6-JC) (June 8) 11. Yas Marina (Nov 30-AK) (Mar 16-LB) F1 bosses’ top 10 (Dec 7-LB) due in ’17 (Jan 5-JB) 5. (July 6-VK) Classy Kubica could come Hulkenburg Q&A (Mar 16-SM) Why Ferrari hasn’t blown it Club racing’s leading rivalry 6. Zandvoort (Aug 24-MS) back (June 15) GP3 Will the new rules work? (Dec 7-JNO) (Jan 26-SL) 7. Nurburgring (Sept 14-MS) Born with the rage to win Alex Kalinauckas (Mar 16-ES) Bottas Q&A (Dec 7-BA) What we want to see in 2017 8. Red Bull Ring (Sept 28-MS) (June 22) 1. Barcelona (May 18) Team by team (Mar 16-GA) Did new rules work? (Dec 7-GA) (Feb 2-JB) 9. Hockenheim (Oct 19-MS) A young head on old shoulders 2. Red Bull Ring (July 13) Track guide (Mar 16) Red Bull’s missed chance Morris stuns on Daytona (June 29) 3. Silverstone (July 20) Can McLaren-Honda be (Dec 7-LB) prize drive (Feb 9-GW) European F3 Ron Dennis: a man admired 4. Hungaroring (Aug 3) saved? (Mar 23-BA) McLaren-Honda’s divorce F5000 versus F1 down under Marcus Simmons rather than loved (July 6) 5. Spa (Aug 31) How Merc is fixing its start (Dec 7-BA) (Feb 16-MP) Season preview (Apr 13) Time for change at Ferrari? 6. Monza (Sept 7) problems (Mar 23-GA/GP) Alonso still at the top of his Disabled servicemen on the 1. Silverstone (Apr 20) (July 13) 7. Jerez (Oct 12) Q&A (Mar 23-JNO) game (Dec 7-JNO) way to Le Mans (Feb 23-JB) 2. Monza (May 4) Clark’s final British victory George Russell on the rise Ferrari revival – or another Force India’s civil war (Dec 7-LB) Best of Race Retro (Mar 2- 3. Pau (May 25) (July 20) (Nov 9) false dawn? (Apr 6-BA) 2017’s rookies (Dec 7-BA) JB/PL/MP) 4. Hungaroring (June 22) Step too far in pursuit of safety 8. Yas Marina (Nov 30) Alonso: F1’s wasted talent Merc v Ferrari tech (Dec 7-GA) Mazda MX-5 racing (Mar 9-JC) 5. Norisring (July 6) (July 27) (Apr 27-BA) Renault on the up (Dec 7-JNO) Silverstone 24 Hours’ new 6. Spa (Aug 3) Looking out for number one Grand prix features Formula 1 2017 decoded Political round-up (Dec 7-DR) dawn (Mar 23-RL) 7. Zandvoort (Aug 24) (Aug 3) F1 2017 revealed (Jan 5-BA/ES) (May 11-BA/KC) Top 10 stories online (Dec 7) BTCC supports preview 8. Nurburgring (Sept 14) A blistering win for Rosberg Mansell on 1992 (Jan 12-AC) When F1 champions return Best F1 track (Dec 7) (Mar 23-SL) 9. Red Bull Ring (Sept 28) (Aug 10) Is Mercedes right to chase (May 11-AC) Year in numbers (Dec 7) Classic Hot Hatch track test 10. Hockenheim (Oct 19) Power for the people? (Aug 17) Bottas? (Jan 12-BA/SM) Force India: F1’s best team? Best race drives (Dec 7-BA) (Apr 6-KT) Season review (Nov 9) The brave and not so beautiful F1 conservatism strikes again (June 8-BA) British GT season preview (Aug 24) (Jan 12-BA) Lewis Hamilton interview Grand prix reports (Apr 13-RL) F1 launches Spa’s lost magic (Aug 31) Why Bottas will challenge (July 6-BA) 1. Australia (Mar 30-BA) British F3 season preview F1 launches: Sauber C36, The penalty farce (Sept 7) Hamilton (Jan 19-BA) What next for Lewis? (July 6-BA) 2. China (Apr 13-BA) (Apr 13-JC) Williams FW40 (Feb 23) What next for Alonso? (Sept 14) Hamilton’s incredible rookie British GP preview (July 13-AC) 3. Bahrain (Apr 20-BA) Eurocup Red Bull RB13, Mercedes F1 Vettel back in the dock (Sept 21) season (Jan 26-AC) Only the brave: Silverstone 4. Russia (May 4-BA) preview (Apr 20-SL) W08, Ferrari SF70H, McLaren Vettel’s choices (Sept 28) – Merc’s answer 1977 (July 13-JP) 5. Spain (May 18-BA) Code 60 in club racing MCL32, Force India VJM10, Sepang’s final flourish (Oct 5) to (Jan 26-AC) Is the halo right for F1? 6. Monaco (June 1-BA) (Apr 27-DD’A) Haas VF-17, Toro Rosso STR12, Waiting in the wings (Oct 12) Liberty Media’s plan for F1 (July 27-BA/ES) 7. Canada (June 15-BA) The Jordans’ new life Renault RS17 (Mar 2) Equal opportunities (Oct 19) (Feb 2-AC) F1 1984: how Lauda beat Prost 8. Azerbaijan (June 29-BA) in historics (June 22-KT) The shock of the new (Oct 26) Key targets for fixing F1 (Aug 10-BA) 9. Austria (July 13-BA) Marcus Pye’s 40 years at Fifth Column Know your limits (Nov 2) (Feb 2-DS) McLaren-TAG MP4/2 (Aug 10-GW) 10. Great Britain (July 20-ES) Autosport (July 20-MP) Nigel Roebuck Hot air, cold logic (Nov 9) Guide to F1 testing (Feb 16-KC) Senna’s sensational rookie 11. Hungary (Aug 3-BA) at 50 track test Why Bottas may be Mercedes’ Massa’s last goodbye (Nov 16) Why the pre-season is crucial season (Aug 10-AC) 12. Belgium (Aug 31-BA) (July 27-BA) best option (Jan 12) Hybrids and lows (Nov 23) (Feb 16-GA) Monaco ’84 – the facts 13. Italy (Sept 7-BA) Insight: Historic 750 Formula Will F1 changes improve the Waiting for racing (Nov 30) Where now for the Williams (Aug 10-ES) 14. Singapore (Sept 21-ES) (Aug 10-MK) show? (Jan 19) The more it changes… (Dec 7) revival? (Feb 23-BA) Warwick at Renault (Aug 10-KT) 15. Malaysia (Oct 5-BA) British Hillclimb Championship McLaren’s next star (Jan 26) Hanker for rancour (Dec 14-21) The real first year for Renault Stories of the year ’84 (Aug 10-ES) 16. Japan (Oct 12-BA) hits 70 Ecclestone’s impact on F1 (Feb 23-LB) Elsewhere in motorsport ’84 17. (Oct 26-ES) (Aug 17-PL) (Feb 2) Formula E F1’s new rules (Mar 2-BA) (Aug 10-MS) 18. Mexico (Nov 2-ES) Spa Six Hours preview Who’ll be missing from F1 Scott Mitchell Newey on F1’s new era F1’s greatest wet-weather 19. Brazil (Nov 16-BA) (Sept 14-MP) 2017? (Feb 9) Did FE’s Las Vegas experiment (Mar 2-ES) drives (Aug 17-KT) 20. Abu Dhabi (Nov 30-BA) Radical SR1 (Sept 28-RL) Franz Tost’s peculiar notions really work? (Jan 12) How Mercedes plans to Jackie Stewart on Britain’s Series insight: Equipe GTS (Feb 16) 3. Buenos Aires (Feb 23) conquer F1 again (Mar 2-BA) first F1 champions (Aug 17-AK) Have-a-go hero (Oct 5-SL) No gimmicks, keep it 4. Mexico City (Apr 6) Can Ferrari return to winning The Raikkonen enigma Andrew Jordan at

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Daytona (Jan 26-KT) change (June 8-DE) Hooked by Bathurst Sauber’s week of chaos Why Norris won a McLaren (Nov 16-MS) tries F1 MotoGP memories (Mar 2-MA) (June 29) F1 test (Feb 9-KT) Christmas gift guide pt1 (Feb 23-BM) (June 15-MA) F2 at Thruxton (Mar 16-MS) F3 could face breakaway When Andretti stunned (Nov 30) Stephane Sarrazin tests Why WEC needs more Rallycross at Lydden Hill series (July 6) NASCAR (Feb 16-MG) Top 50 drivers (Dec 14-21) an F1 car (Mar 30-SM) LMP1 cars (June 22-GW) (Apr 13-MB) British GP activates break Daytona 500 preview Pictures of the year (Dec 14-21) ’s touring car The power of speech Gaming action sparks racing clause (July 13) (Feb 23-JU/LS) Fastest laps of 2017 outing (May 11-BM) (June 29-DR) passion (May 4-LB) F1 shield debated after Danny Watts: anatomy of (Dec 14-21-MS) Helio Castroneves’s Toyota Life on the streets (July 6-AK) BTCC in the rain (June 1-JB) Vettel test (July 20) a bombshell (Mar 2-MB) Race Centre season round-up F1 test (June 8-BM) What’s happened to Jason at Cosworth closes on F1 Dan Gurney’s incredible year (Dec 14-21) Sebastien Ogier in French F4 Plato? (July 13-MJ) Silverstone (July 6-GF) comeback (July 27) (Mar 9-KT) Christmas gift guide pt2 (June 29-DE) Time to sign Leclerc 1988 British GP (Aug 3-BA) Motorsport in crisis (Aug 3) Supercars star: Shane van (Dec 14-21) ’s sole F1 start (July 20-AK) Up close and personal at What next for Kubica? (Aug 10) Gisbergen (Mar 9-AVL) Christmas quiz (Dec 14-21) (July 27-ES) Safety fast(er) (July 27-DR) F1 testing (Aug 31-SL) Button’s challenges in Goodwood Members’ Top 10 cars never to win Dale Earnhardt Jr’s Does exit mean exit? Brands Hatch A1GP (Sept 28-JC) Super GT (Aug 17) Meeting preview (Mar 16-KT) (Dec 14-21-KT) Supercars test (Aug 24-JU) (Aug 3-MS) Monza’s F1 frenzy (Nov 2-FC) Honda doubts after ’s top F1 drives When racing cars meet their Rugby star Scott Williams’s What Kubica lost (Aug 10-ES) Silverstone 2008 (Nov 30-TE) Toro Rosso talks fail (Aug 24) (Mar 23-KT) demise (Dec 14-21-GW) rally business (Sept 21-JB) Barriers to entry (Aug 17-DR) Silverstone 2013 (Dec 14-21-AK) Button plans full-time Alonso’s Indy dream Sebastien Loeb interview Piercarlo Ghinzani’s Peace of ART (Aug 24-AK) race return (Aug 31) (Apr 20-ES) (Dec 14-21-DE) Porsche win (Nov 9-MK) Making citronade (Aug 31-DE) Obituaries New F2 car crucial for F1 Modern IndyCar’s Mansell races a truck Past is still present (Sept 7-KT) Allan McCall (Feb 23) graduation (Sept 7) moment (Apr 20-GF) Supplements (Dec 7-ES) Only the talk is cheap John Surtees (Mar 16) Sainz on the verge of Marcel Albers: a talent taken Engineering (Jan 12) (Sept 21-DR) Patrick Neve (Mar 16) Renault switch (Sept 14) too soon (Apr 20-MS) Performance (Feb 23) IndyCar Nowhere to hide (Sept 28-SM) Tim Parnell (Apr 13) Toro Rosso-Honda deal Sam Bird: British underdog Performance (May 25) David Malsher Own worst enemy (Oct 5-GA) Joe Leonard (May 4) confirmed (Sept 21) (Apr 27-SM) Le Mans preview (June 8) Season preview (Mar 9) Hamilton’s finest hour Timo Makinen (May 11) Is new one-make F3 really and sons talk at 50 (July 6) 1. St Petersburg (Mar 16) (Oct 12-ES) Sir John Whitmore (May 11) a bad idea? (Sept 28) motorsport (May 18-SC) Performance (Aug 24) 2. Long Beach (Apr 13) Secrets of success (Oct 19-DR) Preston Henn (May 11) Penske joins early as IMSA When Senna almost went Engineering (Oct 19) 3. Barber M’ports Park (Apr 27) Some Finn special (Oct 26-DE) Paul Wilson (May 18) booms (Oct 5) to IndyCar (May 18-BM) Rally GB (Oct 26) 4. Phoenix (May 4) Drink to the future (Nov 2-DE) (May 25) Williams race hots up as Can Alonso really win the Performance (Nov 16) 5. Indianapolis (May 18) Coughs and sneezes… Eric Broadley (June 1) Kubica tests (Oct 12) Indy 500? (May 25-ES) 6. (June 1) (Nov 9-DR) Colin Blower (June 29) Hartley’s Toro Rosso shot When McLaren nearly Top 5 7. Detroit Belle Isle (June 8) Force is strong for Russell Barry Bland (July 13) (Oct 19) entered (May 25-GW) F1 comebacks (Jan 12) 8. Texas (June 15) (Nov 16-AK) (Aug 3) Verstappen and Alonso Nelson Piquet: bouncing F1 constructors we’d like 9. (June 29) Carlin’s F2 return (Nov 30-AK) Angel Nieto (Aug 10) sign new contracts (Oct 26) back when Indy bites to see return (Feb 9) 10. Iowa (July 13) A true Brit talent (Dec 7-KT) Don Nichols (Aug 31) Why Alonso is really doing (May 25-GW) Barcelona lap times (Mar 9) 11. Toronto (July 20) Soft cells not tainted John Nicholson (Oct 5) Daytona (Nov 2) Secrets of the street racers Team Surtees F1 graduates 12. Mid-Ohio (Aug 3) (Dec 14-21-SM) Robert Yates (Oct 12) Ferrari threatens to quit F1 (May 25-KT) to win a GP (Mar 23) 13. Pocono (Aug 24) over engines (Nov 9) Is Monaco the greatest Formula 2 champions (Apr 20) 14. Gateway (Aug 31) Introducing Pit+Paddock Alonso’s Le Mans 24 Hours bid street race in the world? Indy 500 rookies (May 25) 15. Watkins Glen (Sept 7) Joel Eriksson (Jan 19-MS) Ginetta commits to LMP1 (Nov 16) (May 25-ES/MJ) Airfield circuits (June 22) 16. Sonoma (Sept 21) Gustavo Menezes (Feb 16-GW) programme (Jan 5) Toyota close to return as World’s weirdest street tracks F1 cameos (July 13) Season review (Oct 5) Yann Ehrlacher (Apr 6-JC) New moves to save British GP Alonso tests (Nov 23) (May 25-GW) Ugly F1 aero devices (Aug 10) Daniel Serra (Apr 27-GW) (Jan 12) Pirelli aims to spice up F1 The greatest Monaco duel Jacques Villeneuve F1 races In the paddock Oliver Askew (May 18-JB) Gary Anderson’s verdict on (Nov 30) that time forgot (May 25-PF) (Sept 7) Formula 1’s lack of efficiency Thomas Laurent (June 15-GW) the F1 driver market (Jan 19) Sauber secures Alfa Romeo How close was Alonso to Raikkonen radio rants (Oct 5) (Jan 5-DR) Teemu Suninen (July 20-DE) Ecclestone out, Brawn joins deal (Dec 7) winning the Indy 500? Red Bull Junior recoveries Looking forward to the new (Aug 17-HJ/BA) F1 top table (Jan 26) Why WTCC had to go low-cost (June 1-ES) (Oct 19) WRC season (Jan 12-DE) Gabriel Aubry (Sept 14-JBL/BA) Has Manor’s last chance with TCR merger (Dec 14-21) Farewell to Lydden Hill Worst temporary chicanes Colin Turkington in search Matthew Wilson (Oct 26-DE) gone? (Feb 2) (June 1-DE) (Nov 16) of a BTCC seat (Jan 19-MJ) Giuliano Alesi (Nov 23-AK) Kubica on his Le Mans Reports – miscellaneous Senna’s 99T: the last great The unpredictable Monte adventure (Feb 9) Race Of Champions (Jan 26-CB) Lotus (June 22-AC) WEC Carlo Rally (Jan 26-DE) McLaren Autosport Rowland targets GP2 title Daytona 24 Hours (Feb 2-GW) Why Audi is in world Gary Watkins Can Daytona’s DPi concept BRDC Award (Feb 16) (Feb 9-AVL) Rallycross (June 22-JH) 2016 season review (Jan 5) work for the WEC? (Feb 2-GW) How you can help pick the FIA’s 1% stake in F1 explained Goodwood Members’ Goodwood Festival of Speed Lotterer’s big decision (Apr 6) What F1 can learn from UK’s next star (Sept 14) (Feb 23) Meeting (Feb 23-MP) preview (June 29-SK/JH) 2017 season preview (Apr 13) wrestling (Feb 9-GF) Award tests (Nov 30) Hamilton and Mercedes on Daytona 500 (Mar 2-DM) Rowland’s final chance to 1. Silverstone (Apr 20) The opposition rises form (Mar 2) Nurburgring 24 Hours reach F1? (July 13-AK) 2. Spa (May 11) (Feb 16-DR) MotoGP Non-championship F1 races (June 1-JNE) Super Formula: racing’s 3. Le Mans (June 22) Coming out in motorsport speaks out (Mar 9) Goodwood Festival of Speed best-kept secret (July 20-MS) 4. Nurburgring (July 20) (Feb 23-DW) (Feb 16-MA) GP2 becomes F2 (Mar 16) (July 6-SK/JH) DFV: what made it special 5. Mexico City (Sept 7) Quicker looks slower Season preview (Mar 23-MA) The big questions before Silverstone Classic (Aug 3-MP) (July 27-NR) 6. Austin (Sept 21) (Mar 2-BA) 1. Losail (Mar 30-MA) Melbourne (Mar 23) Goodwood Revival DFV: tech insight (July 27-GA) Gerard Neveu Q&A (Oct 12-MS) American lessons (Mar 9-TN) 2. Rio Hondo (Apr 13-MA) Sauber defends Wehrlein’s GP (Sept 14-MP/KT) DFV: memories (July 27) 7. Fuji (Oct 19) New era in single-seater 3. Austin (Apr 27-MA) absence (Mar 30) (Oct 12-AVL) DFV: results (July 27) 8. Shanghai (Nov 9) racing? (Mar 16-MS) 4. Jerez (May 11-MA) Why F1 tech bosses welcome (Nov 23-MS) DFV: Le Mans win (July 27-GW) 9. Bahrain (Nov 23) Bernie’s claws are out for 5. Le Mans (May 25-MA) Brawn (Apr 6) FIA GT World Cup (Nov 23-JC) DFV: national motorsport Brawn (Mar 23-DR) 6. Mugello (June 8-MA) Law change boosts (July 27-MP) WRC The return of ‘proper’ F1 7. Barcelona (June 15-MA) closed-road events (Apr 13) Special features Silverstone Classic preview David Evans (Mar 30-DS) 8. Assen (June 29-JK) Button to replace Alonso Daytona 24 Hours preview (July 27-KT) Hayden Paddon’s big break McLaren-Honda: infernal 9. (July 6-JK) at Monaco (Apr 20) (Jan 26-GW) Secrets of the rainmasters (Jan 14) combustion (Apr 6-BA) 10. Brno (Aug 10-JK) How realistic is Renault’s 50 years of rallycross (Aug 17-KT) Season preview (Jan 19) When the weather strikes 11. Red Bull Ring (Aug 17-JK) F1 vision? (Apr 27) (Feb 2-HR) The greatest wet-weather 1. Monte Carlo (Jan 26) (Apr 13-DR) 12. Silverstone (Aug 31-ES) Indy winner’s advice for Is motorsport’s drive (Aug 17-KT) 2. Sweden (Feb 16) The challenge of Indy 13. Misano (Sept 14-JK) Alonso (May 4) greatest all-rounder? The electric future of Toyota’s miraculous (Apr 20-GA) 14. Motorland Aragon Alonso’s first Indy 500 test (Feb 9-KT/ES) rallycross (Aug 31-HR) turnaround (Feb 23) Triple Crowning glory (Sept 28-JK) (May 11) Motorsport’s versatile greats Goodwood Revival preview 3. Mexico (Mar 16) (Apr 27-ES) 15. Motegi (Oct 19-AVL) Alonso kicks off Indy practice (Feb 9-KT) (Sept 7) 4. Corsica (Apr 3) Lighting the F3 fuse (May 4-MS) 16. Phillip Island (Oct 26-AVL) (May 18) , unsung talent The great forgotten 5. Argentina (May 4) Tackling F1’s revenue system 17. Sepang (Nov 2-JK) Dixon tops Indy field as (Feb 9-DE) Le Mans car (Sept 14-KT) 6. Portugal (May 25) (May 11-DR) 18. Valencia (Nov 16-JK) Bourdais shunts (May 25) The modern all-rounders Fisichella’s life in sportscars 7. Italy (June 15) F1’s latest mystery (May 18-BA) Season review (Nov 30-JK) Dixon survives horror shunt (Feb 9-MS) (Sept 28-GW) 8. Poland (July 6) ’s (June 1) Why Super GT is so tough TCR’s ever expanding empire 9. Finland (Aug 3) outrageous fortune Motorsport memory Le Mans test (June 8) (Feb 9-ES) (Sept 28-JC) 10. (Aug 24) (May 25-DM) A cocktail of tin-tops Meeke dropped for Rally Rene Rast – Audi’s sleeper hit Autosport Williams 11. Spain (Oct 12) Sato’s happy ending and rallycross (Jan 5-SM) Poland (June 15) (Feb 9-GW) Engineering Award 12. GB (Nov 2) (June 1-MS) at Silverstone New WEC plans announced The rehabilitation of Dan (Oct 12-AK/LB) 13. Australia (Nov 23) Time for a Rally GB (Feb 2-KT) for 2020 (June 22) Ticktum (Feb 9-MS) Macau Grand Prix preview Season review (Dec 14-21)

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SUPER TC2000 O MRF CHALLENGE inherited thefinalpodiumspot. which meant one ofhisfront tyres deflated, dropped to third inthepoints. fourth place by thefinishand managed to get hisPeugeot into Ardusso taking thetitle. Werner they finishedinthat order, with characterised by muchdrama, to stay insecond. Inarace not seemed more thancontent a smallgap to Ardusso, who Fineschi 142.5;6Leonel Pernia 139. 3 Werner180;4Matias Rossi 152;5Damian Points (); 6Facundo Conta (Chevy). (Peugeot 408);5Matias Munoz Marchesi Guerrieri (Citroen C4);4MarianoWerner (Renault Fluence) +1.636s;3Esteban 33 lapsin52m12.055s;2Facundo Ardusso 1 Agustin Canapino( Cruze) RESULTS TONY WATSON were really competitive,” hesaid. the temperature dropped, sowe car when thesunwent down and “We foundgood balance inthe has fourvictories intheevent. out ofcontention. problem dropped theAston Leonel Pernia lost third when Canapino managed to create The result means Rigon now

1 Ardusso 226 ; 2 Canapino 191; ; 2Canapino191;

GULF 12 HOURS O ANDROS TROPHY stint, butwe gave everything.” and to try to catch theminevery “It was very difficult tofollow them with theirPro drivers,” saidHeriau. competitive astheGT car infront overall andwas top LMP3runner. Francois Heriau, finishedthird Baptiste Lahaye, together with of brothers Matthieu andJean- the lead mademevery happy.” performing theovertake for Rinaldi Ferrari inpart two and “I hadanice battle withthe Molina (Ferrari 488GT3) 1 MichalBroniszewski/Davide Rigon/Miguel RESULTS Ricky Capo/Franck Gauvin(Ligier). Salih Yoluc (Ligier);6JoshBurdon/Neric Wei/ 5 GuyCosmo/Patrick Byrne/Michael Benham/ Mowlem/Bonamy Grimes/Tony Wells(Ligier); Lahaye/Francois Heriau(LigierJSP3);4Johnny +55.737s; 3Matthieu Lahaye/Jean-Baptiste Salikhov/Marco Seefried/NorbertSiedler(Ferrari) “The challenge today was to beas The Ultimate Team LigierJSP3 IN BRIEF made anexcellent debutinfourth. Rallycross star Andreas Bakkerud who headed Dubourg andBerthon. Mazda 3racer Evens Stievenart, Second-day honourswent to ’s BMWto second. Berthon (Audi). Berthonbeat Pole shootout byNathanael when hewas b day one,dropping onlyonepoint Renault Captur were dominanton the points table. Dubourg andhis Benjamin Riviere to thetop of Jean-Baptiste Dubourg above inAndorraVictory propelled ANDROS TROPHY Julien Falchero inrace three. andbeatevent, 2017GP3regular order inthereversed-grid second races oneandfour, stormed upthe at Yas Marina.Hewonfrom polein qualifying andwonallfour races he was fastest inpractice and an MRFChallenge weekend after first driverto top allsessionsin became the MRF CHALLENGE DECEMBER 282017 eaten intheSuper 302laps;2 Rinat Rinat 41 WEB DIRECTORY

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BRITISH GT New team for Adam’s third title bid as WEC drivers could race at TF Sport WILL ATTEMPT Championship having fewer dates next to become the first driver to win the year [owing to the contest being spread British GT Championship with three over a 13-month ‘superseason’] it’s an different teams, when he returns next ideal second programme. I have to go for year as part of a new Aston Martin the title again as making my mark on a effort from Optimum Motorsport. series in any way is always special.” Optimum will field a single Vantage This year is likely to be the last GT3 in 2018, and has signed factory racer for the current Vantage GT3, since Adam to share it alongside European GT a replacement model mirroring the regular Flick Haigh. new GTE car is planned for 2019. Adam’s previous team, TF Sport, has Optimum boss Shaun Goff, whose yet to confirm its two pro drivers to share team will also benefit from engineering

with Derek Johnston and Mark Farmer EBREY/LAT and technical support from AMR parent for next year. Jon Barnes could return, firm Prodrive, said: “Flick felt the time and a selection of AMR’s other World the only driver to take the GT3 crown Adam is lining up for was right to tackle British GT, which Endurance drivers could also race. with two different teams – Beechdean a title attack with is an incredibly tight series. Adam’s new deal will be the first time AMR in 2015 and TF Sport in 2016. third different team “When Jonny was made available Optimum has competed in British GT3 Adam said: “Next year is going to be to us we had to grab that chance since it ran an Audi R8 LMS for a really exciting. I’ve had two great years with both hands. part-campaign in 2016. working with TF and Derek [Johnston, “This will be his seventh year with The team has been a regular in the team-mate] but as a factory driver you the Vantage so there are very few drivers GT4 category, running the PMW-backed often switch surroundings, so I’m used out there with his level of insight and Ginetta – and latterly McLaren – of to adapting to new scenery. understanding of the car. He’ll work Graham Johnson and Mike Robinson. “I always wanted to stay in British GT to bring Flick on too, and I think GTE Le Mans winner Adam is already because, with the World Endurance we’re in for a great year.”

DECEMBER 28 2017 53 Escorts and Chevrons to be honoured Kent to is choose first Hyundai for TCR UK TCR UK 54 his family’s squad. team butmayrunwith He isyet to decideona German base inJanuary. Hyundai Motorsport’s he willcollect from South Korean car, which before opting for the at theseries’ taster day and Hondamachinery the Hyundaii30. British driverto opt for and hasbecome thefirst TCR UKseriesnext year will graduate to thenew race winnerLewis Kent FIESTA CHAMPIONSHIP gold car willrundemonstration laps. Although notableto race, theiconic red-and- Twin Cam1968 BritishTouring Cartitle winner. will take XOO 349F, theex-Frank Gardner Mk1 present; Henry Mannfrom AlanMannRacing period specialsaloonexamples willbeonthegrid. prepared Escorts anditishopedthat oneortwo the event willbeopento awiderange ofrace- Hatch onSeptember 23. 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JOSH BARRETT 57 BILLY MONGER “I don’t think anyone has raced a single-seater after a crash like mine”

His 2017 story captured the hearts and minds of people inside and outside the sport, but now Billy Monger is focused on returning with his next racing project

By Stephen Lickorish, Special Contributor @sdlickorish

nspirational. That’s a word that has been used While Pasma was taken to hospital for precautionary checks a lot to describe Billy Monger this year – and (he was later released without any serious injuries), it took rightly so. But it’s an adjective that Monger medics nearly two hours to extract Monger from his car. He himself struggles to understand. “Everyone keeps was airlifted to hospital, where doctors had no choice but to saying that word to me, that I’m an inspiration, amputate both of his legs – one above and one below the knee. but it’s difficult to get my head around,” he reflects. “Because I was in the car and awake, I knew that it was bad “Going from a 17-year-old kid just doing normal so I knew there was damage done but I didn’t know I was going things and going racing at weekends, in a space to lose both my legs – that was a shock,” admits Monger. of less than a year so much has changed.” For Monger’s JHR Developments team boss Steve Hunter, Monger is, of course, referring to the horrific crash at it was a nightmare scenario. “Sheer devastation” is how Hunter IDonington Park this April that changed his life forever. There recalls that time. Monger was in his third season with JHR after was nothing particularly out of the ordinary for the third British progressing with the team out of Ginetta Juniors and into F4. race of the Donington weekend – apart from the sight He was a regular frontrunner in the Ginetta category, then came of Jamie Caroline at the rear of the field, perhaps. There was agonisingly close to his maiden single-seater win at Rockingham certainly no suggestion that the worst single-seater crash in 2016 before a technical issue on the final lap cost him dear. in Britain for many years was about to occur. Hunter had taken Monger “under my wing” in those seasons It was lap four. Monger was towards the back of the pack but and was good friends with him. “It questions your conviction was only just behind the gaggle of five cars in front. Coming in motorsport,” Hunter says of his thoughts after the crash. through the fast left-hander at Schwantz Curve, the pack But Monger recovered remarkably quickly and his attention came across the stationary car of on the racing immediately turned to making a race return. “My team was line. The cars in front of Monger all jinked out of the way there and I was just asking them, ‘Do you think it’s doable?’” at the last moment, but Monger was completely unsighted says Monger. “They were all supportive.” and ploughed into the rear of Pasma. There was nothing Hunter, who stayed at Monger’s side in hospital, along with his he could have done to avoid the Finn. family and number-one mechanic, was in no doubt that he wanted “I was awake after the crash for about 45 minutes and was to return. “There was certainly no question of that [him returning seeing all the doctors,” recalls Monger. “Pretty much straight to racing],” says Hunter. “I never saw a negative at any point, which away I knew the crash was bad, but the first few minutes I amazes me that someone can be so resilient in that situation. felt OK because the adrenalin kicked in.” The way he looked at it was straightforward – ‘Can I get back

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in a race car? Yes, so let’s carry on doing what we were doing.’ injured servicemen, and now civilians as well, to race. “I’ve just been amazed that somebody can be as positive with “Eleven weeks after the crash was my first time in the Fun Cup what must be an exceptionally traumatic situation to be in. I car and that really helped,” says Monger. “It was a big step forward don’t think anyone else would have reacted in that way. I know for me as: one, that I could get my licence back; and two, that it’s a bit of a cliche that he’s an inspiration, but he genuinely is.” I was competitive really early on that first day. It was good for It was at this point that Monger began to realise just how me to see and show I hadn’t lost my passion.” much his story had touched the nation – not just the motorsport At Le Mans this year, Monger was announced as the first driver community. The crash was headline TV news and a JustGiving as part of quadruple amputee Frederic Sausset’s academy for page set up by Hunter and former JHR racer and British Touring disabled drivers that plans to work towards a 24 Hours outing. Car star raised over £750,000 to help support But the thought of returning to single-seaters was still in his mind. Monger’s recovery in just a matter of days. There was an “The plan initially was we thought we should maybe make outpouring of emotion, from F1 champion Lewis Hamilton the transition [into tin-tops] like did [the Italian to young fans donating their pocket money to help. moved away from single-seaters into touring cars after losing “The support was a bit overwhelming – it was awesome,” both of his legs in a 2001 Indycar crash at the Lausitzring],” says Monger. “I didn’t Monger explains. “That imagine I would get was our initial thought, that kind of support.” “It was awesome… I but I asked the question, That support was evident ‘Has anyone raced a at the next F4 round at didn’t imagine I would single-seater before like me?’ Thruxton. While Monger I don’t think anyone has had only just been released raced a single-seater after from hospital and couldn’t get that kind of support” a crash like mine.” be there himself, a walk of But there was a major the Hampshire track was attended by thousands and raised barrier to Monger achieving this – and it wasn’t just whether over £7000. And to cap it off, Monger’s close friend Caroline he was physically able to race a single-seater. The FIA had a made British F4 history by winning all three races and rule in place stating that disabled drivers could not compete dedicated his triumphs to Monger. in single-seater categories. Upon hearing this, Monger Monger was then able to attend the following round at Oulton decided to fight to get it changed. Park. “The first thing he wanted to do at Oulton was the data “If I could change this one rule then maybe it was possible [to with Manuel [Sulaiman, JHR’s other British F4 driver]!” says make a single-seater comeback],” he says. And with the support Hunter. “And it was the same with Harry [Dyson] when he of the Motor Sports Association, he was able to do just that. joined [the F4 team later in the year].” “I got the confirmation earlier this month and that was really But already Monger was preparing for his racing comeback, good to get that sorted quite early on as well,” says Monger. and his first task was to regain his race licence. His first “Changing any rule of any form of sport takes time so we run back in a car came at Brands Hatch in July in Fun Cup were hoping that it would be ready for the start of next year. machinery with the Team BRIT squad – the team that helps It was a real boost. I’m hoping to have my first test in January

60 DECEMBER 28 2017 and, after that, see how it goes. I’ve got a series in mind and I’m working with a team.” Monger receives So far, Monger has completed extensive runs in a simulator to FIA President’s Award prepare for his comeback, and he aims to get out in the car before committing to a series just to make sure he would be competitive. And if that racing return means he heads back to the scene of the accident at Donington Park, he doesn’t view that as a problem. “I don’t see Donington Park as being my enemy,” Monger states. “The track had nothing to do with it, it was just unfortunate that it was on that track. It could’ve happened anywhere, on any corner.” The fact that Monger has even got to this point is a real testament to his character and determination. “He certainly is a character that lifts people around him and not only himself,”

says Hunter. “My thoughts of what we would do as a team HERVIO/DPPI certainly changed as Billy improved.” One shining example of that determination came at Brands same way. He has picked up a number of prestigious gongs in Hatch earlier this year when Monger completed a walk of the recent weeks, including the President’s Award at the FIA’s Prize pitlane – using prosthetic limbs – for charity. Learning to walk Giving Ceremony and being nominated for the Laureus World again is just one of the challenges he has faced since his accident. Sports Best Sporting Moment Award. Hunter says it’s right “I’m still learning – it’s a long process with what happened that Monger is getting recognised: “The accolades he’s getting to me,” says Monger. “I’m learning something new every day.” at present couldn’t be given to anyone more deserving.” He reflects, unsurprisingly, that 2017 has been a “strange” Monger is quick to acknowledge that his accident has opened year. “It’s difficult to sum up a year like this,” he says. “The up new opportunities for him and massively raised his profile. first round and a half was good and it was looking promising But he is well aware that attention has some downsides too. for at least a top three in the championship – it might’ve “The negative of it would be it adds pressure as everyone been higher but you never know. But then it all got spun knows who you are,” he explains. “But I view it as good pressure on its head and it was all about recovery. because everyone wants me to do well. At the end of the day, “In April I was just a 17-year-old trying to make a career out they’re more concerned that I’m enjoying what I do.” of motorsport. I feel I haven’t really done much, but people There will be no shortage of fans wishing him well for 2018. have a view of me as an inspiration and it’s really nice to have The way he has become a household name – and not just for the their support. I’ve had a lot of messages from people saying crash itself, but for the way this down-to-earth and incredibly I’ve inspired their kids – being able to have an impact on likeable guy has responded to it – has made sure of that. someone else’s life is pretty weird.” And Hunter is certain that his protege can still have a successful That is typical of Monger’s modesty. He may think he hasn’t racing career. “His way of being is rubbing off on people around done much since his crash, but others certainly don’t feel the him all the time,” he says. “He is destined for some great things.”

DECEMBER 28 2017 61 Fantasy calendar: the WHAT’S ON circuits we’d include 62 BEN ANDERSON TOM ERRINGTON our writers have theirsay… machines onsmallertracks, world championship, to monster Indy 500rejoining theFormula 1 motorsport series. From the the calendar ofany chosen circuits we’d love to addto time to fantasise aboutwhat New Year would betheperfect between Christmas andthe WE THOUGHT THELULL FINISHING STRAIGHT cars ever would beableto do. so imaginewhat thefastest F1 record timeismesmerising, SR8 lap ‘The Green Hell’ in practical. Watching aRadical actually too tight, solet’s be world’s greatest is on thegrand prixcalendar. but itwould begreat having it memorable races. Unrealistic, yes, has agreat history littered with the list. It’s picturesque, fast and America willbenear thetop of and challengingtracks andRoad SUTTON DECEMBER 282017 I recognise that the racing at Macau, but I’d like to seeF1cars Formula 1 best, most exciting drivers aboutthe Ask leading IndyCar Formula 1 Road America Nordschleife GRAHAM KEILLOH actually just bedoable too. just like inold times. Itmight the trees, walls andflowerbeds single-seaters whizz between the LondonePrix. We’d see inimitable venue, andrestore too longat thecaptivating and EDD STRAW GLENN FREEMAN irritating, you mightsay? Exactly. driver can compete. Pointless and round, scheduledinaway no made apoints-paying IndyCar So theMonaco GPshouldbe to anyone involved inF1statistics. records isofpermanentannoyance again, asitdidfrom 1950-60. for world-championship points see how they’d get onifitcounted that therace can’t betough. Let’s the 2017 Indianapolis500proved claimed that hisperformance in has beendormant circuit racing that This would revive Formula E Crystal Palace of 1950-60 inthe Indianapolis 500s The anomalous IndyCar Monaco drivers ignorantly Alonso’s fellow F1 Some ofFernando Formula 1 Indy 500

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JEP/LAT truly personallysatisfied withmycareer,” hesaid.“Ifeel accomplished.” the “pretty straightforward” reasons hehadfor stepping away. “Iam announcement that hewas retiring from racing. Thisstory summedup The extent ofhisinjuries was revealed three dayslater. two hoursbefore hewas extracted andairlifted hospital.to Pasma at highspeed whencompletely unsighted, andittook nearly in January, former NASCARstar CarlEdwards madetheshock 11 monthsbefore itwas usurpedbythekarting brawl. Back The second-most-read story onthislist was publishedover FOR REASONS RETIREMENT EDWARDS REVEALS Donington Park inApril. The 17-year-old collided withPatrik Monger hadlost both ofhislowerlegs after ahorrificcrash at This story covered thenewsthat BritishFormula 4racer Billy F4CRASH AFTER LEGS LOWER LOSES MONGER

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