IT’S ALL ABOUT THE PASSION ABU DHABI GP Issue 159 23 November 2014 Lewis the unbreakable LEADER 3 ON THE GRID BY JOE SAWARD 4 SNAPSHots 8 LEWIS HAMIltoN WORLD CHAMPION 20 IS MAttIAccI OUT AT FERRARI ? 22 DAMON HILL ON F1 SHOWDOWNS 25 FORMULA E 30 THE LA BAULE GRAND PRIX 38 THE SAMBA & TANGO CALENDAR 45 PETER NYGAARD’S 500TH GRAND PRIX 47 THE HACK LOOKS BACK 48 ABU DHABI - QUALIFYING REPORT 51 ABU DHABI - RACE REPORT 65 ABU DHABI - GP2/GP3 79 THE LAST LAP BY DAVID TREMAYNE 85 PARTING SHot 86 The award-winning Formula 1 e-magazine is brought to you by: David Tremayne | Joe Saward | Peter Nygaard With additional material from Mike Doodson | Michael Stirnberg © 2014 Morienval Press. All rights reserved. Neither this publication nor any part of it may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of Morienval Press. WHO WE ARE... ...AND WHAT WE THINK DAVID TREMAYNE is a freelance motorsport writer whose clients include The Independent and The Independent on Sunday newspapers. A former editor and executive editor of Motoring News and Motor Sport, he is a veteran of 25 years of Grands Prix reportage, and the author of more than 40 books on motorsport. He is the only three-time winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Timo Makinen and Renault Awards for his books. His writing, on both current and historic issues, is notable for its soul and passion, together with a deep understanding of the sport and an encyclopaedic knowledge of its history. David is also acknowledged as the world expert on the history of land and water speed record breaking and is also passionate about Unlimited hydroplanes. He is the British representative on the FIA Land Speed Records Commission, and the driving force behind the STAY GOLD speed record jetcar programme. JOE SAWARD has been a motorsport writer for 30 years. He is the Grand Prix Editor of Autocar. His other clients include the Hindustan Times newspaper. Initially travelling from race to race with a tent, he learned the trade with Autosport magazine, for which he was Grand Prix Editor. His wide-ranging experiences led him to write the best-selling “The World Atlas of Motor Racing”. He then became a freelance and pioneered electronic media in motorsport. He launched the award-winning Business of Motorsport e-newsletter in 1994, followed by www. grandprix.com. He has since moved on to GP+ and his Joe Blogs F1 blog. Trained as an historian, Joe is also an acknowledged expert on the Special Operations Executive (SOE). His 2007 book “The Grand Prix Saboteurs” won the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Renault Author of the Year Award. His latest non-F1 book is “The Man who Caught Crippen”. He is a Visiting Fellow of Cranfield University. PETER NYGAARD began taking photographs at Grands Prix while studying law at Copenhagen University. After graduation in 1982 he established the Grand Prix Photo company and has since attended more than 350 Grands Prix. Today he not only takes photographs but also writes and commentates about F1.The A great end to the title race... company covers every Grand Prix and many other events and with contacts all over the world can supply photos from almost any motor race. In addition to Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton on his second World Championship. He won the current photography the Grand Prix Photo archive is one of the biggest in the title from the front and in style. If the title had gone to Rosberg with five wins to world, Nygaard having acquired the archives of a number of F1 photographers, notably Italian photo-journalist Giancarlo Cevenini and France’s Dominique Hamilton's 10 it would would not have felt right. The man who wins the most races Leroy plus a portion of Australian Nigel Snowdon’s collection. Grand Prix Photo should really be the champion, particularly if there is such a large margin. We have has 25,000 photographs on its website and millions more in its offices, which are criticised Nico Rosberg on occasion this year for his behaviour but we were impressed decorated with a Tyrrell 021, which Peter acquired from Ken Tyrrell in the 1990s. by his sportsmanship at the end. Although he was beaten he was not going to go out with a whimper. When the team radioed him and suggested that he might as well stop Nico showed his class and told them that if he was going to lose he was going to do it in his cockpit. Afterwards he congratulated Lewis on his victory. He did not whine nor sulk. he took defeat with grace. Good for him. ON THE GRID by Joe Saward A LESSER KNOWN BENEFIT OF BEING AN F1 REPORTER These are unsettling times in Formula 1 with all manner of political machinations going on. Don't be fooled into thinking that Bernie Ecclestone has lost his marbles. True, it's really not smart to say that the sport should be targeting old folks and ignoring kids, but I am absolutely sure that Mr E is playing games designed to create a new structure in F1, to make him (and others) a load more money. One might shake one's head and chuckle at the games, but the sad thing is that all of this is damaging the sport that I love. And I hate that. However, I am also a great believer in trying to be positive and I am quite sure that sooner or later (probably the latter) the problems will be solved and things will settle down again. Hopefully, the damage will not be too great. Thus, I am not going to write about such Formula 1. Both underline the desire of the cities moment. It is a work of art and a pleasure to see, distressing matters and instead I thought I would to be noticed internationally; to have something but Dubai and Abu Dhabi and filled with other tell you about one of the more unusual benefits different and exciting. To be bigger and better and gems such as Tom Wright's wonderful Burj Al Arab, of being a Formula 1 reporter. We travel the world, to have the all-important "Wow!" factor that will the celebrated hotel that is shaped like the sail of watch motor races and get paid for it. One side- bring in tourists. a ship, where last year David Coulthard showed off effect of this is that we get to see a lot of the world's Nowhere is this more evident than in the UAE his cojones (Spanish for, well, look it up...) by doing most dramatic new architecture. where there is money to burn and huge ambition, doing doughnuts on the helipad that is just 24 There is a connection, of course, between embodied, I suppose, in Adrian Smith's 830-metre metres wide - and 210 metres above the sea! If you the world's most exciting new architecture and high Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building at the haven't seen it click on the picture above. 4 I cannot bullshit with the cocktail set about buildings by a trio of the greatest architects working a string of great designs behind him: dating back deconstructivism or post-structuralist design, but today: Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi, Norman to the 1980s when I remember first seeing his architecture is an interest, if not a hobby. Foster's Zayed National Museum and Frank Gehry's HSBC Building in Hong Kong. That was followed Not far down the road from the Burj Al Arab Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. by designs such as "The Gherkin" in London, the one can see the rather startling, twisted Cayan Tower Nouvel made his name with the Torre Agbar magnificent Millau Viaduct, over which I drive each (below), while there is interesting architecture too in Barcelona, a gherkin-shaped tower which lights year on the way to Barcelona, the Great Court at the in the Dubai Metro, which was done by the British up the night with bright colours. This idea was taken British Museum, the McLaren Technology Centre in company Atkins. The funny thing is that that very up at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi where Woking and, most recently, the new Monaco Yacht often the architects who design the iconic buildings Asymptote Architecture designed the Viceroy Hotel Club, the new building between the F1 track and in these ambitious cities are the same. Atkins, (below) through which the F1 circuit runs, which the harbour, after the exit of the tunnel. for example, was also responsible for Bahrain's provides a superb glittering backdrop for the Grand Gehry's career has been spectacular since signature World Trade Center.. Prix. 1997 when he hit the headlines with the striking Soon Abu Dhabi will boast three new iconic Foster is a man of extraordinary vision with Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which worked 5 wonders for tourism in the Basque city. Bay Sands Singapore, the world's most expensive Shanghai has a whole string of impressive The other day, while in Paris, I went to see building, which cost an astonishing $4.7 billion. skyscrapers, including Smith's Jin Mao Tower, the Gehry's Louis Vuitton Foundation building in the This features three 55-storey tower blocks on top of Oriental Pearl Tower, the Shanghai World Financial Bois de Boulogne. It is an amazing construction, which there is a vast "garden in the sky" Center, the gorgeous Tomorrow Square and the turned into a reality by Studios Architecture, which It is interesting to note that Safdie also soon-to-be completed Shanghai Tower, which had to invent new techniques as they went along to designed the Habitat 67 apartments which were twists on its way up to a height of 632 metres.