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RACING

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Meet John

Barnard,

creator of F1’s

first semi-

automatic

gearbox

Mexican F1

fans could

soon get a

GP of their

own. We

investigate…

54Pastor

Maldonado on

why he’s still

positive about

his future

at Williams

SECOND SECTOR: THE FEATURES

42 MARK WEBBER ON LEAVING F1 The sport’s toughest competitor opens up to Peter

Windsor about the reasons behind his decision to quit

50 MARK’S FINEST F1 RACING MOMENTS He’s no stranger to the pages of this mag. We look back

at some of the more unusual shoots he’s obliged us with

54 YOU ASK THE QUESTIONS Pastor Maldonado on racing for a team who aren’t

performing, and why that point in Hungary meant so much

58 BACK IN THE RING We head to Austria, to check out the Red Bull Ring,

which looks set to join the F1 calendar for 2014

64 WHERE NEXT FOR F1? The classic old circuits that are about to make a comeback

70 MURRAY AT 90 Mr Walker lets other people do the talking, as they offer

up their personal tributes on the eve of his 90th birthday

76 MEET THE GAME CHANGERS Behind the scenes, the best brains in the business

generate fierce competition for their technical services

82 IN CONVERSATION WITH JOHN ILEY Caterham’s performance director on the challenges ahead

84 WHEN MAURICE MET JOHN BARNARD From carbon fibre monocoques to semi-automatic

gearboxes, technical ace John Barnard was a true

pioneering genius, as Maurice Hamilton discovers

93 STEVEN TEE: LIFE THROUGH A LENS As he celebrates his 500th GP at Singapore, we present

his most stunning photographs from the past 29 years

FIRST SECTOR: THE REGULARS

10 IGNITION OUR MARK WEBBER RETROSPECTIVE

12 PARADES THE BEST SHOTS FROM SPA AND MONZA

18 PITPASS NEWS, OPINION AND ANALYSIS

30 PITPASS TECH THE SCIENCE BEHIND F1 MATERIALS

32 PETER WINDSOR REMEMBERING FRANÇOIS CEVERT

35 DIETER RENCKEN THE STATE OF IN-RACE SECURITY

37 VALTTERI BOTTAS GETS SET FOR THE FLYAWAY RACES

38 INBOX FORGET THE GRAPHICS – GIVE US A SHOW!

40 NOW THAT WAS A CAR THE FERRARI 126C4

102 SUBSCRIBE AND GET A FREE CREDIT CARD CASE

THIRD SECTOR: FINISHING STRAIGHT

106 BELGIAN GP REPORT A DOMINANT WIN FOR VETTEL

110 ITALIAN GP PREVIEW VETTEL WINS; THE TIFOSI BOO

114 SINGAPORE GP PREVIEW FORMULA 1 RACES BY NIGHT

116 KOREAN GP PREVIEW THREE VERY DIFFERENT SECTORS

118 JAPANESE GP PREVIEW THE DRIVERS’ FAVOURITE

121 TOM CLARKSON ON AN AGE-OLD BATTLE

122 MURRAY WALKER MEMORIES OF GERHARD BERGER

MARK WEBBER On leaving F1 to lead the Porsche sportscar programme

MURRAY WALKER Friends, fans and colleagues do the talking – for once

GAME CHANGERS The in-demand technical brains who drive F1 forwards

STEVEN TEE Our ace lensman chooses his favourite photographs

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CONTENTS / OCTOBER 2013

COVER STORIES

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Cover: Spencer Murphy/ Red Bull Content Pool

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42All eyes are on

Mark Webber

following the

announcement

of his retirement

from Formula 1

Steven Tee

presents his

favourite

shots from

the past 500

grands prix

58 70Could

Austria’s

Red Bull Ring

see active

service

in 2014?

Murray’s all

ears and no

words as his

birthday

wishes come

flooding in

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RACING

Thanks to Charles Best, Matt Bishop, James Cartwright, Tim Clarke, Glenn Dunbar, Sophie Eden, Fiona Fallon, Kerry Fenwick, Andrew Ferraro, Bernd Fisa, Ross Gregory, Rob Halloway, Oliver Kraus, Bradley Lord, Mercedes-Benz UK, Anthony McDonald, Spencer Murphy, Ann Neal, Kat Osman, Mary Paslawski, Catherine Shaw, Steven Tee, Katie Tweedle, Ricky Sowten, Richard St Clair-Quentin, Alex Wurz, Tom Webb, Mark Webber, Kevin Wood, Tim Wright, Hannes Wuchterl

We celebrate a selection

of Formula 1 greats

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Anthony Rowlinson

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Contributors

Maurice Hamilton

Master of lunchtime

conviviality

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hits the track in the dying minutes of qualifying. Ahead of him is a lap into

the unknown as he discovers the lack of grip through Raidillon, Pouhon and

Blanchimont. These are the challenges he’ll miss when he departs F1...

Where Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium When 2.57pm, Saturday 24 August 2013

Photographer Steven Tee/LAT

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Say cheese! When one of F1 Racing’s regular contributing photographers

asked Fernando Alonso to take his camera onto the Monza podium, he

refused. In parc fermé he gave Alonso his own iPhone and asked again. This

was the result. A cheesy ‘selfie’ in front of thousands of wild Italian tifosi

Where Monza, Italy When 3.41pm, Sunday 8 September 2013

Photographer Fernando Alonso / Lorenzo Bellanca

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parkland wasn’t up to his usual exacting standards. After failing to make Q3

in qualifying, he said he’d driven like an “idiot”. But despite a problem with the

car’s floor, a spirited comeback on Sunday helped restore the faith

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18 F1 Racing October 2013

NEWS

Kimi to partner Alonso at new Ferrari super-teamRäikkönen will replace Massa at a revamped Scuderia, creating F1's strongest line-up of 2014

Räikkönen rejoins his old team on a one-year contract

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WINNERS + SPINNERSUPS AND DOWNS ON THE F1 ROLLER COASTER

Robin Frijns

Sauber have just informed the talented Dutch driver Robin

Frijns that he will not continue as the team’s reserve driver

moving into 2014. With Sergey Sirotkin already lined up for

the role, it seems that money talks…

Shell

The fuel company were title sponsors of the recent Belgian

Grand Prix. Worryingly for the circuit owners, environmental

protesters from Greenpeace managed to evade security

and scale the main grandstand and sabotage the podium

to protest about Shell’s plans to drill for oil in the Artic.

Nervous flyers

A draft 2014 calendar was doing the rounds in the paddock

at the Italian GP. The schedule featured 21 races, with

the last seven of them taking place outside Europe. Flying

between Singapore, Japan, Russia, Abu Dhabi, Mexico,

USA and Brazil means 25,000 miles in the air.

Fans of two-wheeled sporting activity

Fernando Alonso will become a team owner in world

cycling after buying the Spanish Euskaltel Euskadi setup.

The team were set to close due to a lack of funding, but

Alonso’s move will now ensure they continue in events

such as the Tour de France.

British drivers in F1

James Calado will dovetail the remainder of his GP2

campaign with a new role at Force India. The 24-year-old

drove in Friday practice at Monza and is set to retain the

role as test and reserve drive into 2014.

Aficionados of sudden bursts of enormous activity

Lotus PR man Andy Stobart deserves recognition

after he gamely cycled – yes, cycled – between the

Belgian and Italian Grands Prix. Over nine days, he

covered nine countries and 750 miles between Spa

and Monza. Great effort.

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from Monaco, who competes in

the GP2 Series for Rapax.

How good is he?Pre-Monza, he’d notched up

three wins to lead this year’s GP2

series. But he’s failed to score in

the last seven races and has now

dropped to third in the standings.

Anything else we need to know about him?It perhaps doesn’t quite fall into

the category of ‘need to know’,

but if you’re interested, Coletti

claims to have been conceived by

parents Armande and Gianluigi

while they were holidaying on

board Keke Rosberg’s yacht in

autumn 1988. He caught the

racing bug when his father took

him to a kart circuit and he

bumped into 1970s motorcycle

champion Guido Mandracci, who

took Stefano under his wing.

F1 chancesHe’s has been competing in

GP2 since 2009 and despite

his recent poor form and a lack

of F1 running, he is still a title

contender. Much depends on

his recovering his lost form.

1 Which former grand prix circuit

had corners named Dry Sack and

Angel Nieto?

2 What do the 1975 Austrian GP,

the 1984 Monaco GP and the 1991

Australian GP have in common?

3 Who partnered Arturo Merzario

(below, left) at Ferrari in 1973?

4 Paul Belmondo and Bertrand

Gachot drove for who in 1994?

5 Which Brit’s first F1 start came

at the 1981 Las Vegas GP?

6 Where did Michael Schumacher

(below, right) score his 91st and

final victory in Formula 1?

7 Whose autobiography is called

Beyond The Limit?

8 Which landmark was achieved

at the 1990 Australian GP?

9 Who won more F1 races: David

Coulthard or Jacques Villeneuve?

10 With which number does

Caterham driver Giedo van der

Garde race this year?

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NEWS

Situation at

Sauber still far

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stepped forward as a potential new leader

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Ferrari’s focus on 2014 could

threaten Alonso’s title hopesClosing down Vettel’s points haul is crucial to securing Ferrari’s development of the 2013 car

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Racers racing are better

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WORDS JAMES ROBERTS PICTURES JAMES MANN

Now that was a car

No 20 The Ferrari 126C4A final hurrah for the Scuderia’s turbo-powered 126C series

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FERRARI 126C4

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Engine 1.5-litre turbo

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Weight 540kg

Wheelbase 2,600mm

Transmission Ferrari 5-speed

manual

Fuel and oil Agip

Tyres Goodyear

Notable drivers Michele Alboreto

René Arnoux

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Advance, Australian Fair

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On Paul Stoddart: “Stoddy was brave

and tried to take on a lot of people

with Minardi. He bankrolled me initially”

On Alonso: I’ve raced him since F3000,

so I’ve known him a long, long time. On

a Sunday afternoon, he’s incredible”

On Newey: “He’s a big reason why

I continued for as long as I did. He’s

an inspiring guy to work with”

Mark Webber: the F1 yearsJAMES ROBERTS

LOOKS BACK OVER

MARK WEBBER’S 12

SEASONS IN THE SPORT

2002

Webber finishes

fifth on his debut,

claiming Minardi’s

first points in three

years. They finish

ahead of Toyota in

the constructors’

championship.

2003

At Interlagos, in

his third race since

joining Jaguar,

Webber produces

a brilliant qualifying

lap to give the

team its highest

grid slot – third.

2004

In a season

dominated by

Ferrari, Webber

manages to split

the scarlet cars

in qualifying at

Sepang, earning his

first ever front row.

2005

The first podium comes at last but Webber

isn’t smiling. Having moved to Williams,

he is on course for a strong result at

Monaco. But then the team choose to pit

Nick Heidfeld before Webber, ‘Quick Nick’

finishes second to a fuming Webber’s third.

2006

One year later, Webber

is heading for another third-

place finish for Williams at

Monaco, when a spectacularly

fiery exhaust failure dashes

his hopes.

2007

Now at Red Bull, Webber’s best chance of a win comes

in torrential rain at Fuji. He’s sick in the cockpit due to

food-poisoning, and is doggedly chasing down Lewis

Hamilton for the lead when the Safety Car is deployed

and future team-mate Sebastian Vettel drives into the

back of him. It’s the start of an interesting relationship…

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2010. I won when Seb had a drive-through and I

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there, was just amazing. Turns 8 and 9 were what

I remember most. Just phenomenal”

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win in 2010: “I’m annoyed I lost

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Pre-season, Webber breaks a leg and shoulder

during his Tasmania Challenge charity event.

Red Bull underline their competitiveness with

their first victory as new team-mate Seb Vettel

leads Webber home in China. At the Nürburgring,

Webber scores his maiden pole and win.

2010

The Turkish GP reveals the simmering tension between the

Red Bull drivers: while battling for the lead, Vettel hits Webber,

scuppering either driver’s chance of victory. Three races later,

at Silverstone, Vettel gets priority with a front-wing update

and Webber makes it clear he feels unsupported. “Not bad for

a number two driver,” he quips after winning the race.

On [his manager] Briatore: “I can’t say a

bad word about what Flavio’s done with

me. He’s always boxed my corner”

On Haug: “I had a really good time

with Mercedes [in sportscars] and

Norbert was always a supporter”

2008

A second year with Red Bull gets

off to an inauspicious start for

Webber when he qualifies 14th at

his home race then crashes out.

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The metal rod that held

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following his cycling

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2011

Webber takes his only win of the year

at the season-ending Brazilian GP.

He finishes third in the drivers’ world

championship, having clocked up

seven fastest laps – more than any

other driver that year.

2012

More rancour at the Brazilian GP as Vettel

homes in on his third world title. He needs a

good result to acquire it, but Webber subtly

impedes his progress by squeezing him at

the first corner. A spin later in the lap forces

Vettel to charge back through from 22nd.

2013

Animosity spills out in public again as Vettel refuses

to obey the team’s coded ‘multi-21’ order to remain

in formation, bullying his way past Webber to win

the race. The TV broadcast from the drivers’

pre-podium ‘green room’, mercilessly exposes the

frosty atmosphere between the team-mates.

WORDS STEWART WILLIAMS

Mark Webber made his presence felt in this magazine even before his F1 debut, and he’s

indulged us with some of our most off-the-wall ideas ever since. Here are a

selection of our favourite Webber moments – and, yes, he really

did stand on his head…

“I’d stand on my head for F1 Racing…”

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WORDS ANTHONY ROWLINSON PORTRAITS ANDREW FERRARO/LAT

It’s not been the easiest season for Williams’

most recent winner, but he’s happy to open up

about leading his team, scoring that point –

and why he believes things can only get better

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first corner flat-out over a crest, and with a steep

drop to the left there just wasn’t enough run-off,

even when it was turned into a chicane. Other

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THE A1-RING’S MOST

MEMORABLE MOMENTSWhen the Österreichring re-opened for F1 business as the A1-Ring in 1997, critics ho-hummed at the truncated layout. But that didn’t stop it from playing host to some pretty remarkable events…

‘PROST-GATE’ 1997Alain Prost bought the Ligier team at the

beginning of 1997, changing the name to

Prost GP, and this first season would prove to

be their most competitive. Olivier Panis shone

brightly until breaking his legs in Canada,

and his stand-in, Jarno Trulli, announced his

arrival on the world stage by leading the

Austrian Grand Prix commandingly until his

Mugen engine began to tighten up. It finally

blew 12 laps from home while he was running

in second place.

‘BIFF-GATE’1999With Michael Schumacher out of the picture

– after breaking his leg at Silverstone two

weeks earlier – this race was McLaren’s to

lose. And lose it they did, despite both cars

being a second faster than new Ferrari team

leader Eddie Irvine in qualifying. At Turn 2,

David Coulthard biffed a bemused Mika

Häkkinen off the track, leaving the way open

for Irvine to claim victory.

‘VENISON-GATE’ 2002A classic sense of humour failure on the

pitwall after Juan Pablo Montoya’s engineer

radioed him to warn of a deer on track.

“Oh deer!” laughed Juan.

“A deer,” came the emphatic response. “Er,

like a horse with horns.”

“I know, I know… Oh deer! Ha ha ha!”

‘BRAKE-GATE’ 2002The action had only just begun again

following a Safety Car intervention when

Nick Heidfeld got his braking very wrong

for the Remus Kurve, arriving at the

corner backwards and at largely unabated

speed before slamming into the side of an

unsuspecting Takuma Sato’s Jordan.

‘BOO-GATE’ 2002In 2001, Ferrari ordered Rubens Barrichello to

hand second place to Michael Schumacher as

McLaren’s David Coulthard claimed the win.

In 2002, Rubens was leading when the call

came to swap. Bad move. Rubens dropped

back on the last lap, and an enraged crowd

booed Schumacher off the top of the podium.

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give an uninterrupted view of the entire circuit

The podium is at the pit building’s centre. It’s

hosted various ceremonies – but no F1 action yet

Mid-’80s turbo cars, running four-bar boost, were the wildest F1 has seen. Austrian ace Gerhard Berger recalls the thrill of driving the Benetton-BMW B186 on home turf

They sat one-two on the grid: the garishly

purposeful Benetton-BMWs of Teo Fabi

(on pole) and team-mate Gerhard Berger.

With more than 1,000bhp – maybe more

than 1,400bhp for a qualifying ‘grenade’

engine – and one-lap super-sticky Pirelli

qualifying tyres, these cars were the fastest

way of lapping the high-speed Österreichring.

And boy oh boy, for all the dangers

inherent in driving cars designed to be OTT,

did the drivers ever love them at a circuit

so speedsome.“Yeah, it was the best time,”

Berger recalls, eyes glinting. “It was a time

when the driver could make the difference.

If you were really brave you could be a second

ahead of your team-mate in quali… if not,

you’d be two seconds off.”

Berger explains the extreme performance

of cars like the B186 through the conflicting

demands of high-boost turbos – turned up

to the max for qualifying – combined with

qualifying tyres: “You wanted to brake much

earlier because you were arriving at the

corners so much faster, but you knew the

tyres were giving you the grip to brake much

later. Yet you only had one lap from tyres and

engine to get it right.

“Everything was so squeezed it was mad.

The engines would literally melt after one

lap of putting out 1,400bhp, and the tyres

were completely finished. There’s never been

anything like it in Formula 1. On full boost it

was madness really…”

Interview by Anthony Rowlinson

TURN IT UP!

The flag cupboard does what it says on the tin:

flags are stored here for use in podium ceremonies

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The pit building now consists of 24 pit garages,

with a further four for technical inspections

The Bull’s Lane café sits on top of the pit

building, giving views out across the venue

The modern circuit climbs the hill from the pits, turning right where the old layout plunged over the crest

“What’s clear is that

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screens and workstations for 150 journalists

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WORDS MARC CUTLER

PICTURES LAT ARCHIVE

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Chances of a return 9/10

Stands need redevelopment Only in Mexico…

Baseball stadium built in 1993

Pitlane currently Indy-style

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Layout will change

Clark leads at Clermont-Ferrand in ’65

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Chances of a return 6/10

Victory for Massa, 2008

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Nelson Piquet leads in 1980

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68 F1 Racing October 2013

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Ever since the expulsion of the French GP, it’s been

clear that no venue on the calendar is safe – with

the exception, perhaps, of Monaco. Ecclestone

recently admitted that even Monza, the historic

home of the Italian GP, could become a victim of

F1’s continued push into emerging markets and

the multi-millions that some governments are

willing to pay in the name of tourism.

But the Italians need not start worrying just

yet. Some of those recently emerged F1 markets

seem to be sinking as quickly as they started to

swim. Turkey is gone and forgotten. India is gone

for next season but has hopes of a return in 2015.

Although, as France discovered, once you’re off the

schedule it’s far from easy to get back on again.

The Korean Grand Prix also looks set to join

India in exile. Since the teams are determined to

have no more than 20 races on the calendar – and

a number of venues are joining the queue – then

something’s got to give. And those markets that

have struggled to attract fans to cover the larger

part of their race fee may be the first to go.

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Hunt gets a nudge in 1977

Jim Clark, East London 1967

Clay Regazzoni, 1976

On 10 October 1923 a legend was born. Ninety years on, the great and the good of Formula 1

recount their most special memories of the inimitable Murray Walker

And look at that!

Murray Walker is 90

(and for once he’s not doing the talking)

PORTRAIT CHARLES BEST

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MURRAY WALKER AT 90

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BERNIE ECCLESTONEF1 supremo

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WORDS ANDREW BENSON

F1’s tech geniuses can command higher salaries than the drivers, although they swap teams less

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“Symonds brings

practical engineering

nous of the highest

order, gravitas, clear

thinking and title-

winning pedigree”

F1 Racing October 2013 81

Williams seemed to be turning

the corner in 2012, but a dismal

start to 2013 has seen them

go backwards again

On the hopes

for Caterham

and the

headaches

of 2014

INTERVIEW

JAMES ROBERTS

PORTRAIT

CHARLES COATES/LAT

In conversation with

JohnIIey

1990 After

graduating

with a degree

in automotive

engineering

from Lanchester

Polytechnic,

Iley is hired by

Brun Technics

to work on their

Judd-powered

sportscar

1993 Spends

five years

working on

aerodynamics

for the Lola and

Swift Indycars

1997 Joins

Jordan as senior

aerodynamicist

2001 Follows

Mike Gascoyne

from Jordan

to Renault.

Iley spends

two years at

Enstone as head

of aerodynamics

2003 Moves

to Italy, where

he spends the

next six years

in Maranello as

Ferrari’s head of

aerodynamics

2009 Returns

home to the

UK as head of

aerodynamics

at McLaren

2012 Takes on

his current role

as performance

director at

Caterham,

in Leafield,

Oxfordshire

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Date of birth

29 September

1967Birthplace

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CaterhamRole

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84 F1 Racing October 2013

From designing an Indy 500 winner in his father’s front room to launching the semi-automatic gearbox on an unsuspecting world, pioneering designer John Barnard has had an immense impact on motor racing. Nowadays he’s just as happy designing furniture – in carbon fibre, of course…

PORTRAITS DREW GIBSON/LAT

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over the radio – as Nigel does.

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on the radio, saying the steering

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Tyres were as big a headache in 1983 as they are now. Barnard’s MP4/1C scored a one-two at Long Beach… yet failed to qualify three races later in Monaco

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F1 Racing October 2013 105

With wins for Vettel at Spa and Monza, Webber’s solid support and a 102-point lead over closest rivals Ferrari, Red Bull seem set for a fourth consecutive title double

REPORTS

106 BELGIAN GP REPORTSeb is simply sublime over

Formula 1’s longest lap

110 ITALIAN GP REPORTThe tifosi aren’t happy as

Seb does it again at Monza

PREVIEWS

114 SINGAPORE GPPREVIEWGet set for a challenging

series of turns – by night

116 KOREAN GPPREVIEWThree very different sectors

put teams through their paces

118 JAPANESE GPPREVIEWThe fast, flowing figure-of-

eight that’s loved by all

122 MURRAY WALKER… When Gerhard Berger happened to ponder

whether Murray still remembered him, the

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FINISHING STRAIGHT

THE RESULTS (44 LAPS)

CLIMATE TRACK TEMP

THE RACETHE GRID

FASTEST PITSTOP

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Fastest: Felipe Massa,

190.86mph

1st Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1h23m42.196s

2nd Fernando Alonso Ferrari +16.869s

3rd Lewis Hamilton Mercedes +27.734s

4th Nico Rosberg Mercedes +29.872s

5th Mark Webber Red Bull +33.845s

6th Jenson Button McLaren +40.794s

7th Felipe Massa Ferrari +53.922s

8th Romain Grosjean Lotus +55.846s

9th Adrian Sutil Force India +69.547s

10th Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso +73.470s

11th Sergio Pérez McLaren +81.936s

12th Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso +86.740s

13th Nico Hülkenberg Sauber +88.258s

14th Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber +100.436s

15th Valtteri Bottas Williams +107.456s

16th Giedo van der Garde Caterham +1 lap

17th Pastor Maldonado Williams +1 lap

18th Jules Bianchi Marussia +1 lap

19th Max Chilton Marussia +2 laps

Retirements

Paul Di Resta Force India 26 laps – accident

Kimi Räikkönen Lotus 25 laps – brakes

Charles Pic Caterham 8 laps – oil leak

Fernando Alonso, 22.444secs (entry to exit)

Sebastian Vettel, lap 40, 1min 50.756secs

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1st Red Bull 312pts

2nd Mercedes 235pts

3rd Ferrari 218pts

4th Lotus 187pts

5th McLaren 65pts

6th Force India 61pts

7th Toro Rosso 25pts

8th Sauber 7pts

9th Williams 1pt

10th Marussia 0pts

11th Caterham 0pts

CONSTRUCTORS’ STANDINGS

1st Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 197pts

2nd Fernando Alonso Ferrari 151pts

3rd Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 139pts

4th Kimi Räikkönen Lotus 134pts

5th Mark Webber Red Bull 115pts

6th Nico Rosberg Mercedes 96pts

7th Felipe Massa Ferrari 67pts

8th Romain Grosjean Lotus 53pts

9th Jenson Button McLaren 47pts

10th Paul Di Resta Force India 36pts

11th Adrian Sutil Force India 25pts

12th Sergio Pérez McLaren 18pts

13th Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso 13pts

14th Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso 12pts

15th Nico Hülkenberg Sauber 7pts

16th Pastor Maldonado Williams 1pt

17th Valtteri Bottas Williams 0pts

18th Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber 0pts

19th Jules Bianchi Marussia 0pts

20th Charles Pic Caterham 0pts

21st Giedo van der Garde Caterham 0pts

22nd Max Chilton Marussia 0pts

DRIVERS’ STANDINGS

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FINISHING STRAIGHT

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FINISHING STRAIGHT

THE RESULTS (53 LAPS)

CLIMATE TRACK TEMP

THE RACETHE GRID

FASTEST PITSTOP

THROUGH SPEED TRAP

Fastest: Esteban

Gutiérrez, 211.92mph

1st Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1h18m33.352s

2nd Fernando Alonso Ferrari +5.467s

3rd Mark Webber Red Bull +6.350s

4th Felipe Massa Ferrari +9.361s

5th Nico Hülkenberg Sauber +10.355s

6th Nico Rosberg Mercedes +10.999s

7th Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso +32.329s

8th Romain Grosjean Lotus +33.130s

9th Lewis Hamilton Mercedes +33.527s

10th Jenson Button McLaren +38.327s

11th Kimi Räikkönen Lotus +38.695s

12th Sergio Pérez McLaren +39.765s

13th Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber +40.880s

14th Pastor Maldonado Williams +49.085s

15th Valtteri Bottas Williams +56.827s

16th Adrian Sutil Force India +1 lap– brakes

17th Charles Pic Caterham +1 lap

18th Giedo van der Garde Caterham +1 lap

19th Jules Bianchi Marussia +1 lap

20th Max Chilton Marussia +1 lap

Retirements

Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso 14 laps – transmission

Paul Di Resta Force India 0 laps – accident

Nico Rosberg, 22.079secs (entry to exit)

Lewis Hamilton, lap 51, 1min 25.849secs

FASTEST LAP

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Medium

TYRE COMPOUNDS USED

Intermediate Hard Wet

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F1 statistics visit

www.forix.com

1st Red Bull 352pts

2nd Ferrari 248pts

3rd Mercedes 245pts

4th Lotus 191pts

5th McLaren 66pts

6th Force India 61pts

7th Toro Rosso 31pts

8th Sauber 17pts

9th Williams 1pt

10th Marussia 0pts

11th Caterham 0pts

CONSTRUCTORS’ STANDINGS

1st Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 222pts

2nd Fernando Alonso Ferrari 169pts

3rd Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 141pts

4th Kimi Räikkönen Lotus 134pts

5th Mark Webber Red Bull 130pts

6th Nico Rosberg Mercedes 104pts

7th Felipe Massa Ferrari 79pts

8th Romain Grosjean Lotus 57pts

9th Jenson Button McLaren 48pts

10th Paul Di Resta Force India 36pts

11th Adrian Sutil Force India 25pts

12th Sergio Pérez McLaren 18pts

13th Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso 18pts

14th Nico Hülkenberg Sauber 17pts

15th Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso 13pts

16th Pastor Maldonado Williams 1pt

17th Valtteri Bottas Williams 0pts

18th Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber 0pts

19th Jules Bianchi Marussia 0pts

20th Charles Pic Caterham 0pts

21st Giedo van der Garde Caterham 0pts

22nd Max Chilton Marussia 0pts

DRIVERS’ STANDINGS

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The lowdown on everything you need to know from the weekend at Monza…

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* Three-place grid penalty for impeding another driver

F1’s only night-time race takes place under floodlights, and combines high humidity with a bumpy track and an epic series of slow, tight corners

The Singapore GP preview

FINISHING STRAIGHT

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TV TIMETABLE

(UK TIME)

Friday 20 September

Practice 1 11:00-12:30

Practice 2 14:30-1600

Saturday 21 September

Practice 3 11:00-12:00

Qualifying 14:00

Sunday 22 September

Race 13:00

Live coverage

Sky Sports F1 (available in HD)

Highlights BBC One (available in HD)

DO YOU REMEMBER…

…when Nelson Piquet Jr lost control here at Turn 17 and crashed on the

14th lap in 2008? The Safety Car was deployed, handing victory to his

Renault team-mate Fernando Alonso. It later emerged that Piquet had

crashed deliberately, setting off the ‘Crashgate’ controversy.

SINGAPORE GP RACE DATA

Circuit Marina Bay

F1 debut 2008

Length 3.152 miles

Distance 192.2 miles

Laps 61

Direction Anticlockwise

Lap record 1min 45.599secs,

K Räikkönen, 2008

Full throttle 70%

Gear changes per lap 71

Winners from pole 3

Tyre compounds

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LAST YEAR

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Retirements 5

Overtaking moves 24

DRS overtakes 10

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TV TIMETABLE

(UK TIME)

Friday 4 October

Practice 1 02:00-03:00

Practice 2 06:00-07:30

Saturday 5 October

Practice 3 03:00-04:00

Qualifying 06:00

Sunday 6 October

Race 07:00

Live coverage Sky Sports F1 (available in HD)

Highlights BBC One (available in HD)

DO YOU REMEMBER…

…Mark Webber crashing out of championship contention? At the

inaugural Korean GP in 2010, Webber spun out of second place

and lost his championship lead, dropping from points leader to

third. His team-mate Sebastian Vettel went onto win the title.

KOREAN GP RACE DATA

Circuit Korea International Circuit

F1 debut 2010

Length 3.489 miles

Distance 191.774 miles

Laps 55

Direction Anticlockwise

Lap record 1min 39.605secs,

S Vettel, 2011

Full throttle 62%

Gear changes per lap 51

Winners from pole 1

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LAST YEAR

Winner Sebastian Vettel

Retirements 4

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DRS overtakes 17

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The Japanese GP preview

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Turn 11

Ten per cent of the lap is

spent braking, including

for the slowest corner

Turns 14 to 16

The longest time spent on

full throttle on the lap – over

a distance of 1,200 metres

Turns 2 to 7

High-speed switchback that

builds up grip over the course

of the weekend

TV TIMETABLE

(UK TIME)

Friday 11 October

Practice 1 02:00-03:30

Practice 2 06:00-07:30

Saturday 12 October

Practice 3 03:00-04:00

Qualifying 06:00

Sunday 13 October

Race 07:00

Live coverage

On both Sky Sports F1 and

BBC One (available in HD)

DO YOU REMEMBER…

JAPANESE GP RACE DATA

Circuit Suzuka

F1 debut 1987

Length 3.608 miles

Distance 191.054 miles

Laps 53

Direction Clockwise &

anticlockwise

Lap record 1min 31.540secs,

K Räikkönen, 2005

Full throttle 71%

Gear changes per lap 45

Winners from pole 12

Tyre compounds TBA

LAST YEAR

Winner Sebastian Vettel

Retirements 5

Overtaking moves 15

DRS overtakes 5

Weather Sunny, 24°C

SUZUKA TELEMETRY QUALIFYING RACE

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…when Typhoon Ma-on cancelled

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heading straight for Suzuka. Everyone

stayed away from the circuit on

Saturday and qualifying was held on

the Sunday morning instead.

FINISHING STRAIGHT

“Fans of all ages can relate to

the story of Ferrari versus

McLaren; it’s one of the oldest

rivalries in sport. Real box office”

F1’s greatest rivalry

TOM CLARKSONInside the paddock from our man on the road

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“One snapshot from my Berger memory bank is Mexico 1986,

where Gerhard won his and Benetton’s first grand prix”

“Do I still remember

Gerhard Berger?

How could I possibly

ever forget!”

UNLESS I’M VERY MUCH MISTAKEN…

MURRAY WALKER

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