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GP Racing UK|September 2017Saints and sinners in a changing F1 worldWednesday 12 July, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall, London. F1 brings a corner of the British capital to a standstill with a well-received street demo (see page 80). All the current drivers are there – except the one who really matters. As own goals go, Lewis Hamilton lobs his keeper from the halfway line. He should have dropped his holiday to be there and saved himself some aggro.Three days later, Saturday 15 July, Silverstone. Before qualifying I take the bus from The Wing to Luffield to watch among the throng and gauge the London hangover. From Hamilton’s first pass it’s clear there isn’t one. Rapture welcomes the Merc each time Lewis arcs into the long right-hander, practising what he preached in our exclusive cover story last month. He seeks grip from…2 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017Hülk lights up the gloomiest dayOne of the best places to shoot photos at Silverstone is backwards towards Becketts as the cars sweep into the right-hander at around 180mph.Normally it’s quite overcast at the British Grand Prix, so the light is poor, but here you get a great contrast with the very bright effect of the titanium skid-plates sending up sparks as they hit the kerb.Pictured here is Nico Hülkenberg, who made it into Q3 in qualifying this year. The track was still a little damp, but you can see his commitment.It’s a very short movement to pan with him because he’s travelling so fast, but the slow shutter speed enhances the shower of sparks.LAT IMAGES : Lorenzo BellancaWhere Silverstone, UKWhen 2.04pm, Saturday 15 July 2017Details Canon EOS-1DX MkII, 600mm lens, 1/8th @ F32…1 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017A truly capital successFor the first event of its kind, F1 Live London was brilliantly well organised. It was amazing how many people had crammed into and around Trafalgar Square to watch the parade of F1 cars.I was standing on the exit of the road they were using as a makeshift pitlane, and next to me were Ferrari racer Sebastian Vettel and team principal Maurizio Arrivabene.At that moment, with the sun setting on Horse Guards, Kimi Räikkönen lit up his rear tyres with a burnout and blasted towards Nelson’s Column.This was an event that was fully embraced by all those who attended it and it was a great spectacle to see F1 cars on the streets of London once again.Photographer LAT IMAGES : Steven TeeWhere London, UKWhen 7.07pm, Wednesday 12 July 2017Details Canon…1 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017F1 MASTERMINDQ1 Which current driver was the last to claim pole when not driving for Mercedes, Ferrari or Red Bull?Q2 In 2007, their only year in F1, Spyker claimed just one single point. Who scored it and where?Q3 This year’s Malaysian race will be the last, but when was the first F1 GP at Sepang?Q4 Which Dutch driver returned to F1 for two races in 1992, ten years after his previous race?Q5 For which of these teams did Rubens Barrichello make more starts: Stewart or Williams?Q6 Antonio Giovinazzi used the number 36 when racing for Sauber this year, but what was his number as a Haas Friday driver at Silverstone?Q7 Hollywood actors Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson were at the British GP to publicise which computer-animated racing film?Q8 True or false:…1 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017WHAT NEXT FOR THE FORCES THAT POWER F1?Once again we have come to that point in the regulatory cycle when thoughts turn to the next power unit. The previous naturally aspirated V8 had a lifespan that ran from 2006 until the end of 2013. Eight years seems a reasonable life for an engine design, so now it is time to consider what will replace today’s highly sophisticated hybrids.Various factors, not least the expiry of current commercial agreements at the end of 2020, have determined that the next power unit should appear for the 2021 season. Current engines have attracted more negativity than they deserve. Yes, they are complicated, but their sophistication and efficiency would not have been possible without complexity. The decisions to downsize the engines and bring back the power of the internal combustion engine through…5 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017THIS IS ROBERT KUBICAWHERE else to interview Robert Kubica than in the back of a garage? Not for this guy the glitz and tinsel of the F1 circus. Kubica was always and only about the racing. Today we’ll sit on achassis packing case to talk. Of course we will.“Give me a fast car, a bed and a roof over my head – that’s all I need,” he once said to me, a lifetime ago.A decade later, after an accident that nearly killed him and having charted an emotional odyssey none would choose to undertake, he’s back driving a Lotus (now Renault) E20 F1 car around Valencia’s Ricardo Tormo circuit the only way he knows how: as fast as humanly possible.His return to the cockpit with the team for whom he was driving back…16 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017THE LOTUS 78Lotus had dominated great swathes of the 1960s and early ’70s with some impressive machinery: the Type 25, the 33, the beautiful 49 and finally the 72. But by 1976 the performance of their 77 was causing Lotus founder Colin Chapman concern. A new car was required and Chapman was adamant that the Lotus 78 would be a completely different machine. Chapman had studied the radiators on the wings of a Mosquito fighter plane and found that the hot-air outlets produced lift. He deduced that if this was inverted on an F1 car, it would boost downforce. He handed the project over to head of engineering Tony Rudd, who put together a team that included chief designer Ralph Bellamy, vehicle engineer Martin Ogilvie and aerodynamicist Peter Wright.An inverted wing profile…5 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017SERVING UP AN ACEThis is almost the perfect day for a knockabout, marred only by the wind swirling around the five clay courts of the Mairie tennis club, just off Cap Marquet beach and a short stroll from the busy port of Cap d’Ail and the moneyed milieu of Monaco beyond. Every footstep kicks up a brief puff of dust, not least those sent skyward by the purposeful stride of Nico Hülkenberg as he lets himself in through the gate and moves towards the net, twirling his racquet throughout.On court, Nico seems at ease and very much in his natural environment, dressed modishly tennis-casual, shorts obeying the ‘Goldilocks principle’ (neither too long nor too short), socks less so (we’ll forgive him that; it’s very ‘now’ in the sports world) and baseball cap pointing…7 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANEIN JUST TEN YEARS, Lance Stroll has gone from competing in his first kart race in front of a handful of parents to racing a Formula 1 car in front of nearly 100,000 fans at his home grand prix. Yes, his career has been fast-tracked by his family’s wealth, but he has still had to perform in every category in which he’s competed. He won a trio of consecutive titles in his three years prior to F1: FIA European F3, the Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand and Italian Formula 4.Now, on the eve of his home F1 grand prix debut in Canada, we accompany him to the place where it all began. North of Montréal, along Autoroute 25, is the SRA kart circuit, which is named after the nearby…8 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017THE RISE OF THE VALTTERI“ BOTTAS LOOKED TO BE STROKING TOWARDS VICTORY IN THE EARLY STAGES, OPENING A 7.9S GAP TO THE FERRARI BEFORE VETTEL STOPPED FOR SUPERSOFTS”“I believe… the team believes,” said Valtteri Bottas as he stood proud following the second grand prix victory of his career. We’d got so used to considering the battle for the 2017 Formula 1 World Championship to be a two-horse race between Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton that the Finn in the other silver car had tended to be overlooked. This will no longer be the case after what happened in Austria.A perfectly controlled victory drive from pole position pinged Bottas slap-bang onto the championship radar – and, as he himself was quick to point out, there was still more than half of this season to go.…5 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017THE BELGIAN GPTHE MAIN EVENTMotor racing has been taking place along the roads of Belgium’s high fens for 95 years. And whether you stay in one of the villages of Malmedy, Stavelot, Francorchamps or Spa itself, you cannot escape the sense of history.The biggest draw is the racetrack itself. Take a drive around the old circuit, which extends from Les Combes to Blanchimont, and you begin to appreciate the bravery of the drivers who used to drive flat-out in fragile machinery around these daunting public roads. Today’s modernised GP track, with corners such as Eau Rouge and Pouhon, still thrills drivers and spectators alike.Then there’s the fickle weather, which can usually be relied on to mix things up. The nature of the climate in the Haute Fagnes region can throw up sweltering…2 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017ContributorsANTHONY ROWLINSON‘Prof’ was the only journalist who attended Robert Kubica’s comeback test and spoke at length to him about his F1 dream (p36)MALCOLM GRIFFITHSThe last time Malcy went to Zandvoort was for an F3 race in the mid-’90s. This month he’s back there with Max Verstappen (p48)ANDREW BENSONBBC Sport’s chief F1 writer was in Canada to watch Lewis Hamilton match Senna’s 65 poles. On p66 he compares the two drivers.GLENN DUNBARNorth of Montréal is the karting track where Lance Stroll first started racing. Dunbar joined Stroll for a trip down memory lane on p84…1 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017Lewis feels the support of his fansAfter Lewis Hamilton won the British GP, he announced to the crowd from the podium that he’d be down in a minute to start surfing with them. Last year he did it without warning and I photographed it from a distance with a long lens.Knowing he would definitely be doing it again, I had a little more time to prepare and decided to get a different perspective by choosing a closeup shot with a wide-angle lens.I was up on the pitwall opposite parc fermé as Lewis jumped backwards onto his adoring fans. There were a lot of other photographers trying to get a similar shot, but you just have to get your elbows out to get the picture you need.Photographer LAT IMAGES : Andy HoneWhere Silverstone, UKWhen 3.52pm, Sunday 16…1 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017F1 INSIDERTHE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH01 If you build it they will come. And if you stage a Formula 1 street display amid some of London’s most recognisable landmarks, then they will certainly turn up – in their tens of thousands.The F1 Live London event, held around Trafalgar Square and Whitehall just before the British GP, proved a truth that’s easy to take for granted: Formula 1 remains a hugely popular sport, still very capable of capturing hearts, minds and wallets. The London street demo was free, of course, which helped suck 100,000 rev-heads into central London to press noses against barriers, but still, a fan-draw on that scale, for an event unpublicised on account of security concerns, was impressive.By way of context, the British Grand Prix that followed drew 345,000…9 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017F1 WORLDAUGUST11-13 August> Oldtimer Grand Prix, Nürburgring Both the HGPCA (Pre-1966 machinery) and the FIA Masters Historic Formula 1 championship (post-1966 3-litre cars) will be doing their stuff out on the Nürburgring’s grand prix circuit.27 August> F1 Belgian Grand Prix, Spa-FrancorchampsSEPTEMBER1-3 September> Historic Grand Prix, Zandvoort, Netherlands3 September> F1 Italian Grand Prix, Monza16 September> Nigel Mansell – Meet the Legend, St Helier, Jersey A special event at The Mansell Collection, home of the 1992 world champion’s eclectic and comprehensive range of memorabilia, racing trophies and cars. The man himself will be making a personal appearance. Tickets from www.eventbrite.co.uk15-18 September> Spa Six Hours, Spa-Francorchamps This full weekend of retro racing includes a multi-class fixture for the Historic Grand Prix Association. Pre-war GP cars such as ERAs and Talbot T26s mix it up…1 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017ENGINE DEALS THAT GO OVER THE RED LINEFormula 1: it’s all about power, not least when it comes to the power units themselves. Teams’ access to them, regulations governing their development and their cost and specification have been the source of some of the sport’s most bitter fights. The FIA, aware of these struggles and their potential to rip F1 apart, last year introduced revised procedures to regulate engine supply and costs and unfreeze development. This last provision was intended to help Honda accelerate their laggardly performance development curve.Article 8.3 of the Sporting Regulations stops subsidiaries of major motor manufacturers from supplying more than three customer teams (in-house operations, as separate legal entities, are deemed ‘customers’). A revision, known as Appendix 9, goes a step further: teams are required to nominate their power-unit partners by 1 May…3 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017DEBRIEF ENCOUNTER1 Ron Meadows has been a member of the Brackley-based Formula 1 team since their first incarnation as BAR-Honda in 1999. He was team manager through their years under the ownership of Honda, and is now Mercedes F1 sporting director.2 Lewis Hamilton’s private room is located directly behind his chair at the briefing desk. Here he is fanked by his two senior race engineers, Riccardo Musconi on his left and Peter ‘Bono’ Bonnington, who is sitting on his right.3 This is one of two screens the engineers are looking at (the other is behind our photographer), which display a series of objectives for the two 90-minute Friday practice sessions. These objectives include set-up parameters, tyre evaluation and engine-control work.4 Technical director James Allison sits next to chief trackside engineer Simon…2 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017DANIIL KVYATWhile Daniil Kvyat is being ushered from the back of the Toro Rosso garage, he refects on the last time he sat down to answer our readers’ questions. It was at the end of the 2014 season, in the dusk of the Abu Dhabi paddock, when he’d just finished his first year with Toro Rosso. Back then he was a burgeoning young racer with a bright future. Ahead of him lay the promised land of a drive with the senior Red Bull team – justification for a man of his obvious talents. That promotion duly came in 2015, but was followed a year and a bit later with the very public demotion to Toro Rosso when he was replaced by Max Verstappen.Mark Webber once remarked that the order of these…8 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017MY DREAM JOB No.4CVMark Arnall Age: 442007Employed by Kimi Räikkönen as personal trainer1997Driver performance coach, McLarenPre-1997University of Surrey sports departmentThe moment Ron Dennis calls to demand: “What the hell have you done with my driver?” is the moment you come to realise that yours is no ordinary job. And such was the case for Mark Arnall, long-time physio, trainer, confidante and all-round life manager for Kimi Räikkönen.This incident occurred on 30 November 2004, when Kimi and friends visited a beach resort in Gran Canaria… with predictable consequences. Pictures of a somewhat worse-for-wear Räikkönen cuddling an infatable dolphin were soon delighting tabloid readers everywhere, and underscored what Kimi’s fans have always known: behind the Iceman facade he’s just like you and me. But none of this was doing Arnall any favours with their mutual…4 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017NO PRESSURE, THEN...At every European grand prix there is a corner of the F1 paddock that is a home-from-home to all on-site McLaren personnel. The impressive, glass-fronted, three-storey silver edifice known as the Brand Centre is a mini version of the team’s Woking HQ: the McLaren Technology Centre. With its spiral staircases and central atrium, the Brand Centre offers hospitality for guests and staff, including offices for management, and driver rooms (and showers) for both Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne.At a normal GP weekend, the building takes four days to construct, but with back-to-back races in Austria and Silverstone this year, it’s a race against time to dismantle it in Austria on Sunday night and transport all 140 tonnes of it 1,000 miles so that it’s all ready to serve lunch in…5 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017HOME TOWN HAMMERTIME“ HAMILTON STRETCHED OUT A FURTHER GAP, CHARGING AWAY ON SUPERSOFTS. HE PAUSED ONLY ON LAP 25, FOR A SET OF SOFTS THAT WOULD SEE HIM TO THE FLAG”Ahead of the British Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton had courted controversy by being the only 2017 race driver not to attend the ‘F1 Live London’ street parade around Trafalgar Square. But when the chips were down – when it really mattered – Hamilton delivered for ‘his fans’ in a manner that few other drivers have ever been able to.QUALIFYINGThis was predictable Silverstone weather: overcast, blowy and drizzly, with a threat of even heavier rain. Equally predictable was a Q3 slugfest between Mercedes and Ferrari, with the silver cars seeming stronger. Ahead of the weekend, team boss Toto Wolff had noted that the…5 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017THE ITALIAN GPTHE MAIN EVENTJust like Spa, Monza is steeped in history and the basic layout of this classic circuit has remained unchanged for many decades – despite the addition of three chicanes to reduce speeds. Situated in a royal park on the outskirts of Milan, Monza is characterised by trees lining the track from the Variante della Roggia, beyond the Lesmo bends, all the way down to Ascari.The narrow ribbon of Tarmac and flat-out racing brings a sense of drama, and on race-day morning you can feel the tension build. The patriotic tifosi flock here to cheer on the red cars – and you can expect them to ratchet up their enthusiasm into a frenzy if either Sebastian Vettel or Kimi Räikkönen seem likely to make the podium this year.Rather like…2 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017F1 UPGRADESSTEPHEN SOUTH: THE WAY IT WASAuthor Darren BanksPrice £28.50 performancepublishing.co.ukBritish racer Stephen South seemed destined for a career in F1, only for a crash to curtail his ambitions. He’d impressed in junior formulae and made a sole F1 outing for McLaren at the 1980 Long Beach Grand Prix. But at a Can-Am race that year, he suffered a crash that led to the amputation of his lower left leg.For the first time, South discusses the events that forced him to race in North America, his horrific accident and his long and emotionally painful recovery.Author Darren Banks speaks to many of the people involved in South’s career, including respected F1 journalist David Tremayne, who helped edit the book and who also went to school with South in Harrow. “I can still…5 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017The fine art of teamworkDuring the Austrian Grand Prix, I spent some time photographing guests in the Paddock Club, the VIP hospitality area that is located directly above the pitlane.Kimi Räikkönen came in for his one and only pitstop, so I took this shot of him having his tyres changed. I deliberately went with a wider angle, which means the Ferrari is framed by the two red lines that denote the two edges of the pitlane.What is unusual about this image is that I took it with a mirrorless Sony A9 rather than my usual bulky Canon. It has a little screen that ficks up, which makes positioning the camera a lot easier, particularly when leaning over a balcony.Photographer LAT IMAGES : Glenn DunbarWhere Spielberg, AustriaWhen 2.54pm, Sunday 9 July 2017Details Sony A9 (ILCE…1 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017The view we all missed out onI was on pitlane duty for the F1 Live London event that took place on the Wednesday evening before the British GP.I found a route that took me from Old Scotland Yard up to Trafalgar Square but, just as I’d feared, the event was so popular that the crowd was 40-deep.I was about to head back when the wind caught a sign… and there was an image of the driver that everyone in front of me was searching for. It was the closest anyone would get to Lewis Hamilton that day.I like the fact you can see people clinging to lamp posts and traffic lights – as Londoners have been doing for decades on occasions such as a royal wedding or state funeral.Photographer LAT IMAGES: Steven TeeWhere London, UKWhen 6.52pm,…1 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017F1 DIGEST11.07.17Silverstone triggers break clause in their British Grand Prix contract12.07.17Frédéric Vasseur announced as new Sauber team principal16.07.17Romain Grosjean switches to Carbone Industrie brakes for British Grand Prix18.07.17In-season test dates at Barcelona and Hungaroring set for May and July/August 201819.07.17Halo cockpit safety device confirmed for 2018 onwards27.07.17FIA imposes new ‘fuel burn’ restrictions27.07.17Sauber announce cancellation of their engine-supply deal with Honda02.08.17McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner Lando Norris tests a McLaren MCL32 at the Hungaroring…1 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017THE GOLDEN BOY OF A GOLDEN AGEThere’s a passionate Saturday-afternoon feel to Renault that I can’t explain but have always loved. Maybe it goes back to 1974, when I’d fly Air France to Orly in the days when croissants were served fresh from a basket rather than soggy in a plastic bag. I’d rent a Renault 5 from Hertz because it would have been crass to have done otherwise. At Viry-Châtillon, home of Renault Gordini, I’d tour the factory with François Castaing, the urbane and multilingual technical director who later joined American Motors. As much as the talk was of the future – of winning Le Mans and building an F1 car – it was also about Amédée Gordini, Alpine, the French GP and Montlhéry. It was about the simple seductions of motor racing, sans politics,…5 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017THE PRINCE OF ZANDVOORTAs the sun rises, the lifeguards move into position. Flags are hoisted and ice-cream vendors stack their wafer cones for business. It’s going to be another scorcher. The busy double-decker trains pull into the final stop on the line and holidaymakers swarm ant-like out of Zandvoort aan Zee station. But today, they are not focking to the sandy beaches. They are turning their backs to the waves and heading inland to the dunes to watch their hero perform. The former home of the Dutch Grand Prix will today resonate to the sound of Formula 1 machinery, 32 years after the last world championship race was held here.In a garage at the top of the pitlane sits a Red Bull RB8. There’s no need for slick presentation; this is F1 in…12 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017AYRTON SENNA VS LEWIS HAMILTONLEWIS HAMILTON stared at the yellow helmet like a child who had just opened his dream present on Christmas morning. It was a gift from the family of Ayrton Senna, to mark the Mercedes driver equalling his childhood idol’s record of 65 poles.Holding it in his hands, Lewis said he was “shaking, speechless”. He was driven back to the paddock from Turn 2 at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, where the presentation had been made, and sat on the open window of a car, cradling it. Now, in the official news conference, he could barely take his eyes off it. “For the Senna family to send me this,” he said, “this is the most special thing I have, above and beyond all my trophies and everything.”Earlier that week, a set of…11 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017A CAPITAL IDEAFor 13 years London has been deaf to the sound of Formula 1, save for occasional (and fanciful) rumblings about hosting a grand prix on its streets. But on the eve of the BritishGrand Prix at Silverstone, the nation’s capital paused to enjoy the sight, sound and smell of F1 cars for the first time since Nigel Mansell led an eight-car demo run up Regent Street in July 2004.F1 Live London ran on a much larger scale, and was an encouraging sign of intent from the sport’s new owners. Sets by musical acts Bastille, Little Mix and the Kaiser Chiefs within a larger F1 expo in Trafalgar Square added a festival vibe to the on-street action that was of such scope it was all planned in total secrecy and announced…2 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017INBOXFirst strike of the LanceNobody could predict the roller coaster ride that was the Azerbaijan GP. There was Bottas’s fightback to P2, unsportsmanlike driving that cost Vettel the win and even an unforeseen victory for Red Bull. But no one could have predicted a podium for 18-year-old rookie Lance Stroll in the Williams FW40.This was a driver who’d had his driving ability questioned after three DNFs in the first three races of the season, in a car that has been a prominent midfield runner. So has he finally answered his critics?Alas, he has taken just a small step in along journey of proving he is good enough for F1. But at least that step has been taken in the right direction. Yes, Iknow luck played its part, but Stroll put…3 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017MERCEDES’ MORAL DILEMMA“ TEMPTED THOUGH MERCEDES WERE TO LEAVE HAMILTON IN THIRD AND BANK MORE POINTS, THEY SWAPPED HIM WITH BOTTAS AT THE FINAL CORNER”Kimi Räikkönen could have won the Hungarian Grand Prix, but Ferrari ultimately didn’t allow that to happen, leaving him to act as a frustrated human shield for a car-troubled Sebastian Vettel.Similarly, Mercedes could have allowed Lewis Hamilton to hold onto his third place, having prevailed upon his team-mate Valtteri Bottas to give that position up to allow Hamilton an opportunity to attack the vulnerable Ferraris. That they didn’t was perhaps laudable from a moral point of view, but it made for an incredibly tense final few laps of the race as Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff weighed up the pros and cons of ‘doing the right thing’ and…5 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017GO FIGURE76% of the track is driven at full throttle66 grands prix have been held at Monza – more than at any other circuit in F1 history110 The number of days it took to build the original Monza track in 19220.61 S The amount of time that covered the top five finishers in the 1971 Italian GP – the closest ever F1 finish148 MILES The distance between Monza and ImolaFOUR The number of Italian GPs held at Monza that have been won by Italians: Nino Farina (1950), Alberto Ascari (1951/52) and Ludovico Scarfiotti (1966)19 The number of times a Ferrari has been on pole at Monza, eight times more than nearest rivals McLaren217 The record number of laps led at Monza – by Alberto Ascari320 METRES The radius of the two…1 min
GP Racing UK|September 2017THE FIRST OF MICHAEL’S MANYIt was anniversary time. In 1991 Michael Schumacher had replaced Bertrand Gachot to make his F1 debut with Jordan at Spa, and now, one year and 16 races later, he was back in the Ardennes forest, driving this time for Benetton-Ford: Ross Brawn. Rory Byrne. Tom Walkinshaw. Flavio Briatore.The 1992 season, however, was all about Nigel Mansell and the Williams-Renault FW14B with its active-ride/tractioncontrol/launch-strategy brilliance. Mansell exploited it to the maximum, while his team-mate Riccardo Patrese rued the loss of the passively suspended 1991 FW14.At Spa, as at all the circuits that year, Nigel was again seemingly unbeatable. He was quickest in most sessions, including in the wet and in the warm-up on Sunday – and on Friday he took time to scrub in extra sets of race slicks because…3 min
