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September 13 2012 – vol 209 no 11
RepoRts & featuRes
26 Italian Grand Prix
Hamilton wins as Perez stars on charge to second
42 GP2 Series/Porsche Supercup Monza
Filippi takes emotional win as Valsecchi stretches advantage
45 GP3 Series Monza
Evans squeaks title from Abt – with a little help from Ellinas
46 British Formula 3 Silverstone
Lynn takes maiden win – twice – as Jaafar tops the table
48 British GT Silverstone
McLaren MP4-12C is kept on track – and takes honours
50 Formula 2 Hungaroring
Fontana breaks his duck to give himself a boost
53 World of Sport
NASCAR; Grand-Am; International GT Open;
Japanese Super GT; Scandinavian Touring Cars
60 Mat Jackson: going for gold in the BTCC
Interview with the man who’s developing a new Focus
62 Rally GB preview
Getting ready for Loeb and his chums to invade Wales
68 In the wheeltracks of the 1960 RAC Rally
Our rally ed packs the bacon sarnies for a blast in the past
72 Goodwood Revival preview
Looking ahead to the world’s best historic meeting
76 McLaren AUTOSPORT BRDC Award
Vote to nominate your tip as the top young driver
79 Introducing…
Formula Renault Eurocup leader Daniil Kvyat
news
8 McLaren set to up stakes over Hamilton
More money could be on table in wake of Mercedes offer
10 Alonso furious over Vettel Monza move
Italian GP hints simmering rivalry could boil over
12 Battle on to host French Grand Prix
Magny-Cours and Paul Ricard fight for the rights
14 Kubica wins rally as he builds up to race return
Pole talks of his ongoing recuperation
17 This week in F1
What was going on behind the scenes at Monza
20 New GP3 car breaks cover at Monza
Teams to get hands on new racer before Christmas
23 Nasr tipped for Macau F3 return
Brazilian GP2 ace in the frame for Carlin comeback
25 Hyundai to end World Rally Championship exile
Korean firm to announce return at Paris Motor Show
RegulaRs
5 From the editor
6 Snapshot
19 Mark Hughes column
74 Subscribe for a free gift
104 Final drive
Letters and latest gear
106 On track/on screen
The best action in the next week
109 From the archive
Bruno Giacomelli wins the Pau Grand Prix, 1978
110 Race of my life
John Cleland, Donington BTCC, 1998
spoRts extRa
93 Britain gets new junior single-seater series
Palmer and BRDC launch new Formula 4 category
94 Award stays with F2 to test up-and-coming stars
DTM and GT also on menu for McLaren AUTOSPORT BRDC
98 National reports
Knockhill Speedfair; Anglesey MSVR; Croft DDMC;
Thruxton MGCC; Cadwell Park BARC
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“It may be a year since I
last drove, but it feels like
yesterday – like time stopped”
luca fIlIppI made hIs gp2
return at monza – and won
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POLE POSITION
racers earning our respect
on a whole new level
I don’t know what pleased me more
last weekend – and neither of the rival moments
in question happened at Monza.
The first was in Italy, but during a humble club
rally, not the Gran Premio d’Italia. News that
Robert Kubica was back in competition – winning
the Rally Gomitolo di Lana – was glad tidings
indeed. I feel fortunate to have been in Montreal
when he won his grand prix in 2008, and it was
a special moment as he stood atop the podium. Sadly, I fear that
sight will remain a one-off moment in F1 terms – but that doesn’t
mean the uber-quick ‘Bobby K’ can’t score more success behind
the wheel elsewhere.
The second was Alex Zanardi’s double gold medals
(and a relay silver) in the Paralympics at Brands Hatch.
I was unfortunate enough to be there
on that terrible day at Lausitz, when
it seemed certain he’d lost even more
than both his legs. But thanks to the
amazing medics and surgeons, and
his invincible spirit, Zanardi has
soared to even greater heights.
Bravo Robert and Alex! You’re
an inspiration to us all.
BamBEr’S
WEEK
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london 2012 paralympics
Down the Hatch for medal hero Zanardi
Former F1 racer and double CART Indycar champion
Alex Zanardi, who lost both legs in a 2001 smash, won
three handcycling medals at Brands Hatch last week.
The 45-year-old Italian secured two golds – in the
time trial and road race – and a silver in the team relay.
Pic: Hawkins/LAT

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COVER
STORY
McLaren to up Hamilton bid
Formula 1’s in-form team is ready to up the stakes to get Lewis Hamilton to stay put. By EDD STRAW
McLaren is set to make Lewis
Hamilton an improved offer
to ensure that he remains with
the Woking team, although it’s
unclear whether it can match the size
of the retainer offered by Mercedes.
Team principal Martin Whitmarsh
has confirmed that he expects
“some conversations before
Singapore” with Hamilton’s
management, XIX Entertainment,
amid growing speculation about the
2008 world champion switching to
Mercedes. While McLaren has stated
its unwillingness to match Hamilton’s
existing contract, worth $15 million
a year (£9.4m), AUTOSPORT
understands that it is actively
working on upping its latest offer.
This could rely on a cash injection
from shareholder Mumtalakat, the
Bahraini sovereign wealth fund.
McLaren is still unlikely to match
Mercedes, which is willing to offer
as much as £20m a year for a deal
running from 2013 to 2015 and
would give more freedom to XIX
to monetise Hamilton’s brand.
Whitmarsh downplayed
suggestions that Hamilton’s desire
to keep his trophies, or market
himself more, were at the core of the
8 autosport.com September 13 2012
Taking Schu’s seat
could be an option
that money is key despite Hamilton’s
insistence that winning is all that
matters. For XIX to make money
for itself on Hamilton it needs to
secure him a contract worth more
than his current deal.
Mercedes is a realistic option.
Team principal Ross Brawn was
expected to meet with the Mercedes
board at the start of this week to
present his masterplan to focus on
the new engine formula in 2014.
That, combined with the prospect of
bringing in Hamilton, could galvanise
support for the team, which remains
uncommitted to the new Concorde
Agreement for next year.
With the pressure on to raise its
offer, McLaren is now in a difficult
position. When it was part-owned by
Mercedes, it received free engines and
KERS, plus its drivers’ contracts were
paid for by the marque. Now that
Mercedes is no longer a shareholder,
McLaren is having to spend more
than £30m extra per year. So the
financial ramifications of busting
the bank for Hamilton are clear.
But if Hamilton does leave, it also
puts McLaren on shaky ground.
While Jenson Button is committed
on a long-term deal, there are no
proven top drivers available on the
market. It is possible that undercontract
Nico Rosberg could be
prised from Mercedes if Michael
Schumacher stays on, which remains
possible as Schumacher is keen to do
so despite scepticism about his value
in some parts of the team. But there
are doubts about Rosberg’s claim to
be a world champion-calibre driver.
Paul di Resta is well-regarded at
Woking, but unproven at the front
of an F1 grid. The Scot’s Force India
team-mate, Nico Hulkenberg, is also
a possibility but is in a similar
position. AUTOSPORT understands
that suggestions Williams tester
Valtteri Bottas could be signed are
wide of the mark, although his
potential is great enough that
McLaren would not be taking too big
a gamble on him if it loses Hamilton.
While such a low-profile signing
would be attractive financially, there
are worries that it could hold back
the team next year. There are also
doubts about McLaren’s long-term
sponsorship income, particularly
whether Vodafone will stay beyond
the end of 2013. Hamilton remains
a bankable commodity, and his
departure could make it more difficult
to retain and attract partners. This
effect could be multiplied by having
less success without Hamilton.
It’s unclear how keen Hamilton is
on a switch to Mercedes. While his
relationship with McLaren is rocky,
there are concerns about the Merc’s
ability to deliver a competitive car.
The Three-Pointed Star talks could
FERRARo/LAT
EThERingTon, DunBAR,
also be nothing more than leverage to coATES,
contractual stalemate. This suggests extract more money from McLaren. picS:

McLAREN’S ALTERNATIvES
If McLaren does lose Lewis Hamilton in 2013,
these are the leading candidates to take his place.
pAuL DI RESTA
The 2004 McLaren
AUTOSPORT BRDC Award
winner is highly-rated
by team principal
Martin Whitmarsh. He had his
first F1 test for McLaren and has
impressed at Force India. As a
result of the technical
partnership between the two
teams, he has also used the
McLaren simulator, so the team
will have had plenty of opportunity
to evaluate his ability.
NICO HuLKENbERg
While Hulkenberg has never
had any direct ties to Woking,
he was a Mercedes driver when
he won the F3 Euro Series title
and therefore on the team’s radar. After his
impressive debut season with Williams in
2010, culminating in a stunning pole position
in Brazil, he sat out 2011 but has done an
excellent job for Force India this year,
finishing fourth at Spa.
?
Hamilton shows his
delight at Monza win
vALTTERI bOTTAS
A long-shot at best,
the Finn has made a
big impression
during his Friday
outings for Williams. But he
has yet to start a grand prix
and McLaren would have no
chance to test him before the
late-season young-driver test
in Abu Dhabi. But last time
McLaren gambled on an
inexperienced Finn, Kimi
Raikkonen in 2002, it paid off.
NICO ROSbERg
On a long-term deal at
Mercedes, but if Hamilton
joins and Schumacher
does stay on, it could suit
the German marque to farm him out.
Rosberg was seriously considered by
McLaren for the 2008 season and is a
race winner, but he might not be the
most cost-effective solution given that
doubts remain over his title credentials.
AUTOSPORT SAYS…
EDD STRAW
F1 EDITOR
edd.straw
@haymarket.com
There are arguments beyond financial ones
for Lewis Hamilton to join Mercedes.
When the new engine formula kicks in 18
months from now, a works team will be the
place to be and McLaren will be a genuine
customer outfit for the first time in over
two decades.
But the real question mark hangs over
the Brackley side of the operation. Since
coming into F1 as BAR in 1999, the team has
underachieved. Set aside the perfect storm
of the Brawn GP year in 2009, and it has
just Jenson Button’s win in Hungary six
years ago and Nico Rosberg’s in China in
April to show for all that money spent.
Even under Ross Brawn, the doubts remain.
Ex-employees of the team talk of a
political dimension at Brackley that holds
it back, one that still hasn’t disappeared
even with first-rate technical leadership
from the likes of
Bob Bell, Geoff
Willis and Aldo
Costa. On paper,
it looks good for
Mercedes to throw
the kitchen sink at
the 2014 season,
but it’s far from
a sure thing.
At the start of
the season, Ross Brawn told AUTOSPORT
that “third has got to be the minimum.
Anything less would be a failure.” Hamilton
faces a simple choice. Throw his lot in with
a team that is failing, or stay at the outfit
that is enjoying plenty of success right
now, but isn’t necessarily on firm ground
for 2014. It’s a tougher decision than it
might seem on the surface.
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September 13 2012 autosport.com 9

WhY VeTTel
WAs GUIlTY
since last year’s
similar incident
between sebastian
Vettel and fernando
alonso, the rules have
changed. in the wake
of a discussion in the
drivers’ meeting at
June’s canadian Gp,
the following directive
was issued on July 8.
The directive said:
“any driver defending
his position on a
straight* and before
any braking area may
use the full width of
the track during his
first move provided
no significant portion
of the car attempting
to pass is alongside
his. Whilst defending
in this way the driver
may not leave the
track without
justifiable reason.
“for the avoidance
of doubt, if any part
of the front wing of
the car attempting to
pass is alongside the
rear wheel of the car
in front this will be
deemed to be a
‘significant portion’.”
*curva Grande is
regarded as an
acceleration zone.
The simmering rivalry between
two of Formula 1 biggest stars
finally exploded at last
weekend’s Italian Grand Prix,
with Fernando Alonso known
to be furious with Sebastian Vettel
for running him off the road.
World championship leader
Alonso has told those close to him
that reigning champion Vettel’s
move, which forced the Ferrari
onto the grass at the exit of
Monza’s Curva Grande on the
26th lap, is little different to
Romain Grosjean’s Belgian Grand
Prix manoeuvre off the startline,
which earned the Frenchman
a one-race ban.
Uncharacteristically, Alonso
was also furious on the radio and
took some time to calm down.
The Spaniard refused to be
10 autosport.com September 13 2012
2011
2012
AUTOSPORT’s comparison of the 2011 and
2012 Italian GP clashes between Sebastian
Vettel and Fernando Alonso shows that Alonso
left slightly more space last year than Vettel
did at the same place last Sunday.
Alonso & Vettel feud blows up
Double world champions in the spotlight as Alonso rages after on-track clash in the Italian Grand Prix
drawn in public on his opinion
of the incident, beyond saying that
it was different to what happened
last year, when Vettel overtook
Alonso for the lead on the grass
at the same point.
“Last year it was not penalised;
this year it has been,” said Alonso
after the race. “I think there is a big
difference for the people who
understand this kind of move.”
Red Bull ace Vettel said that he
did not think that he deserved a
penalty, but neither driver would
say much in public.
The incident has echoes of the
1988 Portuguese Grand Prix, when
the rivalry between McLaren
team-mates Ayrton Senna and
Alain Prost was taken to a new
level by the Brazilian pushing his
team-mate towards the pitwall as
Rivalry has
been brewing
1
pics: TEE, fErraro, dunbar, coaTEs/laT

2 3
“There is a big difference
for people who understand
this kind of move”
Fernando Alonso
they fought for the lead (see
Flashback, right). Although there
were no penalties, Prost was
outraged by Senna’s actions. This
laid the foundations for their
relationship falling apart in 1989 in
the wake of the team-orders row at
the San Marino Grand Prix.
While it would be an
exaggeration to claim that the
animosity between the pair is to
the same level as that between
Prost and Senna, there have been
signs for some time that theirs is
a rivalry with the potential to
define this era of grand prix racing.
Vettel was unhappy with Alonso
running him onto the grass at
Monza last year, although there
was no penalty. It was not until
July this year that the regulations
were changed (see panel, above).
This ongoing point of friction
between the pair was underlined
at a press conference at the
Spanish Grand Prix in May, when
Vettel – while sitting with Alonso
– made some barbed comments
about leaving space in the
2011 Monza incident.
It seems that there is little doubt
that Vettel would have had that in
his mind when he ran Alonso onto
the grass last Sunday, and it is not
the first time that the German has
angered one of his rivals.
At last year’s Japanese Grand
Prix, McLaren’s Jenson Button was
furious when Vettel chopped him
at the start of the race as they
disputed the lead. And Vettel
angered Alonso at the start of
the 2010 German Grand Prix,
when his move compromised both
drivers and allowed Felipe Massa
to jump into the lead.
While Alonso and Vettel are not
the only drivers in title contention
this year, it appears that the battle
between the two has the highest
potential to spill over.
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Wurz backing FIA’s tough stance
Sometime Formula 1 steward and
racing safety activist Alex Wurz
believes that it was right
for Sebastian Vettel to be held
responsible for forcing Fernando
Alonso off the track at Monza.
While Wurz was surprised that
Vettel was given a drive-through
penalty, because this was the first
time he had been found guilty,
the ex-Benetton, McLaren and
Williams driver believes that
the FIA is right in its hardline
approach to driving standards.
“If you compare this year’s
incident between Vettel and Alonso
to 2011, you would have to say that
Alonso left maybe 30cm more space
last year,” Wurz told AUTOSPORT.
“Seb didn’t leave enough space for
Alonso. But seeing as he has had no
reprimands this year, I’m not sure
that I would have recommended a
drive-through from the TV pictures.
“There is always an element of
Wheel-to-wheel:
Vettel and Alonso
The FIrsT FlAshpoInT oF The
Ayrton Senna/Alain Prost rivalry
came towards the end of their first
season as McLaren team-mates.
At the end of the opening lap at
Estoril Prost got a run on the
Brazilian, and as they passed the
pits Senna swerved towards him,
forcing Prost close to the pitwall.
Prost, who made the move stick
and went on to win the race, said
risk for a driver in Alonso’s
position, but they are all
superlicence holders and must
have special awareness. The
mirrors are there for that reason.”
Wurz believes that F1 has a
responsibility to set an example in
driving standards, such as the
recent punishments for Romain
Grosjean, who was banned from the
Italian Grand Prix, and Vettel.
“It’s a very good thing that this
is happening,” said Wurz. “You
make one move and stay there
and give enough space. If you
put another driver in a position
where he has to lift to avoid a
collision, then you are guilty.”
But Wurz warned that such
incidents must not be judged solely
on outcome. He pointed to the clash
between Paul di Resta and Bruno
Senna (for whom Wurz acts as
driver coach) as another incident
that should have been punished.
flashback 1988 porTuGuEsE Gp
Prost (l) braves
his way through
afterwards: “We didn’t touch, but
we could have, and then it would
have been a disaster. If we have
to do things like that to win the
world championship, then frankly
I don’t care about it.”
Senna’s defence in a post-race
row between the two was that
Prost had squeezed him at the
start, as Formula 1’s most famous
rivalry started to take shape.
September 13 2012 autosport.com 11

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F1 returned for
test this week
Fight for French GP heats up
French motorsport authority evaluating the merits of Paul Ricard and Magny-Cours. By GARY WATKINS
The future of the French Grand
Prix could be decided in the next
week after the Paul Ricard and
Magny-Cours circuits put forward
their cases to host the revived F1
fixture over the past 10 days.
The two circuits were asked to
make presentations to the French
motorsport federation, the FFSA,
at the behest of the country’s new
government. The FFSA will now
compile a report on the economic
viability of each venue to host an F1
race as early as next season to present
to sports minister Valerie Fourneyron.
The FFSA has stated that it has
contacted F1 commercial rights
holder Formula One World
Ricard wants first
GP since 1990
12 autosport.com September 13 2012
Championship (the parent company
of Formula One Management) about
the return of the French GP for the
first time since 2008. It claims,
according to a statement, to have
“full agreement to the return of
F1 in France”.
READY AND WAITING
Both Magny-Cours, which is this
week hosting a three-day youngdriver
F1 test, and Paul Ricard insist
they are ready to host the GP from
next season. Each has the necessary
F1 track licence and have been party
to the establishment of groupements
d’interet public (GIP) with their
respective local authorities, which
would become the race promoter
should either venue secure a
Formula 1 deal.
The respective bids differ in that
Magny-Cours needs centralgovernment
support if the race is
to go ahead, while Paul Ricard insists
that its GIP can cover the costs of a
grand prix every other year.
Serge Saulnier, chairman of
the board at Circuit Nevers Magny-
Illustration of new
Magny-Cours plans
Cours, explained that his bid
would require a financial guarantee
from central government.
“We have tried to make a business
plan that is as private as possible,”
said the former Peugeot sportscar
team manager. “But it is unrealistic
to organise the GP without
guarantees because Bernie
[Ecclestone, boss of FOM] will
want guarantees.”
Stephane Clair, track director at
the Circuit Paul Ricard, insisted that
the GIP set up for his track’s F1 bid
HoW tHe tRaCkS CoMPaRe
PaUL RICaRD MaGNY-CoURS
Last GP 1990 2008
GPs hosted 14 18
F1 track licence Yes Yes
F1-level facilities Yes In build
Track length 3.63 miles 2.74 miles
Capacity 60,000 80,000+
FOLLOW THE MAGNY-COURS F1 TEST ON
would be able to foot the bill for
the grand prix.
“We do not need any money
from the government or any
financial guarantees to have the GP,”
he said. “We don’t need to improve
the track or the pits.”
The role of the French government
in the process is unclear. Some have
interpreted its intervention as an
attempt to gain political capital and
there are doubts that it is willing to
provide any funds for the return of
F1 to France.

Last French GP was at
Magny-Cours in 2008
WHICH IS MORE LIKELY?
Ricard is ahead of Magny-Cours in
its negotiations with FOM after the
circuit and its GIP were given support
by the previous French government
last March. Clair insisted that Ricard’s
bid for a race every other year would
not prove problematical: “Bernie has
told us that he could find a solution.”
Ricard’s bid for a race on a biennial
basis is not the only factor that could
preclude the two races sharing the
French GP, a move not favoured by
either side. Magny-Cours wants the
“We do not need any money
from the government or any
financial guarantees”
Paul Ricard’s Stephane Clair
race on its traditional early-July
date, while Paul Ricard is aiming for
late August or early September.
Both tracks have talked down the
chances of their rival landing the GP.
Saulnier questioned Paul Ricard’s
claims that it did not need the
backing of the government. He said of
the chances of the French GP going
ahead: “They are 50/50 – 50/50
between Magny-Cours and nothing.”
Clair claimed that Magny-Cours
would need a greater investment to
host a race, citing the redevelopment
of its pits complex. Saulnier explained
that this was going ahead irrespective
of whether the track gains an F1 date.
Should Paul Ricard win the right to
host the GP, it would run the race on
the full circuit last used for F1 in 1985.
That would mean the use of the
Mistral Straight, albeit with a chicane
dissecting its one-mile length.
There could be space on the F1
calendar for the French GP in 2013
even if it does not grow beyond 20
races. There are doubts about the
fixtures in India and South Korea,
as well as scepticism about the
second US GP in New Jersey.
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Pit & Paddock
Mercedes upgrades hit track
Formula 1’s second young-driver test
of 2012 concludes at Magny-Cours
today (Thursday), with Mercedes,
Ferrari and Force India all running.
The test is key for Mercedes. It is
expected to work on a modified
exhaust package designed to
maximise the remaining blowing
effect permissible within the rules.
Also, the number of longer corners at
Magny-Cours will allow it to work on
the tyre management problems that
the team has yet to get on top of.
Regular test driver Sam Bird is on
driving duty. He was due to drive on
Tuesday and Wednesday, with the
Ricard last hosted
major F1 test in 2008
possibility of continuing today if
Mercedes hadn’t completed its
programme before making a late
dash to the Hungaroring for the
Formula Renault 3.5 race weekend.
If Bird doesn’t drive on the final
day, ex-Red Bull junior Brendon
Hartley will take over.
Ferrari was due to run test driver
Jules Bianchi for two days of the test,
with simulator driver Davide Rigon
getting the other day. Bianchi will
also have a day for Force India,
with Luiz Razia and Rodolfo Gonzalez
also due to drive for the Silverstonebased
team.
Merc tried new
exhaust set-up
September 13 2012 autosport.com 13

pICs: sTEFANO ROMEO/R.VIVA , BIRd, BlOxHAM, McKlEIN/lAT
Robert Kubica plans to be back on
a race circuit in the near future in
a bid to speed up his recovery
from injuries sustained in a rally
accident in February 2011.
The former BMW Sauber and
Renault Formula 1 star made his
return to competitive motorsport last
weekend, winning the Italian Rally
Gomitolo di Lana in a Subaru Impreza
WRC. And the 27-year-old, who will
compete again this weekend in the
San Martino di Castrozza rally, said
that he intends to get in as much
driving as possible to get his body
used to motorsport again.
“I’m planning some testing on a
circuit – perhaps in a GT car,” said
Kubica. “It depends on the possibilities
that are out there. I’m convinced that
driving again is going to give me
an extra push that speeds up my
recuperation. It will also help me to
increase my movement so that my
body can best adapt itself to the needs
of a driver, compensating for the
14 autosport.com September 13 2012
Kubica now writes
with his left hand
Kubica
eyes circuit
return after
rally win
Pole wants to be as busy as possible
as he builds on return to competitive
motorsport. By ROBERTO CHINCHERO
movements I can’t make at the
moment. My body just needs to remap
some of its functions and driving is
the best way to help it do that.”
F1 remains a DOUBT
Kubica, the 2008 Canadian Grand
Prix winner, stated over the weekend
that he has not given up hope of
racing in F1 again. But he added that it
is still too early for him to know if he
will ever be capable of returning to
the pinnacle of single-seater racing.
“If anyone asked me how I would
have liked to come back, then my
reply would be that obviously I would
have liked to go straight back into
Formula 1,” he said. “But for now I
can’t think what to say to people
who ask me whether or not I am
ever coming back to F1, because
I simply don’t know.
“For me, competing on this rally
was an important objective. I went
through a really difficult period but
I never gave up. I worked as hard as I
could, but there are also some other
things that are beyond my control
that I can’t change.
“Going through such a difficult time
makes me appreciate this return to
competition even more. I want to keep
on making step-by-step progress.
Then, depending on what happens,
I’ll find out what I can do best and
which is the right way forward.”
The sTraTeGY FrOm here
Kubica’s comeback is already the
result of meticulous planning. As well
as starting with a short event last
weekend, before tackling a longer and
more challenging route this weekend,
his choice of an Impreza WRC for his

“Going through such a
difficult time makes me
appreciate this return to
competition even more”
return was for specific reasons.
“I chose the car bearing in mind
the precise needs I have at the
moment,” he said. “It was easy to
modify certain components of the
Subaru, such as the paddle-shift,
which was moved to the left. We
made other small but important
adjustments as well.
“This aspect was particularly
important for me because I wanted
to test my abilities to concentrate.
I’m very happy about that aspect
of it. Everything went very well.”
While he is eager to get back to
driving on a track, Kubica highlighted
the benefits of contesting rallies
while he is still recuperating. He also
revealed that during his time on the
Kubica celebrates
his rally victory
sidelines – there were 580 days
between his crash and the start of last
weekend’s event – he devised a new
system for his pacenotes.
“I wanted to try [the pacenotes]
in competition with my co-driver,” he
said. “It worked well, so now I want to
check it on a longer rally. In particular
it contains a 26-kilometre stage that
will be run twice. That will be a very
important test for my physical
strength and concentration.
“People who are used to driving
on circuits tend not to realise how
demanding a stage as long as that is,
because on a track there are always
some straights where a driver can
relax a bit. That’s not the case in
rallying; it’s corner after corner, and
even when there are some short
straights you can’t relax for a second.”
FinallY GeTTinG sOme ansWers
After 19 months away from
competition, during which he
underwent 16 operations, Kubica said
that he was satisfied with how his
recovering body had handled the
comeback last weekend.
“After so many months spent in
hospitals and rehabilitation centres,
it’s really great to come back and feel
the atmosphere of competition,” he
said. “There was a bit of emotion, but
most of all I’m happy to have enjoyed
news
Pit & Paddock
Right hand/arm is
still compromised
What could Kubica race?
The restricted movement of Robert
Kubica’s right arm, particularly his
elbow, has played a significant part
in his staying away from singleseaters
since returning to driving
after his accident.
If those limitations were to remain
in place, then the Pole is unlikely ever
to be able to comfortably squeeze
back into a cockpit as cramped as
a Formula 1 car. There would be no
room for his elbow to be out by his
side while driving, as it has to be
in his current state of fitness.
While he has recently tested a
factory Ford Fiesta WRC, the fact that
DTM
SPoRTSCaRS
Kubica had the controls modified
on his Subaru Impreza so that the
paddle-shift was operated entirely by
his left hand suggests that categories
with more conventional sequential
gearshifts (such as the WRC and
touring cars) may be too difficult.
But there are still options. The
DTM switched to a paddle-shift
system this year, and the majority
of sportscar categories (prototype
and GT) use them as well. But a
switch to endurance racing could
require him to be placed with
team-mates willing to drive a
car with modified controls.
WRC
Subaru’s controls
were easy to adapt
myself and found a few answers
that I was hoping for. Before coming
to this rally I had no particular fixed
objectives, because after a year and
a half away I didn’t know how my
body would react to it.
“Everything went according to plan
though, and that’s the most important
answer that I’ve had from this rally.”
September 13 2012 autosport.com 15

this week in f1
ALOnsO’s eARLY
BRUsh with feRRARi
Former Ferrari F1 boss Jean Todt has revealed that he tried to sign Fernando Alonso 12 years ago.
“I wanted him,” Todt told Gazzetto dello Sport. “After his F3000 victory at Spa in 2000 [pictured
above], I contacted his manager who came to my house in Maranello and we wrote down a preliminary
agreement. Instead [Flavio] Briatore then hired him and I was left disappointed.”
Caterham and Marussia
teams both started their
50th grands prix at Monza
since coming in as Lotus
and Virgin respectively.
They share the record for
most starts for a team
50The
without a point.
pIcS: cOATeS, DuNbAR, ebRey/LAT
MA MAkES HISTORy
AT MONzA
Ma Qing Hua last
weekend became the
first Chinese driver to
participate in a Formula 1
session on a grand prix
weekend at Monza. The
24-year-old completed 26
laps in the HRT raced by
Narain karthikeyan. He
was 24th fastest in the
session, lapping 1.908s
off team-mate Pedro
de la Rosa’s time.
TODT’S F1
WARNING
DI RESTA SIGNS WITH
BUTTON MANAGEMENT
Force India’s Paul di Resta has joined Jenson
Button’s The Sports Partnership management
stable. TSP, formed by Button along with manager
Richard Goddard, had been advising the Scot for
several months but it was recently formalised.
news
pit & paddock
I don’t care who
they are – Lewis
Hamilton, Fernando
Alonso or Sebastian
Vettel – they are
not beyond getting
stopped for one or
two races
Ex-F1 driver and occasional FIA
driver steward Derek Warwick
on the power of race bans.
shORteR GRAnDs
PRiX sUGGesteD
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has called
on F1 to consider shorter races and the possibility
of double-header events. “One-and-a-half hours is
a long time for young people,” he said. “Maybe it
is good instead to have the race in two parts.”
FIA president Jean Todt has
warned that Formula 1 will
become “unsustainable” if costs
are not slashed. Todt, who met
with Ferrari president Luca di
Montezemolo and bernie
ecclestone last week, wants
expenditure cut by up to a third. Eric Boullier, boss of the Gravity Sport Management
stable that looks after Lotus sub Jerome d’Ambrosio,
believes the Belgian’s performance in the Italian GP
has boosted his chances of an F1 race seat next year.
“If any team had any doubts, they understand now
that he is fast and can have a place in F1,” he said.
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If Lewis Hamilton really did
talk as he tweets, and if he
really does join Mercedes,
what would he make of the
current car? Time to listen
in on some street talk
from deepest Stevenage
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COMMENT
pit & paddock
Mark HugHes
grand prix editor
so, at Valencia in February 2013,
Lewis Hamilton tries this
year’s Formula 1 Mercedes
W03 for the first time, with Ross
Brawn in eager attendance, keen to
know what the world’s fastest driver
makes of the car that Nico Rosberg
and Michael Schumacher have
struggled with in 2012. After an
installation lap, Lewis is straight
back out there for a flat-out 15-lap
stint. He trails back, cuts the engine,
and the whole team is listening in
as Ross begins to download him.
“So Lewis, how bad is it?”
There’s a pause… Then Lewis
begins his appraisal.
“I ain’t givin’ you no shit, yo low
speed grip be a big hit. But I gotta
let ya kno that yo aero is low and
yo tyre deg be neg.”
“I’m not altogether sure what
you’re talking about, Lewis. Are you
saying you believe the F1 W03 is
deficient in high-speed aero?”
“Yo, the man Ross he ain’t
stu-pid, the knowledge and him
they be cu-pid. He kno how I speak
as the info does leak, it just needs
him to see how I is freak-ed.”
“Well, that’s quite an interesting
observation for your first run,
Lewis. I know that Nico has said
all along that he thinks the car
is mechanically very good. But
he’s felt that it’s high-speed
aero is inconsistent.”
“Yo my man Nico he’s my good
friend. Our harmony will last past
the week-end. I ain’t sayin’ he a
fool, but talking all that shit, he
ain’t usin’ the tool. He just got
to learn how to de-fend.”
“I see. So you believe that with
this car you would have been able
to take advantage of the new-tyre
grip to get grid position and
then defend to retain position
as the grip deteriorated?”
“Aye.”
“Do you think you will be able
to maintain more momentum in
the high-speed oversteer corners?
Because from what I’ve seen Nico
With Lenny ‘Ted’ Kravitz:
“Ain’t you the fly from Sky?”
and Michael were very evenly
matched in that department, as if
they were both able to easily access
all of what was there. It was in the
low-speed corners where Nico
was finding an edge. I was thinking
if we could give them a car that
had much more high-speed aero
grip, it would be interesting to
see where the limits of each were
then, and whether Michael could
actually have an edge there.”
“Yo kno Ross that I like you –
aye? But I find that Mike he’s a slow
guy. He ain’t rapidly trippin’ the
songs he was drippin’ – way back
in the day when he hi-fly.”
“Well, I think there could be
something in that, Lewis. But
could we be more specific?”
“I think this Merc need the big
wheels, all chrome and fat be the
real deal. Yo get more rear-end grip
and we’re not looking so sick and I’ll
drive like a mofo and we’ll get real.”
“But we’re limited by regulation
on wheel widths, Lewis.”
“I say we take our legal muscles
to Brussels, campaign for us human
rights. Have them legal vultures say
we got grounds that be culture.”
“Well, we could try that Lewis.
But in the meantime I think we’ll
make up time on the McLarens
with our pitstops.”
“Yeah ain’t that the truth, the
McLaren stops they go hipp-idyhopp-idy-hibbidy.”
“Well yes, they seem to have had
a few problems. Could I ask what
you thought of our double DRS?”
“You doublin’ the troublin’ man.
You switch that flow off the front
wing – the drag it’s tres bon, but
grip won’t switch on. Yo get in the
turn, the front tyre do burn, then
grip-up and won’t let you re-turn.”
Et cetera…
‘‘Lewis trails back, cuts the
engine and the team listens in’’
September 13 2012 autosport.com 19

SUSPEnSIOn
Geometry kept the same but
some parts reinforced due
to increased speeds
gP3
Public run for GP3 this year
New GP3/13 machine to take part in end-of-season collective tests following Italian Grand Prix unveiling
gP3 teams are likely to get
their first proper look at
the championship’s new car
during this year’s end-of-season
collective tests.
Series organisers plan to have all
of the upgraded GP3/13 machines
delivered to the teams before the
end of the year. The firstgeneration
car, which has been
raced since the series was born
for the 2010 season, will get its
last outing at the traditional
post-season tests. And GP2/3
technical director Didier Perrin
told AUTOSPORT that the 2013
development car is likely to be on
track as well during those days.
“At the end of the year we will
probably run the car during the
post-season testing,” he said. “So
all the teams can see the car on
20 autosport.com September 13 2012
track and we can put more
mileage on it and make it ready
to be delivered.
“All of the cars will be delivered
before the end of the year, so the
teams will have plenty of time to
prepare for the first tests [in 2013].”
Perrin believes that the new car,
which includes a more powerful
normally-aspirated engine to
replace the turbocharged unit
used for the past three years, will
be even easier for teams to work
on than the original GP3/10.
“The GP3/13 is really easy to
operate, and already it is very
reliable, which is a nice surprise,”
he said. “The teams will get a
nice surprise too in terms of
operating the car, it’s even easier
than it was with the turbo. It’s
very straightforward.”
Perrin believes that the
development tests carried out so
far by former GP2 racer Ben Hanley
have confirmed that the series has
achieved its aim of making the new
car more difficult to drive than its
predecessor. He added that it is
likely to be around three seconds
per lap faster than the current car.
“Ben’s first comment was that
now he has to take care of the
throttle,” he said. “With the
existing car, considering the level
of downforce it was relatively easy
to get flat on the throttle coming
out of a corner. Now you have to
be gentle, which is what we want.
“We said to Dallara that we
wanted exactly the same level of
downforce as the previous car,
so with more power it is more
difficult to drive. We could have
IndYCAR
Bourdais wants IndyCar stay with Dragon
SEbASTIEN bOuRDAIS hAS INVITED
Dragon Racing owner Jay Penske to
improve the terms of his offer if he is
serious about his claims of wanting to
build the team around the Frenchman.
Penske recently said that Bourdais
was integral to his team’s plans for the
foreseeable future (see AUTOSPORT,
EngInE
Switch from a 280bhp
four-cylinder turbo
engine to a 400bhp
normally-aspirated V6
TYRES
Dimensions will stay the
same but pirelli working
on new compounds
August 30). Bourdais echoed Penske’s
desire to stay together, but said that
some details still need to be worked out.
“It’s in [Penske’s] hands,” Bourdais
told AUTOSPORT. “He can pick up the
option any time, and I’ll sign the deal
if he wants to change the terms a little
bit. I want to keep going, Neil [Fife,
Bourdais’ engineer] wants to keep
going, and Jay wants to keep going,
so as long as the money’s there, there’s
no reason why we wouldn’t do it.”
Bourdais drove his last scheduled
race of the season at Baltimore two
weeks ago. Katherine Legge will
drive at Fontana this weekend.
BOdYWORK
new bodywork on original
chassis to bring car
closer to the look of Gp2
New car looks
very different
made it even faster, but that would
have been detrimental to our target
of preparing drivers for GP2. We
wanted a car that behaves in the
same way as a GP2 car, so this
will be much more difficult to
drive than the first GP3.”
Perrin pledges ‘GP2-like’ car
→
Bourdais wants
improved deal
P45 Monza report

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IndYCAR
Indy double-headers planned
FuLL-LENGTh DOubLE-hEADER
race weekends are among the ideas
being considered to build upon the
momentum of a revitalised IndyCar
series as it heads into 2013.
Series CEo Randy bernard has
long stated his wish for the current
15-round calendar to be expanded to
19 races next year. At least two new
events are expected to join the
schedule, with Houston already
confirmed and others, including
Pocono, Road America and a street
race in Providence, Rhode Island, all
having been rumoured. but bernard
told AuToSPoRT that the 19 events
might not necessarily translate into
as many weekends, with plans being
considered that would give selected
events two full-length races.
“We have to try a couple of
double-headers,” he said. “We’ve
been doing a tremendous amount of
homework on it, and we think there
Pair collided at Silverstone
BRITISH F3
Carlin appeals
Harvey penalty
bRITISh FORMuLA 3 INTERNATIONAL
Series prime movers are hoping that a
potentially title-deciding appeal is
resolved before the final round.
Carlin has appealed Jack Harvey’s
30-second time penalty for a collision
with Pipo derani while trying to take
the lead in the second race at Silverstone
last weekend.
The result dropped him from second
to 10th, costing him 14 points. He is 23
points behind team-mate Jazeman Jaafar
and 17 behind Fortec Motorsport driver
Felix Serralles going into the finale at
donington Park on September 29-30.
now the MSA is being urged to hear
the appeal within the next two weeks.
Team boss Trevor Carlin said: “The
penalty is bullshit and this is absolutely
the wrong decision. The car behind
[derani] rammed the car in front – it
was his responsibility.”
Harvey, who had two more penalties
over the Silverstone weekend, added:
“I’d not had so many penalties during
my whole career before this weekend.
I must have thrown away a chain letter!”
are some very strong upsides. but
it needs to be at races that we think
really lend themselves to it, too.”
unlike the ‘Twin 225’ event that
ran at Texas Motor Speedway in
2011, both races in the 2013
double-headers would serve as
standalone rounds, with full points
and full prize money awarded for
each. bernard would not elaborate on
Two-race Texas format
in 2011 was successful
the anticipated benefits, although
AuToSPoRT understands that
stronger attendances, opportunities
to reach broader TV audiences and
reduced costs are among the
expected advantages. other likely
developments include standing starts
at some races, and an expansion of
the downforce-reduction efforts that
were successfully trialled at Texas.
ALMS/gRAnd-AM
GTE confirmed for new
uS series; LMP1 ditched
ThE LE MANS GTE CLASS WILL
be part of the new series
created by the merger of
Grand-Am and the American
Le Mans Series for 2014.
The confirmation that GTE,
which is known as GT in the
ALMS, will be part of the series
was one of the few firm details
to come out of the press
conference announcing the
merger at Daytona last week.
ALMS CEO Scott Atherton,
who will become part of the
new group set up to run the
series, stated that cars such as
the Chevrolet Corvette C6.R
and the Ferrari 458 Italia
would form part of the grid at
the opening round at Daytona
in February 2014.
“I’m going to go on the
record and say that it will
absolutely be in addition to
what has, in modern times,
been at the Daytona 24
Hours,” he said.
ALMS owner Don Panoz as
good as confirmed that there
would be no LMP1 category.
He described the class as a
“manufacturers’ playpen” and
said, “we are not thinking
about an LMP1-type class”.
Firm details of the class
structure or a name for the
new series were not divulged.
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Announcement
came last week
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AUTOSPORT SAYS...
GLENN FREEMAN
NEWS EDITOR
glenn.freeman
@haymarket.com
Not everyone is going to miss the drone
of the original GP3 engine. Those who
return to a Formula 1 paddock in the morning
nursing a fuzzy head will get a shock next
year when the once distant, almost peaceful
buzz of an early GP3 session is replaced with
the rasp of the new V6 engine. But aside
from that, pretty much everyone else will be
pleased that the cars have ‘proper’ motors.
The increase in power (and decrease in
laptime) also begs the question of where
GP3 is placing itself on the ladder.
Series bosses admit that they have had a
look at what rival championships are up to,
and with Formula Renault 3.5 placing itself
almost alongside GP2 on pace now, Bruno
Michel & co may have spotted a gap in the
market. Formula 3
aficionados will
hope that the
increased gap
between F3 and
‘new’ GP3 will be
a boost to the
category they love
so much, as well.
Reducing the
driver’s step up
to GP2 from GP3
makes sense, as
Finding ‘fillers’
may be harder
does making the smaller car look like its
big brother in the bodywork department.
Increasing the challenge for the drivers
will make the talent easier to spot at the
front, but it could make grid fillers more
difficult to attract as they might not fancy
being further off the pace and at risk of
ringing up a higher damage bill trying to
keep up with the next Mitch Evans.
REMEMBER WHEn…
1989 SEASOn
A British F3 title was decided post-season?
It wasn’t until early 1990 that the ’89 title
was decided. David Brabham had a technical
exclusion overturned on appeal, and claimed
the crown from Allan McNish.
September 13 2012 autosport.com 21

Silverstone 15 -16 September
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LONDON 2012 pARALYMpiCS
GOLDEN BOY
Two-time CART champion Alex Zanardi
won Paralympic Gold in the H4 road race
and time trial at Brands Hatch last week.
He added a silver in the team time trial.
FORMULA 3
Nasr set for Macau GP
British F3 champion lines up to partner da Costa in VW-backed Carlin superteam
Reigning British Formula 3
champion Felipe Nasr looks set
to return to the category for the
prestigious end-of-season Macau
Grand Prix in November.
The Brazilian, a GP2 Series
podium finisher this season, is
tipped to join GP3 frontrunner
Antonio Felix da Costa in a
Volkswagen-supported ‘superteam’
run by top British F3 squad Carlin.
Nasr won his F3 title with Carlin,
and team boss Trevor Carlin told
AUTOSPORT: “He’s a good driver
but we’re not making any comment
except to say he’d be a driver
we’d like. But then again, we’d
like Marco Wittmann, Edoardo
Mortara, da Costa…
“It’s fair to say that we like
winning drivers – and they’re
all winning drivers.”
Carlin added that it is not a
problem for racers to switch from
other higher categories for Macau.
He cited the example of Robert
Kubica, who, as the newly-crowned
Formula Renault 3.5 champion,
finished runner-up in 2005.
“It didn’t hurt Kubica,” said
Carlin. “A few months later he was
in Formula 1 as a result of his
Macau performance.”
Da Costa, who came close to the
GP3 title with Carlin this season,
and also races in Formula Renault
3.5, said: “Last year [with Hitech
Racing] I was on the front row
and first gear broke. It was horrible.
“I can’t leave F3 and Macau like
that, I have to go back. I’ve got
unfinished business and it’s
looking good.
“Some guys go back to Macau
just for fun, but I know I can be
quick there and I want to go back
and fight for the win. If it works
with the schedule around the F1
test, November could be a very
good month for me.”
→
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Nasr was second
at Macau last year
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iN BRiEF
Di Grassi’s new drive
Di GRASSi’S FORMULA E SEAT
Ex-F1 racer Lucas di Grassi has been
named as the development driver for
the new FIA Formula E Championship,
which is due to begin in 2014. French
firm Formulec will build the race
examples of the F 01 for the series.
iNDY FRONTRUNNERS TEST
Eight IndyCar drivers including title
contenders Will Power and Ryan
Hunter-Reay tested at Fontana, site of
this weekend’s finale, last Thursday.
No times were released from the test.
BMW DTM TEST FOR YOUNGSTERS
GT ace Maxime Martin and GP2 race
winner Fabio Leimer will both test for
BMW’s DTM squad later this year. The
marque’s regular test driver Marco
Wittmann will also take part.
KENSETH CONFiRMS GiBBS DEAL
Matt Kenseth will drive for Joe Gibbs
Racing in next year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup,
taking the seat vacated by Penske-bound
Joey Logano. Ricky Stenhouse Jr will take
the Roush seat vacated by Kenseth. Ryan
Newman, meanwhile, has extended his
Stewart Haas deal to the end of 2013.
BRUNDLE JOiNS OAK iN BRAZiL
Alex Brundle will drive for OAK Racing
at the Interlagos FIA World Endurance
Championship event this weekend. He will
share one of the team’s two Morgan-Nissan
2012 LMP2s with Bertrand Baguette and
Dominik Kraihamer.
AUDi WiNS ZOLDER CLASSiC
Audi took a fourth 24-hour race win of
2012 last weekend. The marque followed
up on its Le Mans, Nurburgring and Spa
triumphs with a Zolder 24 Hours win for a
WRT Audi R8 LMS ultra shared by Anthony
Kumpen, Marco Bonanomi, Laurens
Vanthoor and Edward Sandstrom.
September 13 2012 autosport.com 23

ADaimler Brand
Floats like/Stings like.
The newMercedes-Benz SL is theperfect balance of agility
and power. Its aluminium bodyshell trims125kgoffthe weight,
while themuscular new4.7 litreV8engine packs a700Nm
punch.The lithe SL-Class. Beauty withasting in its tail.
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Official government fuel consumption figures in mpg (litres per 100 km) for the new SL-Class range: Urban:16.6(17.0)-
28.5(9.9). Extra urban: 33.6(8.4)-46.3(6.1). Combined: 24.4(11.6)-37.7(7.5). CO2 Emissions: 270-169g/km. Model featured
is aMercedes-Benz SL 500 at £90,235.00 on-the-road including optional AMG Sports package at £5,535.00 and Cerrusite Grey metallic paint (matt finish) at £1,255.00 (price
includes VAT, delivery, 12 months’ Road Fund Licence, number plates, new vehicle registration fee and fuel). Prices correct at time of going to print.

pics: mcklein.de, kalisz/lat Hyundai
WRC
Hyundai back in WRC
Korean car giant to announce programme at Paris Motor Show. By daVid eVans
H
yundai will announce its
return to the World Rally
Championship at the Paris
Motor Show later this month,
ending a nine-year absence.
The Korean car giant’s arrival in
the sport means three of the world’s
five biggest manufacturers will be
present as full WRC competitors
by 2014, with Hyundai joining
Volkswagen and Ford. That number
could be set to rise from three to
four as Toyota is considering a
Yaris-based WRC entry (see
AUTOSPORT, June 28) and has
already developed a 1.6-litre
turbocharged engine.
Hyundai will reveal its first
1.6-litre-engined World Rally Car in
Paris. The machine, which is being
developed in Korea and at Hyundai’s
European base in Offenbach,
Germany, will be based on a
three-door version of the i20.
While the project has yet to be
confirmed, AUTOSPORT sources
Sainz has tested
the Polo R WRC
within the series have admitted
that the firm will run a full WRC
programme, possibly as soon as
next season.
The source said: “This has been
one of the best-kept secrets, but
yes, Hyundai is coming and the
official confirmation comes in Paris.
The i20 WRC will be on show, but
obviously this is not going to be
the complete car. The car is under
construction right now, with a lot
of testing and development still to
come. What’s not completely
certain is how much we will see of
the car next year, but for sure they
will be running a complete
programme in 2014.”
Hyundai left the WRC under a
cloud midway through 2003, when
the team – then run by Milton
Keynes-based firm MSD – was
hit by financial difficulties. After
building a two-wheel-drive Coupe,
Hyundai switched to the Accent
WRC and enjoyed its most
WRC
Sainz primed for Catalunya VW outing
TWo-Time WoRld RAllY CHAmPioN
carlos sainz could return to the stages
for the first time in seven years to give
Volkswagen’s polo R WRc its series
debut on november’s catalunya Rally.
sainz, 50, who last competed in the
WRc in 2005, has admitted he would
relish the opportunity to return to the
spanish stages in front of his home fans.
Volkswagen had been hoping to run its
first World Rally car on the salou-based
WRc finale, but if the Fia fails to grant
Hyundai’s last WRC
effort came in 2003
successful season in 2002 when
it won three stages and scored
10 manufacturer points.
More news of the programme
– including team personnel and
the location of its base – is
expected to come from Paris.
While no FIA officials would
discuss negotiations with Hyundai,
one source inside the governing
body told AUTOSPORT: “The
WRC has definitely turned a corner
now. Volkswagen’s arrival allied to
more good news on the horizon
[believed to be regarding the
announcement of Red Bull as a
WRC promoter] and now Hyundai
shows the real worth of the
championship. These are really
heavy-hitting corporations coming
to the sport and the series will feel
the full weight of the benefit of
having them involved.”
→
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permission for this, sainz is ready drive
the polo as the course car instead.
“the discussion was to drive the polo
as a zero [course] car,” sainz told
aUtOspORt. “the team logically doesn’t
want to lose the months to work on the
homologation [by homologating it from
november 1 instead of January 1]. it
would be no problem for me to do it, to
try to help the team and help the Rally
catalunya. it would be nice. i am
prepared. But i haven’t heard any more.”
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IN BRIEF
Meeke will drive this
MEEkE to DEMo BENtLEY
kris meeke will return to Rally GB this
week for a single stage. He will drive a
Bentley continental Gt sport on the Hafren
sweet lamb stage tomorrow between the
first and second runs for the international
field as part of a top Gear film.
AIGNER BACk FoR FRANCE
Former production car World Rally
champion andreas aigner will drive
a factory proton on Rallye de France
next month, despite crashing the
malaysian firm’s test car on his first
run in alsace last week.
GB StARt to StAY IN WALES
Rally GB organisers are this week expected
to conclude a deal with Wales to keep
Britain’s round of the WRc in cardiff until
2015. such an agreement would extend
its WRc monopoly to 16 years.
MoRE tYRES oN RALLY GB
the Fia has increased the number of
‘emergency’ tyres available to crews for
this Week’s Rally GB from 10 to 22. each
driver will now have 30 soft tyres and 22
hards from which to make their selection.
the decision has been taken because of
the variable driving conditions expected.
DoNUtS ARE ok IN SPAIN
catalunya Rally organisers are encouraging
drivers to perform a donut in the
Riudencanyes stage by altering the route
to include a loop around a traffic
roundabout next to the end of the stage.
FLoDIN MAkES RACE DEBUt
patrik Flodin made his circuit-racing debut
in the scandinavian chevrolet camaro
cup at knutstorp last weekend. the swede
qualified 12th and made amends for a
race-one dnF with 10th in race two.
WILSoN’S RALLY GB LIVERY
the livery matthew Wilson and scott
martin will run for their WRc return on
Rally GB has been revealed. the pair, who
last competed together in monte carlo,
will drive an m-sport Fiesta WRc.
Wilson’s return livery
September 13 2012 autosport.com 25

cool hamilton
keeps emotion
in check
it was a beautiful performance by the
mclaren star – amid all the speculation
that he won’t be a mclaren star for
much longer. maRk hUGhes reports
italian GP
Monza, September 9
ROUnD 13/20
laPs 53
WinneR
Lewis Hamilton
1h19m41.221s
POle POsitiOn
Lewis Hamilton
1m24.010s
Fastest laP
Nico Rosberg
1m27.239s
Race RatinG
★★★✩✩
No doubt about the
winner, but some
great drives behind
DRiveRs stanDinGs
Alonso 179pts
Hamilton 142pts
Raikkonen 141pts
MilestOnes
l McLaren passes
Williams for most
front-row lockouts
by taking its 62nd
l Hamilton is first
Briton to win Italian
GP since David
Coulthard in 1997
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quAlIfyINg
McLaren on top form as Alonso loses his chance to grab a home pole for Ferrari
↗
Coming into the weekend it was all
about Lewis Hamilton, so it was
only appropriate that he stole the
show on Saturday too. The McLaren’s form
since its Hockenheim reconfiguration has
been irresistible, and that continued into the
highly specialised demands of this superlow-downforce
track. But although Hamilton
and Jenson Button scored the team’s third
front-row lockout of the year, they could
count themselves fortunate, for all the
signs were that the Ferrari in Monza spec,
pushed along by a potent new fuel brew
from Shell, and using more downforce
than the McLarens, was faster.
As Fernando Alonso went fastest in Q1
and Q2, but with no-one really stretching
themselves, it looked like the outcome might
hang on the success or otherwise of Ferrari’s
masterplan of having Felipe Massa and
Alonso tow each other round to enhance the
laps of both. They began their rehearsals
for this in Q2. Into Q3 Alonso towed Massa
down as far as Ascari, then pulled aside
to allow Massa to complete the lap, the
intention then being that the end of Felipe’s
lap would comprise the pit-straight tow
for the beginning of Fernando’s. But a
broken rear roll bar in Alonso’s car meant
he couldn’t even keep up.
Which of course lay the whole thing wide
open for McLaren. Lewis Hamilton had
already nailed a great lap on his first Q3 run,
0.4s up on Massa and Button. On the second
runs Hamilton failed to improve. “I was
two tenths up in the middle sector,” he
explained, “but I was in a train of cars with
Kimi and the two Ferraris in front.” This was
part of the Monza qualifying conundrum:
to get close to other cars to pick up a tow,
but not have them spoil your lap.
On their second runs Button got to within
0.123s of Lewis’s earlier mark and Massa to
within 0.237s, thereby securing the second
and third grid spots respectively. Button
benefited from a 6mph boost from a Vettel
tow, Massa’s grid-counting lap was without
the benefit of a slipstream. Alonso’s sole
completed lap left him last of the Q3 runners
in 10th, and both he and the team were
convinced they’d lost a surefire pole. Even
his Q1 lap on the harder tyre would have
Massa takes conference
mic for first time in ages
qualified him third in Q3, a tenth and a
half away from pole. The team was fully
confident that a 1m 23.5s had been on the
cards, which would have been pole by 0.5s –
or perhaps 0.3s if Hamilton’s second
run hadn’t been interrupted.
Paul di Resta had only one set of option
tyres left in Q3, having used two sets to
ensure graduation from Q2. But the Force
India was working exceptionally well and,
in combination with the difficulties of the
usually more competitive Renault-powered
Red Bulls and Lotuses, Paul’s excellent Q3
lap yielded a superb fourth-fastest time, just
half a tenth slower than Massa. It perhaps
also suggested that the Mercedes engine
had a top-end power advantage over the
Renaults. Unfortunately, an enforced
gearbox change left di Resta with a fiveplace
penalty. At least that was better luck
than team-mate Nico Hulkenberg, who
was left with no fuel pressure due to a
crack in a pipe to the collector pot before
he’d even completed a lap, putting him
to the back of the grid.
Mercedes found its car to be relatively
Vettel was only Red
Bull man to make Q3
well-suited to the short-duration turns and
long straights, and Michael Schumacher
made full use of this and the team’s new aero
package to go fifth quickest with a very tidy
Q3 lap which bettered that of team mate
Nico Rosberg, two places behind. They each
did only one option tyre run in both Q2 and
Q3 as they felt two-lap runs were needed.
Nico complained of his tyres losing the
balance of the car in Q3 and had he repeated
his Q2 time he’d have been fractionally
quicker than Michael.
Splitting the Mercs was Sebastian Vettel’s
Red Bull, and that had to count as a great
result for the reigning champ given that the
RB8 was not at all suited to this track, unable
to shed enough of its downforce and drag
even with a very skinny rear wing. This
was matched to a relatively short seventhgear
ratio and the Red Bulls lurked back in
21st and 22nd on the speed trap. Although
this trait was similar to last year, the RB8
wasn’t as quick onto the straights. Mark
Webber failed to make it into Q3, carrying
a niggling KERS issue with him into the
session, and going only 11th fastest.
Lotus had opted for very little downforce
even by Monza standards and, although the
E20s were fastest through the trap, they were
coming onto the straights significantly slower
than Ferrari and McLaren. It was therefore
something of a struggle for Kimi Raikkonen,
who made it through to Q3 by the skin of his
teeth and went only eighth fastest once he
was there, though an improvement of just a
few hundredths would have made that sixth.
Subbing for Romain Grosjean in the sister
car, Jerome d’Ambrosio was within 0.7s of
Raikkonen in Q2 to line up 16th. With a few
wet laps at Mugello as his only experience
Come on Felipe:
Alonso gives a tow
of the Lotus E20 coming into the weekend,
not much more could seriously have been
asked of him.
The Saubers qualified way less
competitively here than around Spa a week
earlier. Kamui Kobayashi was the team’s
only representative in Q3, ninth fastest.
Sergio Perez got himself too close to Bruno
Senna’s Williams in Q2 and languished back
in 13th. The Williams seemed to be following
a similar performance profile to the Sauber:
quick at Spa, not so here. Pastor Maldonado
was 12th in Q2, 22nd after his bad-boy
penalties were applied. Senna was a couple
of tenths slower in 14th. Both drivers were
puzzled by the car’s reluctance to find
the extra grip of the option tyre.
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Hamilton gets away to
dominate the Italian GP
27C
RACE CONDITIONS
Classic Monza in September – clear and
bright, with ambient temperature climbing
just above mid-20s and track temp of 41C
he conflicted
T
emotions
were obvious
as Lewis
Hamilton
stood atop the
magnificent
Monza podium
after a demonstration of domination.
It had been a 79-minute blur of
perfection, shrugging aside the prerace
concern of exploding front-right
tyres, seeing off the assorted
challenges of Felipe Massa, Jenson
Button and an on-fire Sergio Perez.
Far beneath the podium, looking
up unsmiling, unapplauding, was
a 65-year-old man who in 1998 gave
a phenomenally gifted 13-year-old
kid the break of his life. Conflicts
about past and future raged as
Lewis stood up there in the present,
looking distinctly underwhelmed
about a victory that lifts him to
second in the championship, driving
for a team that has now won three
grands prix on the bounce.
Also on that podium, Fernando
Alonso extended his championship
lead to 37 points with a great alternate
attack/conserve drive that netted him
third from an unpromising 10th on
the grid. Thirty-seven points in
seven races – an average of more
than five points per race – is a lot
to make up on a rival like Alonso.
More worrying still for Hamilton,
there was much to suggest that had
Alonso’s Ferrari not suffered a rare
mechanical failure in qualifying,
Lewis might have been standing on
the step beneath him. Maybe that
was preying on his mind too.
It was as if that podium scene had
awoken him from the protective shell
he’d put around himself coming into
the weekend. He’s lived in a pressure
oven for much of his life, so the
frenzied speculation about whether
he really was going to leave McLaren
for Mercedes probably seemed less
of a big deal from the inside – with
the focus of a grand prix to win –
than to the media world outside.
Two offers on the table; the choice
up to him – to be made some time in
the future. The rest was just noise.
The car was balanced and quick, the
top-end power of its Mercedes engine
perfectly suited to this track, leaving
the Renault-powered Red Bulls
and Lotuses distinctly breathless.
Alonso’s Ferrari was the threat, but
that took care of itself in qualifying.
Which seemed to leave just Button.
That was sorted off the line as
Hamilton got a better start – but not
as good as Massa. An in-car audio
comparison between Button and
Massa tells how the McLaren bogged
down slightly on the upchange to
second, whereas Massa was short-
shifting and using the wheelspin
like a clutch. It was enough to get
Felipe side-by-side with Lewis into
Rettifilo, Hamilton having to feed
him out to the kerb on the left,
forcing him to tuck behind.
Hamilton, Massa, Button they ran
up through Curva Grande, clattering
over the Roggia chicane kerbs before
the short blast to the double Lesmos
and the long undulating stretch under
the crumbling banking down to the
quick left-right-left switchback of
Ascari and the blast to Parabolica,
the long, tyre-punishing curve that
returns the pack to the pit straight.
Glinting colours, screaming noise
echoing off the trees, crazy speeds in
front of the animated tifosi; a classic
Italian Grand Prix was under way on
a beautiful late-summer day, cars
ducking out of the slipstream,
opportunists, chancers and cool
hands feinting, pressuring and
defending, white-walled tyres
edging side-by-side at 200mph.
Down the pack, in 12th, ran the
first silver-walled hard-tyred car –
the Sauber of Perez…
Alonso was on the move, down the
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Alonso makes place on di Resta
inside of Kamui Kobayashi on the
approach to Parabolica, slipstreaming
past the slow-onto-the-straight
Kimi Raikkonen into Rettifilo a
few moments later. Now he was
sixth, with the Red Bull of Sebastian
Vettel and Michael Schumacher’s
Mercedes ahead of him.
Alonso had outaccelerated Paul
di Resta’s Force India off the line,
and gained another place as Nico
Rosberg’s Mercedes sank like a stone
from its sixth-place starting slot,
scrabbling around Rettifilo 11th.
It was the first hint that there was
something amiss with the Merc’s
opening-stint tyres. “We saw on the
formation lap that he had just no
grip,” said team boss Ross Brawn,
“and this was the same set on which
he’d not been happy in Q3. We
weren’t looking forward to the start
and it was as bad as we feared. Both
Nico and Michael lost most of their
time on that first stint. It’s not
the first time we’ve seen this
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phenomenon.” One theory was
that doing two-lap runs in qualifying
rather than the more commonplace
single lap may have damaged them
in some way.
So the pace of Schumacher,
in fourth, quickly fell away too,
protecting Hamilton, Massa and
Button further. Jenson got side-byside
with Massa a couple of times
into the Roggia chicane but stayed
behind, while Vettel used his DRS
to scrabble past Schumacher into
Rettifilo on the fourth lap and
was soon upon Button’s tail.
The Red Bull was slow at the end
of the straights but looking after its
tyres well again, and Button was soon
having to get defensive from Vettel’s
attack, all of which played further
“At one point we were
on the phone back to
Maranello to decide
the right time to pit”
Fry on Ferrari IT drama
into the hands of Hamilton who just
paced himself back to Massa, edging
out a couple of tenths here, three or
four there, until the cushion was
out to around 3s by the eighth lap.
By this time Alonso had hit the
DRS to pass Schumacher into the first
chicane, Michael immediately on
the counter-attack for the next few
corners but Fernando soon pulling
away and catching the Button/Vettel
dice. A crucial foundation had been
built, as Alonso explained: “Getting
these places quite early and getting
us with the quick cars opened up the
possibilities of this race for us. It
was more than we were expecting
from 10th on the grid.”
But the emerging sensation was
Perez. One of only four (along with
Jerome d’Ambrosio’s KERS-less
Lotus, Pastor Maldonado’s Williams
and Nico Hulkenberg’s Force India)
DRIVER BY DRIVER by Edd Straw
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7/10
Event rating
SEBASTIAN VETTEL
Red Bull-Renault RB8-04
Start: 5th. Finish: 22nd
overachieved in qualifying
and did well in the race until
the infamous incident with
alonso. there’s needle there
from last year, but Vettel was
always in the firing line for
a penalty given the rules
clarification issued a few
months ago. Was recovering
well when his alternator went.
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Vergne has a
scary retirement
4/10
Event rating
MARK WEBBER
Red Bull-Renault RB8-03
Start: 11th. Finish: 20th
a pretty underwhelming
weekend. couldn’t quite find
the edge that Vettel did to get
into Q3 and never particularly
convincing in the race. he
would have picked up some
points but, while pushing hard
on shot rear tyres, he spun
exiting ascari and retired with
some evil-looking flatspots.
3
Rosberg fights Senna
to choose to start on the hard tyres,
it was apparent that at this phase of
the race it was the quicker tyre as he
began to surge through the field: past
Rosberg on lap two, Bruno Senna’s
Williams a lap later, di Resta on the
sixth lap and his own team-mate
Kobayashi (on the softer tyre) a lap
after that. The moves were coming
easy, the Sauber faster off the curves,
grippier under braking. With a clear
track ahead of him he was lapping as
fast as Hamilton as he closed upon
8/10
Event rating
JENSON BUTTON
McLaren-Mercedes MP4-27-02
Start: 2nd. DNF
pushed hamilton hard in
qualifying but wheelspin at
the start allowed Massa to
jump him. Was on course to
take second, and probably
had everything needed to
keep perez at bay, when a
failure in the fuel system
forced him out and ended
any vague chance of a title tilt.
Perez scythes
through midfield
the tail of the Schumacher/
Raikkonen train, the Lotus being held
up by the Merc but too slow onto
the straights to find a passing place,
its low wing merely allowing it to
catch up by the end of the straight
what it had lost in the beginning.
Perez sat patiently, knowing that
this stint was going to be long. The
hard tyre had to be run long into the
53-lap race because the pre-race
estimation from Pirelli was that the
medium was good only for 23-24
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9/10
Event rating
LEWIS HAMILTON
McLaren-Mercedes MP4-27-04
Start: 1st. Finish: 1st
hamilton kept saying that all
the talk about his future
wasn’t a distraction and he
made damned sure that it
wasn’t. Fortunate that alonso
hit trouble in qualifying, but in
the race he was immaculate.
he wasn’t fazed by perez
closing in, banging in a few
quick laps when he needed to.
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9/10
Event rating
FERNANDO ALONSO
Ferrari F2012-296
Start: 10th. Finish: 3rd
Did alonso let his head drop
when a broken anti-roll bar
cost him the “easiest” pole?
no. incisive early on, and after
that he did what he could,
surviving his alarming grassy
moment at the curva grande,
and the resulting car damage,
to take a vital third place. at
times, he can do no wrong.
laps before the front-right wore its
inner shoulder down to the canvas,
potentially triggering a catastrophic
delamination. The hard was reckoned
good for around 30 laps.
This in fact had been the big
concern for most – but not all – of
the teams going into the race. Last
year the problem wasn’t apparent
because the tyres were blistering
their outer shoulders long before
the wear became a problem. But this
year’s flatter profile, in combination
with the 0.3mm thinner gauge used
for here and Spa (less rubber on
the tyre, to prevent heat build-up
of the outer shoulder that triggers
blistering), revealed that the inner
front being dragged unloaded
across the track through Parabolica
wore a finger-thin strip from
the inner shoulder.
The problem had been discovered
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8/10
Event rating
FELIPE MASSA
Ferrari F2012-294
Start: 3rd. Finish: 4th
Was bang on the form needed
to justify Ferrari considering
keeping him on. Wouldn’t have
been ahead of alonso on the
grid but for his team-mate’s
problem, but had a good go at
passing hamilton for the lead
at the start and troubled
button before having to
give alonso third place.

on Friday on several cars. It didn’t
affect the grip of the tyre at all,
because the rest of its surface still
had plenty of rubber. So the first
you’d know of it would be the
appearance of that white stripe, after
which you might get two laps before
it failed spectacularly. One-stopping
is by far the quickest way around this
place, with its low tyre degradation,
long pit lane and super-fast start-
finish straight. But one-stopping
required stint lengths perilously close
to the limits of that medium tyre and
going into the race several teams, not
least McLaren, were unsure about
whether they might have to convert
to two-stops. If this realisation came
too late, beyond the optimum for a
two-stop, then your strategy could
effectively become bust.
Hamilton was very aware of this
and taking just as much from the car
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8/10
Event rating
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER
Mercedes F1 W03-09
Start: 4th. Finish: 6th
outqualified rosberg and
beat him in the race. that
said, rosberg arguably made
better use of the tyres in the
second and third stints. it
wouldn’t have taken much
to beat raikkonen and, had
schumacher matched his
team-mate in the final stint,
he would have done.
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7/10
Event rating
NICO ROSBERG
Mercedes F1 W03-07
Start: 6th. Finish: 7th
Very much a slow burner
of a weekend for rosberg.
eclipsed by schumacher in
qualifying, who looked to
have the legs on him in
practice as well, he made a
bad start and was mired in the
midfield. but made the most
of fresher rubber to climb from
13th to seventh in final stint.
as he needed, no more. This was
being made easier from around
the eighth lap as Massa’s rear tyres
began to suffer heat degradation –
something that had not been
apparent in the long runs on Friday.
As he began nursing them, so
Hamilton gradually extended his gap
and Button renewed his attack on
the Brazilian. This was a somewhat
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8/10
Event rating
KIMI RAIKKONEN
Lotus-Renault E20-05
Start: 7th. Finish: 5th
the Lotus e20 was less
competitive than for a long
time, so raikkonen has
reason to be pretty happy
with his salvaging of fifth. it
was a tight race, with the twostopping
Mercedes closing
in late on, and it’s hard to see
that he could have done
much better than 10 points.
Schumacher ran strongly but
Merc had heavy tyre wear
taxing part of the race for Ferrari, as
its telemetry, TV screens and remote
link back to the factory had gone
down. “It was like stepping back in
time,” marvelled technical chief Pat
Fry. “At one point we were on the
phone back to Maranello to decide
when was the right time to pit!”
Massa stayed out, still in radio touch.
The two Mercedes of Rosberg and
Schumacher were in on laps 14 and
15 respectively for the first of a
planned two stops each, very much
out of synch with the attempted solo
stops of almost everyone else. “We
didn’t have a concern about the front
tyres actually,” related Brawn. “We
were more concerned with potential
heat deg of the rears.” With the failed
attempt at a one-stop in Spa fresh in
mind, the feeling was that the 20s of
the extra stop could be bought and
10
7/10
Event rating
JEROME D’AMBROSIO
Lotus-Renault E20-03
Start: 15th. Finish: 13th
Don’t underestimate just how
up against it the belgian was.
should have been a tenth or
two faster in qualifying and,
when he lost Kers after six
laps of the race, he was on the
back foot. reckoned a point
was on with Kers, which
is plausible as his pace on
mediums late on was good.
Button soon pulled
away from this pack
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PAUL DI RESTA
Force India-Merc VJM05-02
Start: 9th. Finish: 8th
startling qualifying pace to go
just 0.3s off pole. but a fiveplace
grid penalty for a
gearbox change, combined
with the fact that the team
seemed to hit the sweet spot
for qualifying rather than
race, meant a hard sunday.
clash with senna was dicey,
but eighth was decent result.
RepoRt
italian gP
paid for with the lower heat
degradation of a car that’s prone to
it, and that there would be easy
pickings on offer late in the race
as the one-stoppers limped home
on very old rubber.
With Schumacher out of the way,
Raikkonen picked up a chunk of pace,
but he was pulling Perez along in
his slipstream and, on the 17th lap,
the Sauber went clean around the
outside of the Lotus through the first
part of the Roggia chicane. At the
end of the lap Kimi pitted for a new
set of primes, Lotus turning him
round in 3.2s, helped by its new
articulated jacks. Later d’Ambrosio
would make a record-breaking 2.44s
stop. If Raikkonen was to remain on
a one-stop, he was consigned to
making those hards last 36 laps.
Massa was now beginning to
struggle quite badly and, unable to
get the power down well exiting the
first chicane, he was slow up to and
through Curva Grande, allowing
Button to swoop past and cut back in
front of the Ferrari before the Roggia
chicane on the 19th lap. Massa was
forced to come in at the end of the
lap – earlier than ideal, for it
dropped him into traffic. Armed
with that knowledge, Button still
had enough tyre life and pace to
stay out for another three laps,
7/10
Event rating
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6/10
Event rating
NICO HULKENBERG
Force India-Merc VJM05-03
Start: 24th. Finish: 21st
effectively waved goodbye to
any points when a part failure
in the fuel system caused him
to grind to a halt in Q1. Despite
struggling with the brakes he
made decent progress and
was within reach of senna,
who scored the final point,
when he declared the brake
problem “undriveable”.
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going considerably faster than
Massa. Red Bull responded to
Massa’s stop by bringing Vettel in on
the next lap, with Alonso following
him down the pitlane. They left in
the same order, almost side-by-side,
and rejoined behind Massa and
a pack of yet-to-stop cars.
Button arrived at the McLaren
pit at the end of the 22nd lap and,
despite a couple of seconds’ delay
getting the front-right attached, he
got out well clear of the pack in
which the Ferraris and Vettel were
embroiled. He looked headed for a
surefire second place as Hamilton
pitted from the lead a lap later and
got out 8.4s ahead of Button. The
teams all examined the inner
shoulders of the front-rights that
had just come off their cars and it
was clear that the track rubbering
in had made the tyre situation less
marginal. “There were signs of it
beginning,” reported McLaren
technical head Paddy Lowe, “but they
would have been able to do another
three laps or so without problem.”
Leading the race upon Hamilton’s
stop was Perez, scheduled to run for
another seven laps yet on his hard
tyres in order not to give too long
a stint for the mediums. His tyres
were past their best, but he couldn’t
come in yet and he was treading
water for a few laps as Sauber’s
inventive strategy played out.
Hamilton, Button, Massa, Vettel,
Trouble ahead: Alonso
latches onto Vettel
DRIVER BY DRIVER by Edd Straw
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6/10
Event rating
KAMUI KOBAYASHI
Sauber-Ferrari C31-02
Start: 8th. Finish: 9th
rather overshadowed by his
team-mate, but in fairness to
Kobayashi he beat perez in
qualifying and, by starting on
the medium rubber, he wasn’t
on the strategy for such a
dramatic surge. nonetheless,
even with grip struggles, he
should probably at least have
finished ahead of di resta.
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9/10
Event rating
SERGIO PEREZ
Sauber-Ferrari C31-03
Start: 12th. Finish: 2nd
Has to be marked down a little
for qualifying, but race drive
was absolutely outstanding.
made good progress during
his long stint on the hard tyres
and capitalised on speed of
the mediums in the final 24
laps. made passes when
he needed to, including an
excellent one on raikkonen.
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Alonso and Vettel pit
Alonso, Raikkonen and Rosberg
followed, a pack that was covered
now by half a minute.
Alonso was looking for a way by
Vettel, the Ferrari visibly faster than
the Red Bull but Seb defending hard.
Coming into lap 26 Alonso got a DRS
run going down the pit straight; it
looked as if he’d done enough as they
reached the braking zone, but Vettel
hung on down the inside, veering
towards the Ferrari to dissuade
Alonso from trying to hang
on around the outside.
But Vettel was only delaying the
inevitable and, as they accelerated up
through the gears towards the long
right-handed sweep of Curva Grande,
Alonso had much more momentum
and moved to the left of Vettel. The
positions were a near-identical
reversal of the same two drivers at
the same place last year. This time it
was Vettel who eased Alonso onto
the grass at something north of
180mph in top gear. Alonso was
7/10
Event rating
DANIEL RICCIARDO
Toro Rosso-Ferrari STR7-04
Start: 14th. Finish: 12th
With Toro rosso drifting off
the back of the midfield, it’s
very much an intra-team
battle these days. at monza
ricciardo was the sTr man
on form, shading Vergne in
qualifying and having a pretty
good race… until he ran out of
fuel at parabolica on the last
lap while on course for a point.
Hamilton passed
Perez during mid-race
desperately fighting for control, the
car bouncing through the grass and
edges of the gravel before rejoining.
Although he didn’t know exactly
what had been damaged, Alonso
knew there would be some. Actually
he had holed the floor, damaged part
of the diffuser and bent a damper
mount. It didn’t deter him much and
there was a clinical cold-edged focus
about how he simply got himself
right back onto Vettel’s tail. Three
laps later at the same place he
feigned a move around the same side,
then switched to the right, the Ferrari
comfortably ahead as they arrived at
the following chicane. In due course
Vettel would be awarded a drivethrough
for not leaving a car’s width
of room to his left. Next in Alonso’s
sights – third-placed Massa – would
doubtless prove somewhat more
compliant, and so it came to be.
Perez – who had been repassed for
the lead by Hamilton – finally came
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5/10
Event rating
JEAN-ERIC VERGNE
Toro Rosso-Ferrari STR7-03
Start: 16th. DNF
can be as frustrating as he is
frustrated. Has a lot of ability,
yet regularly overdrives in
qualifying. This happened
again at monza while looking
like he could have the speed
to eclipse ricciardo. Had
a quiet race until his rear
suspension gave out under
braking for the first chicane.
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6/10
Event rating
PASTOR MALDONADO
Williams-Renault FW34-02
Start: 22nd. Finish: 11th
His spa antics ruined his
chances of points, with a
combined total of 10 places
of grid penalty. Williams
wasn’t especially competitive
at monza so his race was
respectable, and crucially
clean, coming within 0.6s of a
point despite strategy being
compromised by a puncture.
in for his stop at the end of the 29th
lap. He got going again between
Raikkonen and Rosberg, now on
fresh, softer rubber. Just as surely
as the hards had been the faster tyre
earlier in the race, so the track had
now come dramatically towards the
medium. Perez was on the right
tyre for almost the whole race,
something that no-one who had
qualified in the top 10 was able to
do. Now he began to set the track
alight. With 23 laps to go he was
24s adrift of the lead and closing
fast once more on Raikkonen.
Button had got himself to within
7.2s of Hamilton’s lead before Lewis
responded, and for three laps they
were setting near-identical times and
extending their advantage over the
two Ferraris behind. Then Button
pulled off to the side of the track as
he approached Parabolica for the 33rd
time, the McLaren’s engine starved
of fuel by some sort of pressure leak
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6/10
Event rating
BRUNO SENNA
Williams-Renault FW34-03
Start: 13th. Finish: 10th
Was a couple of tenths slower
than maldonado in qualifying.
scrapes with rosberg and di
resta made his race difficult,
and arguably he’d have been
better off on a two-stopper.
but, thanks to ricciardo’s lastlap
woe, senna salvaged
a point from a tough
weekend for Williams.

in the system. The dying ember of
Button’s title prospects, reignited
in Spa last week, are surely
extinguished now.
A lap later Vettel was taking his
drive-through penalty, dropping from
fourth to eighth. He was now just
behind team mate Mark Webber,
who’d been having a difficult race,
battling past the midfield runners
but using up a lot of his tyres in the
process. He was relatively powerless
to defend as Vettel almost
immediately passed him.
Perez was upon Raikkonen by the
35th lap and repeated his earlier move
on the Lotus around the outside of
Roggia chicane, but this time got wide
on the exit, allowing Kimi to grind
back in front. A couple of laps later,
just as Schumacher was making his
second stop from fourth place, Perez
made a move stick on Raikkonen
into the first turn and now he pulled
quickly away in chase of the Ferraris,
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6/10
Event rating
HEIKKI KOVALAINEN
Caterham-Renault CT01-3
Start: 17th. Finish: 14th
solid if unspectacular
weekend on his 50th
appearance for the team.
Qualifying was very good
although the race was a little
tougher, with team-mate
petrov giving him a hard time.
but, as usual, Kovalainen
came home with the
best possible result.
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7/10
Event rating
VITALY PETROV
Caterham-Renault CT01-2
Start: 18th. Finish: 15th
Qualifying was disappointing,
ending up 0.5s off Kovalainen
after complaining of the car
being iffy under braking. but
made up for it in the race,
turning in one of his strongest
performances of the year.
Finished just 0.2s behind
Kovalainen, but race pace
was slightly stronger.
charging along 1s and more per lap
faster on those softer tyres.
As Massa surrendered his second
place to Alonso on the 40th lap,
Perez was now with the Ferraris,
Felipe easy meat for the Sauber two
laps later, Alonso the next target.
At this stage McLaren had seen no
need to alert Hamilton to Perez’s
progress. He was 17s behind and
there were just 12 laps to go. Lewis
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6/10
Event rating
PEDRO DE LA ROSA
HRT-Cosworth F112-02
Start: 23rd. Finish: 18th
Veteran spaniard celebrated
his 100th grand prix at
monza, and it’s fair to say
it wasn’t one of his most
memorable. in his own words,
qualifying was average and
the race was similar as he
couldn’t quite get on terms
with Glock. a typically
dependable performance.
Vettel stalks back
had been surprised enough on being
told that Alonso – and not Massa
– was now behind him, impressed
that Fernando had got there from
10th. But as Perez used his DRS to go
around the outside of Alonso on the
approach to Ascari on the 46th lap,
so Lewis was told. The Sauber was
now second and still flying. “He was
coming at me at a second a lap,”
marvelled Lewis, “but I knew it was
near the end and I had a bit of a
margin. But even so I upped the
pace in the last four laps, just to
try to maintain the gap.”
Fourth-placed Raikkonen was
well adrift of Massa and being
quickly caught by the recovering
Vettel when Seb was told urgently to
switch off the engine. Another
alternator failure, just like in
Valencia, just like on Friday here.
This was a model upgraded after the
Valencia problem and now Renault
Sport is desperately trying to
understand what is going wrong, as
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6/10
Event rating
NARAIN KARTHIKEYAN
HRT-Cosworth F112-03
Start: 21st. Finish: 19th
Given that he’s one of the
stronger drivers on the brakes
in F1, it was no surprise to see
Karthikeyan finally outqualify
de la rosa for the first time at
monza. Would have beaten
him in the race but for frontwing
damage and a long stop
to change it, compounded by
having to save fuel.
At least Perez provided
some joy on the podium
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TIMO GLOCK
Marussia-Cosworth MR01-01
Start: 19th. Finish: 17th
arguably should have done
better in qualifying as failed
to improve on his second run
in Q1, blaming it on the tyres.
in the race his luck was out as
petrov clipped his front wing.
This forced an early pitstop
that gave pic the edge in the
intra-team battle, but he still
had enough to cover the HrTs.
RepoRt
italian gP
its main title hope registered a DNF.
All that remained now was for
the fresh-tyred Mercs to nail their
one-stopping prey. Rosberg had
followed Schumacher in for his
second stop a lap later, and soon both
were flying on fresh hard Pirellis,
Nico even eclipsing Perez’s fastest lap
as the two silver cars quickly picked
off the one-stopping stragglers.
On the 45th lap Schumacher had
sliced by di Resta for seventh at
the Roggia chicane as, just behind,
Rosberg took ninth from Kobayashi.
A lap later Rosberg used his DRS
to pass the Force India. Then, as
Michael was chasing down Webber
with two laps to go, Mark asked just
a little too much of his overworked
rears on the exit of Ascari and
“He was coming at a
second a lap, but it
was near the end and
I had a bit of a margin”
Hamilton on Perez
spun down the road, flat-spotting
his tyres so badly that he was obliged
to retire. The Mercs were catching
Raikkonen at 1.7s per lap, and with
the fading fourth-placed Massa
just a couple of seconds up the
road from there, but they ran out
of laps, Schumacher only 0.3s
behind the fifth-placed Lotus
as they crossed the line.
All this was all half a minute
after Hamilton and Perez had
taken the flag, separated by four
seconds. Alonso described his
drive to third place as “like a movie”.
But for drama and pathos,
that scene beneath the podium
of the unsmiling Ron Dennis
looking up to his underwhelmed
winning driver – and the
14-year story behind it – is
the stuff of a blockbuster.
6/10
Event rating
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6/10
Event rating
CHARLES PIC
Marussia-Cosworth MR01-03
Start: 20th. Finish: 16th
bang on Glock’s pace in
qualifying but ended up
fractionally behind him. With
the German compromised by
an early stop after contact
with petrov on the first lap, pic
got the edge over his teammate
and put in a consistent
drive to finish just 11 seconds
behind the two caterhams.
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Drawing board
Gary Anderson, Mark Hughes and Giorgio Piola reveal the technical tweaks made by
Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes and Williams for last weekend’s Italian Grand Prix
Ferrari: no Monkey business
→ Ferrari ran without the ‘monkey seat’
winglet above the rear light, but introduced
a second slot on the exit of the floor (1) and used
a delta-shaped beam wing (2) on Fernando
Alonso’s car in contrast to the straight
component on Felipe Massa’s car. Alonso ran
with greater main-flap wing angle than Massa.
GAry Anderson: At Spa Ferrari removed the
‘monkey seat’ and didn’t run it at all in Italy. With
Monza-spec low downforce wings, it would be
very difficult for the monkey wing to join together
the flow of the beam wing and the main plane,
which is what it’s really there for. It creates a little
bit of downforce on its own, but not enough to be
worth the drag at Monza. So, knowing that in
advance, Ferrari has created a beam wing with
more of an aero profile and the team even
introduced a small slot gap around the centre line
where you’re allowed it. As for the beam wings, the
delta shape option would be more efficient, but
the straight one would generate more downforce.
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McLaren wings cLipped
→McLaren’s Monza-spec front wing was
a composite of components used on
previous wings, but unrelated to the similarly
low-downforce option used for the Spa weekend.
GAry Anderson: McLaren introduced a split-flap
front wing earlier in the season – and because the
flap was smaller it needed more angle for the same
effect. But for Monza a greater reduction is needed
so the team removed the forward elements and
re-trimmed the rear flap to give less chord length.
It also reverted to the old one-piece flap. Downforce
is lost in the area in front of the wheels because
it doesn’t affect the sidepods. The trim line was
shortened, with the flap at the same sort of angle
as normal. This means the flow regime behind the
front wheels will be normal – with the sidepods
and the rest of the car working as intended.

Lotus pLays short chords
→Lotus ran a conventional Monza-spec
flat-profiled rear wing, without the
drag-reducing device experimented with in
previous weekend practices.
GAry Anderson: Lotus, along with Mercedes,
ran with the shortest-chord rear wing. Ferrari has
the longest-chord wing. If you have a short-chord
wing it means the wing’s further back because the
trailing edge gives you the legal measurement.
The force onto this wing would
be less than on the Ferrari but
because it’s further back you’d
get more leverage onto the car.
The bigger wing section gives a
centre of pressure that’s further
forward, so the force has to be
higher for the same net effect – and
that will give you more drag. So a
short-chord wing like this tends to be
more efficient. This leverage effect can
also give a better feeling of stability
under braking. You’ll lose less drag
with the DRS, but only because you’re
generating less in the first place.
Mercedes power baLance
→Mercedes reintroduced some of the frontwing
elements and fins removed for the
previous few races, even in this Monza-spec
low-downforce version.
GAry Anderson: This is a re-visitation of the wing
Mercedes ran earlier in the year. It has the vortex
tunnel on the underside and extra elements on the top.
For the past few races it took all these extra bits off,
even at higher-downforce tracks, which I found a bit
puzzling. I think it struggled to get the car balanced
and so it took some power out of the front wing. But
perhaps the team has found more grip from the rear,
allowing it not to forego the front downforce.
wiLLiaMs’s diFFerent angLe
→Williams raced at Monza with this adjustable
rear wing running with less angle than shown
in the drawing.
GAry Anderson: Most current rear wings are visibly
adjustable in angle. The lightest, most efficient way
is to make it a fixed-position wing and then you have
report
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the DRS to adjust the flap and you can adjust the gurney
for different downforce levels. But teams seem to be
wanting to be more flexible on wing levels this year
– perhaps it’s because we’ve had so much rain during
the season, or perhaps it’s because the team has been
struggling to get its tyre usage balanced.
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ItaLIan GP results
PRAcTIcE 1: friday
POS dRIVER TIME
1 SchuMAchER 1m25.422s
2 BuTTOn 1m25.723s
3 ROSBERg 1m25.762s
4 ALOnSO 1m25.800s
5 MASSA 1m25.861s
6 hAMILTOn 1m25.944s
7 RAIKKOnEn 1m26.046s
8 PEREZ 1m26.323s
9 WEBBER 1m26.390s
10 MALdOnAdO 1m26.504s
11 VETTEL 1m26.508s
12 huLKEnBERg 1m26.518s
13 BOTTAS 1m26.641s
14 KOBAyAShI 1m26.746s
15 d’AMBROSIO 1m27.180s
16 BIAnchI 1m27.192s
17 RIccIARdO 1m27.373s
18 VERgnE 1m27.789s
19 KOVALAInEn 1m27.855s
20 PETROV 1m28.578s
21 PIc 1m28.751s
22 gLOcK 1m29.207s
23 dE LA ROSA 1m29.331s
24 MA 1m31.239s
Weather: dry Weather: dry Weather: dry
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PRAcTIcE 2: friday
POS dRIVER TIME
1 hAMILTOn 1m25.290s
2 BuTTOn 1m25.328s
3 ALOnSO 1m25.348s
4 MASSA 1m25.430s
5 ROSBERg 1m25.446s
6 RAIKKOnEn 1m25.504s
7 dI RESTA 1m25.546s
8 huLKEnBERg 1m25.547s
9 PEREZ 1m26.068s
10 SchuMAchER 1m26.068s
11 WEBBER 1m26.094s
12 d’AMBROSIO 1m26.104s
13 VETTEL 1m26.394s
14 MALdOnAdO 1m26.404s
15 RIccIARdO 1m26.724s
16 KOBAyAShI 1m26.730s
17 SEnnA 1m26.783s
18 KOVALAInEn 1m26.841s
19 VERgnE 1m26.864s
20 PETROV 1m27.222s
21 gLOcK 1m27.944s
22 PIc 1m27.968s
23 dE LA ROSA 1m28.575s
24 KARThIKEyAn 1m28.779s
PRAcTIcE 3: Saturday
POS dRIVER TIME
1 hAMILTOn 1m24.578s
2 ALOnSO 1m24.579s
3 dI RESTA 1m24.849s
4 MASSA 1m24.909s
5 BuTTOn 1m24.994s
6 ROSBERg 1m25.036s
7 PEREZ 1m25.160s
8 RAIKKOnEn 1m25.255s
9 huLKEnBERg 1m25.289s
10 MALdOnAdO 1m25.383s
11 WEBBER 1m25.389s
12 VETTEL 1m25.406s
13 SEnnA 1m25.461s
14 SchuMAchER 1m25.563s
15 KOBAyAShI 1m25.689s
16 RIccIARdO 1m25.706s
17 d’AMBROSIO 1m25.973s
18 VERgnE 1m26.003s
19 KOVALAInEn 1m26.657s
20 PETROV 1m27.267s
21 PIc 1m27.454s
22 gLOcK 1m27.728s
23 KARThIKEyAn 1m28.035s
24 dE LA ROSA 1m28.384s
fRIdAy TESTERS
1 VALTTERI BOTTAS
WILLIAMS 1m26.641s
2 juLES BIAnchI
fORcE IndIA 1m27.192s
3 MA qIng huA
hRT 1m31.239s
quALIfyIng TIMES quALIfyIng STATISTIcS
POS dRIVER quALIfyIng 1 quALIfyIng 2 quALIfyIng 3
hEAd TO hEAd
1 hAMILTOn 1m24.211s (2) 1m24.394s (4) 1m24.010s
VETTEL 7 6 WEBBER
2 BuTTOn 1m24.672s (3) 1m24.255s (2) 1m24.133s
BuTTOn 2 11 hAMILTOn
3 MASSA 1m24.882s (6) 1m24.505s (5) 1m24.247s
ALOnSO 12 1 MASSA
4 dI RESTA 1m24.875s (5) 1m24.345s (3) 1m24.304s
SchuMAchER 7 6 ROSBERg
5 SchuMAchER 1m25.302s (12) 1m24.675s (7) 1m24.540s
RAIKKOnEn 6 7 gROSjEAn/d’AMB
6 VETTEL 1m25.011s (7) 1m24.687s (9) 1m24.802s
dI RESTA 7 6 huLKEnBERg
7 ROSBERg 1m24.689s (4) 1m24.515s (6) 1m24.833s
KOBAyAShI 8 5 PEREZ
8 RAIKKOnEn 1m25.151s (10) 1m24.742s (10) 1m24.855s
RIccIARdO 10 3 VERgnE
9 KOBAyAShI 1m25.317s (13) 1m24.683s (8) 1m25.109s
MALdOnAdO 11 2 SEnnA
10 ALOnSO 1m24.175s (1) 1m24.242s (1) 1m25.678s
KOVALAInEn 11 2 PETROV
11 WEBBER 1m25.556s (14) 1m24.809s -
dE LA ROSA 12 1 KARThIKEyAn
12 MALdOnAdO 1m25.103s (8) 1m24.820s -
gLOcK 8 4 PIc
13 PEREZ 1m25.300s (11) 1m24.901s -
14 SEnnA 1m25.135s (9) 1m25.042s -
15 RIccIARdO 1m25.728s (16) 1m25.312s -
16 d’AMBROSIO 1m25.834s (17) 1m25.408s -
17 VERgnE 1m25.649s (15) 1m25.441s -
18 KOVALAInEn 1m26.382s - -
19 PETROV 1m26.887s - -
20 gLOcK 1m27.039s - -
21 PIc 1m27.073s - -
22 KARThIKEyAn 1m27.441s - -
23 dE LA ROSA 1m27.629s - -
24 huLKEnBERg no time - -
Weather: dry
the grid
1
HaMILtOn
McLaREn
1m24.010s
Medium
3
MaSSa
FERRaRI
1m24.247s
Medium
5
VEttEL
RED BULL
1m24.802s
Medium
7
RaIKKOnEn
LOtUS
1m24.855s
Medium
9
DI RESta
FORCE InDIa
1m24.304s*
Medium
11
WEBBER
RED BULL
1m24.809s
Medium
13
SEnna
WILLIaMS
1m25.042s
Medium
15
D’aMBROSIO
LOtUS
1m25.408s
Medium
17
KOVaLaInEn
CatERHaM
1m26.382s
Medium
19
GLOCK
MaRUSSIa
1m27.039s
Medium
21
KaRtHIKEYan
HRt
1m27.441s
Medium
23
DE La ROSa
HRt
1m27.629s
Medium
2
BUttOn
McLaREn
1m24.133s
Medium
4
SCHUMaCHER
MERCEDES
1m24.540s
Medium
6
ROSBERG
MERCEDES
1m24.833s
Medium
8
KOBaYaSHI
SaUBER
1m25.109s
Medium
10
aLOnSO
FERRaRI
1m25.678s
Medium
12
PEREZ
SaUBER
1m24.901s
Hard
14
RICCIaRDO
tORO ROSSO
1m25.312s
Medium
16
VERGnE
tORO ROSSO
1m25.441s
Medium
18
PEtROV
CatERHaM
1m26.887s
Medium
20
PIC
MaRUSSIa
1m27.073s
Medium
22
MaLDOnaDO
WILLIaMS
1m24.820s*/*
Hard
24
HULKEnBERG
FORCE InDIa
no time
Hard
*5-pLace griD penaLty

ThE RAcE: 53 laps, 190.596 miles
POS dRIVER TEAM LAPS TOTAL TIME fASTEST LAP PIT STOP TIME In PITS gRId
1 LEWIS hAMILTOn McLAREn-MERcEdES 53 1h19m41.221s 1m28.427s 1 20.736s 1
2 SERgIO PEREZ SAuBER-fERRARI 53 +4.356s 1m27.562s 1 22.472s 12
3 fERnAndO ALOnSO fERRARI 53 +20.594s 1m28.835s 1 21.515s 10
4 fELIPE MASSA fERRARI 53 +29.667s 1m28.914s 1 22.161s 3
5 KIMI RAIKKOnEn LOTuS-REnAuLT 53 +30.881s 1m29.109s 1 21.730s 7
6 MIchAEL SchuMAchER MERcEdES 53 +31.259s 1m27.718s 2 44.557s 4
7 nIcO ROSBERg MERcEdES 53 +33.550s 1m27.239s 2 44.200s 6
8 PAuL dI RESTA fORcE IndIA-MERcEdES 53 +41.057s 1m29.068s 1 22.190s 9
9 KAMuI KOBAyAShI SAuBER-fERRARI 53 +43.898s 1m29.032s 1 22.874s 8
10 BRunO SEnnA WILLIAMS-REnAuLT 53 +48.144s 1m28.742s 1 22.985s 13
11 PASTOR MALdOnAdO WILLIAMS-REnAuLT 53 +48.682s 1m28.053s 2 44.784s 22
12 dAnIEL RIccIARdO TORO ROSSO-fERRARI 53 +50.316s 1m28.621s 1 21.720s 14
13 jEROME d’AMBROSIO LOTuS-REnAuLT 53 +1m15.861s 1m28.677s 1 21.962s 15
14 hEIKKI KOVALAInEn cATERhAM-REnAuLT 52 -1 lap 1m29.399s 2 44.647s 17
15 VITALy PETROV cATERhAM-REnAuLT 52 -1 lap 1m29.066s 2 44.993s 18
16 chARLES PIc MARuSSIA-cOSWORTh 52 -1 lap 1m29.753s 2 46.085s 20
17 TIMO gLOcK MARuSSIA-cOSWORTh 52 -1 lap 1m29.888s 2 51.328s 19
18 PEdRO dE LA ROSA hRT-cOSWORTh 52 -1 lap 1m30.398s 1 23.488s 23
19 nARAIn KARThIKEyAn hRT cOSWORTh 52 -1 lap 1m31.086s 1 31.745s 21
20 MARK WEBBER REd BuLL-REnAuLT 51 tyre damage 1m29.202s 1 21.556s 11
21 nIcO huLKEnBERg fORcE IndIA-MERcEdES 50 handling 1m28.578s 1 22.746s 24
22 SEBASTIAn VETTEL REd BuLL-REnAuLT 47 alternator 1m28.713s 1 37.311s 5
R jEnSOn BuTTOn McLAREn-MERcEdES 32 fuel pick-up 1m28.926s 1 23.375s 2
R jEAn-ERIc VERgnE TORO ROSSO-fERRARI 8 accident 1m31.962s 0 - 16
Weather: dry. Winner’s average speed: 143.508mph. fastest lap: nico ROSBERg 1m27.239s (148.548mph) on lap 53.
Lap leaders: 1-23 hamilton, 24-28 Perez, 29-53 hamilton
dRIVERS’ STAndIngS
POS dRIVER PTS AuS MAL PRc BRn E Mc cdn Eu gB d h B I SgP j ROK Ind uAE uSA BR
1 ALOnSO 179 5 th 1 st 9 th 7 th 2 nd 3 rd 5 th 1 st 2 nd 1 st 5 th ret 3 rd
2 hAMILTOn 142 3 rd 3 rd 3 rd 8 th 8 th 5 th 1 st 19 th 8 th ret 1 st ret 1 st
3 RAIKKOnEn 141 7 th 5 th 14 th 2 nd 3 rd 9 th 8 th 2 nd 5 th 3 rd 2 nd 3 rd 5 th
4 VETTEL 140 2 nd 11 th 5 th 1 st 6 th 4 th 4 th ret 3 rd 5 th 4 th 2 nd ret
5 WEBBER 132 4 th 4 th 4 th 4 th 11 th 1 st 7 th 4 th 1 st 8 th 8 th 6 th ret
6 BuTTOn 101 1 st 14 th 2 nd 18 th 9 th 16 th 16 th 8 th 10 th 2 nd 6 th 1 st ret
7 ROSBERg 83 12 th 13 th 1 st 5 th 7 th 2 nd 6 th 6 th 15 th 10 th 10 th 11 th 7 th
8 gROSjEAn 76 ret ret 6 th 3 rd 4 th ret 2 nd ret 6 th 18 th 3 rd ret -
9 PEREZ 65 8 th 2 nd 11 th 11 th ret 11 th 3 rd 9 th ret 6 th 14 th ret 2 nd
10 MASSA 47 ret 15 th 13 th 9 th 15 th 6 th 10 th 16 th 4 th 12 th 9 th 5 th 4 th
11 SchuMAchER 43 ret 10 th ret 10 th ret ret ret 3 rd 7 th 7 th ret 7 th 6 th
12 KOBAyAShI 35 6 th ret 10 th 13 th 5 th ret 9 th ret 11 th 4 th 18 th 13 th 9 th
13 dI RESTA 32 10 th 7 th 12 th 6 th 14 th 7 th 11 th 7 th ret 11 th 12 th 10 th 8 th
14 huLKEnBERg 31 ret 9 th 15 th 12 th 10 th 8 th 12 th 5 th 12 th 9 th 11 th 4 th ret
15 MALdOnAdO 29 13 th 19 th 8 th ret 1 st ret 13 th 12 th 16 th 15 th 13 th ret 11 th
16 SEnnA 25 16 th 6 th 7 th 22 nd ret 10 th 17 th 10 th 9 th 17 th 7 th 12 th 10 th
17 VERgnE 8 11 th 8 th 16 th 14 th 12 th 12 th 15 th ret 14 th 14 th 16 th 8 th ret
18 RIccIARdO 4 9 th 12 th 17 th 15 th 13 th ret 14 th 11 th 13 th 13 th 15 th 9 th 12 th
19 KOVALAInEn 0 ret 18 th 23 rd 17 th 16 th 13 th 18 th 14 th 17 th 19 th 17 th 17 th 14 th
20 PETROV 0 ret 16 th 18 th 16 th 17 th ret 19 th 13 th dns 16 th 19 th 14 th 15 th
21 d’AMBROSIO 0 - - - - - - - - - - - - 13 th
22 gLOcK 0 14 th 17 th 19 th 19 th 18 th 14 th ret dns 18 th 22 nd 21 st 15 th 17 th
23 PIc 0 15 th 20 th 20 th ret ret ret 20 th 15 th 19 th 20 th 20 th 16 th 16 th
24 KARThIKEyAn 0 dnq 22 nd 22 nd 21 st ret 15 th 20 th 18 th 21 st 23 rd ret ret 19 th
25 dE LA ROSA 0 dnq 21 st 21 st 20 th 19 th ret ret 17 th 20 th 21 st 22 nd 18 th 18 th
cOnSTRucTORS’ STAndIngS
POS TEAM PTS AuS MAL PRc BRn E Mc cdn Eu gB d h B I SgP j ROK Ind uAE uS BR
1 REd BuLL 272 30 12 22 37 8 37 18 12 40 14 16 26 0
2 McLAREn 243 40 15 33 4 6 10 25 4 5 18 33 25 25
3 fERRARI 226 10 25 2 8 18 23 11 25 30 25 12 10 27
4 LOTuS 217 6 10 8 33 27 2 22 18 18 15 33 15 10
5 MERcEdES 126 0 1 25 11 6 18 8 23 6 7 1 6 14
6 SAuBER 100 12 18 1 0 10 0 17 2 0 20 0 0 20
7 fORcE IndIA 63 1 8 0 8 1 10 0 16 0 2 0 13 4
8 WILLIAMS 54 0 8 10 0 25 1 0 1 2 0 6 0 1
9 TORO ROSSO 12 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
10 cATERhAM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 MARuSSIA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 hRT 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
SEcTOR 1 TIMES
POS dRIVER TIME
1 ROSBERg 27.936s
2 SchuMAchER 28.181s
3 PEREZ 28.188s
4 RIccIARdO 28.244s
5 dI RESTA 28.275s
6 hAMILTOn 28.328s
7 KOBAyAShI 28.376s
8 ALOnSO 28.379s
9 huLKEnBERg 28.420s
10 MALdOnAdO 28.441s
SEcTOR 3 TIMES
POS dRIVER TIME
1 PEREZ 29.199s
2 ROSBERg 29.203s
3 MALdOnAdO 29.283s
4 SchuMAchER 29.407s
5 SEnnA 29.520s
6 d’AMBROSIO 29.532s
7 ALOnSO 29.545s
8 KOBAyAShI 29.627s
9 VETTEL 29.636s
10 MASSA 29.664s
REPORT
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TyRE chOIcE
STInT 1 STInT 2 STInT 3
Medium hard
hard Medium
Medium hard
Medium hard
Medium hard
Medium hard hard
Medium hard hard
Medium hard
Medium hard
Medium hard
hard Medium Medium
Medium hard
hard Medium
Medium hard Medium
Medium hard Medium
Medium hard hard
Medium hard hard
Medium hard
Medium hard
Medium hard
hard Medium
Medium hard
Medium hard
Medium
Option tyre in bold; new set in red;
used set in black
for in-depth f1 results
SEcTOR 2 TIMES
POS dRIVER TIME
1 ROSBERg 29.814s
2 SchuMAchER 29.931s
3 PEREZ 29.980s
4 MALdOnAdO 30.141s
5 huLKEnBERg 30.235s
6 hAMILTOn 30.257s
7 d’AMBROSIO 30.331s
8 MASSA 30.414s
9 VETTEL 30.425s
10 BuTTOn 30.450s
MAx SPEEdS (MPh)
POS dRIVER SPEEd
1 RAIKKOnEn 215.0
2 d’AMBROSIO 212.5
3 huLKEnBERg 212.0
4 dI RESTA 212.0
5 BuTTOn 211.9
6 PEREZ 211.8
7 RIccIARdO 211.8
8 hAMILTOn 211.7
9 KOBAyAShI 211.5
10 ROSBERg 210.0
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ItalIan gp tHE FInal WORDS
The race: lap by lap
Grid
Position
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Hamilton
Button
Massa
Schumacher
Vettel
Rosberg
Raikkonen
Kobayashi
di Resta
Alonso
Webber
Perez
Senna
Ricciardo
D’Ambrosio
Vergne
Kovalainen
Petrov
Glock
Pic
Karthikeyan
Maldonado
de la Rosa
Hulkenberg
traCkside VieW
↗
Sun
building
but still a
hint of morning in
the air, flags fluttering,
the scent of pine and grand prix racing’s
most beautiful circuit has never looked
better. The bird song and crowd chatter
is interrupted by the blare of the safety
and medical cars, their exhaust notes
echoing off the trees through which the
sunlight pierces to reveal the dust raised.
Excitement builds at the Rettifilo
chicane, the biggest braking zone of
the year, around 207mph down to 45 in
skinny-downforce cars. The escape road
and the penalty triangle with its savage
kerbs lie in wait for the optimistic. As the
first F1 cars take to the track their sheer
stridency dwarves that scene, their
extremity making it merely a backdrop.
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Lap 1 Lap 5 Lap 10 Lap 15 Lap 20 Lap 25 Lap 30 Lap 35
Mark HugHes
grand prix editor
Jean-Eric Vergne’s
first out, wheelspinning
up to the limiter as he
accelerates from the chicane, then a
ripple of applause for Fernando Alonso
who raises a hand of acknowledgement.
Kimi Raikkonen’s the first to try a full
attack on the chicane, the Lotus arriving
at huge speed, too huge. As he tries to
turn, smoke pours from the inside-front
and in a moment he’s understeering
towards the sleeping policeman. He
tries again next lap, car twitching
viciously at the rear, probably with less
front brake bias, he collects the slide
on turn-in and makes the apex. But he’s
not finished. Next time he gets to the
first apex but the slide’s got too much
momentum and he half-spins in the
middle, the left-front dragged over the
sausage kerb behind the second apex.
Thursday
1337 Nico Hulkenberg admits he’s revelling in suggestions
he could move to Ferrari: “It’s good and positive press.”
1405 Paul di Resta tells AUTOSPORT that he’s not allowing speculation
about him moving to a top team to distract him.
1503 Jerome d’Ambrosio refuses to set any targets for what he hopes to
achieve after his late call-up by Lotus to fill in for Romain Grosjean.
1507 @JensonButton: “Watching a few of the drivers in the
FIA press conference, always interesting to see the
questions that get thrown at them!!”
1512 Lewis Hamilton responds to speculation he’s joining
Mercedes: “I’ve no idea, I’ve not really thought about it.”
1635 Michael Schumacher refuses to bite over claims that Hamilton is
about to replace him. “There is very clearly no further statement,” he says.
1650 Button says that he hopes Hamilton stays as his McLaren
team-mate in 2013, adding that it “is the best choice for him”.
2200 @AussieGrit (Webber):
“Tonights bed time reading [left]”
2212 @AussieGrit (pic right): “I’ve
got the tree covered on the left, now
for the little crest flat out. #colinonit ”

Friday
1000
HRT reserve driver Ma Qing Hua (below left) becomes the first Chinese
driver to run in an F1 session on a grand prix weekend in FP1.
1001 Lotus stand-in Jerome d’Ambrosio hits the track on an
F1 weekend for the first time since Brazil 2011.
1037 @alex_wurz: “I’m watching at ascarri (monza f1) and the price
for nailing it in the first lap goes to Lewis + Nico + Schumi. On it at lap 1.”
1046 @InsideFerrari: “A reasonable baseline. Now we will work on
some aero changes, mainly on Felipe’s car, to test different configurations.”
1124 Fernando Alonso grinds to a halt at the first chicane with an engine
failure on a high-mileage unit.
1127 Pastor Maldonado’s Williams expires between the two Lesmos with
a hydraulic problem at the end of FP1.
1508 Alonso suffers a gearbox glitch that ends his FP2. Fortunately, it’s not
a race gearbox, so he doesn’t get a penalty.
1533
Lap 40 Lap 45 Lap 50
Mechanical failure +
Penalty Crash P Pitstop Safety Car Lapped
Michael Schumacher after a trip over sleeping policemen at Ascari:
“Message to Charlie [Whiting], this is a ridiculous
situation with the run-off at Turn 4. If you have a brake
failure you’re going to break your spine and everything.”
1635 D’Ambrosio says he is satisfied with his first day:
“It’s a low-downforce track but I feel as much downforce as I had last year in Monaco!”
Lap 53
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Finishing
Position
Hamilton
Perez
Alonso
Massa
Raikkonen
Schumacher
Rosberg
di Resta
Kobayashi
Senna
Maldonado
Ricciardo
D’Ambrosio
Kovalainen
Petrov
Pic
Glock
de la Rosa
Karthikeyan
Webber
Hulkenberg
Vettel
REPORT
ItalIan gp
Grand Prix Digest
The weekend in a nutshell – on-track incidents,
team radio and tweets that you might have missed…
saTurday
0820
sunday
It emerges that Paul di Resta has a five-place penalty for a gearbox change.
1157 Sebastian Vettel stops at Ascari in FP3: “Battery, no battery.”
His engineer: “Stop the car in a safe place.” Vettel: “Stop, Turn 4.”
1405 Nico Hulkenberg stops on first lap in Q1: “Lost gears, no gear
selected… Completely lost the engine.” A fuel pump fault is blamed.
1420 D’Ambrosio reaches Q2 for the first time in his 20-race grand prix
career, but progresses no further. He ends up a career-best 16th.
1500 Hamilton’s engineer Phil Prew: “Lewis, you are
pole position. You’ve done the job. Well done mate.”
1505 A failed rear anti-roll bar ruins Fernando Alonso’s Q3.
“It would have been the easiest pole position of the year for us,” he says.
1506 Lewis Hamilton describes his pole position lap as “half-decent”.
He later admits that he was surprised it was good enough.
1529 Felipe Massa admits that the Italian Grand Prix is “a very important
race” for his Formula 1 future with Ferrari.
1526 @alo_oficial (Alonso): “After the qualy, we miss the fight
for “pole” with a failure..! I think tomorrow will be a perfect day
to recover some good positions.. ;))”
1859 @JensonButton: “Great day for the team here at
Monza…Front row lockout so the perfect view of Turn 1.
Now off for a pizza with my mechanics and engineers..”
1416 Jean-Eric Vergne is asked if he’s OK
following his Turn 1 crash: “I am fine in my back.”
1417 D’Ambrosio is told by his engineer that he has lost KERS and
it can’t be fixed. He says after the race: “I couldn’t fight without KERS”
1420 Ferrari loses telemetry from Felipe Massa’s car to the garage…
although the link to Maranello remains active.
1442 Alonso is pushed onto the grass by Vettel at Curva Grande:
“OK, I think that’s enough, no? That’s enough.” His engineer: Don’t
worry, everyone saw that.” Alonso again: “OK, I need a penalty now,
because he ruins our race, huh?” His engineer: “I see what you mean.”
1446 @InsideFerrari “Clearly Vettel forgot last year, when
Fernando behaved very differently....”
1451 Vettel protests at drive-through penalty from the stewards:
“I told you I didn’t push him on the grass – there was enough room.”
1507 Hamilton warned about Perez’s pace. Lewis admits later: “I had to
accelerate a little bit more to reduce the amount that he was catching me.”
1515 Vettel’s engineer Guillaume Roquelin: “Stop the car! Same
problem as P3! Get out of the way, we need to save the engine.”
1904 @emmofittipaldi: “Congratulations @SChecoPerez for the
#F1 podium at Monza! Great tires choice with @OfficialSF1Team”
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PICS: COATES, FERRARO, TEE/LAT

MOnZa
ITALy
September 8-9
GP2 Series
Round 11/12
A yeAR Ago he’d won the
GP2 feature race at Monza,
part of a sequence of potent,
late-season results that
carried him to second in the
final standings. “I thought
that would herald the start of
my professional career,” said
Luca Filippi. “So I waited at
home for the phone to ring.”
Prior to last week, he’d
been waiting still.
Coloni called up its
alumnus, however, to replace
the Rapax-bound Stefano
Coletti. Despite having
competed only once in the
past 12 months – in an
Aston Martin Vantage GT2
during a Le Mans 24 Hours
support race – Filippi had
recently done two days of
GP2 tyre testing at Barcelona,
which helped. He duly
qualified fourth, which
became third when Johnny
Cecotto Jr’s grid penalty (a
hangover from Spa) was
factored in, second when
Giedo van der Garde let his
revs drop and stuttered away
from the line with his
engine’s electronic safety
42 autosport.com September 13 2012
mechanisms seconds away
from shutdown and first
when he bypassed the
Rettifilo, although he swiftly
slowed to undo his advantage
and return the lead to
poleman Max Chilton.
Chilton had dominated
qualifying, but inadvertently
helped his own cause by
spinning at Parabolica
during the closing moments
and triggering a yellow flag.
“Some of the others
seem to think I did that
deliberately, to stop anybody
improving,” the Carlin driver
said. “But that’s not how I
go racing. Besides, anybody
with such things in mind
would surely choose to go off
at a slow chicane, not in the
middle of a 145mph curve...”
Chilton started on the soft
Pirelli, Filippi the hard. The
Italian opted to make his
mandatory tyre stop after
eight laps, sticking with
the same compound and
switching rears only, while
Chilton responded one lap
later and swapped to the
more durable rubber.
at a gLance
→ Race 1 Luca Filippi
→ Race 2 Davide Valsecchi
→ Pole position Max Chilton
→ FLs Fabio Leimer/Filippi
Chilton took Carlin’s third straight pole of 2012 on Friday
Filippi the homecoming hero
italian veteran Luca Filippi got a late call-up by Coloni at Monza – scene of his
last win a year ago – and once more produced the goods
Filippi gave Chilton the lead
after this, but got it back
“Changing all four always
takes an extra couple of
seconds,” he said. “So I really
pushed on my in lap and was
pleased to come out in front.”
Filippi’s tyres were already
up to temperature, though,
and he sliced ahead during
the lap’s course to assume
a lead he’d keep to the flag.
Given his shortage of recent
racecraft, it was an
accomplished drive. “It was
a chance to remind people
what I can do,” he said. “I
didn’t intend to waste it.”
Chilton felt his car’s
balance deteriorate during
the middle phase, which
exposed him to Addax driver
Cecotto – who profited from
a fine start and a slick tyre
stop – and iSport man
Marcus Ericsson. Both
drafted past on the run to the
Rettifilo, demoting Chilton
to fourth. “I’d probably have
been able to defend at most
tracks,” he said. “But that’s
the nature of Monza. The car
came back to me during the
final laps, but it was too late.”
Valsecchi grabbed
points lead with win
Fabio Leimer took fifth,
but survived a couple of
skirmishes en route. Pre-race
series leader Luiz Razia made
a fabulous start from 12th
to annex sixth within the
opening lap, then arrived at
the second chicane just
ahead of Leimer after they’d
pitted on laps seven and
eight respectively. The
Brazilian was ahead when he
turned in – “I reckon about
90 per cent of my car was in
front,” he said – and the
right front of the Racing
Engineering car clipped the
Arden machine’s left rear,
spinning him around and
beaching him on the kerbs.
On lap 13 Leimer found
himself in an identical
situation with Felipe Nasr.
Again, a Brazilian foe had the
positional edge and contact
was similar, Nasr spinning
over the kerbs before retiring
to the pits. Most expected
Leimer to cop a reprimand
of some kind, but stewards
took the opposing view and
gave the already wounded
Brazilians five-place grid

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Race Rating
★★★✩✩
Good for Filippi and Valsecchi,
less so for those who crave a
tense finale in Singapore
penalties for the sprint.
Title challenger Davide
Valsecchi ran ahead of
Leimer initially, but slewed
wide at the second chicane
on lap 19 – under pressure
from the Swiss, but without
being hit – and had to settle
for sixth, enough to regain
him the points lead following
Razia’s retirement.
Jolyon Palmer executed a
wonderful recovery drive
after brake problems left him
15th on the grid. His progress
to seventh included the
race’s best move, the Briton
sweeping around the outside
of Esteban Gutierrez at
Curva Grande on lap 20.
Watching father Jonathan
was impressed by that: “I
kept my eyes open,” he said.
“I’m not sure I blinked.”
Rapax newcomer Coletti
later passed Gutierrez to
take ninth, while Julian Leal
completed the scorers.
There was better news
yet for Valsecchi on Sunday,
because Coletti started
sluggishly from pole while
Ericsson reached the first
chicane more quickly than
most drivers turn in to
Parabolica. The Swede
skipped the corner and
promptly handed back places
to Valsecchi, Leimer, Coletti
and team-mate Palmer.
The order at the front
rESULTS
RAce 1 GRID
1 ChiLTon
1:31.886
3 FiLippi
1:32.165
5 EriCSSon
1:32.216
7 oniDi
1:32.388
9 GUTiErrEz
1:32.396
11 hAryAnTo
1:32.471
13 CALADo
1:32.622
15 pALMEr
1:32.659
17 BErThon
1:32.769
19 TrUMMEr
1:32.889
21 BinDEr
1:32.967
23 LEAL
1:32.989
25 GonzALEz
1:33.511
2 VD GArDE
1:31.953
4 VALSECChi
1:32.208
6 LEiMEr
1:32.324
8 CECoTTo*
1:32.151
10 nASr
1:32.462
12 rAziA
1:32.495
14 MELkEr
1:32.625
16 CoLETTi
1:32.675
18 CAnAMASAS
1:32.772
20 GUErin
1:32.911
22 riChELMi
1:32.969
24 roSEnW’G
1:33.109
26 TEixEirA
1:33.719
didn’t change thereafter,
DAMS driver Valsecchi
keeping Leimer covered
to the end. With Razia’s
recovery limited to the lower
midfield, the Italian was able
to stretch his restored
advantage to 25 points prior
to the Singapore finale.
Palmer pulled a good move
to wrest third from Coletti
on lap two, then had a close
call with Ericsson once the
Swede passed the Italian
later in the race. The two
iSport cars bobbled over
the Rettifilo kerbs on lap
17, but Palmer stayed ahead
and both were giggling
about it afterwards.
“You have to let them
race,” said team principal
Paul Jackson, correctly.
Coletti subsequently
repassed Ericsson and the
Swede ran wide at Ascari
while plotting last-lap
revenge, dropping him to
seventh behind Cecotto and
Chilton. Leal took the final
point, despite hitting the
second-chicane kerbs hard
enough to launch himself
most of the way to central
Milan, while James Calado
struggled again and took
14th. A pointless weekend
– he was 12th in race one
– has dropped the Brit from
contention in what is now
a two-way title bout.
GP2 Series, round 11 of 12, Monza (I), September 8-9
MiLestOne
Jake Rosenzweig
becomes first US driver
in GP2 since Scott
Speed in 2005
porSChE SUpErCUp
↗Rene Rast made it
three Supercup titles
in a row at Monza, but
it was a close run thing as at
one point the crown was in the
pocket of main rival Kevin
estre, until the Frenchman
made a mistake.
Although norbert Siedler,
Sean edwards and nicki thiim
all still had mathematical
chances of winning the
championship, in essence it
was a question of whether
Lechner driver Rast or his
Attempto rival estre finished
ahead in Italy.
neither man earned the
qualifying bonus as Rast’s
team-mate Siedler took pole
ahead of estre and edwards.
At the start edwards quickly
moved into second behind
Siedler, leaving estre ahead
of Rast in a straight fight for
the championship.
the wily Rast piled on the
pressure and at the end of the
fourth lap passed estre when
the Frenchman ran wide at the
exit of Parabolica, before
bouncing through the gravel.
he was lucky to regain the
track in one piece, but his title
hopes were effectively over.
RAce 1 – 30 LAPS, 106.553 MILeS
POS NAMe TeAM TIMe GRID
1 Luca Filippi (I) Scuderia coloni 48m03.604s 3
2 Johnny cecotto Jr (yV) Addax Team +4.028s 8
3 Marcus ericsson (S) iSport International +5.377s 5
4 Max chilton (GB) carlin +7.631s 1
5 Fabio Leimer (cH) Racing engineering +9.413s 6
6 Davide Valsecchi (I) DAMS +16.057s 4
7 Jolyon Palmer (GB) iSport International +17.600s 15
8 Stefano coletti (Mc) Rapax +18.532s 16
9 esteban Gutierrez (MeX) Lotus GP (ART) +19.293s 9
10 Julian Leal (cO) Trident Racing +20.025s 23
11 Nigel Melker (NL) Ocean Racing Technology +20.464s 14
12 James calado (GB) Lotus GP (ART) +26.027s 13
13 Stephane Richelmi (Mc) Trident Racing +27.890s 22
14 Sergio canamasas (e) GP Lazarus +31.193s 18
15 Nathanael Berthon (F) Racing engineering +31.910s 17
16 Simon Trummer (cH) Arden International +35.375s 19
17 Rene Binder (A) GP Lazarus +38.769s 21
18 Jake Rosenzweig (USA) Addax Team +40.226s 24
19 Rio Haryanto (RI) carlin +42.638s 11
20 Ricardo Teixeira (AO) Rapax +43.152s 26
21 Fabio Onidi (I) Scuderia coloni +44.769s 7
22 Rodolfo Gonzalez (yV) caterham Racing +56.350s 25
23 Victor Guerin (BR) Ocean Racing Technology +1m01.984s 20
R Felipe Nasr (BR) DAMS 13 laps-acc damage 10
R Luiz Razia (BR) Arden International 8 laps-spin 12
R Giedo van der Garde (NL) caterham Racing 0 laps-electrical 2
he even lost fourth for a
while to team-mate thiim,
before eventually getting
back past the dane.
out front edwards
continued to push Siedler –
literally in fact when on lap 13
the german seemed to hesitate
at the second chicane and
edwards gave him a hefty
nudge. Attempting to fight
back, Siedler spun exiting
the turn after another bit of
contact. edwards was delayed,
but escaped.
Rast and estre both just
dodged through the chaos; the
german bringing his car safely
home to secure the title with
victory. Rookie of the year
thiim took third ahead of Kuba
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reports
Rast makes sure of a title hat-trick
Rast kept his nose
clean for title #3
RAce 2 – 21 LAPS, 75.400 MILeS
POS DRIVeR TIMe/ReASON GRID
1 Valsecchi 33m06.731s 3
2 Leimer +0.444s 4
3 Palmer +7.873s 2
4 coletti +10.787s 1
5 cecotto +10.953s 7
6 chilton +11.418s 5
7 ericsson +11.606s 6
8 Leal +12.661s 10
9 Richelmi +13.383s 13
10 van der Garde +14.540s 24
11 canamasas +15.013s 14
12 Haryanto +15.711s 19
13 Binder +15.934s 17
14 calado +16.667s 12
15 Berthon +20.179s 15
16 Razia +20.484s 25*
17 Trummer +25.436s 16
18 Teixeira +29.051s 20
19 Rosenzweig +30.292s 18
20 Gonzalez +34.034s 22
21 Nasr +1m14.092s 26*
22 Filippi +1m26.253s 8
R Gutierrez 1 lap-accident 9
R Melker 1 lap-accident 11
R Onidi 1 lap-accident 21
R Guerin 1 lap-acc damage 23
giermaziak (Verva) and Jeroen
Mul (Bleekemolen), while
Konrad man edwards crossed
the line sixth but was later
disqualified for the contact
with Siedler, who was
eventually classified eighth.
l adam Cooper
RESULTS
1 Rene Rast, 14 laps in
26m20.891s; 2 Kevin estre,
+2.506s; 3 Nicki thiim; 4 Kuba
giermaziak; 5 Jeroen Mul;
6 Philipp eng; 7 Christian
engelhart; 8 Norbert Siedler;
9 Michael ammermuller; 10 Patryk
Szczerbiknski. Points 1 Rast, 142;
2 estre, 139; 3 thiim, 123; 4 Siedler,
121; 5 Sean edwards, 107; 6
ammermuller, 103.
cHAMPIONSHIP TABLeS
POS DRIVeR PTS
1 Valsecchi 229
2 Razia 204
3 calado 160
4 Gutierrez 152
5 chilton 144
6 van der Garde 141
7 Leimer 127
8 ericsson 106
9 cecotto 104
10 Nasr 85
POS TeAM PTS
1 DAMS 314
2 Lotus 312
3 Arden 208
4 Racing engineering 186
5 iSport 184
6 carlin 180
all drivers in Dallara-Mecachrome
gP2/11. * 5-place grid penalty.
Race 1 Winner’s average speed:
134.58mph. Fastest lap: leimer,
1m33.237s, 138.99mph.
Race 2 Winner’s average speed:
136.63mph. Fastest lap: Filippi,
1m33.507s, 138.58mph.
September 13 2012 autosport.com 43

PiCS: DuNbAr/GP3
MoNzA
italy
September 8-9
GP3 Series
Round 8/8
ThE prEparaTion was
exquisite, the execution
painful – but Mitch Evans
did just enough to become
the third GP3 Series
champion at Monza last
weekend. He owes Tio
Ellinas a drink, mind.
Evans gambled on a single
new-tyre qualifying run to
save fresh rubber for the
race. Unlike some, he didn’t
have a team-mate towing
him around, but still picked
up enough of a slipstream
to take pole – and a handy
four-point bonus.
The Kiwi’s clutch dragged
on the line, though, and the
long run to the Rettifilo left
him exposed. Wedged to
the outside, he was one of
several drivers – along with
MW Arden team-mate
Matias Laine, Antonio Felix
da Costa and Daniel Abt –
to run wide, but Evans was
the only one to hit a kerb
“I was half on, half off,”
he said. “And that’s probably
the worst angle. You sit so
low in these things that I
just didn’t see it.” His floor
was heavily damaged and
he was out, condemned
to look on as his title rivals
were gifted chances to
reduce their deficits.
Laine led the first lap, but
Carlin driver da Costa –
Evans’ closest foe – towed
past on lap two and stayed
there until Abt’s Lotus car
slipstreamed by on lap five.
“The car wasn’t good in
qualifying,” Abt said. “But
the first few laps passed in
a flash and suddenly I was
leading. I wondered what
was happening.”
His team-mate Aaro
Vainio had been on the tail of
the leading group, but picked
his way through to second
on lap six, passing da Costa
shortly before the unlucky
Portuguese’s car jammed
AT A GLANCE
→ Race 1 Daniel Abt
→ Race 2 Tio Ellinas
→ Pole Mitch Evans
→ Fastest laps Ellinas/Evans
Ellinas (l) and abt won races
in sixth. He plummeted
for a couple of laps before
switching off and restarting,
which cured the problem
but left him too far back
to sustain his title hopes.
Ellinas had been ninth on
the first lap, two spots back
from Vainio, but he drafted
his way through the pack to
pass the Finn with three laps
left. He was never quite close
enough to challenge Abt, but
last-corner heroics were out
of the question because the
Cypriot’s Manor team-mate
Dmitry Suranovich had
crashed there the previous
lap. Vainio stayed in Ellinas’s
slipstream, though, and set
a personal best sector time
under yellows: that earned
him a 20-second penalty,
dropping him to 11th and
out of title contention.
Laine took third from
Conor Daly, who survived
a couple of minor trips
through the gravel at the
second Lesmo.
To wrest the title from
Evans, Abt needed to
outscore him by 15 points
on Sunday – but only 17
were available.
His progress was similar
to that in race one, the
German picking his way
through to lead by lap six.
Evans was moving even more
briskly, though, and was up
from 25th to ninth by the
end of lap seven – with
fastest-lap bonus points
beckoning, too. As he tried
to take eighth on the pit
straight, however, Abt’s
team-mate Vainio clipped
the Kiwi’s right rear and
inflicted a puncture. As
Evans fumed towards the
pits, destined to finish
20th, he could but hope.
Giovanni Venturini
protected Abt from attack
for a while, but Ellinas was
flying once again and
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reports
Evans crowned at thrilling Monza
Messy weekend for
Evans still netted title
dispatched the Italian on
lap 11. He then passed Abt
under braking for the second
chicane on lap 13, only to
lose out again at Rettifilo
next time around. On the
penultimate lap Ellinas
repassed Abt as he had done
before – and any chance of
retaliation lapsed when the
German slid slightly wide at
Parabolica. The race belonged
to Ellinas, the title to Evans
and for Abt there were but
consolatory tears.
Venturini took third, from
Marlon Stockinger and da
Costa. Vainio – sixth over
the line – and Tamas Pal
Kiss were given 20s penalties,
so Alice Powell took her first
series point in eighth.
RESULTS
Race 1 1 Daniel abt, 16 laps in
28m17.548s; 2 Tio Ellinas, +0.349s;
3 Matias Laine; 4 Conor Daly;
5 Patric Niederhauser; 6 David
Fumanelli. Race 2 1 Ellinas,
16 laps in 28m18.541s; 2 Abt,
+1.003s; 3 Giovanni Venturini;
4 Marlon Stockinger; 5 Antonio Felix
da Costa; 6 Laine. Points 1 Evans,
151.5; 2 Abt, 149.5; 3 da Costa, 132;
4 Aaro Vainio, 123; 5 Laine; 6 Daly.
september 13 2012 autosport.com 45

SiLvErSToNE
GREAT BRITAIN
September 8-9
British Formula 3
Round 9/10
LUCkILY FOR ALex LYNN,
he was vastly quicker than
his British Formula 3
International Series
opposition at Silverstone last
weekend, because he had to
twice grab his maiden win.
In hindsight, the amiable
Essex teenager could even
be glad that his on-theroad
win on Saturday was
converted to fourth place
thanks to a 30-second time
penalty being applied
for a jumped start.
That race had been a
beautiful performance,
Lynn’s Fortec Motorsport
Dallara-Mercedes simply
rocketing away from the
opposition, who were utterly
bewildered as to how he
could still be lapping just
three or four tenths slower
than his best time at the end
of 15 laps on a circuit that is
notoriously hard on tyres.
It was a wonderfully silky
drive from a super-smooth
pilot. But, for the same
reason that many of Alain
Prost’s wins fade in the
memory, it’s Sunday’s race
that stood out and Lynn’s
breakthrough success will
be recalled for a long time.
Serralles had to be lifted out of his car
AT A GLANCE
→ Wins Jazeman Jaafar/
Felix Serralles/Alex Lynn
→ Pole positions Lynn x 2
→ Fastest laps Lynn x 2/Fantin
That’s because it was a
contest in which the F3 field
grew horns to provide some
epic red-meat-eating action.
In this one, Lynn had to
fight back from fourth place.
His start from pole had been
OK, but Jazeman Jaafar –
ever the brave overtaker –
swiped the lead away at
Becketts and, as Lynn
teetered off-line, he lost
further places to Harry
Tincknell and Carlos Sainz Jr.
He recovered second place
soon enough, including going
round the outside of Sainz at
Stowe, but by this stage Jaafar
was 2.7 seconds in front.
Lynn slashed the gap,
especially when Jaafar had a
lock-up into the Brooklands
left-hander that inflicted a
lot of pain on his front tyres.
Before half-distance they
were together, Lynn swarming
around the gearbox of the
Carlin Dallara-Volkswagen,
looking for an opening. He
tried to replicate Jaafar’s
move at Becketts on the 17th
Harvey (centre) has dropped
behind Jaafar and Serralles
AT A GLANCE rACE 3
→ Winner XMatt Neal
→ Pole XMatt Neal
→ Fastest lap xMatt Neal
Speedy Lynn sins,
spins – and wins
First the Brit lost a win to a jumped
start, then he went off trying to take
the lead. And finally he broke his duck
“ My engineer said,
‘You’ve done three
pole laps – that’s
not too bad’”
Alex Lynn had no laptime
readout in qualifying
lap of 20, but got a big
tankslapper – yet by the end
of the lap he was once again
with the Malaysian. And,
next time around, he was
through at Brooklands. He
then went away from Jaafar
by a whole second over the
next lap. Incredible pace.
This came a few hours
after the reversed-grid race
– another that Lynn could
have won. From sixth on the
grid, he pressed team-mate
Felix Serralles for the lead
until, on the penultimate lap,
the Puerto Rican got wide
exiting The Loop and lost
momentum with a big slide.
Lynn darted to the inside just
as Serralles turned into the
Aintree kink, and was forced
onto the grass and into a spin.
Lynn twice beat Jaafar,
but only kept one win
“Felix really closed the door
hard,” said a following Jack
Harvey, but Lynn was fine
with his team-mate’s driving,
saying he should have
waited until the following
Wellington Straight for his
move and not just “kept it lit”.
Fortec clearly had an edge
on the high-speed sweeps
of Silverstone over Carlin,
which, as Jaafar said after
qualifying, found rear-tyre
grip going away pretty
quickly. The key to Lynn’s
race performances came
from three laps good enough
for pole in qualifying, where
he “threw caution to the
wind” on his second set of
tyres. This is not the first
time Lynn has left the field
in his dust, because he had a
habit of topping Friday test
sessions earlier in the season,
but it was the first time he’s
done so in qualifying.
You can probably argue
that, in typical F3 rookie style,
he needed to build the mental
strength to complement his
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ACE rATiNG
★★★★✩
Some great battling all
the way down the field,
especially race three
speed in order to put the
lap in when it matters. On
Saturday, a glitch on his dash
meant he wasn’t getting his
lap times, so had no idea how
he was doing. “I did three
laps and said to Russ [Dixon,
his engineer], ‘How are we
looking?’” said Lynn. “And
he said, ‘Well, you’ve done
three laps good enough for
pole so not too bad!’”
Funnily enough, the Fortec
fortitude did not stretch to
Serralles, for whom this was
a crucial weekend in the title
fight. He was pretty grumpy
after qualifying seventh, and
in hindsight felt that he’d
probably gone a little too far
in trying to emulate Lynn’s
driving style after looking at
data. Then an underpressured
handbrake caused him to
stall at the start of race one.
He fought back to seventh,
but without the 20 seconds
lost on lap one that could’ve
miLESToNE
Comeback man Rupert
Svendsen-Cook gives
Double R best result
of 2012 with fourth
been a second place.
Serralles’s reversed-grid
win was inspired, as he lacked
the pace of the pursuing Lynn
and Harvey. In the final race
he was running sixth when
he got wide at The Loop and
leapt into the air, rejoining
behind title rival Harvey in
eighth. This became a battle
not to watch for those of a
nervous disposition. With
three laps to go, he edged
alongside Harvey on
Wellington Straight but got
onto the grass, hit an uneven
patch under the bridge and
reared up. Amazingly, he
passed Harvey a lap later on
the run to Copse, but when
the adrenalin faded he was
in agony and was lifted out
of his car by doctors.
With Harvey well and
truly in the wars (see right),
it is Jaafar who is now sitting
pretty in the points with one
round remaining. He drove
Aussies McBride (12) and
Uhrhane come to grief
extremely well all weekend,
extracting more performance
than any of his Carlin teammates
in qualifying and, once
it became clear that Lynn was
uncatchable on the road in
race one, he eased off towards
the end to conserve his tyres.
As usual his racecraft was
superb in the reversed-grid
race, and he did a solid
defensive job in the finale.
“We didn’t have the best
car but P2 is good,” he
smiled. “Roll on Donington!”
Even Sainz and Lynn also
have mathematical chances
of the crown. Sainz claimed
a second in race one after
struggling with his tyres
while trying to hold off
Harvey, while Carlin
team-mate Harry Tincknell
took two podiums – the
second after a terrific
defensive job holding
off charging Fortec man
Hannes van Asseldonk.
rESuLTS British Formula 3 International Series, round 9 of 10, Silverstone (GB), September 8-9
GRID
1 LyNN
1:53.802
3 hArvEy
1:54.024
2 JAAFAr
1:53.993
4 SAiNz
5 ASSELdoNk 1:54.040
1:54.194
6 TiNckNELL
7 SErrALLES 1:54.330
1:54.602
9 S-cook
1:54.747
11 McBridE
1:54.956
13 goddArd
1:56.604
8 FANTiN
1:54.690
10 dErANi
1:54.854
12 uhrhANE
1:55.096
14 cALBiMoNTE
15 PAd’chEE 1:56.894
1:57.039
CHAMPIONSHIP
POS DRIVER PTS
1 Jaafar 282
2 Serralles 276
3 Harvey 259
4= Sainz 226
RACE 1 – 15 LAPS, 54.906 MILES
POS DRIVER TEAM CAR TIME GRID
1 Jazeman Jaafar (MAL) Carlin DVW F312 29m02.367s 2
2 Carlos Sainz Jr (E) Carlin DVW F312 +7.900s 4
3 Harry Tincknell (GB) Carlin DVW F312 +16.379s 6
4 Alex Lynn (GB) Fortec Motorsport DMB F312 +19.441s* 1
5 Pietro Fantin (BR) Carlin DVW F312 +20.378s 8
6 Rupert Svendsen-Cook (GB) Double R Racing DMB F312 +20.907s 9
7 Felix Serralles (USA) Fortec Motorsport DMB F312 +23.436s 7
8 Jack Harvey (GB) Carlin DVW F312 +37.843s* 3
9 Pipo Derani (BR) Fortec Motorsport DMB F312 +38.820s 10
10 Spike Goddard (AUS) T-Sport DMH F308 +42.984s 13
11 Pedro Pablo Calbimonte (BO) T-Sport DMH F308 +45.070s 14
12 Duvashen Padayachee (AUS) Double R Racing DMH F308 +49.322s 15
R Nick McBride (AUS) T-Sport DN F312 14 laps-accident 11
R Geoff Uhrhane (AUS) Double R Racing DMB F312 14 laps-accident 12
R Hannes van Asseldonk (NL) Fortec Motorsport DMB F312 6 laps-battery 5
4= Lynn 226
6 Tincknell 193
7 Fantin 172
8 Derani 119
9 van Asseldonk 113
10 McBride 81
RACE 2 – 10 LAPS, 36.604 MILES
POS DRIVER TIME GRID
1 Serralles 19m33.909s 3
2 Jaafar +3.062s 9
3 Fantin +3.479s 5
4 Svendsen-Cook +3.921s 4
5 Lynn +10.939s 6
6 Sainz +16.011s 8
7 van Asseldonk +18.888s 15
8 Uhrhane +19.006s 14
9 McBride +19.544s 13
10 Padayachee +20.787s 12
11 Goddard +22.690s 10
12 Harvey +30.396s* 2
13 Tincknell +32.224s 7
R Calbimonte 4 laps-spun off 11
R Derani 3 laps-suspension 1
CHAMPIONSHIP (NATIONAL CLASS)
POS DRIVER PTS
1 Goddard 388
2 Padayachee 345
3 Fong 161
4 Calbimonte 82
↗Silverstone was a
disaster for Jack
Harvey, who arrived
leading the points and left in
third place, 23 points behind
Carlin cohort Jazeman Jaafar.
It started to go wrong when,
from third on the grid, he
jumped forward on the red
lights – there were suggestions
that it could be a handbrake
glitch. While he then started
with the rest of the field, he was
given a 30-second penalty for a
false start. His hard-won third
place, which included a great
round-the-outside move on
Carlos Sainz Jr at Luffield,
was converted to eighth.
In the second race, he
collided with Pipo Derani while
trying to overtake the Brazilian
for the lead around the outside
of Brooklands. Opinions
differed, with Harvey claiming
he was half a car length ahead.
Now in third place, he weaved
report
BRITISH F3 SIlveRSTone
MArcuS SiMMoNS
reports
Penalty hat-trick means
Harvey takes a tumble
GRID
1 LyNN
1:53.680
3 SAiNz
1:54.025
2 JAAFAr
1:53.987
4 TiNckNELL
1:54.121
5 ASSELdoNk
1:54.162
7 FANTiN
1:54.573
9 S-cook
1:54.685
11 uhrhANE
1:54.808
13 goddArd
1:56.420
6 SErrALLES
1:54.516
8 hArvEy
1:54.008**
10 dErANi
1:54.731
12 McBridE
1:54.937
14 cALBiMoNTE
1:56.794
15 PAd’chEE
1:56.962
on the pit straight to stave off
Derani. He finished second, but
again got a 30-second penalty
and a five-place grid drop for
race three – a double-whammy
that even some at rival teams
thought was harsh.
Then there was his defence
in race three against title rival
Felix Serralles for seventh,
which ended with Serralles in
hospital with a bruised coccyx.
“Felix was pushed off the
track a few times by Jack,” said
the chasing Rupert Svendsen-
Cook. “This time he obviously
decided he’d had enough and
kept his foot down. There was
probably a join in the concrete
and that caused him to take off.
If something isn’t done about
it, then it’s not good enough.”
But this time the officials
agreed with Harvey. “I’d
already made my move,”
he said. “We had a decent
race and it was fair.”
Harvey’s great move on
Sainz was for nothing
RACE 3 – 20 LAPS, 73.208 MILES
POS DRIVER TIME GRID
1 Lynn 39m03.812s 1
2 Jaafar +1.810s 2
3 Tincknell +11.877s 4
4 van Asseldonk +12.262s 5
5 Sainz +15.666s 3
6 Fantin +18.939s 7
7 Serralles +25.656s 6
8 Harvey +28.503s 8
9 Svendsen-Cook +28.947s 9
10 Uhrhane +35.071s 11
11 Derani +48.679s 10
12 McBride +48.923s 12
13 Goddard +49.429s 13
14 Padayachee +49.994s 15
15 Calbimonte +51.057s 14
D=Dallara; VW=Volkswagen/Spiess; MB=Mercedes-Benz/HWA; MH=Mugen Honda/Brown; N=Nissan/ThreeBond.
*30-second time penalty; **five-place grid penalty.
Race 1 Winner’s average: 113.44mph. Fastest lap: Lynn, 1m55.098s, 114.48mph.
Race 2 Winner’s average: 112.25mph. Fastest lap: Fantin, 1m56.007s, 113.59mph.
Race 3 Winner’s average: 112.44mph. Fastest lap: Lynn, 1m55.956s, 113.64mph.
September 13 2012 autosport.com 47

siLvERsTONE
GReAt bRitAin
September 8-9
british Gt
Round 6/7
BRITISH GT siLveRstone, sePtembeR 8-9
THE PHRASE ‘NOT
respecting the track limits’
has permeated motorsport in
the UK this season and
dominated the penultimate
round of British GT at
Silverstone last Sunday.
Too many crews to
mention fell foul of the rules
concerning four wheels
crossing the white lines
denoting the edge of the
Grand Prix circuit.
Regardless of the need for
drivers to keep it tidy, it was
unlikely most teams would
get through the longest race
of the year (three hours)
without problems.
Thus it was little surprise
the only three squads that
put together a (relatively)
clean run filled the podium.
Victory, for the second
time in three races, went
to the United Autosports
McLaren MP4-12C of Charles
Bateman and Matt Bell. The
car qualified a solid fifth and
Bateman ran third for the
majority of the opening stint,
helped by the Beachdeen
Aston Martin Vantage of
Andrew Howard spinning on
the first run through Copse
after contact with Riki
Christodoulou’s WFR Ginetta
G55, and Duncan Cameron
(who dislikes Silverstone)
falling back in MTECH’s
polesitting Ferrari 458.
Bateman fell behind the
RJN Nissan GT-R of Alex
Buncombe as Christodoulou
tore off into the lead, but
tracked Buncombe to the first
round of stops.
When the Nissan – already
penalised five seconds for
disrespecting track limits
– was handed a drivethrough
for further
transgressions in the hands of
Jann Mardenborough, then
Jody Firth went off
at Brooklands and damaged
the front of the rapid WFR
Ginetta (necessitating a
lengthy pitstop), the race
began to fall into UA’s lap.
When the McLaren of
seasonal debutants Jim
and Glynn Geddie received a
stop-go for conducting their
first stop too quickly, Bell
found himself holding a
22-second lead. The Ecurie
Ecosse BMW Z4 became
UA’s nearest challenger as the
race wore on, but the
McLaren was in control.
“We were sacrificing two
tenths a lap but taking no
risks and that was the main
thing when everyone was
getting penalties,” said
Bateman, celebrating his
fourth win in the category.
“We had an enforced
rideheight change before the
event so we had to start from
scratch with the set-up. This
AT A GLANCE
→ Winners Bateman/Bell
→ Pole Matt Griffin
→ FL Joe Osborne
McLaren doesn’t
take it to the limit
48 autosport.com September 13 2012
is a great result after all that
hard work.”
The Ecosse Z4, started by
Alasdair McCaig and shared
with GT3 debutant Ollie
Hancock, closed to within
12.5s of the McLaren in the
hands of Hancock in the late
stages before backing off due
to an overheating diff. The
Barwell-run outfit put
together a great race with a
car that is kind to its tyres,
and could arguably have been
a winner had McCaig (who
took evasive action when the
Trackspeed Porsche of Steve
Tandy clashed with the
Mercedes AMG SLS of
Godfrey Jones on the second
run through Village) not been
mired in the midfield while
the McLaren made hay at the
front during the first stint.
Michael Caine held off the
works Ginetta G55 of
Lawrence Tomlinson and
Mike Simpson (struggling
with gearbox issues) to
take third in the Motorbase
Porsche started by Danielle
Perfetti. “A complete
re-think” on set-up helped
bring some relief to team
boss David Bartum, who
watched the sister car of Benji
Hetherington/Steve Parish
make five extra pit visits for
various penalties.
It was worse for fellow
Porsche team Trackspeed, as
BMW Z4 came through
impressively to second
458 leads as G55 goes inside Aston
erstwhile points leader David
Ashburn was forced to start
from the pitlane when he was
too late getting into his car.
Co-driver Phil Keen later
ground to a halt with an
ECU fault, so it was no points
for the second race running
for Ashburn.
Glynn Geddie (carrying
a 5s penalty) jumped the
determinedly-driven Jones
Merc in the closing stages
and then drove fast enough to
cement fifth with two laps to
run, as Griffin battled a
broken splitter to beat the
Nissan to seventh.
He and Cameron now lead
the title race by just half a
point. With 9.5 covering the
top five crews, and seven still
in with a mathematical shout
of the title, the Donington
Park finale later this month
should be a humdinger.
l Ben Anderson
Bateman/Bell put in a
consistent run to win
RESULTS (3 hours: 81 laps)
1 Charles Bateman/Matt Bell
(McLaren MP4-12C); 2 Alasdair
Mccaig/Ollie Hancock (BMW Z4
Gt3) +20.597s; 3 Danielle Perfetti/
Michael caine (Porsche 997 Gt3-r);
4 lawrence tomlinson/Mike
simpson (Ginetta G55); 5 Jim
Geddie/Glynn Geddie (MP4-12c);
6 Godfrey & David Jones (Mercedes
AMG sls Gt3); 7 Duncan cameron/
Matt Griffin (Ferrari 458 italia); 8
Alex Buncombe/Jann Mardenborough
(Nissan Gt-r Gt3); 9 steve tandy/
Joe Osborne (997 Gt3-r); 10 Marco
Attard/Marcel liepert (lamborghini
Gallardo lP600+). GT4 Jody Fannin/
Warren Hughes (Ginetta G50).
Fastest lap Osborne 2m06.291s
(104.34mph). GT3 points 1 Griffin/
Cameron, 113; 2 Mccaig, 112.5;
3 Buncombe/Mardenborough, 108.5;
4 David Ashburn (97 Gt3-r), 104.5;
5 Perfetti/caine, 103.5; Bateman/
Bell, 83.5. GT4 1 Fannin/Hughes,
224.5; 2 Zoe Wenham (G50), 145.5;
3 Dominic evans (G50), 118.5.
Pics: eBrey/lAt

MiLEsTONEs
ex-mini champion martin Depper
becomes the first driver to win
two races in the same weekend
in the 2012 vW Racing Cup
JAMUN RACING’S ERIC
Lichtenstein claimed a
sensational hat-trick of
British Formula Ford wins
at Silverstone, extending
his streak to seven and
ensuring the title will be
decided during the season
finale at Donington.
The championship
remains Antti Buri’s to
lose, even though the
Finn was forced to retire
from the final race three
corners from home with
suspension failure after
running wide. Two
seconds, though, in the first
two races ensure the JTR
man still has one hand on
the championship trophy.
Lichtenstein aced pole
for all three encounters and
although he slipped behind
Buri early in race one, the
Argentinian hit back and
Depper won twice
on his VW Cup debut
FORMULA FORD AT A GLANCE
→ Race 1 Eric Lichtenstein
→ Race 2 Lichtenstein
→ Race 3 Lichtenstein
→ Points leader Antti Buri
F3/GT SUPPORTS siLveRstone, sePtembeR 8-9
Lichtenstein delays Finland’s glory
managed to fend off the
points leader.
Jake Cook took third
from Jamun team-mate
Luke Williams on lap five
and the latter’s hopes of
mounting a fresh bid for
a podium finish ended
when he ran straight on
at Brooklands.
Enjoying a lights-to-flag
victory in race two,
Lichtenstein’s task was
made all the easier when
Buri started to have
problems with a sticking
throttle. The Jamun driver
was able to back off his
pace during the closing laps
while JTR’s Julio Moreno
finished third after taking
the place from Cook at
Copse on the final tour.
Lichtenstein’s largest
winning margin of the
weekend came in the finale.
He finished 7s clear of
Williams, who did lead
briefly on the opening lap.
Ryan Cullen claimed his
maiden podium in third
while, in the Duratec class,
Mexican Formula Vee
graduate Fabian Welter
made it a supreme hat-trick
of wins having dominated
each of the races at the
wheel of his Mygale SJ08.
Ex-Mini Challenge
champ and BTCC refugee
Martin Depper made a
terrific debut in the VW
Racing Cup by winning
both races with relative
ease, the first driver to
claim both victories on a
single weekend this season.
Having converted a clear
pole into a 4s win over Jim
Cartwright in race one on
Saturday, Depper powered
through from sixth on
the grid on Sunday and
grabbed the lead from
series returnee Peter
Felix at Village on lap
four before surging away.
Former champion Joe
Fulbrook, who retired from
race one when the turbo
pipe on his Bora came off,
sensationally climbed
through from 27th on
the grid into the fight for
the final podium place in
race two. It all came to a
dramatic end at Village
when an attempted pass
for fifth on championship
leader James Walker
resulted in contact and
retirement for both.
Ginetta Challenge
points leader Sean Huyton
thoroughly dominated the
weekend with three clear
wins. His luck stood in
stark contrast to that of
title rival Mike Robinson,
whose hopes are all but
over after two separate
engine failures in as
many races.
After finishing second
in race one, Robinson’s
engine expired on the final
lap of race two, which led
to a spin on leaking fluid.
He then had more engine
trouble in race three to
compound what was a
terrible weekend.
Rick Parfitt Jr starred
with his maiden podiums,
second in races two and
three, while in the G20
class Brian Murphy, Mark
Wania and Matt Flowers
each claimed a win. In the
final encounter, Wania just
edged home Flowers by a
whisker but a 5s penalty
for exceeding track limits
dropped him back on
corrected times.
In the guesting JK Asia
Racing Series, Malaysia’s
Afiq Ikhwan cruised to
a 3s victory in race one
and won again in race
reportS
SILVERSTONE SUPPORTS
Three Lichtenstein wins
mean that Buri has to wait
two – albeit by only 0.6s
from Akhil Khushlani.
l Marc Orme
RESULTS
British Formula Ford (all 9 laps)
1 Eric Lichtenstein (Mygale
M12-SJ); 2 Antti Buri (M12-sJ)
+0.530s; 3 Jake cook (M12-sJ);
4 luke Williams (M12-sJ); 5 Julio
Moreno (M12-sJ); 6 ryan cullen
(M12-sJ). Duratec winner Fabian
Welter (Mygale sJ08). Fastest lap
Buri 2m07.908s (103.02mph).
Race 2 1 Lichtenstein; 2 Buri
+0.622s; 3 Moreno; 4 cook;
5 cullen; 6 Welter. DW Welter.
FL lichtenstein 2m07.111s
(103.66mph). Race 3
1 Lichtenstein; 2 Williams
+7.893s; 3 cullen; 4 Welter;
5 George Blundell (sJ08); 6 Matt
rao (Van Diemen lA09). DW Welter.
FL Buri 2m07.524s (103.33mph).
Points 1 Buri, 537; 2 lichtenstein,
453; 3 cook, 436; 4 Moreno, 370;
5 cavan corcoran, (M12-sJ) 323;
6 cullen, 282.
VW Racing Cup (both 9 laps)
1 Martin Depper (Scirocco R);
2 Jim cartwright (Golf Mk5 Gti)
+4.667s; 3 James Walker (scirocco
r); 4 chris levett (Golf Mk5 Gti);
5 Kieran Griffin (scirocco r);
6 Peter Felix (Golf Mk6 Gti).
FL Depper 2m28.334s (88.83mph).
Race 2 1 Depper; 2 Felix +7.569s;
3 cartwright; 4 levett; 5 thomas
Wilson (Golf Mk5 Gti); 6 Nikhil
chopra (Golf r32). FL Depper
2m28.603s (88.67mph).
Ginetta GT5 Challenge (5 laps)
1 Sean Huyton (G40); 2 Mike
robinson (G40) +3.897s; 3 luke
Davenport (G40); 4 Brad Bailey
(G40); 5 rick Parfitt (G40); 6 Diego
Guggiari (G40). CW Brian Murphy
(G20). FL Parfitt 2m26.923s
(89.68mph). Race 2 (7 laps)
1 Huyton; 2 Parfitt +7.989s;
3 Davenport; 4 Bailey; 5 Gary simms
(G40); 6 William Burns (G40).
CW Mark Wania (G20). FL Huyton
2m26.871s (89.72mph).
Race 3 (8 laps) 1 Huyton; 2 Parfitt
+7.787s; 3 ryan ratcliffe (G40);
4 Burns; 5 Ben constanduros (G40);
6 Andy O’Brien (G40). CW Matt
Flowers (G20). FL Huyton
2m29.210s (88.31mph).
JK Asia Racing Series (both 10
laps) 1 Afiq Ikhwan; 2 Nabil Jeffri
+3.329s; 3 Danial Hidzir; 4 Wei ron
tan; 5 tommy Ostgaard; 6 Jack Dex.
FL ikhwan 2m10.697s (100.82mph).
Race 2 1 Ikhwan; 2 Akhil Khushlani
+0.659s; 3 Jeffri; 4 ilyas; 5 Hidzir;
6 tan. FL Khushlani 2m11.408s
(100.27mph).
September 13 2012 autosport.com 49

HuNGAroriNG
hungARy
September 8-9
Formula 2
Round 7/8
50 autosport.com September 13 2012
AT A GLANCE
→ Race 1 Alex Fontana
→ Race 2 Markus Pommer
→ Poles Kevin Mirocha/Pommer
→ FLs Fontana/Pommer
managed this expertly
around the outside of the
poleman to move into the
lead. From there, the reigning
European Formula 3 Open
champion pulled clear to
claim his first F2 victory.
There was a convincing
win on Sunday too, but this
time it was Markus Pommer
spraying the champagne.
In one of the most
commanding performances
in the new era of F2, the
Zamparelli made podium again
Fontana gives himself a boost
Formula 2 tweaked its boost rules to liven up the racing
at the Hungaroring, and the Swiss took full advantage
THe BIgWIgS AT FORMuLA 2
knew what to do for
the series’ trip to the
Hungaroring. The 20
minutes it takes to arrive
from Budapest certainly
makes a pleasant change
from some of the newer
circuits ‘near’ capitals, such
as the Slovakia Ring and
Moscow Raceway, but the
circuit layout itself doesn’t
lend itself to great racing.
Having already introduced
a DRS-imitating overboost
system at the start of the
year – where drivers can
only use their extra 75bhp
if they are within a second
of the car in front – for
Hungary F2 decreed that
not only would there be the
usual two boost zones, but
in each of those zones the
drivers would be able to
use their boost twice.
The hope was that the
extra 75bhp, for 24 seconds
of a 1m38s lap, would make
overtaking possible. The first
boost would be available
between Turns 3 and 6, with
the second zone stretching
from the run to Turn 12 to
the start-finish straight.
Even so, talk in the
paddock was still that
qualifying would be the
most important thing and
it would still be impossible
to overtake, but they were
soon proved wrong…
Kevin Mirocha held the
lead from pole position in
Saturday’s race, but Alex
Fontana moved up right
behind him after Mihai
Marinescu wiped Matheo
Tuscher out of contention.
In a concerted effort over
one lap, Fontana used his
boost three times before
– on the exit of the final
corner – he exploited it
again to move alongside
Mirocha for the lead.
Crucially, the boosts only
got him alongside. The
Swiss-Greek didn’t simply
sail past down the straight,
he still had to get the job
done under braking, and he
Pommer dominated
the second race
German F3 graduate took
a lights-to-flag victory,
regularly lapping over a
second per lap quicker than
his rivals to finish 16s clear.
After a gearbox problem
forced him into the pits
at the end of Saturday’s
formation lap, robbing him
of a front-row start, Pommer
needed the win to keep alive
his slim hopes of winning
the championship.
Further back in the field,
the boost system was
once again used effectively
by Fontana as he again
attempted to pass Mirocha,
except this time for fourth
position. The boost got him
alongside, but Mirocha
defended firmly and fairly
on a number of occasions.
During the fight, Fontana
overused his tyres and
ultimately dropped
away from Mirocha.
As far as the

ACE rATiNG
★★✩✩✩
no amount of boost could
Fontana took
centre stage
Bacheta was off the pace in Hungary
Mirocha led race one
from Fontana early on
championship battle was
concerned, points leader
Luciano Bacheta lucked in
during the first race. The
retirements of Marinescu,
Tuscher and Pommer
promoted the lofty Essex
racer up the order and
meant that he extended
his advantage with his
third-placed finish.
The less-dramatic second
race resulted in Bacheta
finishing where his weekend
pace had suggested – down
in eighth position. There was
still drama for him, as a
race-long battle with fellow
Brit Daniel McKenzie forced
Bacheta to work hard for
his four points. McKenzie
successfully got around the
outside of Bacheta at Turn 2,
but compromised his line
into the next, allowing the
points leader back through at
the top of the hill. McKenzie
had another go a few laps
later, but Bacheta was wise
MiLEsToNE
Richard gonda becomes
first Slovak to
compete in Formula 2
to it and kept the door firmly
shut into Turn 3.
The finale at Monza will
feature Bacheta, Tuscher –
a distant second in race two
– and Pommer all vying for
the championship. A circuit
less like the Hungaroring
is difficult to imagine and,
although the double-boost
zones won’t be necessary in
Italy, the system certainly
saved the weekend’s races
from being quite as painful
as other Hungarian contests
for powerful single-seaters.
Equally, it gave drivers
such as Fontana the
opportunity to prove their
strength, instead of being
stuck behind a slower car
for the whole race.
The system is just an
extension of the identical
nature of the cars, as F2
continues its attempts
to give each driver the
chance to demonstrate
their racing capabilities.
↗It can be hard to take
the blame in motor
racing, so bearing
that in mind there was a
refreshing change from the
standard form during Friday’s
free practice sessions.
When Dino Zamparelli left
the pits to do his first run of
the day on brand-new tyres,
he pulled off the racing line
during his out-lap to allow his
ex-Formula Renault BARC rival
Hector Hurst through. But
Hurst got his angles wrong and
ended up clipping Zamparelli’s
front wheel, breaking it and
leaving the Bristolian to fume
his way back to the pits.
The two have a little bit
of history, with Zamparelli
running into the back of Hurst
behind the safety car at Spa
back in June, but any feelings of
bad blood were quashed when
Hurst approached Zamparelli
over lunch to apologise for
what had happened.
The next day, Mihai
Marinescu was trying to pass
Matheo Tuscher for second
Tuscher was soon
hit by Marinescu
report
F2 HUNGARORING
stop Fontana or Pommer JAcK NicHollS
reports
RESUlTS
gRID
1 MiRocHA
1:34.681
3 TUScHER
1:34.806
5 MARiNEScU
1:35.211
7 bAcHETA
1:35.296
9 JEFFERiES
1:35.587
11 zHU
1:35.688
13 goNdA
1:35.987
15 KRAlEv
1:36.270
2 PoMMER
1:34.708
4 FoNTANA
1:34.931
6 McKENziE
1:35.296
8 zANEllA
1:35.315
10 HURST
1:35.686
12 zAMPARElli
1:35.878
14 SNEgiREv
1:36.222
FIA Formula 2 Championship, hungaroring (h), September 8-9, round 7 of 8
RACe 1 – 22 LAPS, 59.864 mILeS
POS nAme TIme gRID
1 Alex Fontana (Ch) 36m11.949s 4
2 Kevin mirocha (PL) +2.774s 1
3 Luciano Bacheta (gB) +9.111s 7
4 Daniel mcKenzie (gB) +9.922s 6
5 Christopher Zanella (Ch) +17.442s 8
6 Dino Zamparelli (gB) +29.559s 12
7 max Snegirev (RuS) +35.525s 14
8 Richard gonda (SK) +52.293s 13
9 Plamen Kralev (Bg) +1m02.435s 15
10 David Zhu (PRC) +1m17.957s 11
R markus Pommer (D) 12 laps-gearbox 2
R matheo Tuscher (Ch) 3 laps-acc damage 3
R mihai marinescu (RO) 2 laps-accident 5
R Axcil Jefferies (ZW) 1 lap-acc damage 9
R hector hurst (gB) 0 laps-accident 10
gRID
1 PoMMER
1:33.971
3 TUScHER
1:34.495
5 zANEllA
1:34.562
7 bAcHETA
1:34.773
9 McKENziE
1:34.910
11 HURST
1:35.330
13 JEFFERiES
1:35.456
15 KRAlEv
1:36.148
Playing the blame game
RACe 2 – 22 LAPS, 59.864 mILeS
POS DRIVeR TIme/ReASOn gRID
1 Pommer 35m53.761s 1
2 Tuscher +16.227s 3
3 Zamparelli +18.811s 4
4 mirocha +28.927s 6
5 Fontana +31.243s 2
6 Zanella +32.898s 5
7 marinescu +34.933s 8
8 Bacheta +36.608s 7
9 mcKenzie +37.515s 9
10 Jefferies +39.392s 13
11 Zhu +53.573s 10
12 gonda +56.481s 14
13 Kralev +1m00.353s 15
14 hurst +1m01.019s 11
15 Snegirev +1m04.425s 12
place in the first race.
Marinescu had deployed his
boost and was rapidly closing
in on the Swiss driver down the
pit straight. For some reason
known only to him, he opted
not to attempt the pass and
tucked back in behind Tuscher.
Whether Marinescu
misjudged the closing speed or
was too busy thinking about
how to pass and missed his
braking point, he careered into
the back of Tuscher, sending
them both out of the race.
Marinescu was given a fiveplace
grid penalty, which he
protested on the grounds that
Tuscher was weaving on the
straight. One look at the video
convinced the stewards that
wasn’t the case, so Marinescu
then insisted that Tuscher had
braked much earlier than
usual. Again, a look at the
data disproved that theory.
The only conclusion for
the stewards was that it was
Marinescu’s fault. And it put
Hurst’s attitude in an even
more favourable light.
ChAmPIOnShIP TABLe
POS DRIVeR PTS
1 Bacheta 208.5
2 Tuscher 175
3 Pommer 165
4 Zanella 161
5 marinescu 141
6 mirocha 126.5
7 Fontana 105
8 Zamparelli 94.5
9 mcKenzie 94
10 hurst 27
Race 1 Winner’s average speed: 99.266mph. Fastest lap: Fontana, 1m37.068s, 100.960mph. Race 2 Winner’s average speed: 100.104mph. Fastest lap: Pommer, 1m37.220s, 100.802mph. *five-place grid penalty.
2 FoNTANA
1:34.341
4 zAMPARElli
1:34.510
6 MiRocHA
1:34.588
8 MARiNEScU
1:34.352*
10 zHU
1:35.309
12 SNEgiREv
1:35.357
14 goNdA
1:35.741
September 13 2012 autosport.com 51

inteRnational
Races & Results
nascar sprint cup
Richmond (USA),
Rd 26/36
QuicK Results
→ Winner clint Bowyer
→ Pole Dale Earnhardt Jr
→ Laps led Denny Hamlin
→ Points leader Hamlin
Race Rating
★★★✩✩
Great action in
between long
rain delays
reports
WORLD OF SPORT
nascar sprint cup Richmond (USA), SePTembeR 8, Rd 26/36
Hit from Montoya boosts Bowyer to victory
“THAnK you JuAn PABLo FoR
wrecking me and winning
me the race” were the
words of Clint Bowyer
after his late-night run into
Richmond’s Victory Lane.
The night race was always
due to finish late, but a
rain-delayed start and two
further interruptions by
the elements meant it was
Sunday morning by the time
Bowyer wrapped up his
second win of the season.
The clash with Montoya
came as they traded paint
while fighting for position.
In the scuffle the left-rear
tyre of Bowyer’s Michael
Waltrip Racing Toyota
was cut, which sent him
spinning. It also sent him to
the pits, and the top-up of
fuel he received was just
enough for him to make it to
the finish – a crucial break
in strategy that was key in
winning the final event
before the 10-race Chase
for the Championship.
“We had a bad result last
week, but this is a great
way to get things going
before the Chase,” said
cuRRENt
staNDiNGs
Bowyer, whose Camry ran
dry as he performed his
victory donuts.
Intriguing as Bowyer’s
attempts to make his fuel
last were, it was the battle
to claim the final Chase
‘wildcard’ spot that was the
highlight of the race. There
were three main players –
Harvick takes first NatioNwide wiN siNce 2010
kevin Harvick took his rcr chevrolet to victory at
richmond, passing kurt Busch in the moments between
Busch spinning Dexter stacey and yellows coming out.
four-time champ Jeff
Gordon, Kyle Busch and
outsider Ryan Newman.
Gordon’s charge started
perfectly as he outdragged
Hendrick Chevrolet
team-mate and polesitter
Dale Earnhardt Jr to lead the
first lap. But his car wasn’t
handling well and he fell back.
At the same time, Busch was
working his Joe Gibbs Toyota
forward and the Chase place
looked set for him.
But before the race hit the
halfway mark (the point at
which the result could be
declared), the rain returned
and the red flag was waved.
This was the turning point.
At the restart Busch found
his car was “junk” and
multiple pitstops followed as
his team sought a solution.
Newman’s slim hopes
seemed to have disappeared
when he received a drive-
1 Sebastian Vettel 23,000
2 Lewis Hamilton ▲ 19,537
3 Fernando Alonso ▾ 19,475
4 Jenson Button 18,535
5 Mark Webber ▾ 18,147
through after one of his crew
allowed a wheel to roll across
pitroad following a stop.
But this was the cue for the
Stewart-Haas man to mount
a remarkable comeback,
culminating in his Chevy
taking team-mate Tony
Stewart for the lead, and
the coveted Chase spot.
But Newman couldn’t
keep Bowyer at bay and
slipped to eighth.
Meanwhile, Gordon had
found his car’s sweet spot
and got back on the lead lap.
With Busch going threewide
in fraught attempts to
minimise his points loss,
it was only in the closing
stages – as Gordon moved
into second place – that the
Chase place was secure for
the Hendrick man. After 26
hard-fought races, three
points was the difference
between being in or out.
Ranking the world’s best drivers
Bowyer (15) gave
MWR another win
“I felt like I won tonight,”
said Gordon. “When they
told me I was in the Chase I
was ecstatic. I don’t see any
reason why we can’t go over
these next 10 races and be a
real threat for the title.”
l connell sanders Jr
RESULTS
1 Clint Bowyer (Toyota Camry),
400 laps in 2h59m58s; 2 Jeff Gordon
(chevrolet impala), +1.198s; 3 Mark
Martin (toyota); 4 tony stewart
(chevy); 5 Matt Kenseth (Ford
Fusion); 6 Jeff Burton (chevy); 7 Brad
Keselowski (Dodge charger); 8 Ryan
Newman (chevy); 9 Greg Biffle
(Ford); 10 Kevin harvick (chevy).
Points 1 Denny hamlin, 2012;
2 Jimmie Johnson, 2009; 3 stewart,
2009; 4 Keselowski, 2009; 5 Biffle,
2006; 6 Bowyer, 2006; 7 Dale
Earnhardt Jr, 2003; 8 Kenseth, 2003;
9 Kasey Kahne, 2000; 10 Gordon,
2000; 11 harvick, 2000;
12 Martin truex Jr, 2000.
WHat HappEnED tHis WEEk
Clint Bowyer claims his highest spot of 2012 – 22nd – in the
Rankings following his triumph at Richmond. Jeff Gordon’s wildcard
Chase spot isn’t enough to stop him sliding two spots to 37th. Kyle
Busch falls by the same margin, dropping to an all-time low of 27th.
To see the full list, visit castroldriverrankings.com
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eports
World reports of sport
WORLD OF SPORT
54 autosport.com June 28 2012
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Races & Results
GRAND-AM
Laguna Seca (USA),
Rd 12/13
QuicK Results
→ Winners Westbrook/Garcia
→ Pole Richard Westbrook
→ Fastest lap Garcia
→ Points leaders Rojas/Pruett
Race Rating
★★★✩✩
Strategy dictated
all in DP. GT was
a nervy affair all
race long
GRAND-AM LAGUnA SecA (USA), SePTembeR 8, RD 12/13
Westbrook ends a barren run for Spirit of Daytona
The SPIRIT OF DAYTONA
team seemed set to
challenge for top honours
in this year’s Grand-Am
Series after its Pratt &
Miller-developed Coyote
Corvette DP won two of the
first six races. A series of
misfortunes in mid-season
proved costly, but Richard
Westbrook and Antonio
Garcia bounced back last
weekend at Laguna Seca
to claim victory by just
under four seconds.
“We just needed a
trouble-free weekend,” said
Westbrook, who started
from pole and led the first
28 laps before making
his first pitstop.
Jon Fogarty and Alex
Gurney’s hopes for a
full-course caution in
the closing stages went
unheeded, meaning the Bob
Stallings Riley Corvette had
to relinquish its lead for a
splash of fuel with just over
five minutes remaining.
Gurney rejoined marginally
ahead of Ryan Dalziel’s
Starworks Riley-Ford,
maintaining that advantage
to the finish and remaining
ALVARO BARBA AND MATTeO
Malucelli moved back into
the lead of the International
GT Open after winning the
second Hungaroring race in
their Villois Racing Aston
Martin Vantage.
Spirit of Daytona led
Laguna from the start
only a little less than 4s
adrift of the winners in
a race that featured the
final 80 laps run under
green-flag conditions.
John Pew/Oswaldo Negri
Jr again employed a fine
strategy to secure fourth for
Michael Shank Racing.
Memo Rojas and Scott
Pruett (Ganassi Riley-
BMW) finished sixth
iNteRNAtioNAl Gt oPeN HUnGARoRinG (H), SePTembeR 8-9, RD 6/8
Aston pair move into points lead in Hungary
In Saturday’s race, Dutch
squad V8 Racing took its
maiden series win with
Miguel Ramos and Raffaele
Giammaria at the wheel
of the team’s Chevrolet
Corvette C6.R.
Aston crew fended off
Ferraris and Porsches
and lead Dalziel by 13
points with just one race
remaining, at Lime Rock.
Ferrari seemed to have
the dominant car in the
GT class, but no one told
Wayne Nonnamaker/Dane
Cameron, who drove their
Mazda flawlessly to claim
a long-overdue maiden
victory for Team Sahlen.
Emil Assentato/Jeff Segal
Ramos took the lead at the
mandatory driver changes,
but was soon forced to
mount a stern rearguard
defence against Federico
Leo’s AF Corse Ferrari,
which had been ahead in
the hands of Gianmaria
Bruni before the stops.
Despite a number of
attempts, reigning GT3
European champion Leo
could not get by the
Corvette around the twisty
confines of the Hungaroring.
Erstwhile series leaders
Nick Tandy/Marco Holzer
had been seriously
concerned about tyre wear
coming into the weekend,
but Tandy did manage to
muscle the Manthey Racing
secured the title with
second in their AIM Ferrari,
taking the spot when the
similar Extreme Speed car
of Mike Hedlund/Johannes
van Overbeek ran out of
fuel on the last lap.
l Jeremy shaw
resULts
1 Richard Westbrook/Antonio
Garcia (Coyote Corvette DP),
Porsche past Malucelli
on the final lap of the
race to take third.
Sunday’s race was the
100th in GT Open history,
and was a little more sedate
than the first. Barba/
Malucelli took the spoils
after a long battle with the
Scuderia Villorba Ferrari
458 of Andrea Montermini/
Juan Manuel Lopez.
Although the Aston took
a lights-to-flag victory, the
Ferrari was with it all the
way to the end – including
some contact between the
two cars three laps from
home – to finish just 0.337
seconds behind. Tandy/
Holzer were fifth this time.
l Jack Nicholls
111 laps in 2h45m15.988s;
2 Jon fogarty/alex gurney (riley
Corvette), +3.878s; 3 alex tagliani/
ryan dalziel (riley-ford MkXXVI);
4 John pew/oswaldo Negri
(riley-ford); 5 darren law/Joao
Barbosa (Coyote Corvette); 6 Memo
rojas/scott pruett (riley-BMW).
points 1 rojas/pruett, 355;
2 dalziel, 342; 3 law, 329;
4 alex popow, 321; 5 david
donohue, 320; 6 Barbosa, 316.
resULts
race 1 1 Miguel Ramos/Raffaele
Giammaria (Chevrolet Corvette
C6.R), 38 laps in 1h10m48.785s;
2 gianmaria Bruni/federico leo
(ferrari 458 Italia), +0.699s; 3 Marco
Holzer/Nick tandy (porsche 911
gt3-rsr); 4 andrea Montermini/
Juan Manuel lopez (ferrari); 5 alvaro
Barba/Matteo Malucelli (aston Martin
Vantage); 6 Michal Broniszewski/
philipp peter (ferrari). race 2
1 Barba/Malucelli, 27 laps in
50m10.722s; 2 Montermini/lopez,
+0.337s; 3 diederich sijthoff/
emanuele Moncini (Corvette); 4 Bruni/
leo; 5 Holzer/tandy; 6 raymond
Narac/patrick pilet (porsche). points
1 Barba/Malucelli, 150; 2 Holzer/
tandy, 142; 3 Bruni/leo, 141;
4 Montermini/lopez, 127; 5 Narac/
pilet, 98; 6 ramos/giammaria, 93.
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inteRnational
Races & Results
super gt
Fuji (J),
Rd 6/8
QuicK Results
→ Winners de Oliveira/Matsuda
→ Pole Joao paulo de Oliveira
→ Fastest Lap de Oliveira
→ Points leaders Quintarelli/
Yanagida
Race Rating
★✩✩✩✩
Not a classic by
any stretch of
the imagination
super gt FuJi (J), sePtembeR 9, Rd 6/8
De Oliveira and Matsuda Nissan dominates
THE bATTLE fOR THE SupER gT
crown is heating up nicely
thanks to victory for Joao
Paulo de Oliveira and Tsugio
Matsuda at Fuji.
Brazilian de Oliveira took
his maiden series pole on
Saturday, the Impul Nissan
driver going 0.014 seconds
clear of the Mola-run GT-R
of defending champion
Ronnie Quintarelli.
His co-driver Matsuda
then made an excellent
getaway from the rolling
start and was never headed.
De Oliveira took over at the
mandatory driver changes
and finished over 20 seconds
ahead of the Quintarelli/
Masataka Yanagida machine.
Quintarelli and Yanagida
have now taken over from
Yuji Tachikawa and Kohei
Hirate at the top of the
points table, with Juichi
Wakisaka/Hiroaki Ishiura
third and de Oliveira and
Matsuda just 15 points adrift
of the leaders in fourth.
RICKARD RYDELL AND MICHEL
Nykjaer won a race apiece
at the twisty Knutstorp
circuit in southern Sweden
to snatch the top two
positions in the
Scandinavian Touring
Car Championship.
But while the Chevrolet
Motorsport Sweden
duo ran the rest of the
racers ragged, former
championship leader
Johan Kristoffersson
had a torrid weekend
as a pair of front-row
starts became a fourth
place and a retirement.
The Kristoffersson
Motorsport Volkswagen
Scirocco was demoted two
spots at the start of race
one after its driver tried
Impul duo
won at fuji
The TOM’S and Kraft
Lexuses battled over third
during the early stages, but
both fell down the field when
Andrea Caldarelli’s Kraft
machine banged wheels
with a GT300 car and ran
wide. TOM’S man Kazuki
Nakajima went wider still in
avoidance and fell to 10th.
That allowed Seiji Ara/
Andre Couto to inherit third
in their Bandoh SC430, while
Nakajima’s co-driver Loic
Duval helped haul the
TOM’S car back to fourth.
Caldarelli and Yuji
scandinavian tOuring cars kNutstoRP (s), sePtembeR 8, Rd 7/8
Rydell shares Chevy
wins with Nykjaer
unsuccessfully to pass
Nkykaer around the
outside of the first corner
and was barged wide.
In the brief moment of
madness that followed,
Rydell was delayed briefly
and lost second place to
Kristoffersson’s team-mate
Patrik Olsson. That’s how
they finished 22 laps later,
with Johan Stureson
and Jordi Gene behind
Kristoffersson in a
trio of VWs.
Defending champion
Rydell led race two all the
way, but Kristoffersson’s
easy second place turned to
dust when a front-wheel
arm broke and he was
forced to park. Nykjaer
took full advantage to
Kunimoto climbed back
to seventh by the flag.
Tomonobu Fujii and
Masami Kageyama (the
overall champion back in
1998) won GT300 in their
KTR Porsche, while second
and third places for a Toyota
Prius and a Honda CR-Z
made history as two hybrid
machines made the podium
for the first time.
l Jiro takahashi
RESULTS
1 Joao paulo de Oliveira/Tsugio
Matsuda (Nissan gT-R), 66 laps in
complete a Chevy one-two.
Spanish driver Gene
took his maiden STCC
podium in third after a
controlled drive, while
Olsson and Stureson
followed him home.
Tomas Engstrom
produced the performance
of the race as he climbed
from the back of the grid
to finish sixth in his
Honda, almost catching
Stureson by the end.
l tege tornvall
1h47m22.021s; 2 ronnie Quintarelli/
masataka Yanagida (Nissan),
+21.025s; 3 andre couto/seiji ara
(lexus sc430); 4 loic duval/Kazuki
Nakajima (lexus); 5 toshihiro
Kaneishi/Kodai tsukakoshi (honda
hsV-010); 6 Juichi Wakisaka/hiroaki
ishiura (lexus); 7 andrea caldarelli/
Yuji Kunimoto (lexus); 8 Yuji
tachikawa/Kohei hirate (lexus);
9 ralph Firman/takashi Kobayashi
(honda); 10 daisuke ito/Kazuya
Oshima (lexus). Points 1 Quintarelli/
Yanagida, 58; 2 tachikawa/hirate,
50; 3 Wakisaka/ishiura, 43; 4 de
Oliveira/matsuda, 43; 5 izawa/
Yamamoto, 38; 6 Nakajima, 37.
Kristoffersson
watches Rydell win
RESULTS
Race 1 1 Michel Nykjaer
(Chevrolet Cruze), 20 laps in
20m53.292s; 2 patrik Olsson
(Volkswagen scirocco cNG),
+2.825s; 3 rickard rydell (chevy);
4 Johan Kristoffersson (VW); 5
Johan stureson (VW); 6 Jordi Gene
(VW). Race 2 1 Rydell, 20 laps in
22m41.842s; 2 Nykjaer, +0.665s;
3 Gene; 4 Olsson; 5 stureson;
6 tomas engstrom (honda civic).
Points 1 rydell, 234; 2 Nykjaer,
225; 3 Kristoffersson, 214; 4 Olsson,
158; 5 engstrom, 153; 6 Gene, 131.
reports
WORLD OF SPORT
in BrieF
Hawksworth won title
star MaZda
Britain’s Jack hawksworth was
crowned champion by winning
race one at laguna seca, the
team pelfrey driver holding off a
last-lap attempt by Gabby chaves
to grab the lead at the corkscrew.
colombian chaves won race two.
eurOpean F3 Open
Facu regalia took his first
win of 2012 in race two at the
hungaroring. the campos driver
beat team West-tec’s sam
dejonghe. Gianmarco raimondo
increased his series lead with
a victory and a third place.
super tc2000
Jose maria lopez grabbed the
points lead at san martin thanks
to his fourth win in a row. toyota
driver matias rossi followed the
Ford man home, with lopez’s
team-mate Jorge trebbiani
completing the podium.
MiddLe-east raLLY
roger Feghali won the rally of
lebanon for a 10th time, the Ford
Fiesta s2000 man beating brother
abdo’s mini by four minutes.
third for adbulaziz al-Kuwari
(mini) gave him the merc lead.
Fia X-cOuntrY cup
Krzysztof holowczyc won Baja
poland in his X-raid mini by
nearly 15 minutes from miroslav
Zapletal’s mitsubishi. sixth for
Khalifa al-mutaiwei kept him
clear of Jean-louis schlesser
in the title race.
BarceLOna 24 HOurs
a faultless display gave the
lapidus mclaren mp4-12c, driven
by phil Quaife, tim mullen, adam
christodoulou and team boss
Klaas hummel, a four-lap victory.
McLaren won in Spain
September 13 2012 autosport.com 59
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Is this man a future
BTCC champion?
He’s been a frontrunner for six years and has targeted the 2013 british Touring car crown with a
new-generation Ford Focus, so is Mat Jackson ready to be champion? KEVIN TURNER investigates
“We have
New NGTC Focus
has shown promise
to make some
sacrifices, and success
in 2013 is exactly what
we’re working for.”
That was Mat Jackson’s verdict after
giving the untested new-spec NGTC
Ford Focus of Motorbase Performance
its race debut at Snetterton last month.
Armed with the old Super 2000 Focus,
he fought for the title in 2011 and has
been a race winner this term, but
Jackson and his team believe they
needed a new car to take on multiple
champions Jason Plato and Matt Neal.
The bigger tyres and brakes of the
NGTC machines, not to mention the
chance to develop a car from scratch,
should give Motorbase the chance to
take on works squads MG and Honda
on a more equal footing. The rest of
this season is, therefore, being used
to get up to speed so that Jackson
can hit the ground running in 2013.
“These race days are valuable,” says
team boss David Bartrum. “You never
push as hard at a test as you do at a race.
60 autosport.com September 13 2012
“The new car has given Mat a big lift.
He’s not used to being in a team with
the people who built the car, and he’s
never had a new touring car. He knows
he’s got to step up.”
Jackson agrees: “It’s difficult when
you’re an independent up against the
manufacturers, but this is the first time
we’ve had the same kit as everyone else.
NGTC gives us the platform and I think
we can be as good as the works boys.”
So, assuming the car is up to it,
can Jackson do it?
In his favour, the 31-year-old has
beaten the current contenders in a title
race before. In 2008, his second BTCC
season, he finished behind only Fabrizio
Giovanardi, and ahead of Plato and Neal.
On the downside, his qualifying
efforts tend not to match his racing
ability. Last year his average qualifying
position was 7.8 and there were no
genuine poles, yet he scored seven
fastest laps, more than anyone else.
“Mat doesn’t always pull it out of the
bag in qualifying,” concedes Bartrum,
JACKSON’S BTCC CV who has run Jackson since 2010.
“Sometimes it might be him not
quite telling us exactly what he
needs, sometimes it might be that
we don’t get there fast enough.”
Jackson stops short of admitting
2012 currently
7th with
Motorbase (2 wins)
2011 4th with
Motorbase (4 wins)
2010 7th
with Motorbase
bMW (1 win)
2009 5th with
rML chevy (4 wins)
2008 2nd
with Jacksons/bMW
Dealer Team UK
(5 wins), above
2007 7th
with Jacksons
Msport (2 wins)
he has a weakness in qualifying, but
reckons it is something he and the team
can work on. “Qualifying is key and
together we can improve, particularly
now we have the NGTC,” says the
18-time BTCC race winner.
Qualifying higher will also help
him avoid trouble. Last year, Jackson’s
racecraft was usually very good, but
he also had moments – most notably
at Knockhill – when he got himself
into scrapes and lost valuable points.
“Hitting Tom Chilton at Knockhill
and damaging the engine was the first
thing,” adds Bartrum of Jackson’s 2011
troubles. “He chased too hard from that
point and that carried on at Rockingham.
“At Silverstone when we still had a
slim chance, he took too much kerb and
got a puncture, but if those last rounds
How good is
Motorbase?
Talking about the drivers is one thing, but
few racers win titles in poor cars. While
rating Mat Jackson, it only seems right
to ask what Motorbase, which has been
in the BTCC since 2006, is capable of.
“That’s a fair question,” says boss
David Bartrum. “I think we’ve put together
the quality of people – engineering and
driving – and we’ve got a good amount
of time to work on the NGTC car.”
Part of that quality is ace engineer
David Potter, one of those who helped turn
the previous Honda Civic into a winner.
“It’s never going to be an easy title
to win,” says Bartrum, who also runs a
successful British GT arm. “But if we can
give Mat a good car and a good engineer,
he can give it a good go next year.”

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had gone a bit differently he could
have been champion.
“He’s starting to mature now. At
Thruxton this year, Gordon Shedden
and Plato were catching [in race two]
and he didn’t fight them; there was
no point. In the past, he’s taken a few
cars on and lost out completely.”
“You’ve got to learn when to give
it up and when not to,” adds Jackson.
“You never stop learning.”
Jackson started his tin-top education
with Stancombe Engineering in Ford
Fiestas and the Renault Clio Cup. After
giving the team its first win in Clios he
stepped into the Production class in the
BTCC, then – with his father managing
the team and his brother engineering
him – became a SEAT Cupra Cup star.
Colin Stancombe was impressed with
Jackson in the early days and believes
he has got better. “He was very intense
and that sometimes overflowed into
emotion when things didn’t well, but
he’s grown,” says Stancombe. “His
feedback wasn’t particularly good at
the time – as you’d expect straight
out of karting. But at Snetterton the
NGTC Focus went from nowhere to
somewhere in three races. A lot of
that has to be due to his feedback.
“He most definitely can be champion
– he’s got probably the most intense
will to win. He’d be a worthy champion
too, he’s worked so hard.”
After dominating the 2006 SEAT
“If he gets it all working
and gets a good run,
I don’t see why he
can’t be champion”
BTCC ace Plato rates Jackson
Cupra title, despite not always qualifying
very well (sound familiar?), he was an
instant race winner in his BTCC return
in his family-run BMW.
After his first title challenge in 2008,
Jackson joined Plato in the RML Chevy
squad. Despite missing the first meeting
and suffering food poisoning at Croft,
Jackson took four wins and fifth in the
points. That was three wins fewer and
three places further down than Plato,
but the experienced double champion
also believes Jackson can win the BTCC.
“Mat is bloody quick, I know that
from when we were team-mates,” he
says. “I had to dig deep, but generally
we had it covered. But yes, if he gets
it all working and gets a good run,
I don’t see why he can’t win it.”
Almost everyone agrees Jackson has
the potential to be a BTCC champion.
Now it’s just the not-so-simple matter
of him and Motorbase turning that
potential into reality.
interview
mat jackson
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Can anyone
STOP
Loeb?
An earlier-thannormal
date for
Rally GB could
mean different
conditions, but
will that mean
a different
result? By
DAVID EVANS
Here’s the good news: there will
be no rain and temperatures in
Wales are expected to continue
to run close to 30C.
Imagine that! Rally GB run in
Acropolis-style sunshine. Unfortunately,
that weather forecast was taken from this
week, 106 years ago, during the heatwave
that hit Britain in September 1906.
everywhere you go…
Actually, the forecast for this week isn’t
too bad. The temperatures may be half of
Fans would relish a fifth
win for Ford star Solberg
62 autosport.com September 13 2012
the values offered when the 20th century
was only six years old, but the bit about
the rain may be right. It may not happen.
A prolonged dry and warm spell
would turn this event into a completely
different style of rally to the one usually
run in November. The more southerly
stages run over Saturday and Sunday,
in particular, will be looser and much
more susceptible to sweeping.
The roads around mid-Wales, run
tomorrow (Friday), tend to be made up
of a finer type of gravel that shouldn’t
be quite so weather-affected.
The upshot of this is that Rally GB’s
first-ever qualifying stage – and
subsequent decision of where to run
on the road – is going to be pivotal
to who wins this rally.
The fastest World Rally Car driver on
the qualifying stage, which was actually
run in Walters Arena, Rheola forest
yesterday (Wednesday) will be the driver
allowed to select his position on the road
first. If it was raining, the decision would
be straightforward: first on the road.
Granted, you might not have any skid
marks from previous drivers waking you
up to impending disaster, but the road is
“ A Solberg win would be hugely
popular for a man who calls this
place his second home, but Latvala
is the more likely of the factory
Ford aces to stop Loeb”
likely to be in the best possible shape.
It’s when the road is bone dry that the
element of lottery comes in. First is the
last place a driver will want to be. First
would mean sweeping all the loose gravel
to one side, cleaning a grippier and faster
line for those following.
However, the major bonus to running
first on the road is that you get to run in
clean air with absolutely no risk of dust.
Yes, you might slide around a little more
than you would like – but at least you
can see where you’re going. This is the
dilemma that will face the world’s fastest
rally drivers as they pick their places in
Llandudno tonight.
plenty of cover in the covers
Sorry to come back to the rain (the
weather is a British obsession) but
statistically, somewhere in Wales called
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Can Latvala, who won last
year, overhaul Loeb again?
This year’s route is a far cry
from the 1985 marathon
Ysbyty Ifan gets an average of 260mm of
rain in November and 80mm less than
that in September. And, in the past, it’s
been minus seven in November and, in
another year, 35 degrees warmer than
that in September. Get it?
It may be dry, it may be dusty and it
may be hot. And if that’s the case, the
usual softer-compound of Michelin and
DMACK used on Matthew Wilson’s
home round of the WRC would be
shredded quicker than Michael Fish can
reassure us there are no storms coming.
For the first time this year, the drivers
will not have to worry about running
out of tyres – they can still only use 35
of them, but they have 30 soft and 22
hard boots to select them from.
it’s a sprint all the way
This week’s Rally GB will include the
shortest planned competitive mileage
since the event was included in the
World Rally Championship. At just
201 miles and 19 stages, the rally is
quite different from 1985, for example,
which had 65 stages totalling 556 miles.
The difference this week is that every
yard of every stage will be driven flat-out.
With longer routes, an attack could be
planned, a stage picked to launch an
all-out assault. No time for that this
week – the drivers will have to be on it
throughout. And a spin or, worse still, a
puncture is likely to quash victory hopes.
That shortest route in the rally’s
history is probably one of the reasons
the entry for this week’s 10th round of
the World Rally Championship is the
smallest in its history. The problem Rally
GB organisers have faced this season is
a more limited budget available than in
previous years. With around half the
cash to play with, belts have had to be
tightened and that means using fewer
roads in an effort to chop the Forestry
Commission bill down.
The bad news is that what used to be
one of the finest entry lists in the history
of world rallying has been decimated. The
good news is that the players are all here.
the ones to watch
Let’s start at the top with Sebastien
Loeb. And, for once, he’s not the most
successful driver in town at the start of
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Get out there and cheer
on the best in the world
this week – that’s Petter Solberg, who
along with Hannu Mikkola has won this
event four times. But one more win for
the Frenchman and he will join those two
greats at the top of the Rally GB table.
But who can beat Loeb? Jari-Matti
Latvala (with the help of a Spanish
spectator and a road accident) did last
season and the Ford driver is the man
with probably the best chance this time.
Solberg has fantastic knowledge of this
event and has British co-driver Chris
Patterson – a man who has seen these
woods in all kinds of conditions –
alongside him. But it’s been seven years
since Solberg last won a WRC round.
And that last win came here, under the
saddest of circumstances following
Michael ‘Beef’ Park’s death in 2005.
A Solberg win would be hugely popular
for a Norwegian who calls this place his
second home. The British fans have
always had an affinity for the 2003
champion’s style and strength. But
Latvala’s is the more likely of the two
Brit-built factory Fords to stop Loeb
collecting a fourth win in five years.
But let’s not forget the other previous
winner on Rally GB: Mikko Hirvonen.
Hirvonen’s speed in the second Citroen
DS3 WRC might have dipped slightly on
his first asphalt outing, last time out in
Germany, but in terms of gravel pace,
he’s been getting quicker and quicker.
The concern for Hirvonen comes from
the Rally Finland result, when Loeb
outpaced him without actually stretching
himself too far. The one thing Hirvonen
absolutely can’t allow to happen is a
repeat of 2009, when Loeb found a
staggering turn of pace through the
Crychan and Halfway stages to yank
19 seconds out of the Finn, ending the
fight mid-way through the rally.
If you’re wondering whether or not it’s
worth coming to Rally GB this year, trust
me, it will be. Don’t forget, the cars are
travelling the length of Wales tomorrow
and they’ve got six long stages with only
a remote service (with no major parts
available to change) in Newtown.
And there’s another reason to be
cheerful: the Tour of Britain cycle race
is passing through Newtown just before
the rally, so you could always give British
heroes ‘Wiggo’ and ‘Cav’ a wave too.
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Matthew wilson makes
his series return at home
2012 walES rallY gb ENtrIES
Not oNly but also...
So, the top four have passed. Is there
any reason to wait a while? You bet.
The battle to be top of the second
division of WRC drivers has been a
thriller throughout 2012.
And, let’s keep this in perspective:
the likes of Evgeny Novikov, Thierry
Neuville, Ott Tanak, Mads Ostberg,
Chris Atkinson and Matthew Wilson
are likely to be tenths of a second
slower then Loeb through your
corner, so they’re still very much
worth watching. And certainly, in
the case of Novikov and Tanak, their
approach to that corner is quite likely
1 Sebastien Loeb/Daniel Elena Citroen DS3 WRC
2 Mikko Hirvonen/Jarmo Lehtinen Citroen DS3 WRC
3 Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila Ford Fiesta RS WRC
4 Petter Solberg/Chris Patterson Ford Fiesta RS WRC
5 Ott Tanak/Kuldar Sikk Ford Fiesta RS WRC
6 Evgeny Novikov/Denis Giraudet Ford Fiesta RS WRC
7 Nasser Al-Attiyah/Giovanni Bernarcchini Citroen DS3 WRC
8 Thierry Neuville/Nicolas Gilsoul Citroen DS3 WRC
10 Mads Ostberg/Jonas Andersson Ford Fiesta RS WRC
12 Chris Atkinson/Stephane Prevot Mini John Cooper Works WRC
14 Paulo Nobre/Edu Paula Mini John Cooper Works WRC
15 Matthew Wilson/Scott Martin Ford Fiesta RS WRC
16 Jannie Habig/Robbie Durant Ford Fiesta RS WRC
21 Martin Prokop/Zdenek Hruza Ford Fiesta RS WRC
22 Sebastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia Skoda Fabia S2000
23 Kevin Abbring/Frederic Miclotte Skoda Fabia S2000
31 Hayden Paddon/John Kennard Skoda Fabia S2000
32 Craig Breen/Paul Nagle Ford Fiesta S2000
33 P-G Andersson/Emil Axelsson Proton Satria-Neo S2000
34 Tom Cave/Craig Parry Proton Satria-Neo S2000
35 Maciej Oleksowicz/Andrzej Obrebowski Ford Fiesta S2000
36 Yazeed Al Rajhi/Michael Orr Ford Fiesta S2000
49 Alastair Fisher/Daniel Barritt Ford Fiesta S2000
51 Karl Kruda/Martin Jarveoja Ford Fiesta S2000
52 Michael Burri/Stephane Rey Peugeot 207 S2000
53 Edoardo Bresolin/Rudy Pollet Ford Fiesta RRC
54 Mathieu Arzeno/Renaud Jamoul Citroen DS3 R3
56 Molly Taylor/Sebastian Marshall Citroen DS3 R3
57 Sebastien Chardonnet/Thibault de la Haye Citroen DS3 R3
58 Renaud Bronkart/Adeline Fracasso Toyota Yaris
to be unique in its angle of attack…
While Prodrive’s Mini might not
be present in Wales this weekend,
Atkinson’s example should be rapid.
The Australian has shown plenty of
pace on these roads in years gone by
and, after too many years away from
the sport, he has contested the past
two WRC rounds (admittedly in
different cars: DS3 WRC in Finland
and John Cooper Works in Germany),
so seat time’s not going to be a
problem. It will, however, be his
first outing on gravel in the Mini.
And, of course, there are the two
Volkswagen-run Skodas to keep an eye
on, neither of which run in the SWRC
class. Sebastien Ogier has been
troubling the bottom end of the top 10
on plenty of occasions this season and
a dry rally could mean him doing the
same again this time.
For those of you not able to get out
and watch stageside, there will be
coverage of the event on Motors TV
and Welsh-speaking channel S4C. For
those of us who don’t speak the lingo,
the action shots are just the same –
and it’s more rallying on television.
Head for Sky 134 or Freesat 120.
→
P67 super 2000 entry
Cardigan
Carmarthen
Portmadog
Aberystwyth
SwanSea
Llandudno Start
Bangor
Aberaeron
Llandeilo
Dolgellau
mYHErIN
Llandovery
Betwsy-Coed
Llangollen
crYcHaN
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HaFrEN
SwEEt
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Port Talbot
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2012 walES rallY gb ItINErarY
■ tHurSdaY SEptEmbEr 13
Start llandudno 1900
■ FrIdaY SEptEmbEr 14
SS1 dyfnant 1 (12.73 miles) 0813
SS2 Hafren Sweet lamb 1 (15.45 miles) 0938
SS3 Myherin 1 (17.32 miles) 1019
remote service newtown 1158
SS4 dyfnant 2 (12.73 miles) 1313
SS5 Hafren Sweet lamb 2 (15.45 miles) 1438
SS6 Myherin 2 (17.32 miles) 1519
Service Cardiff 1909
■ SaturdaY SEptEmbEr 15
SS7 Crychan 1 (12.11 miles) 0902
SS8 epynt 1 (5.16 miles) 0940
SS9 Halfway 1 (11.40 miles) 1006
Service Cardiff 1220
SS10 Crychan 2 (12.11 miles) 1517
SS11 epynt 2 (5.16 miles) 1555
SS12 Halfway 2 (11.40 miles) 1621
SS13 Celtic Manor (1.89 miles) 1830
■ SuNdaY SEptEmbEr 16
SS14 Port talbot 1 (10.78 miles) 0718
SS15 rheola 1 (5.51 miles) 0816
SS16 walters arena 1 (9.53 miles) 0834
Service Cardiff 1024
SS17 Port talbot 2 (10.78 miles) 1207
SS18 rheola 2 (5.51 miles) 1305
SS19 walters arena 2 (9.53 miles) 1323
Finish cardiff 1536
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See tomorrow’s WRC stars
The Super 2000 World Rally
Championship is the sole
undercard to the main event
on Wales Rally GB but it’s
also the fastest of the three
WRC support categories.
It’s also where some of the stars of
tomorrow could be unearthed with
Per-Gunnar Andersson, Craig Breen
and Hayden Paddon all worthy of
long-term futures in the sport.
While it’s New Zealander Paddon
who heads the SWRC entry, it’s
Sweden’s Andersson, in a factory Proton,
who tops the drivers’ standings, albeit
by just six points over the Skoda driver.
Both have taken a brace of wins this
season and both have shown well on
the stages of Wales in the past.
Andersson, a double Junior world
champion, had been due to contest
the clashing Hokkaido Rally in Japan, a
round of the Asia-Pacific championship,
but is competing in Great Britain instead
as Proton hunts down its first FIA world
championship since Karamjit Singh took
Production Car honours in a Pert model
back in 2002.
“You can never have too many world
Wildcard Fisher makes SWRC bow
titles and a third one would be nice,”
admits Andersson.
Paddon, the reigning Production
Car title holder, retired in Finland with
engine failure on his first event for
Raimund Baumschlager’s eponymous
team, a result that has done little to aid
his dwindling finances. Although he
announced a new backer in the build-
up to the rally, he admits there’s no
guarantee he’ll be able to complete the
season. “It’s still round-by-round stuff,
we need more support,” says the Kiwi.
For Irishman Breen, meanwhile,
the event is set to be a poignant one
after his Welsh co-driver Gareth
Roberts was killed in a freak accident
on the IRC-counting Targa Florio Rally
in Sicily in June.
Breen and Roberts clinched the FIA
WRC Academy crown on Rally GB last
November and Breen’s return will be
highly charged. “It’s going to be very
difficult going back,” says the 22-yearold,
who crashed out of the previous
round in Finland. “Competing alongside
Gareth meant I was always made to feel
very welcome in Wales and it’s the
closest thing I’ve got to a home round
of the WRC. I had hoped I’d go there off
the back of a strong result in Finland but
I’m back to step one after my crash.”
As well as denting his confidence,
Breen’s exit in Finland left his Ford
Fiesta looking distinctly second hand.
“It probably looked a little bit worse
than it was but after a crash that size
you can’t leave any stone unturned so
it’s had a lot of work on it,” adds Breen.
Of the paltry turnout of British crews
in Wales, two are competing in the
SWRC: Tom Cave and Alastair Fisher.
Cave has been handed a dream chance
to fill the second works Proton vacated
by the Hokkaido-bound Juha Salo,
while Fisher was selected as the sole
wildcard entry, which means he will be
able to chase SWRC points in his Fiesta,
which is being run by the factoryblessed
M-Sport team.
Fisher is a frontrunner in the WRC
Academy but the Northern Irishman
is taking a step up in performance for
what will be his first try in an S2000
on gravel for almost a year. “It’s a
good opportunity to compare my
times against some really strong
competitors,” says Fisher.
For Cave, the lone Welsh driver
on the entry, the outing is an “honour”.
“I had a good run in the car
in Thailand earlier this year so I’m
feeling confident,” he says.
Saudi Yazeed Al-Rajhi, in a Fiesta
RRC, and Poland’s Maciej Oleksowicz,
in a Fiesta S2000, complete the entry.
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wales rally gb
Breen returns to Wales
after his Finland shunt
Proton pedaller P-G
Andersson leads points
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Porsche 911 Turbo
and an empty road…
68 autosport.com September 13 2012
Reliving
rallying’s
toughest
chapter
Evans gets poetic
during a brief rest
Sebastien Loeb might be the fastest rally driver
in the world, but how would he have coped
with an old-style WRC event? DAVID EVANS
takes on the challenge of the 1960 RAC route

There was that noise again. “Left!”
I’d heard it before, seconds
earlier, but it still didn’t register.
We went straight on. And
stopped. Then turned around. Again. This
was getting silly. Arriving at the top of
Yorkshire, we’d driven through two of the
past three nights. Enough was enough.
Tired didn’t actually come close to
the eye-stinging, core-numbing
exhaustion that had set in through
the previous hours. This had all been
my idea. I made a pact to keep such
thoughts to myself next time.
Eighty years ago, the first RAC Rally
started and, in an effort to mark this
occasion – and to see how far the event
has come – photographer Drew Gibson
and I set about one of the RAC’s most
iconic routes: the 1960 vintage.
The reason for 1960 was simple: it was
the year the maiden ‘special stage’ was
introduced to the itinerary. Between 1932
and 1959, the RAC Rally was a touring
event with the odd speed and braking
test or a dash through some cones on
a skidpan. 1960 incorporated those
elements and four stages in Scotland.
There were two other reasons we
selected that specific year: it didn’t go
into Wales (quite a rarity for the RAC
at that time) and we felt we needed
reminding that there was more to
Britain’s premier rally than the land
that lies west of Offa’s Dyke and FIA
president Jean Todt’s desire to return
endurance to our sport.
A Monday-evening start from
Blackpool followed by a 2000-mile
route to a Friday afternoon finish at
Brands Hatch would certainly cover the
endurance element. The good news was
that we wouldn’t be using motorways;
only an eight-mile stretch of Preston
bypass, which now forms part of the M6,
was built in 1960. The even better news
was that we wouldn’t be driving on any
motorways in a Porsche 911. Our 500
horses were only for A roads. Except
when we were on B roads. And roads
that didn’t exist on our map or satnav.
But now, it’s time to go. We might not
manage the same pomp as the seafront
Superteam Turner
(l) and Carlsson
start of the 1960 event, but there’s a
degree of ceremony as we wheel the
pillar-box red 997 out of the car park and
under Blackpool’s famous illuminations.
And straight into a traffic jam.
In the interests of authenticity, we
made this journey in the autumn last
year and despite the miserable, steady
drizzle (replicating the conditions of the
1960 start) there are still way too many
people here to look at some lights.
Running as car #1, Donald Morley’s
Austin-Healey 3000 would have been
well up the road and into the Lake
District by the time we even made it out
of town. The 1960 event was the first
when cars ran with numbers on the
doors, in an effort to make it easier to
identify any unruly sorts not sticking to
the speed limits. On this event, it was the
number 178 that could make the most
pictures – the Saab 96 of Erik Carlsson
and Stuart Turner. The big Swede arrived
in Lancashire with a fearsome reputation,
but without any seeding from the RAC
organisers – that would come in 1961
– he would be running more than three
hours behind Morley.
Finally free from the traffic we’re
winding our way through Cumbria
before heading for the first significant
control in Yorkshire. We get there and
we’re already almost an hour late. It’s
well after midnight.
But at least we get there. Just as
Citroen will be playing a starring role
in this week’s Rally GB, so the French
marque was ready to in 1960. But Rene
Trautmann’s hopes of a European Rally
Championship title were dashed when
he put his factory-prepared DS19 off the
road in thick fog in the Lakes.
These early sections of the event were
simply about getting between controls in
the allocated time. There was nothing too
taxing about the route itself, there were
simply a lot of miles to cover. The issue
came with the conditions, as the fog
brought out the best in the best
co-drivers – all of whom had their
noses buried in maps calling corners on
demand as the curves loomed out of the
mist. It was imperative to keep their
retro run
1960 rac route
The Carlsson/Turner
Saab pushes on in ’60
drivers on the boil and not be slowed too
badly by the fog or make any mistakes of
their own. The sections were timed at
30mph, but that was a constant average
which left no time for getting lost.
We cross the border in the early hours
of the morning. There should have been
a sprint at Charterhall at 0430 in the
morning, but it was cancelled due to the
outbreak of foot and mouth disease –
which was a good job because we’d have
missed it. The sun was coming up when
we passed the Borders airfield.
Peebles brought the first chance of rest
and some breakfast in the Hydro Hotel,
the same venue used for the control 52
years ago. The Hydro really played its
part in this retro trip, the decor and
uniforms appeared the same as the day
Carlsson walked in. But the sun shone
as the kippers and porridge arrived.
Snapper Drew wanted to make use of
the light and went out to take pictures,
leaving me to look at the map. An hour
later, I woke myself up snoring.
“Finally free from the
traffic, we’re winding
through Cumbria before
heading for the first
control in Yorkshire”
Feeling no better for the nap, we
headed north-west towards Glasgow.
Fortunately, in terms of staying awake, I
had a significant advantage over those
who had beaten this same path through
Pentlands all those years before: two
turbos. Pulling second on the A72 out
of Peebles worked a treat. Wide awake.
Getting through Glasgow without the
aid of the M8 wasn’t the easiest thing in
the world, but we emerged north of the
Clyde, bound for the Loch feeding the
river Lomond.
The combination of the 911 and easy
November Tuesday traffic got us to Rest
and be Thankful early. And well in time
for a packet of Tunnocks teacakes. The
A83 runs up through Glen Croe above a
military road built in 1753 – it’s at the
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top of this stretch where the soldiers
looked back down the valley and were
moved to inscribe the words ‘Rest and
be thankful’ on a nearby stone.
It’s that disused military road – now
privately owned – that was used in 1960,
and has become steeped in Scottish rally
history. It was last used internationally
on the Scottish Rally in the mid-’90s.
But not by us. Not today. The gates are
locked, the cows grazing on the grass in
the middle of the track. The front spoiler
beneath us is more thankful than most.
For the record, Jack Sears and his
3.8-litre Jaguar were quickest up the
Rest on their way to finishing fourth
overall on the event.
“I had my eyes shut
for most of it – and we
were in the air a lot!”
Stuart Turner
Around the sea loch (and passing
the very enticing original Loch Fyne
restaurant) we’re under the arch in
Inverary and up to Dalmally for a real
piece of British rally history.
Turning off the A85 into Dalmally
is enormously underwhelming; the
significance of the stretch of road around
the corner goes far beyond the beaten up
blue and white sign that points at
Britain’s first-ever special stage.
Former co-driver-turned clerk of the
course Jack Kemsley is the man we have
to thank for stage rallying as we know it.
He’d seen the way the sport was
progressing to closed roads in
Scandinavia and talked the Forestry
Commission into giving over two miles
of road just out of the village.
The target time for the two miles was
three minutes and, having completed just
half a recce run (despite the RAC route
Sign points to an
iconic 60s stage
Start came under
Blackpool lights
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Evans would enjoy
very little of this
being secret, the top crews still had a
good idea where to practise…) before his
Morris Minor stopped with water in the
electrics, Carlsson was concerned.
“Bloody hell,” he told Turner, in a tale
relayed by Maurice Hamilton’s book
RAC Rally, “the Healeys will beat us on
those straights.”
In the end, nobody beat them. Used to
hurling the two-stroke Saab over the
rough and rumble of Swedish stages,
Carlsson flew up the hill, while others
fretted over the potential havoc the
pot-holed, gravelly road would cause to
the unprotected undersides of their cars.
To this day, Turner doesn’t recall
much of his history-making scratch time.
“I think I had my eyes shut for most of
it,” he says. “And I remember being in the
air for a lot of the time!”
We, on the other hand, were not in the
air at all. All but the final stretch of the
road is now asphalt, but the stage is very,
very tricky. There are no junctions or
tight corners, but there are plenty of
blind crests and dips. Carlsson’s time
would have required masses of
commitment to keep momentum up.
Being the only crew to clean the stage,
Carlsson and Turner were now in the
clear. They just had to stay there for the
next three days.
The next stretch was straightforward:
Inverness via Fort Augustus.
Unfortunately, Ben Nevis and much
of Loch Ness was unseen in the dark.
Tuesday evening, the Drumossie
Hotel and a bed; I haven’t seen one of
those since yesterday morning and I
won’t see one again until Friday night.
Wednesday morning is definitely the
calm before another storm. Carlsson and
co would have had a 90-minute service
to refettle their cars before this event
really got started… Drew and I opened
the 911’s bonnet, admired the German
engineering and had another teacake.
fort AuGustus
Midday, and we were off
on a figure-of-eight
trek through
fort williAM
the Highlands.
Included in this
loop were the remaining
three stages on the
event. The first is a rough old
road overlooking the
Atlantic and on a clear
rest And be thAnkful
day (which today is
not) the island of
Lewis. The other two
were closer to Inverness, the last
including the hairpins just off
General Wade’s Military Road
(the B852) on the east side of Loch Ness
at Inverfarigaig. Good as these roads
were, the target time was set at 30mph,
and was therefore – even with the
hairpins – relatively easy to beat.
These were, however, closed public
roads. Intrigued at the navigation of red
tape to suspend the laws of the land,
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there’s a rally to do
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renowned rally writer and former
co-driver Graham Robson recalls a
conversation asking Royal Scottish
Automobile Club secretary Bob Tennant-
Reid how he’d managed such a coup.
“Oh, no problem,” came the reply.
“This is Scotland, laddie…”
Gibson’s navigation had come
into its own here. Darkness had
dropped and the chippy Geordie
to my left maintained a running
commentary of the challenges of
photography in the dark and his
innate abilities with a map. Some of the
roads looked iffy, but he was right. And
his pictures weren’t bad, either.
And we’re pretty much on time getting
back to the Drumossie in Inverness, just
after five on Thursday morning. We
consider breakfast, but fall asleep in the
car thinking about it. We’re woken by
the hotel’s night manager, clearly
bemused at a pair of blokes in a
£100k motor who apparently
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the need for speed
can’t afford a bed for the night.
I try to explain, but give up and fall
asleep again. He’s more bemused when
Drew takes more pictures. It’s time to go.
And the good news is that we’re finally
heading south. Suddenly, I love the south.
The end is in the south.
And again, it’s the car that wakes me
up. The road south of Tomintoul through
Braemar, rounding the Cairngorms, is
totally epic. Just past one set of rises up
into the hills, the A93 drops away for a
handful of miles. There’s nothing and
nobody in sight: just me, the stilltalking-Northerner
and a 194mph car.
Unfortunately, my decision not to top
up the 67-litre tank in Nairn, allied to us
using a gallon every 15 or so miles, means
we have plenty of time to appreciate the
view. Our growing fuel crisis lasts all the
way to Blairgowrie (a long way on a red
light), where I want to kiss the forecourt
of the beautiful Shell station.
Fuelled up, our spirits rise. And we’re
on the way to Bo’Ness and The Kinneil
Track, a hillclimb now surrounded by a
housing estate. The start is buried in
parkland behind stone walls that isolate
the track from the humdrum outside.
There’s a huge temptation to have a go
at the hill, but the wet leaves lying
between those walls curb my enthusiasm.
What does get me enthusiastic is the
chance to get back across the border and
back into Yorkshire. The last control is in
Melsonby at 2045. After that, we don’t
have to be at Elvington until 0200.
The M8 and M74 have never looked so
Brands Hatch finish
was welcome sight
retro run
1960 rac route
Temptation must’ve
been overwhelming
attractive, but the A68 keeps us true to
our mission. But it also takes an age to
get through Kielder and Durham.
Darkness returns and now it’s really
hitting hard. This is when the missed
calls start coming. Reluctantly, I give up
the wheel and let Drew drive. It’s no
better, he now expects me to tell him
where to go. I do. Regularly and often.
Red Bull, espresso – nothing is
working. It’s now that Robson’s words
of wisdom come back to me.
“Nothing will prepare you for the
tiredness,” he told me ahead of the trip.
“Much of the route is quite monotonous,
just getting from A to B. That’s when it
hits you. Of course, it wasn’t a problem
for us, we just went to the doctors, told
him we were doing the RAC Rally and he
gave us amphetamines.”
Now, more than ever, I feel the need
for speed…
Elvington at 0200, Cadwell at 0430
and Mallory a couple of hours later, it’s
all becoming a blur now. All I want is to
see Brands this afternoon.
Yet still, through all of this, Carlsson
is still penalty-free and leading. But
there’s an unforeseen sting in the tail…
After conquering Rest and be
“It was quite the finest
international event
ever run in this country”
AUTOSPORT, 1960
Thankful, Monument Hill and the rest
of the Highland trials, it was the A25
around Guildford that almost cost him
his moment. Having laughed in the face
of a 30mph average since Monday night,
the Friday afternoon rush-hour stopped
the Saab. And our 911.
Fortunately, Carlsson had Turner, who
worked his cartographic magic to get
them out of there and on to victory in
the garden of England. I had Gibson, who
told me how he needed the right maps...
Eventually, we made it. Brands Hatch.
Two thousand miles and four days after
we started, we’d done it.
In 1960, AUTOSPORT described the
RAC as: “Quite the finest international
event ever run in this country.”
We were absolutely right.
Question is: will we describe this
week’s Rally GB the same way?
September 13 2012 autosport.com 71
pics: Gibson/LAT

Silver Dream Racers
It’s that time again. The Goodwood Revival is always one of the highlights of the racing calendar and
the 15th edition will have some special pre-war visitors joining the fun. MARCUS PYE is your guide
The meteoric rivalry
between German titans
Rudolf Caracciola and
Bernd Rosemeyer, in
savagely powerful
Mercedes-Benz and
Auto Union machines, will be relived
when an extraordinary fleet of 10
‘Silver Arrows’ is unleashed daily
in an unmissable centrepiece to this
weekend’s Goodwood Revival event.
The 15th motor circuit retrospective
magically transports us back to the
best of British racing pre-World War 2,
at Donington Park and Brooklands.
And revisits the 1948-’66 epoch
when the sport’s greats brought an
exciting new peacetime identity
to the former RAF Westhampnett.
Few spectators beyond Murray
Walker will have vivid memories of
72 autosport.com September 13 2012
the Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union
teams racing at Donington in the 1930s.
To mark the 75th anniversary of the
midlands venue’s first Grand Prix, both
marques have fulfilled Lord March’s
dream to give subsequent generations
of fans a fascinating glimpse into
their devastating performance.
The brilliantly engineered technical
tours de force will take to the ultra-fast
2.4-mile circuit in the Craner Cup
feature (a staged ‘race’ named for
Donington’s inspirational manager
Fred Craner), in the company of
period Alfa Romeo, Maserati, ERA
and Bugatti machinery.
Jochen Mass, Bernd Schneider,
Roland Asch, Sir Jackie Stewart and
his son Paul will handle supercharged
straight-eight W25 and W125, V12
W154 and V8 W165 models from the
Mercedes-Benz Classic Centre.
Audi Tradition – a loyal supporter
of Goodwood’s Festival of Speed, but
a welcome Revival debutant – is
bringing an Auto Union Type D
‘Doppel Kompressor’ V12 and a perfect
V16 Type C recreation to run alongside
privately-owned Type A (Nicolas
d’Ieteren) and D models. Frank Biela,
Jacky Ickx, Harald Demuth and
Nick Mason pilot the ‘works’ cars.
Led by Sir Stirling Moss,
this year’s daily driver tribute
honours 81-year-old Daniel
Sexton Gurney – who first raced at
Goodwood in the 1959 Tourist Trophy,
finishing fifth with Tony Brooks in
a Ferrari Testa Rossa, and growled a
Shelby American Cobra Daytona Coupe
to third in the ’64 event. A cavalcade
of cars spanning the Californian-
Gurney’s illustrious
career will be recalled

Mercedes battles Auto Union in 1934
French GP. Both will be at Goodwood
domiciled racer/constructor’s stellar
career, including Gurney’s 1967 Belgian
GP-winning Eagle-Weslake, will
command much attention.
From Max Balchowski’s wonderfully
unsophisticated Ol’ Yeller II – which
despite its backyard-built origins
humbled exotic Ferraris and Maseratis
– to the Lola T70 Spyder in which he
scored Ford’s only Can-Am race victory
at Bridgehampton in September ’66, via
Trans-Am Boss Mustang and Indycars,
the colourful showcase underlines
Gurney’s virtuosity and versatility.
The Revival’s racecard has a different
look this year, starting on Friday
evening for the first time with a special
90-minute Freddie March Memorial
Trophy contest commemorating the
60th anniversary of the first of three
Nine Hour races, run in 1952, ’53 and
’55. The Aston Martin DB3 in which
youngsters Peter Collins and Pat
Griffith beat Jaguar’s C-types to win
that inaugural enduro (as David Brown’s
marque did the subsequent ones, to
Jaguar’s chagrin, and the TTs of ’58
and ’59) heads a magnificent field of
sports-racers hurtling into the dusk.
The Shelby Cup – for AC, Shelby,
Willment and other evocations of the
The RAC TT for 1960s GTs
will again be a highlight
ERA phalanx will be hard to
beat in the Goodwood Trophy
50-year-old Cobra theme honours
marque founder Carroll Shelby, who
died in May, aged 89. The Texan is
immortalised not only for his ’59
Le Mans win with the late Roy Salvadori
but also, more widely, for shoehorning
an American Ford V8 engine into AC’s
John Tojeiro-designed chassis, thus
creating a phenomenon.
Among those racing are South
African Dennis Olthoff sharing Shaun
Lynn’s ex-Willment team car, 39PH –
the very one in which Olthoff’s late
father Bob finished fifth in the ’64 TT
at Goodwood – and Le Mans 24 Hours
winners Richard Attwood, Jurgen Barth,
Martin Brundle, Jochen Mass, Henri
Pescarolo and Vern Schuppan. Can-Am
veterans Brian Redman and Merlin
‘Scooter’ Patrick are also in the field.
As a result of the standalone race,
Sunday’s Royal Automobile Club TT
Celebration is a Cobra-free zone this
year, which means that an eighth Jaguar
Sports-racers of the Whitsun
Trophy will be event’s quickest
“From exquisite Astons to thundering
Bentleys and supercharged Mercedes,
the Brooklands Trophy completes
the Revival’s pre-war odyssey”
preview
goodwood revival
Pedal power gets
its own Revival
The long-established Junior Festival of
Speed has a new Revival equivalent, a
fun race for the iconic Austin J40 pedal
cars, of which 32,098 were made at the
Austin Junior Car Factory at Bargoed in
South Wales, between 1949 and ’71.
The Settrington Cup event will run
on a loop incorporating the start straight
and pitlane. Almost 30 of the critters
have been dusted down, or in many
cases lovingly restored, for the occasion.
Most of the ‘drivers,’ aged between five
and eight, are the offspring of racers in
the Senior classes.
Ferrari GT0
celebrates 50
Half a century ago the legendary Ferrari
250 GTO – O for Omologato – was born in
Modena as successor to the competition
versions of the 250 GT Berlinetta (revered
as the Short Wheel Base) model in which
Stirling Moss won Goodwood’s Tourist
Trophy races in 1960 and ’61.
Giotto Bizzarrini’s brainchild – which
won the ’62 and ’63 Goodwood TTs – has
worn well. And escalated in value...
Fifteen of the 39 GTOs built (including
Sir Anthony Bamford’s ’64 evolution) are
scheduled to take part in daily cavalcades.
Bamford, Nick Mason and Jon Shirley have
also entered theirs in the TT feature.
GTO has rich Goodwood history
E-type victory is on the cards, despite
a magnificent Italian entry. Derek Hill
(son of the late ’61 F1 world champion
Phil) and Joe Colasacco finished a fine
third – behind Kenny Brack/Tom
Kristensen (Shelby American Cobra
Daytona Coupe) and Martin Brundle/
Mark Hales (Ferrari 250 GTO) in a
Maserati Tipo 151 last September, and a
second Italian V8 monster is promised
this time for Jochen Mass/Barrie Baxter.
The Brooklands Trophy contest, last
run in 2009, features a great miscellany
of cars in the spirit of the endurance
races on Hugh Locke-King’s Surrey
speedbowl in the 1920s and ’30s. From
spindly chain-gang Frazer Nashes and
exquisite Aston Martins of the Bertelli
era, to thundering Bentleys and
supercharged Mercedes-Benz SSKs, the
race completes the Revival’s pre-war
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PiCS: BLOxHAM, HAWKiNS/LAT
Pre-war sportscars will
make welcome return
The Goodwood Grid
RAC TT CELEBRATION
Closed-cockpit GT cars, 1960-’64
Ten howling V12 Ferraris, each
with at least one star driver, take
on two Maserati Tipo 151s, the
Lister coupe, Jaguar E-types, Aston
Martins, Chevy Corvettes and a
Sunbeam Tiger in Sunday’s Cobrafree
big GT battle, but it’s difficult
to see anybody beating the Martin
Brundle/Adrian Newey Jag.
WHITSUN TROPHY
Sports-prototypes, 1963-’66
A 170mph V8 slugfest par
excellence in prospect as Canadian
2011 victor Jay Esterer (Chinook
Mk2) faces heavyweight V8
opposition from four Cooper T61
variants, Ford GT40s, Lola T70s,
Lotus 30s, McLaren M1Bs and
oddball Crossle, Hamill, Huffaker,
Marina and Tojeiro chassis.
CHICHESTER CUP
Formula Junior, front-engined,
1958-’60
Ray Mallock and former Caterham
champ Will Mitcham (U2) stand
between young hotshoe Jack
Woodhouse (Elva) as the early
‘pullers’ take their turn in the
spotlight. Robin Longdon and
Derek Walker are previous
winners in intriguing field.
ST MARY’S TROPHY
Saloon cars, 1950-’59
Saturday’s leg of the Pro-Am
tin-top joust has BTCC stars and
Jackie Oliver (BMW 700), Nicolas
Minassian (MG Magnette), Derek
Daly (Sunbeam Rapier), Kenny
Brack (Austin A95 Westminster),
Desire Wilson (Rover 100) and
Brendon Hartley (Gaz Volga) up
against Jag Mk1s and rapid A35s.
RICHMOND & GORDON
TROPHY
Inter-Continental & F1 cars
1954-’61
Amalgamated races present a
classic front- versus rear-engined
set. Alasdair McCaig and Will
Nuthall should make hay in Cooper
T53s, but Gary Pearson (BRM P25),
Julian Bronson (Scarab-Offy) and
Joaquin Folch (Lotus 16) will chase.
SHELBY CUP
AC, Shelby & Willment Cobras,
1961-’66
Kenny Brack and Derek Hill start
favourites in the tribute to Carroll
Shelby’s icon aboard last year’s TTwinning
Daytona coupe. Le Mans
winners Richard Attwood, Jurgen
Barth, Martin Brundle, Jochen
Mass, Henri Pescarolo and Vern
Schuppan join the snake charmers.
GLOVER TROPHY
1.5-litre F1 & Tasman cars,
1961-’65
Memories of F1’s smallest-capacity
era are evoked by the season’s
strongest brigade of Climax and
BRM V8-powered chassis. Andy
Middlehurst dominated in the wet
last year and is fired up to repeat
his fine Monaco victory in the
ex-Jim Clark Lotus 25.
FORDWATER TROPHY
Race-inspired Sports & GTs,
1964-’66
From thuggish Shelby Mustangs to
svelte Alfa Romeo TZs and Porsche
904/6s, via lithe Lotus Elan 26Rs
and Morgan SLR aerodynes to a
giantkilling Turner, this looks an
open field. V8 Ginetta G10s of
Andy Newall and Nigel Greensall
might trump them all.
odyssey. It also closes an important
chapter in the evolution of the British
Automobile Racing Club, organiser of
meetings at Goodwood since 1948,
which celebrates its centenary this year.
For the full experience, dress up as if
you were at the airfield or motor circuit
in the ’40s, ’50s or ’60s. And get there
early to savour the atmosphere of the
world’s greatest motorsport theatre as a
microcosm of very British social history.
Even if the Germans are coming…
GOODWOOD TROPHY
GP cars & Voiturettes, 1930-’50
Reigning ‘champion’ Mac Hulbert
leads the nine-strong ERA squadron
in R4D, but Paddins Dowling
(R10B) and Michael Gans (R1B)
are likely to take the race to Mark
Gillies (R3A). Glorious Alfas plus 4-,
6- and 8-cylinder Maseratis (watch
Audi GT ace Frank Stippler’s 8CM
go!) colour a stunning field.
BROOKLANDS TROPHY
Endurance Sportscars pre-1939
Colourful pre-war catch weight
contest as Mercedes-Benz SSKs,
Bentleys, Talbot 105s and
Talbot-Lago face sophisticated
Alfa Romeo, Bugatti and Maserati
rivals, advanced BMW 328 and
lithe Aston Martin Ulsters. Frazer
Nash saloon will amaze, but
Jaguar SS100 is a dark horse.
FREDDIE MARCH
TROPHY
Goodwood Nine Hour cars,
1952-’55
Sixty years after it won the
inaugural Nine Hours in 1952,
the Aston Martin DB3 of Martin
Melling/Rick Hall presides over
a stunning field in which the
Jag C-type of Jackie Oliver/Gary
Pearson will be tough to beat.
SUSSEX TROPHY
World Championship sportscars,
1955-’60
Goodwood’s Tourist Trophy races
of 1958-’59 are pulled into focus
as a trio of Aston Martin DBR1s
takes on Listers, Jaguar D-types,
Ferraris and Maseratis. Sadler-
Chevrolet will win straight-line
drag races, only to be out-cornered
in a fascinating finale.
BARRY SHEENE
MEMORIAL TROPHY
Motorcycles 1951-’54
Recalling the unique 1954
‘Goodwood Saturday’ bike
meeting, homegrown Norton,
Matchless, BSA, Triumph, Vincent
and Velocette machines face
continental rivals from BMW,
Gilera and MV Agusta. Wayne
Gardner heads the aces.
preview
goodwood revival
Tin-top legends
old and new
Taking full advantage of the event not
clashing with a BTCC round for the first
time in years, Saturday’s leg of the
St Mary’s Trophy tin-top double-header is
peppered with current touring car heroes.
Among those getting to grips with OGTC
– Old Generation Touring Car – machinery
are Honda stars Matt Neal and Gordon
Shedden who saddle Morris Minor and
Standard Ten respectively. Chevrolet WTCC
ace Rob Huff should fly in an Austin A40.
Former champions Alec Poole
(Riley One-Point-Five), Stuart Graham
(Renault 4CV) and John Cleland (Austin
Metropolitan!) plus David Sears – son of
’58 and ’63 BTCC champ ‘Gentleman’ Jack
– in Alan Mann Racing’s Ford Prefect 107E
take on a host of Le Mans winners, ex-F1
and sportscar racers and rally legends.
St Mary’s tin-tops are exercised hard
2012 GOODWOOD REVIVAL
TIMETABLE
Friday, September 14
0730 Gates open
0830 Opening ceremony
0900-1755 Official practice, race order
1815-1945 Race:
Freddie March Trophy (90 mins)
Saturday, September 15
0730 Gates open
0900 Track blessing
0930 Track demonstration
1000-1730 Racing and parades:
Goodwood Trophy (20 mins)
Fordwater Trophy (25 mins)
Barry Sheene Trophy, r1 (25 mins)
St. Mary’s Trophy, r1 (25 mins)
Shelby Cup (45 mins)
Whitsun Trophy (25 mins)
Chichester Cup (20 mins)
Sunday, September 16
0730 Gates open
0800 Holy communion
0900 Track blessing
0930 Track demonstration
1000-1710 Racing and parades:
Brooklands Trophy (20 mins)
Richmond & Gordon trophies
(25 mins)
Barry Sheene Trophy, r2 (25 mins)
St. Mary’s Trophy, r2 (25 mins)
RAC TT Celebration (60 mins)
Glover Trophy (25 mins)
Sussex Trophy (25 mins)
TICKETS
Admission is by pre-ordered tickets only –
they are not available on the gate. Contact
the hotline on 01243 755055 or bookings@
goodwood.co.uk and pick them up at the
designated collection point at the circuit.
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IntroducIng DANIIL KVYAT
DRIveR PRofIle
ONE tO watch
Here’s a Formula Renault ace who is ‘Russian’ to the top as a Red Bull junior
Kvyat leads Brits
King and Rowland
World Series by Renault’s trip to
the brand-new Moscow Raceway
offered Daniil Kvyat an opportunity
to race on home soil for the first time
since he left the country at the age of
12 to find fiercer competition in karting.
Returning to Russia for its first major
motorsport event at a permanent facility
was an emotional experience in itself, but
to notch up two victories in front of a
big crowd (more than 40,000 each day)
was all a bit much. Tears flowed on the
podium, and Kvyat was the hero of the
weekend; the five Russians in the main
Formula Renault 3.5 races left no such
impression on the packed grandstands.
Emotions aside, it was a vital weekend
for the 18-year-old, who snatched back
the Formula Renault Eurocup points
lead from chief rival Stoffel Vandoorne.
As the highest-placed returnees to the
Another race win in his
Koiranen Motorsport car
championship from the 2011 crop (Kvyat
and Vandoorne were third and fifth
respectively), it’s little surprise to see
them fighting it out, but Kvyat admits
he wasn’t counting any chickens before
the 2012 season’s eggs started hatching.
“I definitely wanted to fight for this
championship after finishing third
last season,” he says. “But in the
Eurocup it’s never easy. It’s the toughest
championship of all the junior series.
You just have to see who I’m racing
against. There are guys here who are
older and more experienced than
me, so it’s very tough. I am growing
as a driver all the time.”
Even though his birth city of Ufa
is closer to the Kazakhstan capital
than it is to Moscow, Kvyat is far
more westernised than many of his
countrymen who have taken on the
European single-seater ranks in the past.
He still lives in Italy with his family
and, having done a fair chunk of his
growing up abroad, his Russian accent is
not very strong. But he admits that it
was hard to leave his homeland, and he
stops short of calling Italy ‘home’.
“Travelling from Russia all the time
for karting was really tough, so when I
was 12 we decided to move,” he explains.
“It was really hard to adapt. But now
Italy is my base. It’s like my home, but
my home will always be Russia.”
Perhaps it should not have been a
surprise to see the teenager dealing
so well with taking centre stage in
Russia. After all, as a fully-fledged
member of the ruthless Red Bull Junior
Team, he could be forgiven for having a
different definition of pressure to most
of us. But he accepts that his current
form is playing a part in making life
under the watch of Helmut Marko
& co more straightforward.
“I honestly don’t feel pressure
from Red Bull,” he says. “I just feel
the normal pressure of competition
like everybody else. With Red Bull,
unless you are having bad results
there is nothing to worry about.
You just need to deliver.”
Those back at Red Bull HQ will be
expecting the delivery of a Eurocup title
from their star Russian come October.
“Travelling from Russia for
karting was really tough, so
when I was 12 we decided to
move. It was hard to adapt”
KVYAT CV
Age 18
Born Ufa,
Bashkortostan,
Russia
2012 1st in Formula
Renault Eurocup
(5 wins), 2nd in
FR ALPS (5 wins)
2011 3rd in FR
Eurocup (2 wins),
2nd in FR NEC
(7 wins), 4th in FR
UK Winter Cup, 5th
in Toyota Racing
Series NZ (1 win)
2010 10th in
Formula BMW
Europe, 2 wins
in FBMW Pacific,
4th in FR UK Winter
Cup, 2 races in
FR Eurocup
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BRDC Formula 4 is go for 2013
Motorsport Vision to operate new low-cost single-seater series
MotorsPort VIsIon Has
teamed up with the british
racing drivers’ club to launch a
new slicks-and-wings single-seater series.
brdc Formula 4 will begin next year
and is aimed at offering a lower-cost
alternative to existing entry-level series.
it will use spaceframe chassis with
carbonfibre crash structures, built by
Van diemen founder ralph Firman’s rFr
operation and designed to the latest FiA
safety standards. they will be powered by
two-litre Ford duratec engines, supplied
by cosworth and limited to 175bhp,
and run with six-speed paddleshift
gearboxes and yokohama tyres.
MsV has negotiated with the 750
Motor club to obtain the Formula 4
title for the new category. it will feature
24 races across eight events, including
rounds at silverstone GP, brands hatch
GP, donington Park, snetterton 300 and
oulton Park. it will support british F3
at brands hatch and snetterton, as well
as the dtM on the brands indy circuit.
MsV will sell cars for £29,750 plus
VAt and lease engines for £4500 plus
VAt for the season. running costs are
expected to range from £35,000 for
privateers, to £60,000 to run with
teams, which will be limited to four cars.
testing will be unlimited, but engines,
fixed-ratio gearboxes and dampers will
all be sealed, and racers will be limited
to using circuit pump fuel and four new
slicks per event. springs, suspension,
rollbars and wings will all be adjustable.
the champion will receive £25,000
towards their next season’s budget, and
a Formula 3 test with carlin. if the winner
is british, they will also become eligible
for the brdc superstars programme and
the Mclaren AutosPort brdc Award
(if they fall into the correct age bracket).
MsV will promote the championship,
with tV coverage on Motors tV, and
will also offer pre-season training for new
teams and privateers, to educate them
on car preparation and race procedures.
cars will go on sale on september 17
and the first MsV F4-013 will commence
testing in november.
MsV boss Jonathan Palmer is confident
the new series will fill a gap in the market.
“we are in an era of austerity, which
looks like continuing for some years, so
it is essential we provide young single-
seater drivers with an affordable path
to learn and prove themselves,” he said.
“we have focused on providing the
lowest season running costs, the lowest
car purchase price, the highest levels of
car equality, and highest safety standards.
we want to enable privateers to run cars
competitively and welcome teams too.”
brdc president derek warwick added:
“i have been very worried over the last
few years about how young british drivers
are supposed to make that big move from
karting to circuit racing.
“we currently have total confusion
within our sport in terms of formulae,
cost, and the best way to gain experience
cost effectively. brdc Formula 4 will
give us exactly what our sport is missing.”
AUTOSPORT SAYS…
Ben
anderson
national
editor
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PROFESSIONAL SINGLE-SEATER
racing in the UK is in a parlous state.
Formula Renault UK has gone,
Formula Ford is struggling, and
Formula Renault BARC (previously
a club-level series and using cars
that are 12 years old) is picking
up most of the slack.
Jonathan Palmer feels costs have
become prohibitively high at the
lower levels (in a period of financial
difficulty), while the BRDC worries
the UK’s pool of potential Formula 1
talent is shrinking fast, and requires
an urgent injection of fresh water.
That’s where BRDC Formula 4
comes in. It’s been the best part
of a year in the making and is a
serious attempt at addressing some
of single-seater racing’s ills. It will run
at some high-profile events, and the
cars should be quick and hi-tech
enough to appeal to drivers, while
also being affordable for privateers.
Heavy technical limits should
prevent ‘lads and dads’ being scared
off, while unlimited testing is aimed
at giving professional teams a
chance to earn their crust.
The aim is to simplify the first
step on the single-seater ladder
and create something akin to the
halcyon days of Formula Ford, when
privateer drivers could afford to
take on established teams –
and sometimes beat them!
MSV has a track record when it
comes to cost-effective single-seater
racing, while BRDC support should
lend the initiative serious credibility.
Watch this space.
Extra contact details
Kevin Turner, features editor
kevin.turner@haymarket.com
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McLaren AUTOSPORT BRDC Award
F2 cars make Award finals return
Six single-seaters to be used alongside DTM and GT machinery to assess young drivers
SIX FORMULA 2 CARS
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Started in 1989, the Award aims
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GT McLaren will join the F2 cars as
Star Mazda
Hawksworth
takes US title
JAcK HAWKSWOrTH cLIncHeD
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of the season at Laguna Seca.
The championship success means
Hawksworth is entitled to scholarship
funding for the 2013 Indy Lights
championship worth $600,000.
The 21-year-old rookie took second
in the second race, recording his 12th
podium in 16 races and giving Team
Pelfrey the team’s title for the second
year in succession.
Hawksworth said: “I came into the
season knowing I needed to win the
94 autosport.com September 13 2012
part of the assessment process,
which will also include a fitness
test at Porsche Human Performance
and time on Darren Turner’s Base
Performance Simulator.
Chairman of the judges Derek
Warwick said: “We will run all six
cars at the same time so the drivers
have the same conditions. They start
with identical set-ups and will then
Hawksworth has landed $600,000 prize
championship if I was going to have any
chance of continuing my racing career.
“I haven’t driven an Indy Lights car
yet; I wanted to focus on getting the
job done in Star Mazda and not tempt
fate by dividing my attention.
“Perhaps between now and the finale
at Petit Le Mans I’ll have a bit of a think
about what I want to do next year and
maybe talk to some people.”
be allowed to adjust them slightly
to suite their driving styles.”
Warwick added: “The three types
of car, simulator, fitness test and
in-car data all help the judging
process and give us the confidence
to make the right decision, hopefully
to find not only the best of the group
but possibly the next Lewis Hamilton
or Jenson Button.”
Goodwood Revival
Jackson to Goodwood in prefect
BrITISH TOurIng cAr rAce
winner Mat Jackson will make his
Goodwood Revival debut in the
St Mary’s Trophy this weekend.
Jackson, who currently lies
seventh in the BTCC, will share an
Alan Mann Racing Ford Prefect 107E
with Henry Mann in the event for
1950s touring cars.
Jackson has already raced Mann’s
Ford Mustang and Lotus Cortina and
will drive the Prefect on Saturday.
“I’m not expecting the Prefect to
be capable of challenging for the win
– it’s only got a 1360cc engine – but
it’ll be great fun giving it a go,”
F2 and DTM cars
are on the menu
Nominations are now open and
the six finalists will be chosen next
month. The winner, who will be
announced at the AUTOSPORT
Awards in December, will receive
a McLaren F1 test, £100,000
and a TW Steel watch.
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said the 31-year-old. “The Revival
is an event I’ve always wanted to
do but it’s always clashed with
my BTCC commitments.”
Also among the entry for the
event are Jackson’s BTCC rivals
Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden.
Jackson will share Mann’s 107E at Revival
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Junior racing
MSA to stop under 16s racing in
single-seaters from next season
THe MSA WILL cHAnge THe ruLeS
so that no driver under the age of 16
can race in single-seaters from 2013.
InterSteps is the only single-seater
series in the UK to allow 15-year-olds
to race, with special dispensation from
the MSA, but the governing body will
rescind that privilege from 2013.
Series boss Martin Phaff lamented
the change, saying the new rule could
cost his grid two or three entries next
year. “It will affect drivers born in May
or June and, as we expect people to
British GT
Dolby returns with Audi GT outing
FORMER SUPERLEAGUE FORMULA
ace Craig Dolby returned to racing
for the first time since July 2011
when he contested the Silverstone
round of British GT last weekend.
Dolby, 24, was left without a
drive after the suspension of
Superleague Formula following
last July’s Zolder round.
He drove for two days with MW
Arden in the final GP2 test of 2011
at Barcelona but couldn’t find the
backing to graduate into the
championship this year.
Dolby had sat on the sidelines
until receiving a last-minute
call to make his GT debut in Nigel
Mustill’s Audi R8 LMS GT3 car at
Silverstone. He sat in the car for
the first time in Saturday’s free
THe BrITISH gT cHAMPIOnSHIP
released its draft 2013 calendar during
last weekend’s penultimate round of
2012 at Silverstone.
The series will again run across
seven events next year and is expected
to retain a format that mixes one-, two-
and three-hour races.
The only significant changes are that
Rockingham’s round will move from
June to early May, Donington Park’s
race will shift from September to
move upwards after one year, they will
bypass our championship,” he said.
“There is no denying that this is
going to have an affect on us. It’s an
unfortunate decision.”
The Fiesta Junior Challenge and
Ginetta Junior categories will also have
to adapt to a rule change next season,
as the MSA will require all junior series
to run on treaded tyres. Fiestas will be
required to switch from slicks, while
Ginetta Junior will have to revert back
after moving onto slicks for this season.
Fiesta series boss
Kevin Shortis plans to
consult with teams on
the best way forward,
while Ginetta chairman
Lawrence Tomlinson
said the change could
save Ginetta Junior
competitors up to
New ruling will
hit InterSteps
£10,000 per year
in running costs.
Dolby returned to racing in Wessex Audi R8
practice sessions and qualified
22nd out of 29 cars.
Dolby started the race and got
the car he shared with Group C/
GTP racer Bob Berridge up into
the top 15 before being forced
to pit with overheating problems.
The car eventually retired
around half distance after
developing a brake problem.
British GT
British GT reveals 2013 calendar
August, and the finale will move to the
Brands Hatch GP circuit in October.
2013 PROvISIONAl BRITISh GT CAleNdAR
date Track
March 29-31 Oulton Park
May 4-5 Rockingham
May 18-19 Nurburgring GP
June 8-9 Snetterton 300
August 10-11 donington Park
September 14-15 Silverstone GP
October 5-6 Brands hatch GP
MARCUS pye
HUMBLE pyE
The voice of club motor racing
Grosjean Alert! Not for the first
time did I hear this warning
after the recent F1 start
debacle at Spa. I was interested
in editor Charles Bradley’s take
(Pole Position, last week), and share
his concern that the malaise is
deeper-rooted than a series of
ill-starred moves by a desperate
Frenchman and one or two rivals.
I believe much of the problem
lies intrinsically in the evolution of
the modern single-seater racing car.
More specifically with the virtual
one-make scenario, which takes
today’s young drivers from Formula
Ford to F1’s doorstep without facing
anything different.
Although it is still, technically, an
open-chassis class, Formula Ford
has been as near as dammit a
monopoly since the original Van
Diemen company walked away.
Thereafter, FRenault, F3, GP3,
F2, GP2 and myriad diversions
between the last two have been
one-make market-stiflers.
Since chassis have become
stiffer, stronger and more efficient
– and work their tyres so well –
braking areas have shortened
dramatically. As a result, overtaking
manoeuvres have had to become
increasingly banzai, in some cases
verging on suicidal, to succeed.
Carbon brakes in the upper
echelons exacerbate this, but the
culture among aspiring pros has to
be set early in their careers if they
Overtaking
moves have had
to become increasingly
banzai, verging on
suicidal, to succeed”
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Is modern technology to blame
for poor driving standards?
are to stand any chance of ‘making
it’ to the top. Today’s chassis are
thankfully so safe that walking
away from spectacular wrecks has
become normal for incident-prone
drivers. A foolhardy few may
even believe they are invincible.
Clearly, I’m not advocating that
cars be made more dangerous,
but perhaps the old suggestion
of lengthening braking areas
proportionately to the power
output of different formulas –
and not having FFord cars that
are insanely fast in a straight line,
relative to those in higher strata
– has some merit.
If kart racers can pull off passing
manoeuvres safely in machines
of very similar performance, and
history shows that they are the
most likely to progress to the top
in cars, where and why does it
go wrong?
It didn’t happen in the 1950s and
’60s when competitors respected
rivals, knew the (likely fatal)
consequences of interlocking
wheels, or other downright
intimidatory tactics, and drove cars
that were inherently lethal. Those
machines are marginally safer now,
and raced by amateurs with little
to gain. I vehemently hope they
behave at Goodwood and Spa – the
world’s finest historic
showpieces – over
the next two
weekends…

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Ma5da Racing
Herbert targets Clios for ’13
LUKE HERBERT WILL GRADUATE
to the Renault Clio Cup for 2013 after
clinching the Ma5da MX5 Cup at
Croft last weekend.
The 23-year-old has been evaluating
a number of team options and will test
in the coming weeks.
“These have been my last races in
the MX5,” he said. “I will either be in Clios
or nothing, and if I am not out at the
start of the year it will be because I am
finding the budget for the last few races.”
Single-seaters
TOP ITALIAn SInGLE-SEATER
team EuroInternational is behind
a new centrally-run series for
Formula BMW cars to run over
the winter in the Middle East.
Sixteen mildly modified cars will
be fielded in a series comprising six
triple-header rounds, with two each
on the grand prix circuits in Abu
Dhabi and Bahrain, plus Dubai.
The finale will run on the support
bill at the 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix.
EuroInternational boss Antonio
Legend gets air
Legends racer Robert King escaped unharmed from this
roll after flying off the road at Cadwell Park last Saturday.
The car was repaired and he was back racing again on Sunday.
Herbert’s rival Chrissy Palmer is
aiming to graduate to the Ginetta G55
Supercup for next season after finishing
third in the Ma5da MX5 Cup.
“I can’t wait to get back into a proper
car. Getting back onto slick tyres will be
like going to heaven,” said the 2009
Formula Ford Festival winner.
Meanwhile, the final Ma5da Racing
events of 2012 have been cancelled.
The Autumn Trophy was due to take
place at Silverstone later this month,
Middle East winter series for BMWs
EuroInternational will
run 16 cars in new series
Ferrari said: “This will be an
introduction championship to cars
for young drivers from karting aged
14 to 19. It is a €75,000 package,
which makes a very affordable series
– we provide everything, including
hotel accommodation.”
Ferrari’s organisation will also
centrally run 20 cars in the revamped
Formula Abarth category in Italy.
Abarth is ditching its European series
at the end of this year and working to
make the category more affordable.
with a 12-hour Enduro Race set for
Snetterton in November.
The races have been canned after
further disputes between Jonathan
Blake’s Ma5da Racing organisation and
the BRSCC, which plans to run its own
races for MX5s at those meetings.
Blake is working with the 750 Motor
Club to establish a class for Ma5da
Racing competitors at the Birkett Relay
on Silverstone’s Historic GP circuit
on October 27.
Ginetta Challenge
Olympics star
Kenny to race
DOUBLE OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALLIST
Jason Kenny will contest the final
round of the Ginetta GT5 Challenge
at Donington Park on September 29-30.
Kenny, 24, won gold medals in the
team sprint and individual sprint events
for Team GB’s cycling team during the
recent London Olympics. He owns
his own Ginetta G20 racer and will
visit Ginetta’s Leeds factory today
(Thursday) to swap tips with Ginetta
chairman Lawrence Tomlinson, a
keen cyclist who recently rode from
Budapest to Vienna for charity.
Tomlinson said: “Ginetta is proud to
welcome a fellow Northerner into our
racing family. Jason Kenny is a great
British role model and it’s fantastic to
know he also owns a great sportscar.
“I’ll be happy to give him some racing
advice, and will no doubt be picking his
brains for cycling tips.
“Here’s hoping he can do Team GB
proud at Donington Park.”
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IN BRIEF
Fannin (left) and Hughes won
TEAM WFR PAIR JODY FANNIN AND
Warren Hughes wrapped up the British
GT4 title with a round to spare thanks to
their seventh class win in nine races at
Silverstone last weekend. Fannin hopes
to graduate to GT3 next season.
THERE WERE NO LOTUS EVORAS ON
the British GT grid at Silverstone. Former
Formula Ford racer Melroy Heemskerk’s
car was crashed by another driver during
a pre-race test at Brands Hatch, while
Indian Sailesh Bolisetti was unable to
make the event because of visa issues.
FORMULA RENAULT BARC WILL
have a four-race winter series beginning
with the category’s first-ever races on
the Brands Hatch GP circuit in support of
the 2012 BTCC finale in October, before
heading to Rockingham on November 10.
EUROPEAN NASCAR RACER
Freddie Nordstrom will contest the 2012
Britcar 24 Hours. The ex-British GT4 racer
will share Guy Povey’s BMW E46 M3.
NEW CATERHAM SUPERSPORT
champion Aaron Head will contest the
final round of the R300 Superlight series
at Rockingham in October. Head will
race a Team Parker-run car.
HILLCLIMBER JOHN CUSSINS DIED
following a boating accident near Greece
last Wednesday. Son of former Leeds
United FC chairman Manny Cussins,
John won two British Hillclimb rounds
and was fourth overall in 1970. He also
ran Alister Douglas-Osborn to the ’77 title.
LAST SATURDAY’S BRIGHTON
National Speed Trials, first run in 1905,
were abandoned after sidecar passenger
Charlotte Tagg died in an accident near
the finish. Driver Roger Hollingshead
remains critically ill in hospital.
KEVIN MUSSON SHOOK DOWN
the unique 1960 British Dolphin-Ford
Formula Junior at Blyton Park last
week, ahead of the car’s first race
outing for 52 years at the
Revival this Saturday.
Dolphin to Goodwood
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rAces & resuLTs
KMsc sPeeDFAIr
KNOCKHILL
KMsc KNOCKHILL, septeMbeR 9
Comeback Carroll
takes Leslie laurels
ONE OF SCOTLAND’S
greatest Formula Ford stars
of recent years made his
return to compete on home
soil and dominated the
David Leslie Trophy races
at the Knockhill Speedfair
and Classic Festival.
Champion in 2008,
Graham Carroll made it
clear he is back for his own
enjoyment. “Me and my
dad got a bit bored sitting
at home,” he admitted.
“We got ourselves a car
and so it’s a nice wee
hobby these days.”
Despite an average
getaway in the first race,
Carroll took an early lead.
“It worked out not too
bad,” he said. “I got a nice
wide line into the first
corner and from there
I could just see what
was going on behind.”
The focus of the race
was therefore on the
battle for second. Current
Scottish championship
leader Ali Dow was in
pursuit of Ross McEwen,
who defended well. After
several attempts, Dow
made a bold move around
the outside of Duffus Dip
on the penultimate lap
to grab the place.
A worthy sixth place
went to Scott Hynds,
making his first singleseater
start after years
as a supporter of Legends.
Carroll took another
straightforward win in
race two but once again
the battle for the podium
proved the highlight.
Michael Gray grabbed his
“ Me and dad got bored
FF1600 QuIcK resuLTs
→ Race 1 Graham carroll
→ Race 2 carroll
→ Race 3 carrollConnon
sitting at home”
Graham Carroll explains his return
took Classic win in Lotus
first podium earlier this
season, but his feisty
attack on McEwen meant
his second podium was
even more rewarding.
After another dominant
win, Carroll was handed
the David Leslie Trophy
by a delighted Jane Leslie,
widow of the much-missed
versatile racing star. The
podium for the finale
mirrored that of race two,
but Gray appeared even
happier given his everimproving
lap times.
Daniel McKay took an
assured victory in the first
Legends race. He started
fifth but had grabbed
second by the time the
pack reached the hairpin.
Poleman John Bushby has
been improving his pace
throughout the Scottish
championship season but
was quickly swamped by
the more confident runners
once the battling got under
way. McKay outbraked
Kieran Gallacher to take
the lead at the start of lap
two and controlled the gap
to the end of the race.
The highlight was a
scrap for third that came to
a head on the penultimate
lap. Steven McGill hit the
back of Billy Wait on the
way into Clark corner, a
move that left McGill in
the gravel and Wait to
retire a damaged car.
Surprisingly, the pair
came together at the same
location in the second heat.
This time the contact was
made side by side, but
McGill survived unscathed
Carroll returned to
dominate FF1600
and held a solid second
position. Andrew Donald
took third but found
McGill an equally tough
competitor and was clearly
unhappy with the rookie’s
defensive driving.
The Legends final
was won by a recovering
Wait, who put the earlier
incidents behind him to
snatch the win at the last
corner after a racelong
battle with McKay.
While the Saloons event
was open to different
classes, a small field of
nine Minis took to the grid
Brewster duo won
saloon enduro
for the 30-lap endurance
race. Although this was a
lengthy race, the early close
battles between the top six
cars suggested a much
more urgent agenda. Early
leader Steven Brewster
pulled a healthy gap and
was the last man to pit, at
the end of the pit window.
The driver changes
DAVID LESLIE TROPHY FOR
FF1600 (ALL 10 LAPS) 1 Graham
Carroll (Van Diemen RF91); 2 Ali Dow
(Ray GRS09) +7.240s; 3 Ross McEwen
(Van Diemen RF92); 4 Michael Gray
(Vector); 5 Andrew Paterson (Van
Diemen RF92); 6 Scott Hynds (Van
Diemen). Fastest lap Carroll 56.036s
(82.23mph). RACE 2 1 Carroll;
2 Dow +2.421s; 3 Gray; 4 R McEwen;
5 Paterson; 6 Jonathan Sinclair (Ray
GRS07). FL Carroll 55.926s (82.40mph).
RACE 3 1 Carroll; 2 Dow +3.070s; 3 Gray;
4 R McEwen; 5 Paterson; 6 Kerr McEwen
(Van Diemen). FL Carroll 55.940s
(82.37mph).
SPEEDFAIR LEGENDS (8 LAPS)
1 Daniel McKay; 2 Kieran Gallacher
+3.743s; 3 Andrew Donald; 4 Billy Wait;
5 John Bushby; 6 Mark Lees. FL Steven
McGill 1m02.042s (74.27mph).
HEAT 2 (8 LAPS) 1 McKay; 2 McGill
+7.360s; 3 Donald; 4 Wait; 5 Gallacher;
6 Bushby. FL Donald 1m01.824s
(74.53mph). FINAL (10 LAPS)
1 Wait; 2 McKay +0.053s; 3 Donald;
McKay took two
Legends victories
added extra excitement and
it was the Brewster team
that was on top. Their
pitstop time alone was
significantly faster than
anyone else, meaning
Kenneth rejoined the
race over 11s ahead. He
duly brought the car
home to victory.
l Jonathan crawford
4 McGill; 5 Gallacher; 6 David
Meiklejohn. FL Wait 1m02.081s
(74.23mph).
SPEEDFAIR OPEN SALOON
ENDURO (30 LAPS) 1 Kenneth
Brewster/Steven Brewster (Mini
Cooper); 2 Ross Wylie/Kenneth
Thirlwall (Mini Cooper) +11.645s;
3 Steven Clarke/Adam Leitch (Mini
Cooper); 4 Kyle Reid/Ryan Borthwick
(Mini Cooper); 5 Emma Bruce/George
Orr (Mini Cooper); 6 Alan Waugh (Mini
Cooper). FL Wylie 1m04.014s (71.98mph).
KMSC CLASSIC SPORTS AND
SALOONS (BOTH 15 LAPS)
1 Mike Connon (Lotus 7 S4); 2 Willie
Robertson (Datsun 240Z) +12.556s;
3 Jimmy Crow (Ford Escort Mk1);
4 Andy Walker (Triumph Sport);
5 Ian Morton (MG Midget); 6 Steve Uphill
(Ford Fiesta Mk1). FL Connon 1m01.109s
(75.406mph). RACE 2 1 Connon;
2 Robertson +16.961s; 3 Morton; 4 Tom
Wilson (Ford Escort Mk1); 5 Walker;
6 Cameron Gilmour (Austin A30).
FL Robertson 1m00.875s (75.70mph).
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rAces & resuLTs
MsVr
aNGLesey
F3 cuP aNGLesey, septeMbeR 8
SEAN WALKINSHAW
showed his class by
recording an impressive
double victory on his F3
Cup debut, smashing the
Anglesey International
circuit lap record.
The Chipping Norton
driver teamed up with
Lanan Racing for the F3
Cup’s trip to North Wales
and, despite this being
his first taste of F3,
he flourished.
“It’s absolutely fantastic
to do so well on my first
weekend in the F3 Cup,”
said the Formula Renault
BARC racer. “It’s been a
step up for me but not
a large step.
“Lanan Racing is a great
team and I’ve really
enjoyed working with
THE PAIRINGS OF STEVE
Smee/Martin Scholfield
and Andrew Ball/Richard
Hughes shared the victories
in two frantic one-hour
Club MSV Team Trophy
encounters at Anglesey.
The annual trip to Wales
for the Team Trophy didn’t
disappoint as a field of
novice racers fought tooth
and nail for honours.
Qualifying set the tone,
with Ball/Hughes just
edging Smee/Scholfield to
pole. The fast-starting
Lotus Elise of Antony Sharpe
and David Scarborough
challenged before a spin
handed the lead back to
the Porsche 968 of Ball
and Hughes. In the end the
Honda Integra proved too
strong and it was Smee/
Scholfield who took the win.
Race two provided a
similar story, but this time
Ball/Hughes secured the
win from Smee/Scholfield
after an epic dice.
l Tom Howard
F3 cuP QuIcK resuLTs
→ Race 1 sean Walkinshaw
→ Race 2 Walkinshaw
Walkinshaw wins
on F3 Cup debut
them. This experience
has given us something to
think about for next year.”
Qualifying belonged to
Walkinshaw as he smashed
the lap record by posting
a 1m20.627s to grab pole
from title contender Gino
Ussi and James Abbott.
Championship leader
Tristan Cliffe was fifth,
while fellow title hopeful
Chris Dittmann was ruled
out of the meeting due
to engine failure.
Walkinshaw stalled
on the green-flag lap for
race one, but he made no
mistake at the start and
moved into a comfortable
lead. Ussi pushed him hard
in the opening laps but the
18-year-old was too strong.
The real battle was for
cLuB MsV TeAM TrOPHY aNGLesey, septeMbeR 8
Honda and Porsche duos
share Team Trophy honours
RESULTS (34 LAPS)
1 Steve Smee/Martin Scholfield
(Honda Integra); 2 Andrew ball/
richard Hughes (Porsche 968)
+26.434s; 3 simon barnard (bmW
m3); 4 Antony sharpe/David
scarborough (Lotus elise s1);
5 Leon bridgway/steve baker
(Toyota mr2); 6 nick starkey
(integra). Class winners ball/
Hughes; bridgway/baker; Ashley
bird/edward Platt (Ginetta G20).
FL ball/Hughes 1m44.088s
(72.63mph). RACE 2 (33 LAPS)
1 Ball/Hughes; 2 smee/scholfield
+6.576s; 3 Ashley Davies/Paul
Abercrombie (renault clio);
4 barnard; 5 mike moss (bmW m3);
6 bridgway/baker. CW smee/
scholfield; bridgway/baker;
bird/Platt. FL ball/Hughes
1m43.326s (73.16mph).
Porsche battled Honda
Walkinshaw sailed
to an F3 Cup double
“ It’s been a step up for
me but not a large step”
Walkinshaw was happy with his F3 debut
third position and it was
Chris Needham who held
his nerve to deny a hard
charging Abbott by a
tenth, with Cliffe in fifth.
Race two followed a
similar pattern, with
Walkinshaw completing
a comfortable win, but
the battle for the minor
podium places raged.
LOTus eLIse TrOPHY aNGLesey, septeMbeR 8
Dolan stars in Lotus photo finish
ANDY DOLAN CAME
through a dramatic final-lap
drag race to secure his first
win of the season by the
slimmest of margins from
local man Craig Denman
in the Lotus on Track
Elise Trophy.
The series has been
renowned for its close
racing, but Dolan’s triumph
in race one will go down
as one of its closest finishes.
The Scot was the star
of qualifying as he grabbed
pole by three tenths of a
second from Denman, with
Ben Hyland in third. The
trio was separated by just
six tenths of a second.
But all Dolan’s hard
work in qualifying quickly
unravelled on the opening
lap as he fell to fifth.
Denman took the lead from
Hyland, while Dolan began
to recover the lost ground.
Hyland was close on
Denman’s tail but was
unable to exploit any gaps
to take the lead. Just behind
them, a hard-charging
Dolan was coming through
and determined to at least
Prajesh Shah produced his
best drive of the season
to overtake Needham for
second. Cliffe was forced
to retire, leaving him with
a slender lead in the table.
l Tom Howard
RESULTS (BOTH 15 LAPS)
1 Sean Walkinshaw (Dallara
F302); 2 Gino ussi (Dallara F307)
finish on the podium.
As the final lap began,
Dolan managed to move
onto the tail of Denman and
a terrific battle unfolded,
which came down to the
final corner. Dolan managed
to get a better run on to the
start-finish straight to take
the flag by 0.082 seconds.
Hyland secured the final
spot on the podium.
Not to be outdone,
Denman finished his
weekend on a high with a
win in the second race in
Dolan (97) and Denman
fought for Elise victory
REPORTS
SportS Extra
+17.713s; 3 chris needham (Dallara
F302); 4 James Abbott (Dallara
F306); 5 Tristan cliffe (Dallara
F307); 6 Prajesh shah (Dallara
F307). FL Walkinshaw 1m21.287s
(93.00mph) record.
RACE 2 1 Walkinshaw; 2 shah
+27.492s; 3 Abbott; 4 needham;
5 ussi; 6 Dave Karaskas (Dallara
F300). FL Walkinshaw 1m21.888s
(92.32mph).
front of his home crowd.
He finished ahead of
Hyland, who just got the
better of Dolan by three
tenths at the flag.
l Tom Howard
RESULTS (BOTH 12 LAPS)
1 Andy Dolan; 2 craig Denman
+0.082s; 3 ben Hyland; 4 neil
stothert; 5 nigel Hannam; 6 matthias
radestock. FL Dolan 1m41.686s
(74.34mph). RACE 2 1 Denman;
2 Hyland +3.112s; 3 Dolan; 4 stothert;
5 Hannam; 6 Will Price. FL Dolan
1m42.136s (74.01mph).
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RaCES & RESuLTS
ddMC
croft
CROFT iN BRiEF
Puddle won bizarre Ma5da Mk1 race
Ma5da MX5 Mk1s
Tom Roche signed off as
champion with three more wins.
Race five was bizarre as the
drivers didn’t see a chequered
flag but followed one another
into parc ferme. Nevertheless,
Rich Puddle was awarded a
maiden win, a feat Brett Smith
managed in the finale.
Wilson was unstoppable once again
NORTHERN SpORTS &
SaLOONS CLaSSES a & E
Jeff Wilson won both races in his
Lotus Elise-bodied Jade. He led
the first from the off, but Peter
Cook’s Mitsubishi Evo 9 stormed
into the lead of race two only to
spin down the order at the
hairpin on lap four.
Taylor won second Porsche encounter
BRSCC pORSCHE
Points leader Richard Styrin led
from lights-to-flag in his Boxster
in a processional Saturday
encounter, but on Sunday he
found himself sandwiched in
between Gerry Taylor and David
Bearman, who was a retirement
from race one. Mark McAleer
topped the 924 section.
Dengate won enduro as well as a title
Ma5da ENduRO
Kevin Dengate emerged on top
of the hour-long race despite his
MX150R almost running out of
fuel, holding off the MX5 Mk3 of
Christopher Lord. Simon Fleet
completed the podium, ahead
of Rhys Jenkins in the first of
the Mk1 cars.
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Ma5da MX5 Mk3 QuiCK RESuLTS
→ race 1 Jordan Stilp
→ race 2 Stilp
→ race 3 Luke Herbert
Ma5da MX5 Mk3 Cup croft, september 8-9
Herbert’s crown
in three-way finale
LUKE HERBERT SEALED
the Ma5da MX5 Mk3 Cup
with a victory, after a
three-way fight with
Jordan Stilp and Chrissy
Palmer going into the
27th race of the year.
The first race almost
proved pivotal, with
Herbert initially penalised
35 seconds for repeatedly
exceeding track limits.
That was subsequently
rescinded and Herbert
was reclassified in third,
with Palmer second while
Stilp romped to victory.
Palmer took the lead at
Sunny on the first lap of
race two, with Herbert
trying to go around the
outside of Stilp at the
Coulthard won race,
then championship
THE FAST-STARTING
Midgets filled the first six
places through Clervaux and
Hawthorn, with reigning
champion Mike Peters
– who was racing with a
broken wrist – leading
overall. That was until
the MG ZR180 of David
Coulthard climbed back
through to hit the front.
Peters lost out to fellow
Midget racer David Morrison
at the hairpin, but retook
the place within a lap.
Julia Penfold climbed up the
order in her ZR190, and was
fourth when she went off
approaching the Complex,
dug in and rolled her car.
Coulthard quickly got to
the front of the second race
but it was Morrison, who
had bogged down on the
Complex, only to run
off onto the grass and
hit the tyrewall. He
somehow continued, but
back in 12th, and he made
steady progress back to
fourth while Stilp took
the lead from Palmer.
Stilp was left clear after
Palmer’s engine cut out
on the fifth lap, with
Adam Gore second and
debutant Chris Platt third.
Knowing a win on
Sunday would do, Herbert
blasted into the lead from
fourth on the reversed
grid and streaked into the
distance. In his efforts to
fight back after an early
problem, Stilp went off
at Clervaux, while Palmer
MGCC COCKSHOOT Cup croft, september 8-9
Coulthard takes MG title
“ As he fought back,
stilp went off”
stilp lost out to Herbert
startline, who charged from
seventh at the end of lap
one to victory. Coulthard
clung on to second place
and a class win that was
enough to secure the crown
from Peters, who finished
third overall.
l Ian Sowman
RESULTS (BOTH 9 LAPS)
1 David Coulthard (ZR); 2 Mike
Peters (Midget) +4.645s; 3 David
Morrison (Midget); 4 Paul Newton
(Sprite); 5 Fraser Graham (Midget);
6 Stephen McKie (B). CW Peters;
Iain Wright (Midget); Mike Rouse
(F); Nigel Parry (B). FL Coulthard
1m40.998s (74.85mph).
RACE 2 1 Morrison; 2 Coulthard
+3.935s; 3 Peters; 4 Graham;
5 Newton; 6 McKie. CW Coulthard;
Colin Offley (Sprite); Rouse; Parry.
FL Morrison 1m41.084s (74.79mph).
Herbert secured the
crown in final race
retired with more electrical
issues on the final lap.
In the MX150Rs, a firstcorner
incident for Kevin
Dengate appeared to have
ended his title hopes in
race one. Jonathan Blake
needed just a finish
in race three, but was
‘meatball flagged’ due to
what was thought to be
a fuel leak but turned
out to be water, handing
Dengate the crown.
l Ian Sowman
NORTHERN SpORTS aNd SaLOONS CLaSSES B, C, d & H croft, sept 8-9
Williamson pips Hall
to Northern double
MIKE WILLIAMSON
took a double victory
in the penultimate
meeting of the season
for the Northern Sports
and Saloons.
The all-wheel-drive
cars came to the fore,
with Williamson blasting
into the lead by Clervaux
in his Mitsubishi Evo 4,
chased by Ken Hall’s
polesitting Metro 6R4
and Stephen Kell’s Ford
Sierra XR4, which had
started ninth on the grid.
Hall hooked a wheel
into the dirt exiting the
hairpin on the opening
lap, losing the place to
Kell, but he retrieved it
at Clervaux on the start
of lap four.
Hall narrowed the gap
to Williamson and was
poised to challenge when
he made the same error.
Martin Lofthouse
(Triumph TR8) grabbed
third from Kell at the
hairpin on lap four of 11
before the Sierra fell back.
Williamson’s Mitsubishi secured two tin-top wins at Croft
RESULTS (10 LAPS) 1 Jordan Stilp;
2 Chrissy Palmer +7.616s; 3 Luke
Herbert; 4 Adam Gore; 5 Paul Sheard;
6 David Chapman. MX150R winner
Jamie Ingram (MX150R). Fastest lap
Stilp 1m38.393s (76.84mph).
RACE 2 (9 LAPS) 1 Stilp; 2 Gore
+4.424s; 3 Chris Platt; 4 Herbert;
5 Sheard; 6 Will Chappell. MX150R
Stewart Mutch. FL Palmer 1m39.088s
(76.30mph). RACE 3 (9 LAPS)
1 Herbert; 2 Gore +10.483s; 3 Chris
Lord; 4 Sheard; 5 Platt; 6 Chappell.
MX150R Kevin Dengate. FL Stilp
1m39.113s (76.28mph).
Points leader Paul Moss
was forced out after his
Citroen Saxo suffered
an electrical problem.
Williamson led Hall
throughout the second
race. Moss was gunning
for third on the run into
Clervaux on lap 10 but
Martin Addison (Peugeot
106) held him off, and the
Saxo in fact lost out to
Andy Wilson’s BMW
M3 at Tower.
l Ian Sowman
RESULTS (BOTH 11 LAPS)
1 Mike Williamson (Mitsubishi
Evo 4); 2 Ken Hall (MG Metro
6R4) +1.711s; 3 Martin Lofthouse
(Triumph TR8); 4 David Cox
(Peugeot 205GTi); 5 Martin
Addison (Peugeot 106);
6 Andy Wilson (BMW M3).
CW Lofthouse; Cox; Addison.
FL Hall 1m36.057s (78.70mph).
RACE 2 1 Williamson; 2 Hall
+2.286s; 3 Addison; 4 Wilson;
5 Paul Moss (Citroen Saxo);
6 Lofthouse. CW Addison;
Lofthouse; Cox. FL Hall
1m35.976s (78.77mph).
PICS: DEvENT, JONES

NaTiONaL
RaCES & RESuLTS
MGCC
tHrUXtoN
pBi/BCV8 QuiCK RESuLTS
→ race 1 Simon Cripps
→ race 2 andrew ashton
pETER BEST iNSuRaNCE CHaLLENGE & BCV8 tHrUXtoN, september 9
Cripps ‘hangs on’ to take V8 victory
SIMON CRIPPS WON A
thrilling combined Peter
Best Challenge and BCV8
Championship race at
Thruxton last weekend,
despite the rather unruly
handling of his MGB GT V8.
“I was just hanging on,”
he said. “It’s a new set-up,
and I need to make it stiffer.”
Cripps got a rocket of a
start from pole, but he was
Cripps overcame
his handling issues
MG MidGET aNd SpRiTE CHaLLENGE tHrUXtoN, september 9
EDWARD REEVE WAS
victorious in the MG
Midget and Sprite
Challenge, after both Paul
Sibley and Andrew Weston
suffered engine woes.
The championship rivals
lined up on the front row,
despite suffering damaged
valves after their qualifying
session. “I bodged the
engine and hoped for the
best”, said Sibley. Despite
these issues, it was Sibley
and Weston who headed the
pack in the opening laps.
It wasn’t long before
Weston’s engine turned
sour though, and he pulled
off the track at half distance.
This promoted Ed Reeve,
who was having a cracking
battle with Martin Morris,
soon caught by Russell
McCarthy’s ‘Yellow Peril’.
McCarthy used his top
speed advantage to take the
lead at Woodham Hill the
second time around.
McCarthy soon began
easing away, but Cripps
began to pull it back as
they started lapping traffic.
Cripps regained the lead
on lap 12 of 14, using a
Reeve revs it up as main
rivals hit engine problems
up to second. The duel
came to a head when Morris
outbraked himself at the
Club chicane.
It looked as if Sibley was
going to take the victory
but, on the final lap, his
engine finally faltered and
Reeve snatched it. Sibley
limped home third.
l Matt Upton
RESULTS (14 LAPS)
1 Edward Reeve (MG Midget);
2 Martin Morris (MG Midget);
3 Paul Sibley (MG Midget); 4 Nigel
Pratt (MG Midget); 5 Paul Campfield
(Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite); 6
Sam Healey (Austin Healey Frogeye
Sprite). CW Pratt; Campfield; Neil
Cameron (Austin Healey Arkley
Sprite); Dean Stanton (MG Midget).
FL Campfield 1m23.830s (101.17mph).
Reeve took his
chance to snatch win
Gardiner defeated Williams
gaggle of slower cars to his
advantage and passing
McCarthy into Allard. “We
came across a brick wall [of
traffic] on the start/finish
line – Simon went inside
everyone,” said McCarthy.
The Metro of Andrew
Ashton was the only car
that came close to breaking
the MGB dominance.
He had a great scrap with
Rob Spencer for the final
podium slot, but V8 grunt
eventually won out.
In the standalone Peter
Best Insurance Challenge
race Ashton was peerless,
leading from lights-to-flag.
He crossed the line just
under a minute ahead of
Simon Tinkler’s MGB GT,
despite having to limp
home on the last lap with
an overheating engine.
MG TROpHY tHrUXtoN, september 9
First MG win for Neaves
DAN NEAVES TOOK
his first MG Trophy race
victory at Thruxton last
Saturday after a mature
drive allowed him to fend
off the more experienced
Chris Bray.
Neaves was ahead at the
end of the first lap, after
four cars came a cropper
at the complex. Poleman
Paul Streather then retired
with a broken gear linkage.
The safety car appeared
on lap four, after Andrew
Gordon-Colebrook had
an off at the chicane.
It was a textbook restart
from Neaves, who then
soaked up intense pressure
Behind them, a train of
six cars battled it out for
third place, the position
finally going to Alistair Bell.
l Matt Upton
RESULTS (BOTH 14 LAPS)
1 Simon Cripps (MGB GT V8);
2 Russell McCarthy (MGB GT v8)
+0.410s; 3 Rob Spencer (MGB GT
v8); 4 Andrew Ashton (MG Metro
GTi); 5 Neil Fowler (MGB GT); 6 Ken
Deamer (MGB GT v8). CW Ashton;
Nick Ardon (MG Maestro EFi); David
Brown (MG ZR 160); James Wheeler
(MGB Roadster); Mike Harris
(MGB FIA Roadster). FL Deamer
1m28.747s (95.57mph).
RACE 2 1 Ashton; 2 Simon Tinkler
(MGB GT) +57.859s; 3 Alistair
Bell (MGB GT v8); 4 Brown;
5 Richard Waterman (MG ZR 160);
6 Callum MacLeod (MGB Roadster).
CW Tinkler; Bell. FL Ashton
1m30.416s (93.80mph).
Neaves won, while
Bray hit trouble
from Chris Bray for several
laps. On the 12th orbit,
Bray slowed with conrod
failure, and Neaves took
the flag for a fine win.
Dan’s brother Ollie
capped off a good day
for the Neaves family
by finishing third.
l Matt Upton
RESULTS (12 LAPS)
1 Dan Neaves (ZR 190);
2 Doug Cole (ZR 190) +4.155s;
3 Ollie Neaves (ZR 190);
4 Christopher Bray (ZR 190);
5 Alastair Rushforth (MG ZR 160);
6 Richard Marsh (ZR 160).
CW Rushforth. FL Neaves
1m28.373s (95.97mph).
REPORTS
SportS Extra
THRuXTON iN BRiEF
MacLeod stormed through in MGB
MGCC ECuRiE GTS
When Oliver Eaton pitted his
MGB on lap 12 he was lying in
sixth position. He handed the car
over to ex-British Formula Ford
champion Callum MacLeod, who
showed his class by scything
through the field to take the
victory. Mike Harris finished
second, eight seconds in arrears.
MORGaN CHaLLENGE
Keith Ahlers dominated the rest
of the field, finishing a massive
47 seconds ahead of his closest
rival, Philip Goddard. Matthew
Wurr took third spot, after
fending of the more nimble
4/4 of Richard Plant for the
duration of the race.
THOROuGHBREdS
Rob Spencer led the early stages,
but he was soon usurped by
Simon Cripps on lap five, with
Russell McCarthy following
suit two tours later. Ken Paton
hounded Spencer until the
end of the race for third, but
couldn’t make a move stick.
METRO Cup
Mike Williams led the early
stages, but he was soon caught
by a charging Neal Gardiner, who
reeled off four fastest laps in a
row to catch his rival. Gardiner
eventually managed to take the
lead from Williams at Club on
lap nine of 13.
FiSCaR 50s SpORTSCaRS
The Austin Healey of Harvey
Woods led the early stages, but
he dropped to third on lap three
when Andy Shepherd (AC Ace)
passed him at Woodham Hill and
Brian Arculus got by at Club.
Arculus’s Lotus Elite passed
Shepherd in a similar move
at Club a lap later to win.
Lotus beat AC and Austin Healey rivals
September 13 2012 autosport.com 101

REPORTS
SportS Extra
CADWELL In BrIEF
Stanley takes the flag from Shinner
CAtErhAM SuPEr/SIGMA
Both races were duels between
Dylan Stanley and Neil Shinner.
The result was one win each, as
Kenny Young looked on for a
double third. Ian Anderson
and Amanda Black shared
the Sigma spoils.
CAtErhAM CLASSIC
After Amanda Black cruised to
a comfortable lights-to-flag win
in the first race, she found the
second tougher going. Andrew
Outterside, Justin Cox and David
Pearson had a great battle, with
Outterside just taking the win
over Pearson, with Black
claiming a late third.
PrE-1993 tourErS
Craig Jamieson’s Sierra Cosworth
was a double winner. He led
both races from start to finish,
with Lawrie Dunster (BMW M3)
claiming second in the first after
Richard Millar’s Ford Sierra
had a fuel-pump failure.
CLASSIC thunDEr/BoSS
The first race was red-flagged
when Joss Ronchetti’s Vauxhall
Monaro dumped its propshaft
and oil on top of the Mountain.
The Falcon of Andy Robinson
was classified the winner over
Mark Biggars (Nissan Skyline),
as the restart was red-flagged
too. Biggars won race two with
ease over Robinson, who had
late propshaft problems. BMW
man Garrie Whittaker was third
both times, but he broke his
seat at the start of the second.
CLASSIC/hIStorIC
tourInG CArS
After Richard Sprigg set the
early pace, Andrew Law surged
his similar Anglia past and clear.
That left Sprigg’s son Steven, in
a Lotus Cortina, to fend off Phil
Manser’s Mini for second.
Law’s Anglia beat Cortina and Mini
102 autosport.com September 13 2012
nAtIonAL
rACES & rESuLtS
BArC
cadwell park
LEGEnDS cadwell park, september 8-9
Davey tops Legends
in Cadwell contests
A CAPACITY GRID OF
Legends couldn’t stop
Lawrence Davey taking
another step towards this
year’s title thanks to hardfought
victories in both
of the weekend’s finals.
Richard Pocklington
managed to establish a
good lead in Saturday’s
race, but a one-lap window
between two safety car
periods was all Davey
needed. He scythed
ahead into Coppice, with
reigning champion Stephen
Treherne following a
lap from home, only for
Dean Brace to jump both
Pocklington and Treherne
into Park on the last lap.
Pocklington and John
Mickel both finished
ROBB ADDISON CAME
out on top of a hard-fought
MG Owners’ Club opener
before, after leading the
second race throughout,
Vince Pain was excluded to
leave Mark Baker the victor.
Pain’s ZR led the first
six laps of race one, with
poleman Addison ousting
fellow MGF man Baker for
second early on, before
closing in on his quarry.
After spending the sixth
lap inches from Pain’s
rear, Addison made the
decisive move exiting
Charlies a lap later.
Pain led race two
throughout, but a black-flag
strongly, pushing Treherne
back to fifth.
The safety car played
its part in Sunday’s final
too, wiping out Stephen
Whitelegg’s early lead.
Davey led within a lap
of the green flag, with
Pocklington set for second
until Matthew Pape ousted
him approaching the
Mountain and Ben Power
took third in the sprint to
the flag. “I’d practised
that move,” said Pape.
Davey had dominated
the first of Saturday’s heats
over Mickel and Pape, with
Ben Power heading Dean
Brace in heat two.
Brace headed Davey in
a great duel in the first
of Sunday’s heats, while
MGoC cadwell park, september 8-9
Black-flag exclusion
means no gain for Pain
LEGEnDS QuICK rESuLtS
→ saturday final Lawrence Davey
→ sunday final Davey
Pain’s ZR chases
the F of Addison
infringement cost him
dearly. Baker inherited
the win, with Simon
Kendrick and Peter Higton
completing the podium.
l Peter Scherer
RESULTS (BOTH 9 LAPS)
1 Robb Addison (F); 2 Vince Pain
(ZR 160) +0.718s; 3 Mark Baker (F);
4 Peter Higton (F); 5 Sam Smith (F);
6 Paul Wisbey (F VVC). Class
winners Pain; Jim Baynam (B
Roadster). FL Addison 1m48.412s
(72.62mph). RACE 2 1 Baker;
2 Simon Kendrick (F VVC) +9.513s;
3 Higton; 4 Wisbey; 5 Addison;
6 Nick Golhar (ZR). CW Golhar;
Paul Eales (BGT). FL Addison
1m47.971s (72.91mph).
Davey kept points
score ticking over
Jamieson topped
the pre-’93 tourers
Power took his second
win of the weekend in the
second heat, after a couple
of swaps with Mickel.
l Peter Scherer
RESULTS – SATURDAY FINAL
(10 LAPS) 1 Lawrence Davey;
2 Dean Brace +2.983s; 3 Richard
Pocklington; 4 John Mickel;
5 Stephen Treherne; 6 Ben Power.
Fastest lap Davey 1m43.636s
(75.96mph). HEAT 1 (7 LAPS)
1 Davey; 2 Mickel +1.014s;
3 Matthew Pape; 4 Power;
5 Treherne; 6 David Ward.
FL Davey 1m44.320s (75.47mph).
CAtErhAM MEGA GrADuAtES cadwell park, september 8-9
Packman fever in Megas
DEFENDING CHAMPION
Myles Packman and
Martin Amison shared
the Caterham Mega
Graduate victory spoils.
For the first five laps of
Saturday’s race, Packman
and Mick Whitehead
swapped and changed
continuously. From there
Packman kept a nose
ahead, but Whitehead
had one last go exiting
Barn. “I lost the back
end and bounced off the
barrier,” he explained.
Nick Frost and Oliver
Gibson therefore joined
Packman on the podium,
with Whitehead seventh.
Amison traded the lead
with Nick Haryett in race
two, before Whitehead came
Packman leads
Mega field
HEAT 2 (2 LAPS) 1 Power; 2 D Brace
+0.654s; 3 Mickel; 4 Davey; 5
Treherne; 6 Stephen Whitelegg. FL
Pocklington 1m44.833s (75.10mph).
SUNDAY FINAL (9 LAPS)
1 Davey; 2 Pape +4.486s; 3 Power;
4 Pocklington; 5 Mickel; 6 Nick
Brace. FL Pocklington 1m45.121s
(74.98mph). HEAT 1 (8 LAPS)
1 D Brace; 2 Davey +0.429s;
3 Treherne; 4 Guy Fastres;
5 N Brace; 6 Mickel. FL Treherne
1m44.728s (75.17mph).
HEAT 2 (6 LAPS) 1 Power; 2 Mickel
+1.207s; 3 Davey; 4 Treherne;
5 Pocklington; 6 D Brace.
FL Treherne 1m44.715s (75.18mph).
to the fore once more. Into
Park on lap 10 Whitehead
finally hit the front, only
for red flags to end the race
and hand victory back to
Amison on countback. “I
would have got him back
anyway,” Amison reckoned.
Haryett retained third
from ex-Legends racer
Glenn Burtenshaw.
l Peter Scherer
RESULTS (13 LAPS) 1 Myles
Packman; 2 Nick Frost +13.079s;
3 Oliver Gibson; 4 Nicholas Haryett;
5 Nick Pancisi; 6 Martin Amison.
FL Packman 1m39.205s (79.36mph).
RACE 2 (8 LAPS) 1 Amison;
2 Mick Whitehead +1.418s;
3 Haryett; 4 Glenn Burtenshaw;
5 Frost; 6 Pancisi. FL Burtenshaw
1m40.097s (78.65mph).

PICS: WALKER, JONES, DEVENT IMAGING
SPORTS EXTRA RESULTS ROUND-UP
CroFt
ddmc, september 8-9
croft
MA5DA MX5 Mk1 (12 LAPS)
1 Tom Roche; 2 James Blake-Baldwin
+0.342s; 3 Rhys Jenkins; 4 Brian Chandler;
5 Jade Edwards; 6 Richard Puddle. Fastest
lap Blake-Baldwin 1m43.456s (73.08mph).
RACE 2 (12 LAPS) 1 Adam Gore;
2 Ben Short +0.656s; 3 Ed Gay; 4 Matthew
Lambert; 5 Alan Henderson; 6 Simon
Goddard. FL Richard Lambert 1m44.295s
(72.49mph). RACE 3 (12 LAPS) 1 Roche;
2 Jenkins +4.854s; 3 Henderson; 4 Gay;
5 Alex Preston; 6 M Lambert. FL Roche
1m43.399s (73.12mph). RACE 4 (12 LAPS)
1 Roche; 2 Jenkins +8.375s; 3 Gore; 4 Brett
Smith; 5 R Lambert; 6 Goddard. FL Roche
1m43.394s (73.12mph). RACE 5 (9 LAPS)
1 Puddle; 2 Blake-Baldwin +0.269s; 3 Gay;
4 Chandler; 5 Short; 6 Matt Robinson.
FL Blake-Baldwin 1m44.405s (72.41mph).
RACE 6 (12 LAPS) 1 Smith; 2 Gore +4.813s;
3 Chandler; 4 Blake-Baldwin; 5 Puddle;
6 Charlie Charman. FL Smith 1m44.135s
(72.60mph).
NORTHERN SPORTS AND SALOONS
CLASSES A & E (BOTH 11 LAPS)
1 Jeff Wilson (Lotus Elise);
2 Colin Simpson (Marcos Mantis) +11.332s;
3 Chris Huntley (Subaru Impreza); 4 Sam
Arrenberg (Caterham R400); 5 David
Botterill (Porsche 944); 6 Bill Addison
(Caterham Superlight). Class winners
Simpson; Arrenberg; Alan McPherson
(Formula 27). FL Wilson 1m28.776s
(85.16mph). RACE 2 1 Wilson;
2 Addison +13.109s; 3 Simpson;
4 David Bewis (Lotus Elan); 5 Huntley;
6 Neil Claxton (Suzuki SC100).
CW Addison; Simpson; McPherson.
FL Wilson 1m28.105s (85.81mph).
BRSCC PORSCHE (BOTH 13 LAPS)
1 Richard Styrin (Boxster); 2 Gerry Taylor
(Boxster) +6.755s; 3 Richard Sykes
(Boxster); 4 Mike Sellar (Boxster); 5 Steven
Boyles (Boxster); 6 Nick Hull (Boxster).
CW Steven Brown (Boxster); Mark
McAleer (924). FL Styrin 1m36.542s
James Darby takes an aerial line in
Thruxton’s Peter Best/BCV8 race
thruxton
mgcc, september 9
thruxton
(78.31mph). RACE 2 1 Taylor; 2 Styrin
+1.119s; 3 David Bearman (Boxster);
4 Will Sharpe (Boxster); 5 Cliff Graham
(Boxster); 6 Sellar. CW Brown; McAleer.
FL Styrin 1m36.827s (78.08mph).
MA5DA ENDURANCE (35 LAPS)
1 Kevin Dengate (MX150R); 2 Chris Lord
(MX5 Mk3) +2.722s; 3 Simon Fleet (MX5
Mk3); 4 Rhys Jenkins (MX5 Mk1); 5 Stewart
Mutch (MX150R); 6 Simon Goddard (MX5
Mk1). CW Lord; Jenkins. FL Dengate
1m40.946s (74.89mph).
MGCC ECURIE GTS (31 LAPS)
1 Oliver Eaton/Callum MacLeod (MGB
Roadster); 2 Mike Harris (MGB FIA
Roadster) +8.527s; 3 Mark Prutton (MGB);
4 Pete Foster (Triumph TR4); 5 Brian
Arculus (WSM Midget); 6 David
Russell-Wilks (MGB Roadster).
CW Foster; Arculus. FL MacLeod
1m34.777s (89.48mph).
MORGAN CHALLENGE (21 LAPS)
1 Keith Ahlers (Morgan Plus 8);
2 Philip Goddard (Morgan Plus 8) +47.212s;
3 Matthew Wurr (Morgan Plus 8R);
4 Richard Plant (Morgan 4/4); 5 Ray Higgs
(Morgan Plus 8); 6 Roger Whiteside
(Morgan Plus 8). CW Plant; Simon Orebi
Gann (Morgan Roadster Lwt); Sharlie
Goddard (Morgan Plus 8); James Sumner
(Morgan 4/4). FL Ahlers 1m25.791s
(95.86mph).
THOROUGHBRED SPORTS CARS
(14 LAPS) 1 Simon Cripps (MGB GT V8);
2 Russell McCarthy (MGB GT V8) +2.907s;
3 Rob Spencer (MGB GT V8); 4 Ken Paton
(RAM Jaguar D-type); 5 Tim Falce (Jaguar
RAM D-type replica); 6 Neil Fowler (MGB
GT). CW Spencer; Colin Jones (MGA Twin
Cam); Peter Hiscocks (MGA Roadster).
FL McCarthy 1m30.000s (94.23mph).
MG METRO CUP (13 LAPS)
1 Neal Gardiner (Rover Metro GTi);
2 Mike Williams (Rover 100) +5.372s;
3 Tom Sanderson (Rover Metro GTi);
4 Thomas Grainger (Rover 100 GTi);
5 Oliver Hood (Rover Metro 100); 6 Tony
Howe (MG Metro Turbo). CW Grainger.
FL Gardiner 1m33.770s (90.45mph).
FISCAR 1950s SPORTS CARS (13 LAPS)
1 Brian Arculus (Lotus Elite); 2 Andy
Shepherd (AC Ace Bristol) +0.862s;
3 Harvey Woods (Austin Healey 100M);
4 Mark Pangborn (Austin Healey 100M);
5 David Reed (Aston Martin DB2); 6 John
Hilbery (Lotus Elite S2). CW Shepherd;
Woods. FL Arculus 1m36.831s (87.59mph).
CADWELL PArK
barc, september 8-9
cadwell park
CATERHAM SUPER & SIGMA
GRADUATE (13 LAPS) 1 Dylan Stanley;
2 Neil Shinner +0.786s; 3 Kenny Young;
4 Toby Briant; 5 Jonathan Miller; 6 Martin
Collier. CW Ian Anderson. FL Amanda
Black 1m40.722s (78.16mph).
RACE 2 (9 LAPS) 1 Shinner; 2 Stanley
+0.264s; 3 Young; 4 Briant; 5 Gareth
Cordey; 6 Andy Skinner. CW Black.
FL Young 1m41.377s (77.66mph).
CATERHAM CLASSIC GRADUATE
(BOTH 12 LAPS) 1 Amanda Black;
2 Graeme Smith +8.521s; 3 David Pearson;
4 Trevor Harber; 5 Paul Hawker;
6 Andrew Outterside. FL Outterside
1m47.666s (73.12mph). RACE 2
1 Outterside; 2 Pearson +0.524s; 3 Black;
4 Smith; 5 Justin Cox; 6 Stuart Thompson.
FL Black 1m47.882s (72.97mph).
PRE-1993 TOURING CARS (5 LAPS)
1 Craig Jamieson (Ford Sierra RS
Cosworth); 2 Lawrie Dunster (BMW E36
M3) +1.817s; 3 Tim Scott Andrews (Rover
Vitesse); 4 Andrew Busby (BMW E30 M3);
5 Paul Bellamy (BMW M3); 6 Stephen
Primett (Ford Escort RS2000). CW
Andrew Harrison (Jaguar XJS); Dunster;
Busby; Daniel Smoughton (BMW E30
320i); Stephen Yates (Ford Escort Mk3).
FL Dunster 1m41.037s (77.92mph).
RACE 2 (9 LAPS) 1 Jamieson; 2 Dunster
+0.208s; 3 Richard Millar (Ford Sierra RS
Cosworth); 4 Scott Andrews; 5 Busby;
6 Primett. CW Harrison; Dunster; Busby;
Smoughton; Yates. FL Dunster 1m41.281s
(77.73mph).
CLASSIC THUNDER/BLUE OVAL
SALOONS (2 LAPS) 1 Andy Robinson
(Ford Falcon); 2 Mark Biggars (Nissan
Skyline GTR) +0.362s; 3 Garrie Whittaker
(BMW E36 M3); 4 Vaughan Fletcher
(Subaru Impreza); 5 Alexander Owen
(Ford Sierra RS Cosworth); 6 Andy Robey
(BMW M3). CW Biggars; Whittaker; Lawrie
Dunster (BMW E36 M3); Andy Johnson
(Renault Clio); Ashley Bird (Ford Sierra
XR4i); Terence Clark (Ford Fiesta ST);
Olly Allen (Ford Fiesta); Brian Long (Ford
Fiesta). FL Biggars 1m32.175s (85.41mph).
RACE 2 (13 LAPS) 1 Biggars; 2 Robinson
+15.047s; 3 Whittaker; 4 Adie Hawkins
(Alfa Romeo 33); 5 Fletcher; 6 Paul
Dobson (Mazda RX7). CW Robinson;
Whittaker; Dunster; Johnson; Craig
Pre-1993 tin-tops get
under way at Cadwell
Styrin leads the
Porsche pack at Croft
Rainer (Ford Escort Mk2); Paul Nevill
(Ford Escort RS2000); Allen; Long.
FL Biggars 1m31.534s (86.01mph).
CLASSIC SALOONS & HISTORIC
TOURING CARS (11 LAPS)
1 Andrew Law (Ford Anglia 105E);
2 Steven Sprigg (Lotus Cortina) +2.986s;
3 Phil Manser (Mini Cooper); 4 Richard
Sprigg (Ford Anglia 105E); 5 Andy
Messham (Austin Mini Seven); 6 Julian
Crossley (Morris Mini). CW Stuart
Radford (Triumph 2000); Manser;
Luc Wilson (Austin A40); Messham;
R Sprigg. FL Law 1m51.430s (70.65mph).
POST HISTORIC/ CLASSIC GROUP 1
TOURING CARS (12 LAPS) 1 Tim Scott
Andrews (Rover Vitesse); 2 David
Howard (Jaguar XJ12) +56.583s; 3 John
Wright (Ford Escort RS); 4 Tony Crates
(Lotus Cortina Mk2); no other starters.
FL Scott Andrews 1m44.003s (75.70mph).
September 13 2012 autosport.com 103

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Two golds, one silver
– what next for Alex?
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What you think of the motorsport news of the past week
There’s just no stopping Zanardi
Alex Zanardi is an inspiration to us all. He won in CART, he raced in F1,
he went back to CART and fate changed his life forever. When he lost
his legs at Lausitz it seemed like the end of a glittering career, but he did
not give up. He raced in WTCC and won races. He took up handcycling,
and last week won two golds and a silver in the Paralympics. Hollywood
could not write this story. Whatever you decide to do next, Alex, we
know you will excel. Good luck, and thank you for the life lesson.
Jackie Heffer and steve faulkner, Towcester, Northants
The value of this week’s star letter prize will, at the writers’ request, be given to charity – ed
there is nothing more
offensive than petulant
sports stars earning multimillions
acting as though
they have the universe on
their shoulders.
Lewis Hamilton’s recent
demeanour while sitting in
the best Formula 1 car and
winning races is pathetic.
He should take a leaf out
of his team-mate’s book.
If you are not enjoying
it Lewis, then get out.
I reckon McLaren
will be well rid if he
leaves for Mercedes.
Colin watt
By email
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the news this week that
McLaren will not yet issue
team orders to Jenson Button
despite his being some 78
points behind Fernando
Alonso is infuriating.
It would take a miracle
for Jenson to win the
championship from
this position, but Lewis
Hamilton’s title prospects
are still very much alive.
F1 teams pander too
much to the egos of the
individual drivers.
Jacob Hanerman
Thaxted, Essex
i watched Sky’s grand prix
coverage for the first time
on Sunday.
They did a pretty good
job, with one exception:
Ted Kravitz. I would have
thought he might have
done a little investigation
into the funny old man in
the cowboy hat that he
kept seeing in the paddock.
If he had, he would have
known that this was no less
than motorsport folk hero
and former Ferrari F1 driver
Arturo Merzario.
Mel Turbutt
Bewdley, Worcestershire
the tremendous safety
improvements in Formula 1
have a rather unwelcome
side effect. Having been
an enthusiast for 35 years,
I have noticed a steady
deterioration in driving
standards as the danger
element has receded.
I fear that a fatal accident
will have to happen before
the likes of Grosjean and
Maldonado will comprehend
the potentially disastrous
results of their actions.
The current lack of respect
is extremely worrisome.
paul Roberts
Caerphilly
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1. CloSed CoCkpitS now
‘inevitable’ in F1
2. Hamilton linked witH
merCedeS SwitCH
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what’s on…
Your guide to the best events taking place in the UK and around the world this week – plus TV and online
gOODWOOD reVIVal
September 14-16
admission: £36 (Friday),
sold out (Saturday),
£56 (Sunday). all online
tel: 01243 755055
The Goodwood Revival has
become an essential element
INDyCar SerIeS
rd 15/15
Fontana, California, USa
September 15
indycar.com
Will Power takes a 17-point lead
into the indyCar Series finale,
but the high banks of Fontana
will pose a big test for the Penske
star, who has only won once on
an oval. Ryan Hunter-Reay has
won double that amount on
ovals this season already – can
he deny Power the title again?
WOrlD eNDUraNCe
CHampIONSHIp
rd 5/8
Interlagos, brazil
September 15, fiawec.com
NaSCar SprINt CUp
rd 27/36
Chicagoland, Illinois, USa
September 16
nascar.com
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of the motorsport calendar –
not just for the racing but the
atmosphere. Racing comes in
the form of the Freddie March
Memorial Trophy, Goodwood
Trophy, Fordwater Trophy, St
Mary’s Trophy, Shelby Cup,
Whitsun Trophy, Chichester
FOrmUla reNaUlt 3.5
rd 7/9
Hungaroring, Hungary
September 15-16
worldseriesbyrenault.fr
V8 SUperCarS
rd 10/15
Sandown, Victoria, australia
September 16
v8supercars.com.au
Cup, Brooklands Trophy,
Richmond and Gordon
Trophies, RaC TT Celebration,
Glover Trophy and the Sussex
Trophy. Some of the world’s
best drivers do battle in
the finest historic racing
machinery on the planet.
RAC TT Celebration is a
one-hour pro-am highlight
Dtm
rd 8/10
Oschersleben, germany
September 16
dtm.com
aDaC gt maSterS
rd 7/8
Nurburgring, germany
September 15-16
adac-gt-masters.de
SIlVerStONe (brSCC)
September 15-16
admission: £10 (per day),
£15 (weekend)
tel: 0844 3728200
Ferrari brings its
contemporary racing line-up
to Silverstone: the Ferrari
Challenge Trofeo Pirelli
and Coppa Shell star, with
support from the UK Ferrari
Club Challenge. There’s also
displays from Ferrari’s F1
Clienti and FXX programmes,
and a Guinness World Record
attempt on Saturday for the
largest parade of Ferraris.
DONINgtON park (CSCC)
September 15-16
admission: £15 (per day),
£25 (weekend)
tel: 01332 810048
The Classic and Sports Car
Club brings its own series
and some supporting acts.
The line-up consists of the
‘elan 50’ race to celebrate
the elan’s 50th anniversary,
plus Magnificent Sevens,
Tin Tops, Sports/Saloons,
Deutsche Marque, Special
Who’s going to be
on top in Wales?
rally gb
World rally Championship
rd 10/13
llandudno/Cardiff, great britain
September 13-16
wrc.com
Rally GB moves forward once again to a mid-
September slot, so you shouldn’t need to wear
quite as many coats as usual. Whatever the
weather, expect Sebastien Loeb and his Citroen to
be as tough to beat as always. Competition comes
from team-mate Mikko Hirvonen, plus Ford duo
Jari-Matti Latvala and Petter Solberg.
amerICaN le maNS SerIeS
rd 9/10
Virginia International
raceway, USa, September 15
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tta raCINg leagUe
rd 7/8
tierp arena, Sweden
September 15
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Saloons, Jaguar Saloons/XJS,
Swinging 60s, Future
Classics, JeC Powered by
Jaguar and the monsters from
the HVRa V8 Challenge.
braNDS HatCH (mSVr)
September 15-16
admission: £13 (per day),
16 (weekend online)
tel: 01474 872331
a busy weekend on the GP
circuit with racing from
the Radical Clubmans Cup,
Radical UK Cup, Mini
Challenge, Mk2 Golf GTis,
Sports 2000, Champion of
Brands FF1600, Saloons,
VaG Trophy and, on Sunday,
a two-hour 360 MRC enduro.
mONDellO park (lmC)
September 15-16
admission: €10
tel: +353 45 860200
DOUNe (HIllClImb)
September 16
top12runoff.co.uk
The penultimate British
Hillclimb Championship
round will run in Scotland.
INDy lIgHtS
rd 12/12
Fontana, California, USa
September 15
indycar.com
INterCONtINeNtal
rally CHalleNge
rd 10/13, yalta rally,
Ukraine, September 15-16
ircseries.com
PiCS: HaWKinS, Tee, DUnBaR/LaT

Television
tHUrSDay September 13
1210-1415 motors tV
Grand-Am: Laguna Seca Highlights
1300-1400, 1700-1800 Sky Sports 3
WEC: Silverstone Highlights
2235-2305 motors tV
WRC: Rally GB Preview
FrIDay September 14
1245-1400 eSpN Classic
Driven: Graham Hill
2000-2100 Sky Sports F1
The F1 Show
2000-2030 motors tV
GT Cup: Brands Hatch
2235-2305 motors tV
WRC: Rally GB Day 1 Highlights
SatUrDay September 15
0635-0700 Channel 4
British F3: Silverstone Highlights
0900-0935 1430-1500 motors tV
WRC: Rally GB Day 1
1045-1200 eurosport 2
FR3.5: Hungaroring Race 1
1150-1325 motors tV
GP3: Monza Repeat
1325-1430 motors tV
British F3: Silverstone Highlights
1500-2205 motors tV lIVe
WEC: Interlagos
1600-2000 eurosport lIVe
WEC: Interlagos
1855-2000 Sky Sports F1
GP2: Monza Race 2 Repeat
2145-2200 eurosport
WEC: Interlagos
2235-2305 motors tV
WRC: Rally GB Day 2 Highlights
0100-0530 Sky Sports 1 lIVe
IndyCar Series: Fontana
revved up over
what’s on the box
We cast a critical eye over the best
and worst of this week’s TV coverage
Even motorbikes struggled
to keep up with Alex Zanardi
SUNDay September 16
0915-0945, 1250-1320 motors tV
WRC: Rally GB Day 2 Highlights
1000-1200 Sky Sports 3
IndyCar: Fontana Highlights
1015-1250 motors tV
NASCAR Nationwide: Chicago
1130-1615 Sky Sports F1
Formula 1: Monza Repeat
1225-1300 eurosport lIVe
FR3.5: Hungaroring Race 2
1335-1430 motors tV
Ferrari Challenge Coppa Shell:
Silverstone Race 1
1430-1525 motors tV lIVe
Ferrari Challenge Coppa Shell:
Silverstone Race 2
1525-1620 motors tV
Ferrari Challenge Coppa Pirelli:
Silverstone Race 1
1620-1715 motors tV lIVe
Ferrari Challenge Coppa Pirelli:
Silverstone Race 2
1715-1940 motors tV
ALMS: Virginia Highlights
1800-2300 premier Sports lIVe
NASCAR Sprint Cup: Chicago
1900-2100 Sky Sports 4
IndyCar: Fontana Highlights
2205-2235 motors tV
WRC: Rally GB Day 3 Highlights
2245-2315 eurosport
IRC: Rally Yalta Highlights
0130-0315 eSpN
DTM: Nurburgring Replay
mONDay September 17
1105-1135 1620-1650 2130-2205 motors tV
WRC: Rally GB Day 3 Highlights
2130-2230 Sky Sports 3
NASCAR: Chicago Highlights
as multi-millionaire
racing drivers were trying
to force one another off the
track at Monza, or arguing
behind the scenes about the
number of zeros on their
new contract, the final few
events in the London 2012
Paralympics played out.
There, athletes for whom
life has been defined by
genuine challenges
competed for the sake of
competition. Sure there
were gold, silver and bronze
medals on offer, but for
the vast majority of the
competitors, pushing
themselves to go faster,
be stronger was the aim.
Online
The Olympic spirit if you will.
Channel 4’s coverage was
superb. The bar was set high
right from the off. The
amazing promo ad left in us
no doubt that this wouldn’t
be some patronising “didn’t
they do well” aftershow
to London 2012.
Given that most of the
viewers had probably never
seen paralympians in action,
each event, and the class of
disability of the athletes, was
carefully explained. But it
was the tone in which it was
delivered that hit the spot.
My main involvement
came via the evening roundup
show The Last Leg with
Adam Hills. Probably only
Channel 4 would be brave
enough to use comedy as the
central pillar of a Paralympic
magazine show. And it
worked. It was like Match of
the Day 2 only with genuinely
funny people riffing off each
other. The contributions from
the members of the public
who emailed and texted in
set a new high-water mark
in viewer competence too.
I couldn’t help but wonder
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Perez and Hamilton
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marcus simmons
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what C4 would have done
with the F1 coverage…
Surely every motorsport
fan was captivated by the
performance of Alex Zanardi
in the wheelchair bicycle
races. But it was in the
women’s race, where the
pair fighting over third
decided to cross the line
together holding hands,
that had me choked.
Truly amazing television.
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“Watching the Paralympics, I couldn’t
help but wonder what Channel 4 would
have done with the Formula 1 coverage”
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THE WEEK IN PICTURES
Our lensmen pounding the beat, from the royal park at Monza to the royal residence at Windsor
sTick one righT here, my dear…
Davide Valsecchi gets his winner’s
kiss after his Monza GP2 Sprint win
briTish beauTies Take a bow
Exquisite Bentleys were on show
at the Salon Prive concours
d’elegance at Windsor Castle
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Tifosi celebraTe a double podium
The Italian faithful enjoy second (for
Sergio Perez’s Ferrari-powered Sauber)
and third (for Fernando Alonso) at Monza
solberg sTuns supporTers aT cholmondeley carfesT
Ford WRC ace Petter Solberg shows off his stunt-
driving skills at Chris Evans’s second CarFest event
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FrOM THE ArCHIVE
Bruno Giacomelli, Pau Grand Prix 1978
BRUNO GIACOMELLI, WHO TURNED 60 ON MONDAY OF
this week, can still recall his record-breaking European
Formula 2 campaign in 1978 as if it were yesterday.
Coming off the back of wins at Thruxton and
Hockenheim and an equally dominant performance at
the Nurburgring – “where I was miles ahead before a
wire came off and dropped me back on the last lap” –
the Italian was confident as he arrived at Pau for the
annual thrash around the French streets.
After pacing the field in first practice, the nuances of
Pau’s split-group qualifying system left Giacomelli on the
second row on the grid, behind polesitter Brian Henton’s
March and Patrick Tambay’s Chevron.
Pau was his third
win of the year
“I was held up for most of the
race by Cheever, and we had one
hell of a fight. I don’t know
how many times we touched”
BRUNO GIACOMELLI
Pau ’78: Cheever leads
Giacomelli and Laffite
While the front two disappeared (a disconnected
battery lead soon to spell Henton’s retirement), Giacomelli
became embroiled in a battle with the Project 4 March
of Eddie Cheever and guest Formula 1 driver Jacques
Laffite in a Maublanc Racing 782.
“I was held up for most of the race by Cheever, and we
had one hell of a fight,” he recalls. “We touched each other
I don’t know how many times, but the guy simply did not
want me to overtake. When I did, I pushed like hell to catch
up with Patrick, but he was gone. It was his race and he
was driving very well and pushing hard. Too hard maybe…”
However hard Tambay was pushing, his engine began
coughing as he crossed the line to begin his last lap, and
the Frenchman was forced to watch agonisingly as
Giacomelli eased past to take his third win of a year
that would deliver a record total of eight.
In doing so, he became the first Italian to win the
event since Alberto Ascari 25 years earlier – not
that he was feeling much in the way of satisfaction
as he exited the cockpit.
“It’s the only time in my life when I feel like I was given
the win as a gift; that I hadn’t earned it,” he says candidly.
“But I think I gave it back at the next race at Vallelunga,
because I was ahead and then I had a broken belt on
the water pump with 20 laps to go and Derek Daly
was able to pass me and win.”
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SEpTEMbEr 16 1976
rOnnIE pETErSOn ClAIMEd HIS
third Italian Grand Prix triumph, and
what would be his only Formula 1 win
for March, this week in 1976. But the
hero of the meeting was Niki Lauda,
who returned to action barely six weeks
after his horrific Nurburgring crash.
Lauda revealed in AUTOSPORT that
one week prior to his crash he had
mulled over the idea of boycotting the
German GP. “The Nurburgring is too
dangerous to drive on these days,” he
said. “We’re not discussing if I make
a mistake…if [so], tough shit. But if
you have a failure on the car…”
Despite his dreadful burns, Lauda
tested at Fiorano on the Tuesday before
Monza and was convinced he could
cope. But he did more than that: as title
rival James Hunt spun out, the Ferrari
driver finished a remarkable fourth
to extend his championship lead.
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john Cleland
■ Donington Park BTCC ■ June 14, 1998 ■ Vauxhall Vectra ■ Beating an F1 champion in a touring car classic
there were lots of
cracking races, like Bathurst –
finishing second there was a
fantastic experience. But the one
for me is the 1998 Donington Park
round, the ‘Mansell’ race.
Everything happened that could
happen and I won it in a car that
shouldn’t have won. The 1998
Vauxhall Vectra was not a
particularly good car.
Donington is one of my favourite
circuits, I just seemed to click with
it. Even if the car was bad it seemed
to work well.
It started with the warm-up.
I got up in the morning, pulled the
curtains back and thought, ‘This is
going to be good’ because it was
nice and damp and the car was
actually quite good in the damp.
There’d been so much hype
about Mansell. It brought people
through the gates, but I was
adamant he wasn’t going to take
over my patch.
I followed Nigel out of the pits
in the warm-up. Every touring car
driver I’ve ever competed against
dabs the brakes coming out of the
pitlane to make sure everything
is OK, but he didn’t. As we went
down into the Old Hairpin I dived
“As the track dried he wasn’t flicking the brake
balance to the rear. I could see he was getting lairy
into the chicane. I thought the back-end was going to
bite him and it did. He locked up and I got through”
down the inside of him and we
touched wing mirrors. He chased
me, but couldn’t catch me.
Afterwards he came stomping
down into the garage and said,
‘What was all that about?’ I said,
‘Welcome to touring cars – that’s
how it’s going to be all day’.
IN PROFILE
It was a fun-filled race and it
had James Thompson, Rickard
Rydell, the Nissans of Anthony
Reid and David Leslie, Yvan Muller
in the Audi, Will Hoy, reigning
champion Alain Menu and Jason
Plato. There were some seriously
talented people in it.
john cLeLand cut hiS teeth
in hillclimbing before scoring
success in production and
Thundersaloon racing. He took
the 1989 BTCC title in a Class C
Vauxhall Astra before becoming
one of the stars of the Super
Touring era, clinching the title
again in 1995. The 1998
Donington win was his last in
the BTCC before spells in British
GT and ASCAR, and a podium
at Bathurst in 2001. He is now
a WTCC driver steward and
runs his own car dealership.
cleland took his final
Btcc victory that day
I got heaved off at Coppice at one
point and I thought that was it, but
managed to get back on. Before I
knew it, Mansell was leading the
race after the safety car period.
There was a gang of us – Reid,
Leslie, me, Mansell and Muller –
and I radioed the crew and asked,
‘Is he leading this race?’ They said,
‘Yes’, so I said, ‘As long as I can
breathe he’s not winning it’.
Tim Harvey, Hoy and Reid had
all gone off at McLeans and I could
see them waving for me to beat
the non-touring car driver.
He was driving well, but as the
track dried it was clear he wasn’t
flicking the brake balance towards
the front. He probably wasn’t
aware, but it’s a big deal in a
touring car. I could see he was
getting lairy into the chicane. I
thought the back-end was going
to bite him and it did. He locked
the rear up and I got through.
That race was a combination
of the car not being that good
and the Mansell hype. It would
probably still have been a terrific
race without Nigel, but him being
there added an extra dimension.
John Cleland was talking to
Kevin Turner