CONTENTS / FEBRUARY 2012

RACING

FIRST SECTOR: THE REGULARS

8 PARADES: INCREDIBLE PHOTOGRAPHY? CHECK 14 FROM THE EDITOR: F1 IS FINALLY BACK 17 INBOX: MUSINGS FROM OUR POSTBAG 18 PITPASS: NEWS, OPINION AND ANALYSIS 31 PAT SYMONDS‘ TECH MASTERCLASS: EXHAUSTS 33 JACQUES VILLENEUVE: SO LONG, PATRICK HEAD 34 MURRAY WALKER: ON THE BBC vs SKY DEBATE 37 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO… BRIAN REDMAN 38 THE BEST RACE I‘VE BEEN TO: YOUR GP MEMORIES 100 WAY BACK WHEN: F1 AS IT WAS 11, 31 AND 33 YEARS AGO 102 SUBSCRIBE TO F1 RACING AND GET AN AUTOGLYM KIT 106 INSIDE THE MIND OF SÉBASTIEN BUEMI

COVER STORY

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SECOND SECTOR: THE FEATURES

40 “LEWIS POPPED INTO RED BULL; HE LIKES THE DRINK. BUT IT WASN‘T THE LEWIS I WAS EXPECTING...” Christian Horner answers your questions

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Take one bus, one gridful of irked drivers – and a piano. It‘s the 1982 driver‘s strike

46 HAPPY NEW YEAR, FERNANDO? Alonso outperformed his car in 2011. Tony Dodgins asks how happy he‘ll be if he has to do it again

53 NINE MONTHS, ONE CAR: THE MAKING OF THE NEW CATERHAM Building a new car isn‘t easy – especially when you‘re doing it at the same time as racing and updating the current one

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FERNANDO AND FERRARI Can the dream team finally deliver in 2012?

62 TILKE: “WE DON‘T HAVE THE MONOPOLY ON BUILDING TRACKS” F1‘s principal circuit builder takes a lot of flak over his frequently soulless creations. Now, he answers his critics

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CATERHAM The story of how the newly named team built the CT01

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HERMANN TILKE We collar the man who builds all those circuits

68 OVERTAKING: WHAT THE STATS SAY A complete breakdown of how many passing manoeuvres there were in the 2011 season. Quite a few, as it turns out

70 SO JUST HOW GREAT WAS THE RB7? We weigh up the genius of Adrian Newey‘s last creation against some of F1‘s other most dominant machinery

76 INSIDE McLAREN‘S RATHER LARGE TROPHY CABINET They‘ve won a fair few prizes over the years. Now the team from Woking talk us through four of their favourites

80 THE TRIALS OF MR ECCLESTONE Bahrain, court cases, the Concorde Agreement... it‘s a big year for Bernie, as The Daily Telegraph‘s Tom Cary explains 86 “THINGS KIMI FOUND NATURAL MAY NOT COME SO EASILY NOW...“ John Watson: not holding back on the forthright opinions

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McLaren ever so kindly let us get our grubby paws on their very shiny trophy collection

62 No fan of modern F1 circuits? This chap always gets the blame. We let him have his say

94 WHEN F1 WENT ON STRIKE The time Niki Lauda organised a spot of industrial action... accompanied by Gilles Villeneuve on the ivories

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BERNIE ECCLESTONE F1‘s impresario has a pretty hectic year coming up

THIRD SECTOR: FINISHING STRAIGHT

104 FRANK WILLIAMS HE‘S ALREADY MISSING PATRICK HEAD 105 ALAN HENRY ON THE ONE-MOVE RULE CLARIFICATION 40

Bernie, Lewis, Adrian Newey‘s dreadful singing… Horner dishes the dirt

53 We go behind the scenes to exclusively reveal how the new Caterham CT01 was born

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Tony Dodgins asks: when will Alonso finally get the car to match his talents?

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F1‘s string-puller-in-chief has a tough year ahead. We look at the challenges he faces

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“Thanks for the win RB7…” We compare the car of 2011 with some of the historic greats