CONTENTS / june 2012

Racing

COVER STORIES

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FIRST SECTOR: the reGuLars

8 PARAdES: THE BEST IMAGES FRoM BARcELoNA 14 SToP ANd Go: WHEN KIMI WENT MISSING… 17 INBox: WAyS To BooST INTEREST IN EuRoPE 18 PITPASS: NEWS, oPINIoN ANd ANALySIS 31 PAT SyMoNdS’ TEcH MASTERcLASS: douBLE dRS 33 JAcquES VILLENEuVE: oN dRIVING HIS dAd’S 312 T4 34 MuRRAy WALKER: FRoM TWo WHEELS To FouR 37 NoW THAT WAS A cAR: THE WILLIAMS FW07 38 THE BEST RAcE I’VE BEEN To: youR GP MEMoRIES 98 WAy BAcK WHEN: F1 AS IT WAS 56, 42 ANd 25 yEARS AGo 100 SuBScRIBE To F1 RAcing ANd GET AN AuToGLyM VALET KIT

SECOND SECTOR: the features

40 you ask the questions… …and Eddie Jordan answers them. Even the one about why the letters ’FTB’ are tatooed on the inside of his wrist

46 if you want to win, hire a finn Lotus have done just that and, after Kimi’s performance in the last two races, it looks as if they’re onto something…

40 Eddie jordan takes your questions – and gets quite enthusiastic about it, too

54 the changing face of lotus They started out as Toleman, won titles as Benetton and Renault and are set to celebrate their 500th start as Lotus

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EDDIE jORDaN The BBC pundit tells us about his team-owning days

62 the most powerful woman in f1 As Peter Sauber prepares to retire from running his selftitled team, legal eagle Monisha Kaltenborn prepares to take up the reins as F1’s first female team principal

68 inside mclaren’s mission control Find out what goes on behind the scenes at a race weekend with this extract from new book, McLaren: The Art of Racing

70 one-hit wonders It’s an exclusive club that Nico and Pastor will be keen to leave: drivers who won a GP then never managed it again

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KImI He’s back, and Lotus reckon he’s their best chance of a title

76 testing times In-season testing is back and while Mugello might not have been the obvious choice of venue, it will have suited Ferrari

78 ViVe le grand prix de france! The historic French Grand Prix is due to be re-instated, but now there’s controversy over which venue will host it

84 life in the slow lane Having previously rubbished the idea, F1 veteran Pedro de la Rosa has returned with backmarkers HRT. We ask him: why?

62 monisha Kaltenborn: poised to become the first female team principal in F1 with Sauber

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ONE-HIT wONDERS They won one race and then, er… well that was it

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aLaN jONES won for williams… but never quite made it to Ferrari

88 red bull: history in a can How a toothpaste salesman’s business trip to Thailand ended in double championship victory for Sebastian Vettel

90 when maurice met alan jones The straight-talking Aussie discusses his glory days with Williams – and how the British weather put an end to it all

THIRD SECTOR: fINIshING straIGht

104 BAHRAIN GP dEBRIEF VETTEL’S BAcK oN ToP 110 SPANISH GP dEBRIEF A HISToRIc VIcToRy FoR WILLIAMS 114 RAcE PREVIEW MoNAco GP 116 RAcE PREVIEW cANAdIAN GP 119 FRANK WILLIAMS oN PASToR’S INcREdIBLE WIN 121 ALAN HENRy oN HoW ’RIcH LISTS’ ARE coMPILEd 122 ANd FINALLy... ALGuERSuARI oN SWEARING 84

Formula 1’s second-oldest driver on returning to the sport at the back of the grid

40 Force India’s Nico Hülkenberg takes your questions about his full-time return to F1

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we visit the picturesque Tuscan track of mugello as in-season testing returns

46 as they approach their 500th grand prix start, Lotus are keen to recapture the glory of their Benetton and

Renault days. and they’ve hired Kimi Räikkönen to do it

90 alan jones tells us about his maiden grand prix win in austria with Shadow