Stuck Senior’s Birthday

> 27/12/1900, Hans Villiez von Stuck is born in Warsaw, Polonia

During his 40-year career, Stuck scored 411 wins and runner-up finishes, including seven Grands Prix victories, and set numerous land, water and hill-climb speed records. ASide his driving duties, together with engineer Alex von Falkenhausen, he built the famous AFM race car. When the “Bergkönig” (King of the Hills), as he was nicknamed for his innumerous hill climb successes, won his final German hill-climb championship in a BMW 700 at 60 years of age, his son Hans-Joachim Stuck’s career had progressed as far as Formula 1.

Born: 27th of December 1900 in Warsaw, Polonia.
Died: 9th of February 1978 in Grainau, Germany.

Merry Christmas

To all of our readers around the World, we at P1Mag wish you happy holidays and a great time!

#F1 – Final seats taken?

After Toro Rosso and Force India had confirmed their line-ups last week, there were only two seats left in F1. Rubens Barrichelo and Adrian Sutil were said to be vying for the sole seat left at Williams alongside Pastor Maldonado. But rumor has it, Bruno Senna might be near to seal a deal with the team his late uncle Ayrton Senna last drove for in 1994.

Adrian Sutil meanwhile is said to have signed a lucrative deal with MercedesGP as third driver. This leaves only one seat at HRT for the likes of Barrichello, Vitaly Petrov, Sébastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari to try to stay in F1. We hear, the Spaniard might have the best chance and that might also be in for a third river role at Ferrari, too.

#P1Mag – Here’s the final big one for 2011

What a year that was. As far as the sport goes, we presenced a season of great achievements, new records of established drivers and great new talent rising through the ranks. Sadly some of those who live this passion actively, paid the ultimate prize this year. They deserve our respect and admiration and we at P1 Mag did our best to research and tell their story, too.

For ourselves, we have fulfilled the target to publish a total of 90 issues in 2011. We’ve done that in two languages and covered 122 different motor sport categories. You would be hard pressed to find anyone on the globe who has achieved the same. Despite the English version having just completed its first full season. And we’re not stopping here.

You can download P1Mag issue no. 45, the final issue of 2011, by clicking HERE

Enjoy the read.

Jason Richards 1976 – 2011

V8 Supercars driver Jason Richards passed away today at the age of 35, just one short year after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.

#P1Mag – win the ’24 HOURS’ race docu on Blu-Ray Disc (or DVD)

Dear readers, as we are preparing the year 2011 season review edition, we are waiting for the final events of the year taking place in Brazil to finish issue no. 45/2011.

To make the wait a little shorter, we’re giving away five DVDs with the spectacular „24 HOURS“ documentary on the Nürburgring 24 Hours race, produced by Tim and Nick Hahne.

All you have to do is send us an e-mail to info@P1Mag-eZine.com till Sunday night (the 18th of December) and answer the following question correctly: Which team has won the 2011 edition of the 24 Hours of Nürburgring?

Remembering Xavier Perrot

8th of December 2008, Xavier Roger Perrot dies.

A proven hill climb specialist, Xavier Perrot had his debut in the Formula 1 World Championship at the 1969 German Grand Prix, but driving his customary Brabham BT23C he used to race in the European F2 Championship finishing in 10th position. His only opportunity to race an F1 March 701 came 1971 at a non-championship event at the Motodrom in Hockenheim. But finishing four laps behind the leading pack gave a clear signal that it would be best to concentrate on hill climbs, duly rewarding his efforts with the European title in 1972. He retired from racing after marrying and had a number of health scares in recent year and passed away in December of 2008.

Born: 1st of February 1932 in Zurich, Switzerland;
Died: 8th of December 2008 in Zurich, Switzerland.

Peter Gethin 1940 – 2011

Former Formula One driver Peter Kenneth Gethin has died following a long illness at the age of 71. The Brit from Epsom is best-known for his epic win in the 1971 Italian Grand Prix at Monza by just 0.01s from Ronnie Peterson as the first five drivers were covered by 0.6s. It turned out to be the only Grand Prix victory of his career and – having started the final lap in fourth place – he is still the only driver to have won a Formula One race without having led an entire lap.

#P1Mag – The penultimate issue out now

With Mark Webber’s victory in the Brazilian Grand Prix the 2011 Formula One season concluded last Sunday. And with this edition the line of weekly publications concludes for the year with only the season summary remaining to be published in two weeks’ time.

Not only we report from the final Grand Prix Weekend of the year, we also a have a closer look into the title decisions in the South African motor sport scene and we report on Asian racing and the major racing action in the Middle East.

Congratulations to all 2011 champions and their teams!

We’ve said it before: Not always the real excitement lies, where everyone is looking. Good thing we gathered all of last weekend’s stories and compiled them in an almost 100 pages strong penultimate edition od the year. Championship deciding race or not, we got it anyway. And hey, it’s still FOR FREE!

You can download P1Mag issue no. 44 AS ALWAYS FREE OF CHARGE by clicking HERE

Enjoy the read.