Herbie Blash
Herbie Blash 30 september 1948
Alonso/Ferrrari: Biiiig news elsewhere, not here
So the big news of the day is Ferrari confirming they signed Fernando Alonso. Yawn. If you’re among the frenquent readers of this blog, you first read it HERE TWO MONTHS AGO. Oh yeah, I forgot, it was only speculation until today. Well, if I was being paid for travelling to F1 races and not being on top of the stories in the paddock, who knows, I might be using the same excuse…
Jost Capito
Jost Capito Sep 29, 1958
Rocco Benetton
(born September 29, 1969 in Treviso, Veneto, Italy) is the youngest son of Luciano Benetton. After studying in the United States Mechanical Engineering in Boston University, moved to New York where he worked in the financial sector for Oppenheimer & Co. and Alpha Investment Management where he served as Managing Director. In 1997 he than moved to England where he managed the Benetton Formula F1 team until the season 2000. He than moved back to Treviso, Italy where he founded the Companies Zero Rh+ and Oot Group. In 2003 he also founded Banca del Gottardo Italia together with other Italian enterprenuers and Banca del Gottardo SA, Lugano itself. He is currently a board member of Oot Group, Gotam Sgr and Banca del Gottardo. He also sits on the Advisory Committee of Miva Group International.
Extra, extra !
You guys, who’ve been reading P1Mag (and this blog) attentively, have been in the know since 29th of July… 
More news in the latst edition of P1Mag
After Ron and Flavio: Who’s next on Max’ list?
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Peter Berthon
20/9/1906, Peter Berthon is born in Maymo, Burma
Founder of both BRM and ERA, who finished his motorsport career with Westlake and then went into the garage business. Died of a heart-attack and drowned whilst swimming on a holiday.
Born: 20th of September 1906 in Maymo, Burma ;
Died: 15th of January 1971 off the coast of Durban, South Africa.
What really is going on between Ferrari-Räikkönen-Mercedes
Silly season is in full hype but the transfer market is in stall mode. Why is this? Most top teams have a plan B in place and Kimi Räikkönen’s Plan B is driving for McLaren-Mercedes. Why plan B? Once again the FIA is keeping everyone in the paddock at the tip of their toes, Max Mosley is making sure Luca di Montezemolo doens’t get his way for a third car on the 2010 F1 grid. P1Mag reports in it’s latest edition on how all of this is related.
Renger van der Zande gives Motopark Academy first F3 Euroseries win
7th win of the season for championship leader Jules Bianchi in the Saturday race at Barcelona ahead of Alexander Sims, the Brit repeating the result on Sunday from 7th on the grid Renger van der Zande scored the first Formula 3 Euroseries win for Team Motopark Academy from Pole Position on his comeback in the series after competing in the British F3 Championship this year.
Derek Gradner
19/9/1931, 76 years ago, Derek Gardner is born.
Visionary designer who worked on advanced transmission systems such as the 4 wheel drive Ferguson system for Matra in 1969. Joined Tyrrell in 1969 and designed some of the most successful F1 cars. He was also responsible for the P34 six wheeler.
Loïc Bigois
Loïc Bigois (born September 19, 1960 in Aix-en-Provence, France) is a Formula One Aerodynamicist.
After studying engineering in Paris and Aix-en-Provence, France) Bigois relocated to Toulouse and began working in the aerospace industry. He was recruited by the Ligier F1 team in 1990 and for several years moved between the mid-field teams. In the late 1990s he returned to Ligier and remained as Chief Designer through the transition to Prost Grand Prix until the team finally closed down shortly before the start of the 2002 season.
After the failure of Prost, Bigois moved to Minardi where he stayed until 2003 when he was recruited by Williams as Chief Aerodynamicist. Bigois replaced Antonia Terzi who left the team after poor performances and an allegedly difficult relationships with other senior technical staff. Bigois worked alongside Jörg Zander who replaced Gavin Fisher as Chief Designer in September 2005. Both Bigois and Zander worked under Technical Director Sam Michael.
On 2 July, it was announced that he had agreed to join the Honda Racing F1 team, and was resultantly suspended by Williams.[
Congratulations, Andy Soucek !
Andy Soucek wrote history today at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola by overtaking Robert Wickens for 3rd place, thus becoming the first champion of 21st century version of the Formula 2 Championship. The bonus the Austrian born spaniard is looking forward to, will be a full scale test day with the Williams F1 team. Kazim Vasiliauskas scored his maiden Formula 2 win in that same race ahead of Mirko Bortolotti.
Mario Almondo
17/9/1964, Mario Almondo is born in Milan, Italy
Congrats to all new Champions ! ! !
P1 Mag would like to cheer last Weekends new Champions. Well done Nico Hülkenberg, Stefan Mücke, Tomas Enge, Jan Charouz, Marc Lieb, Richard Lietz, Daniel Ricciardo and Felipe Nasr. Congrats, guys! All race reports & much more in P1Mag latest edition
Lou Moore
Lou Moore (USA)
12 Sep 1904 – 26 Mar 1956
American Indycar racer. Raced a car at Tripoli 1934.
1934: 7 Tripoli GP
Gustav Brunner
12/9/1950, Gustav Brunner is born in Graz, Austria),
FIA probe in to Renault Crashgate: Why now?
P1Mag’s edition no. 16 reports from MotoGP, World Superbike Championship, WRC, WTCC, DTM, NASCAR, F2, F3, Superleague Formula and… Fabio Leimer is the new IFM champion, Travis Pastrana won North American Rally Championship. And: Luca Badoer’s real role at Ferrari during his spell as a Grand Prix driver.
Congrats to Fabio Leimer (Internationale Formel Master) and Travis Pastrana (US Rally Championship) for their titles.
Brain Hart
1936 – Sep 07: Brian Hart
Motorsport all over the World this Weekend
Who would have thought, given the dominant way Sébastien Loeb lead the the first half of the 2009 WRC season, the Ford works team would be able to mount a serious challenge in the second half of the season? After day 1 of Rally Australia it’s Latvala leading ahead of of Citroen junior Ogier. Loeb is 23 seconds behind with team-mate Sordo and championship leader Hirvonen on his heels. Further motorsport action this Weekend:
Arthur Brookes Hyde
Arthur Brookes Hyde (GB)
4 Sep 1915 – 26 Mar 2005
Born in Highbury, London 1915. Raced as an independent in the years 1937 to 1939. He owned a Riley 9 and the 8CM-3000 Maserati. He had modest success but, according to his son, a great deal of fun. With the Riley he won a Mountain Handicap at Brooklands. Entered the Donington GP in 1937, soon after purchasing the Maserati, but felt that the discrepancy between his speeds and those of the Mercedes-Benz and Auto Unions was likely to be dangerous so he did not start. As George Monkhouse said: “Very sporting but quite unneccessary.” In 1938 he went to the German GP where he crashed badly after 14 laps. He was lucky to survive but continued to race in 1939. He was third in the 1939 British Empire Trophy at Donington, won by Tony Rolt, He did not resume racing after the war and sold the cars. It is believed that the Maserati was bought by Cholmondley Tapper. A. B. Hyde moved to Charlotte, North Carolina where he died in 2005.
(Info supplied by Edward Hyde.)
1937: DNS Donington GP
1938: 3 Campbell Trophy / DNF German GP / DNS JCC 200 (Voiturette + GP)
1939: 4 Road Championship / DNS Campbell Trophy
Not perfect, but lighter
Well, who said it would be easy to publish a 60-page weekly motorsport e-paper? It took a while, we’re back to lightweight 5.0 MB for swift download, but I’m not entirely happy with some other issues. You live and learn, they say…
However, we got reports from all over the World and a nice tribute on the late Frank Gardner. Enjoy!
Available for freed download at www.p1mag.de
Fine tuning
Dear readers of P1Mag,
last week we had a slight delay because of a new production process that made things significantly easier and more effective backstage. The downside was that all our previous efforts to make P1Mag as “lightweight” as possible for download were blown out of the window, suddenly we had a near to 10MB size edition no. 14.
As true racers we’re always eager to improve all the time in order to become more and more competitive. So this week we (again) had the choice of delivering as scheduled, or introducing further improvements to make the leaner production also a lighter and swifter download experience for the user.
My choice was yet again to make that necessary step backwards to allow us to make two steps forward after that. So it is likely that P1Mag edition no. 15 will appear on Wednesday. But significantly lighter than the previous one.
I hope you approve the choice I made, especially as we are confident the coverage of a wide variety of racing series and the obituary on Frank Gardner will compensate the delay.
We’ll keep you posted
Greetings
Mario
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