#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.
Kimi is back !
RenaultGP have announced this morning that Kimi Räikkönen has signed a two-year deal with the team and will return to the sport in 2012 after a two-year break.
The day Graham Hill died
Charismatic and charming, Graham Hill was almost universally popular with the public. He had a quick wit and was a natural entertainer. Initially working as a mechanic, Graham Hill charmed his way into drives in Cooper and Lotus sportscars in the late Fifties. When Chapman entered F1 with Lotus in 1958, Hill was one of his drivers. He had a quick wit, a natural entertainer and by 1962 ready to become a popular World Champion with BRM. Six years later and by now his forty years old, Graham picked up the shattered Lotus team through its darkest days after Jim Clark’s death in April 1968 and won his second title. A year later, during the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, he broke both his legs crashing his Lotus 49B due to tire failure and being thrown from the cockpit. Amidst fears his career could be over, he stunned doctors with his speedy recovery and scored a point upon his return in the South African GP at Kyalami in 1970. Founding his own Embassy Hill F1 team, he raced on past his best, retiring in 1975 to concentrate on running his team and developing the natural talent of Tony Brise. Sadly he was killed along with Brise and three other team members when his plane crashed in thick fog on the Arkley golf course in north London.
Born: 15th of February 1929 in Hampstead, UK.
Died: 29th of November 1975 in Arkley, UK, aged 46.
#P1Mag No. 43 – The Triple Champions Edition
Two dramatic title deciding races out of which the more exprienced of the two final contestants came out with his third major championship title.
The Sunday began with show-down in the World Touring Car Championship that Yvan Muller won for a third time, despite challenger and team-mate Rob Huff winning both races in the finale in Macau.
Then, several hours later, we saw another title show-down in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup with Tony Stewart prevailing in a head-to-head race with Carl Edwards to take the win and his third Sprint Cup title.
Of course, we also bring you all the other championship decisions of the weekend in P1Mag’s latest edition. You can download P1Mag issue no. 43 AS ALWAYS FREE OF CHARGE by clicking HERE
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Remembering Schorsch Meier
Former off-road rider European and German Motorcycle Champion Georg “Schorsch” Meier was signed by Auto Union to be part of their ‘junior’ team. His first appearance came at the Belgian GP replacing the otherwise busy Hans Stuck, but slid into a ditch when lapping a backmarker lying 6th. At the French GP in July he finished 2nd, despite his burnign his arm badly during a pit stop.
After the war Meier decided to build racing cars with Ernst Loof and Lorenz Dietrich, a former BMW director, and with the BMW 328 powered lightweight Veritas RS and Meier entered the racing car class in 1948 as a test in advance of their entry into single seater production. With a specially built special 3-cam BWM he beat the powwerful supercharged Formula Libre cars, despite running under Formula 2 rules. He went on to win both the German F2 and Formula Libre Championship. He also rode in the German motor bike championship again retiring with a total of six titles to his credit.
Born: 9th of November 1910 in Mühldorf am Inn, Germany;
Died: 19th of February 1999 in Munich, Germany, aged 89.
Issue no. 42 in memory of Guido Falaschi is out now
While Lewis Hamilton bounced back from a dark patch in his recent career stage to win the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and Sébastien Loeb – together with long standing co-driver Daniel Elena – took a remarkable eighth title in the Rally World Championship, the bitter side of our sport once again hit the news wires late on Sunday night.
Guido Falaschi, a rising star in his native Argentina, a race winner in prototypes, silhouette racers and touring cars at the same time passed away after a furious crash in a championship race in Balcarce. He was a national champion already and he would have won further championships, no doubt. But his fame didn’t cross Argentina’s borders much.
However, our regular readers will remember our article on Guido Falaschi’s maiden TC2000 win back in July. And as we covered internationally little known racing series back then, we continue providing information about all aspects and angles of motor sport around the. This issue, in which we honor the late Guido Falaschi, is no different.
You can download P1Mag issue no. 3742 AS ALWAYS FREE OF CHARGE by clicking HERE
Yours, Mario A. Bauér
Remembering Franco Cortese
13th of November 1986, Franco Cortese dies.
Apart from being a record starter at the Mille Miglia with 14 participations and one victory between 1927 and 1956, Cortese was a Grand Prix winner a the City of Rome, the Circuito di Vercelli, the Circuito di Vigevano and the Circuito di Varese in 1947 and also winning the 1950 Grand Prix of Naples. He also won the 1956 Italian 2-litre championship in a Ferrari 500.
Born: 10th of February 1903 in Oggebbio Novara, Italy.
Died: 13th of November 1986 in Italy, aged 83.
12/11
12/11/1916, 89 years ago, Paul Emery is born in London, UK.
An innovative and visionary designer and engineer, many of Paul’s ideas where decades ahead of their time but lack of resouces meant that they were never properly realised. Drove in the 1956 British Grand Prix.
Born: 12th of November 1916 in London, UK.
Died: 3rd of February 1993 in Epsom, UK, aged 76.
12/02
3/2/1993, Paul Emery dies.
An innovative and visionary designer and engineer he built and raced cars under the Emeryson banner even participating in the 1956 British Grand Prix with his own car. Many of Paul’s engineering ideas where decades ahead of their time but lack of resources meant that they were never properly realised. 1958 he took part in the Monaco GP for the Connaught stable as team-mate to one Bernie Ecclestone. After running the family firm for a while he was bought out by Hugh Powell and stayed on as employee designing the Scirocco car. He then became an engine tuner, before developing Hillman Imps for racing. Son Peter carried on the car building tradition at Emeryson, when he built Formula Junior racing cars.
Born: 12th of November 1916 in London, UK.
Died: 3rd of February 1993 in Epsom, UK, aged 76.
Scotti from Florence
11/11/1909, Piero Scotti is born in Florence, Italy.
Scotti was an Italian businessman who raced Ferrari sports cars in the early fifties, taking third place in the 1951 Mille Miglia, and sharing a works car with Farina to win the Casablanca 12 Hours. He continued to find success in minor events before trying his hand at Formula 1 in 1956. He bought an F1 Connaught on hire-purchase and took seventh in the International Trophy, but after the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa he returned the car to the factory and gave up racing.
Born: 11th of November 1909 in Florence, Italy;
Died: 14th of February 1976 in Samedan, Switzerland.
#P1Mag – Not one, but FOUR World Champions for you
It was a difficult weekend for the MotoGP scene in Valencia with the tragic events from Sepang still in everyone’s mind and the late Marco Simoncelli being dearly missed by everyone present.
On a weekend that, aside Bradl, also crowned Nico Terol as the last ever World Champion in the now extinct 125cc two-stroke World Championship class, we also saw Michael Krumm and Lucas Luhr clinch the World title in the now equally extinct GT1 World Championship, before the GT World Championship takes over in 2012. Andreas Mikkelsen and co-driver Ola Floene clinched the IRC title, Cacá Bueno his fourth title in Brazil’s top category, just to mention a few.
We bring further championship decisions to in P1Mag’s latest edition. You can download P1Mag issue no. 41 AS ALWAYS FREE OF CHARGE by clicking HERE
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Remembering Masten Gregory
8th of November 1985, Masten Gregory dies in Italy
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A race winner at SCCA racing level in the US, Masten Gregory’s big international break came by winning the 1957 Buenios Aires 1000km race sharing the car with Luigi Musso, Eugenio Castellotti and Cesare Perdisa. This led to his Formula 1 debut shortly after with Mimmo Dei’s Scuderia Centro Sud at Monaco. Driving the privateer Maserati 250F to a great 3rd place, he became the first American to stand on the podium of a Formula 1 Grand Prix. Injury made him miss a number of races in 1958, but driving for Cooper in 1959 he finished 3rd at the Dutch GP and 2nd in Portugal. Still he was dropped at the end of the season and the privateer teams he raced with, like Centro Sud, Camoradi International, UDT Laystall and Reg Parnell Racing, never allowed a break through in F1.
So Masten concentrated on his sports car career winning the 1961 Nürburging 1000km race with Lucky Casner in a Maserati Birdcage and in 1962 the Canadian Grand Prix sports car race at Mosport Park in a Lotus-Climax. After the 1964 season as Ford works driver he won the 1965 Le Mans 24 hours race sharing a North American Racing Team Ferrari with Jochen Rindt. That same year came his debut at the Indianapolis 500 where he was running fifth when he retired. After his friend Jo Bonnier was killed at Le Mans in 1972, Masten got disenchanted with the sport becoming a diamond trader. He succumbed to a heart attack during a holiday trip in Italy in 1985.
Born: 29th of February 1932 in Kansas City, USA;
Died: 8th of November 1985 in Porto Ecole, Italy, aged 53.
#P1Mag – Issue Number 40 Is Out NOW
So there you are, the first Indian Grand Prix is history, some wrote a chapter full of new successes and records, other wrote another chapter that won’t be remembered as their personal best and others, although not that much in he focus, made their dreams come true last weekend.
Take the likes of Soheil Ayari, Manuel Gião, Alex Fontana, Fabio Gamberini, Sergey Sirotkin, Carsten Knechtges, Tim Scheerbarth, Manuel Metzger, Fabio Babini, Cédric Leimer, Cacá Bueno, Fabiano Machado, Guilherme Silva and Elias Azevedo. You never heard some of these names? That’s what we’re here for: To tell you the story of these drivers, who were the best of their bunch this year.
Congratulations to all 2011 champions and their teams!
So you see, not always the real excitement lies, where everyone is looking. Good thing we gathered all of last weekend’s stories and compiled them in yet another 80 pages plus edition. Championship deciding race or not, we got it anyway. And hey, it’s still FOR FREE!
You can download P1Mag issue no. 40 AS ALWAYS FREE OF CHARGE by clicking HERE
Enjoy the read.
Here we go again…
So we got another public holiday in our way and the production process got affected by it. Therefore P1Mag issue no. 40 is late. Throughout this year we had a fair number of delays, each occurring for very different reasons from the previous one. While all of this needs to – and will – be addressed, there’s little we can do about it for the remainder of this year. So all I can ask for the moment is: Please bear with us, we’ll be out in a couple of hours. Thanks for your understanding, I promise you will get P1Mag’s issue no.40 for free … 
Mario
Remembering Ricardo Rodriguez
1/11/1962, Ricardo Rodríguez de la Vega dies.
Ricardo Rodríguez, the younger of the two racing Rodriguez brothers, was a wild and fearless Mexican who entered Grand Prix racing with a bang. Invited by Enzo Ferrari to drive for Ferrari in the Italian Grand Prix that year, he sensationally qualified on the front row, just a tenth slower than World Championship leader Wolfgang Von Trips. He challenged Phil Hill and Richie Ginther for the lead until a fuel pump failure put him out. He thus became the youngest ever driver to debut in an F1 race. After promising spells at Ferrari, Ricardo was already being considered as a future World Champion, but had to find a car when Ferrari opted not to enter the non-Championship Mexican Grand Prix. He therefore signed to drive Rob Walker’s Lotus 24 Climax V8 (941). He desperately wanted to win the first Mexican F1 GP, and trying to improve John Surtees time when his Lotus veered sharply to the left in the middle of the fearsome 180-degree banked Peraltada corner and crashed heavily at about 140 km/h. Ricardo was dead on the scene.
Born: 14th of February 1942 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Died: 1st of November 1962 in Mexico City, Mexico, aged 20.
Remembering Arthur Legat
1st of November 1898, Arthur Legat is born in Haine-Saint-Paul, Belgium.
Legat was a Belgian garage owner and amateur racer, popular in his region for his long lasting appearances at the Chimay circuit between 1926 and 1959. The highlight of his driver’s career obviously being his participations in the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps in 1952 and 1953, competing in both events with a Veritas Meteor. He holds the record for the oldest driver to make his debut in a Formula 1 World Championship – he was 53 years, 7 months and 21 days old when he entered his home GP in 1952.
Born: 1st of November 1898 in Haine-Saint-Paul, Belgium.
Died: 23rd of February 1960 in Haine-Saint-Paul, Belgium, aged 61.
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