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McLarens team boss on tough
times both on-track and off
PORTRAIT ANDREW FERRARO/LAT
In conversation with
MartinWhitmarsh
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1980
Graduates from
Portsmouth
Polytechnic
with a degree
in mechanical
engineering
and secures a
job with British
Aerospace as
a structural
analysis
engineer
1988
Promoted to
manufacturing
director
of British
Aerospaces
Hamble-le-
Rice-based
subsidiary,
Aerostructures
Hamble
1989
Joins McLaren
International
as operations
director
1997
Moves up
to become
managing
director of
McLaren Racing
2004
Becomes chief
operating
ofcer of the
McLaren Group
in addition to
his McLaren
Racing role
2009
Replaces
Ron Dennis
in the team
principal role at
McLaren and
becomes the
chief executive
ofcer of the
McLaren Group
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54 F1 Racing May 2013
WHEN TECH GOES
McLAREN MP4-28You wouldnt expect to see a McLaren battling for position with a Marussia. But then 2013 hasnt exactly been their greatest start to a season
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McLaren are by no means the rst team to
slide from the front of the grid to the mideld
almost overnight. F1 Racing remembers other
sorry examples of top-team tech-tastrophe
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6th (15 points)
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4th (33 points)
BRM H16, 1966
Constructors championship:
4th (22 points)
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2nd (45 points)
Lotus 63, 1969
Constructors championship:
3rd (47 points)
Previous season:
1st (62 points)
BRM H16
Lotus 63
March 721X
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Formula 1s rst world champion set the
benchmark for successful comebacks at
motorsports top level: Giuseppe Farina had
been number two to Tazio Nuvolari in the 1930s
and then, like many drivers of his generation, lost
the golden years of his career to World War II.
He won three world championship races in 1950
with Alfa Romeo (whose cars were making a
comeback of their own, having escaped being
melted down for munitions during the war) to
claim the very rst drivers title shortly before
his 44th birthday.
Since then its been rare for a returning driver
to recreate their peak after time out. In the 1980s,
Mario Andretti and Alan Jones, champions both,
made brief returns with mixed results: after a
one-off drive with Williams at Long Beach in 1982,
Andretti drove the last two races of the season for
Ferrari and started from pole at Monza, nishing
third. Jones retired at the end of 1981 but returned
full-time in 1985 for two unproductive seasons.
When Niki Lauda returned to the fray with
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another title (84) to his portfolio. Alain Prost,
whose speed hastened Laudas second retirement,
claimed the title in 1993 with Williams after a years
sabbatical, albeit with a demonstrably superior car
to everyone else bar his team-mate.
Not all drivers get to come back to a winning
car and some didnt have competitive machinery
before entering the wilderness: the likes of Bruno
Giacomelli, Jan Lammers and Yannick Dalmas were
on a hiding to nothing. And of the second comings
of Nigel Mansell (1995) and Michael Schumacher
(2010-2012), let us not utter another word.
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PICTURES ANDREW FERRARO/LAT
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PORTRAITS ANDREW FERRARO/LAT
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GOAs F1 returns to Europe,
weve got Spains F1 number
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Circuit
de Catalunya
Montjuc
Jarama
Pedralbes
Jerez
Valencia
The number of Spanish
circuits to have hosted
championship F1 races6
between Williams past two
Spanish Grand Prix victories
Jacques
Villeneuve
1997
Pastor
Maldonado
2012
15 YEARS
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number
of GP
laps
raced on the
Valencia Street
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the ve F1 grands prix
it has hosted so far
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acted as an Olympic venue,
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road team time trial event, which
was won by Germany
1992 100
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of Spanish
F1 wins (30)
achieved by
the same man:
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Alonso
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race in only 27
of the 64 F1
seasons. Fifteen
of those have
been the past 15
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x 8000
x 107,000is the capacity of the Circuit de Catalunya,
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sporting shrine, the Camp Nou
Names for Spains only (and now
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Hispania Racing and HRT
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Spanish GP only
once, in 2006.
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the European
Grand Prix in
Valencia last year
13F1 wins for
Ferrari in Spain:
11 Spanish and
2 European GPs
Attempts at the
Grand National horse
race by Spanish
F1 driver Alfonso
de Portago.
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bobsleigh runner
at the 1956
Winter Olympics
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Alguersuari
Fernando
Alonso
Adrian
Campos
Antonio
Creus
Marc
Gen
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Godia
Luis
Prez-Sala
Alfonso de
Portago
Pedro de
la Rosa
Alejandro
Soler-Roig
Emilio de
Villota
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WORDS ANTHONY ROWLINSONPICTURES STEVEN TEE/LAT & LAT ARCHIVE
Before anybody
did anything,
Jack Brabham
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At 87, Sir Jack Brabham is
the oldest living F1 world
champion. Not only that,
but he won the title three
times and remains the only
man do so in his own car.
We relish a rare chance to
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1959Monaco GP, Monte Carlo, 10 May.
Constructor: Cooper-Climax
1960
British GP, Aintree, 18 July.
Pole position.
Constructor: Cooper-Climax
Dutch GP, Zandvoort, 6 June.
Constructor: Cooper-Climax
Round 4Black Jacks wins
Round 5Round 1
Brabham takes on and conquers the world
for the second year in a row, this time
piloting the tiny Cooper T53 of 1960
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Round 5 Round 6 Round 7
F1 Racing meets Sir Jack
Brabham at his home on
Australias Gold Coast
I thought about going to
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Round 3
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Portuguese GP, Oporto, 14 August.
Constructor: Cooper-Climax
French GP, Reims, 3 July.
Constructor: Brabham-Repco
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British GP, Brands Hatch, 16 July.
Pole position. Fastest lap.
Constructor: Brabham-Repco
I was only ever
interested in beating
Ferrari, not joining them
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Constructor: Brabham-Repco
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F1 Racing May 2013 99
TIM SCHENKEN
Clerk of the Course for the
Australian GP. Finished third for
Brabham at the 1971 Austrian GP
Jack has been so important for
Australian motorsport. His success
alerted us all to grand prix racing.
The media coverage he got was
minimal compared to what we have
today, but it was there and I recall
going to the movies and seeing
Path News and it wasnt unusual
to see Jack winning a race. For all of
us aspiring racing drivers, he was an
icon. He was very much a pioneer
and very important to us all.
Aussies on
Brabham
ALAN JONES
1980 world champion
Sir Jack was the rst to go to Europe
and as a youngster I used to watch
him race and he was inspirational.
You looked at him and you could see
that it was the way ahead: he was a
true pioneer and to this day hes still
the only man to have won a race and
a title in a car carrying his own name.
MARK WEBBER
Red Bull racer
The Brabham family has always
been fantastic towards me, and
particularly Jack. I remember him
telling me 15 years ago that he had
always found it great to come to the
other side of the world and beat the
Europeans, and Ive tried to continue
that trend as best I can.
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1a Turn 2At Turn 2, Prost brakes
from 80mph while moving
the car ever so gently
towards the apex before
the cone marking the turn-
in point, in effect looking
to make a vee-shaped
trajectory around this
long corner
1b Turn 2Were at the sharpest part
of the turn, but Prost has
only half a turn of lock on,
and drops just one gear
while bleeding off the
brake effort. Slowest point
of the corner is 44mph.
From here, he picks up
speed and has to unwind
the steering only slightly
1c Turn 2With one owing
movement on the wheel,
weve gone around the
corner and the car is
perfectly positioned at
the apex of the next one,
as Prost accelerates hard
all the way to the chicane.
We gain 13mph before the
steering is fully unwound.
Prosts perfect lap
Chicane 1Weve gone up only one
gear, topping out at
87mph before reaching the
chicane. Here Prost stays
to the left all the way to
the turn-in point
Chicane 2Brake, turn, go. A short,
sharp braking effort
combined with the turning
force brings us down to
65mph as we take the
straightest line through the
chicane. Just before the
rst cone, Prost downshifts
to third and hooks the car
around the cone
Spoon 1The most technical corner
on the circuit runs at
a constant radius and
then tightens at the exit.
Prost has time to talk
to his passengers while
turning in to the rst apex
at precisely the right
point, carrying 67mph
throughout, hands still
delicate on the wheel
Spoon 2Most drivers would get on the
throttle too early and understeer well
before the exit, but Prost keeps a
constant pace, straightening before
turning again shedding speed but
lengthening the straight that follows
Spoon 1Spoon 1Chicane 1
Chicane 2
Spoonn 2
1a Turn 2 1b Turn 2 1c Turn 2
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