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WHERE’S YOUR HEAD AT? • If Charles Leclerc’s sheer bravura calls to mind the legendary Gilles Villeneuve, a more troubling comparison looms: the absence of a world title to add to Ferrari’s trophy cabinet. But while team and car have well-publicised shortcomings, Charles might just – whisper it – be unwittingly part of the problem…

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IN CONVERSATION WITH ESTEBAN OCON • Despite encouraging signs at the beginning of the year Alpine is having a tough time, currently on track to fall well short of the targets it had set. But as Esteban Ocon reveals, there’s been plenty happening off-track at Enstone with the aim of turning the performance around quickly…

PLAN B IT’S ALL ABOUT THAT BASELINE • Mercedes has abandoned its radical ‘zeropod’ concept and appears to have enjoyed a competitive uplift – or at least, in the words of Toto Wolff, established a ‘new baseline’ – but does this mean the team is now 18 months behind key rivals? And has such a big development push come at a cost to next year’s car?

TRACKSIDE NERVE CENTRE • Jonathan Eddolls, AlphaTauri’s head of trackside engineering, explains the critical functions of the pitwall and its personnel

THIS IS JAMES VOWLES • Moving from long-time strategy director at Mercedes – a role that latterly included overseeing adjacent racing activities such as Formula E and the young driver programme as well as calling pitstops – to become team principal at Williams was judged by many in the Formula 1 commentariat to be a bit of a leap. But not to the self-proclaimed ‘highly competitive’ man who made it…

ALEXANDER THE GREAT • From hanging on to an F1 seat by his proverbial fingertips Alex Albon has established himself as a star in the making. So now, like the team itself, life isn’t just a case of surviving from race to race – Williams is a team being rebuilt around him as the driver to lead it to future glories

THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY • Over 800 world championship races and 114 victories the team which started life as Williams Grand Prix Engineering has notched up nine constructors’ championships. It’s a story of some incredible cars – and a few which fell short of greatness…

10 THINGS I LOVE • Alfa Romeo’s managing director and team representative is a fan of art, architecture and old racing cars…

SHOWCASE ALAIN PROST • It’s 30 years since the Frenchman claimed his fourth and final world title…

MAURICE HAMILTON’S ALTERNATIVE VIEW • Opening-lap shunts have become a Silverstone trademark. But for sheer carambolage nothing has yet surpassed the one set in motion by Jody Scheckter in 1973…

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