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RACE AGAINST TIME • For most of the past two decades Formula 1 has been an increasingly young man’s game – culminating in Max Verstappen getting a race seat before he passed his driving test. But now teams seem to be spurning youth in favour of experience. What have the likes of Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton got that the young hotshots haven’t? And for how long?
PIERRE GASLY • Having escaped AlphaTauri at what seems to have been the right moment, Pierre Gasly is starting a new chapter of his career with Alpine – and he’s been keen to get every detail right from day one…
TROUBLE AT THE TOP • Following the sad death of Red Bull magnate Dietrich Mateschitz last year, old certainties about the company’s sporting activities are coming unstuck. Red Bull Racing might be dominating on track, but junior team AlphaTauri is in the midst of an identity crisis – and the competitive doldrums. Rumours swirl of Mateschitz’s appointed heir not getting on with senior figures in the Red Bull motorsport empire, and that – whisper it – he has little or no interest in Formula 1. Is AlphaTauri team principal Franz Tost’s departure a portent of things to come?
ALPHATAURI DYNASTY
’TAURI STORY
ISLAND OF THE ENGINEERS • Alex Chan, Alfa Romeo race engineer on Valtteri Bottas’ car, takes us through the team’s setup in the middle of the garage at every grand prix
WOKING PROGRESS • McLaren’s new team principal Andrea Stella got his Formula 1 break working for Ferrari during Michael Schumacher’s pomp. Can he instil the lessons from that period into a team that’s been struggling to rediscover its own days of peak performance?
BURNOUT • Formula 1 has an ambition to run more than 25 grands prix a year. The business case is compelling – but it comes with a human cost which doesn’t show up on the balance sheet. And the teams are going to have to live with it. But how do they plan to achieve that?
10 THINGS I LOVE • Family, flying and simpler pursuits away from the high-pressure world of Formula 1 make K-Mag’s life a joy
BRM P139 • The unlikely winner in BRM’s ground-effect battle
ALTERNATIVE VIEW • When it comes to the recent clampdown on team personnel celebrating too effusively, our man isn’t sitting on the fence…
CANADIAN GRAND PRIX • Pretty much a regular on the calendar since 1967, it’s a race that continues to throw up some surprises
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THE AZERBAIJAN GP IN 5 KEY MOMENTS
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EMILIA ROMAGNA GP • 19-21 May 2023 Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari
MONACO GP • 26-28 May 2023 Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo
SPANISH GP • 2-4 June 2023 Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
CANADIAN GP • 16-18 June 2023 Circuit de Gilles Villeneuve
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