--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: DB500005 Date: 06/20/96 From: PETER CURLE Time: 07:15pm \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: Formula 1 ******************** (-: Formula 1 NEWS :-) ******************** The Electronic Formula 1 News Service for the Internet World Wide Web server at http://www.enigmatic.co.uk/formula1 *** June 19th 1996 *** *** Issue Number 31 *** **************************************************************** In This Issue *Schumacher Backs Hill For Title *Katayama Ban (Suspended) *Qualifying Tyres Banned *New Renault For France *New Minardi Driver For Germany *Austria Tipped For GP Next Year *Qualifying Engines, Ban Rejected *Schumacher / Jordan Dispute Over *Alesi Tests Driver Head Protection *Canada Review *Canada Results *Tables *News Back Issues *The Best Driver Ever? Niki Lauda Schumacher Backs Hill For Title. Michael Schumacher has become the latest member of the F1 world to back Damon Hill for the Drivers championship this year. "I would have to win six of the remaining races to be in with a chance" something which the German admitted was unlikely. Frank Williams has stressed that Williams will not be relaxing and Hill added that he was looking for wins in France, Britain and Germany to ensure he wins the title. Katayama Ban (Suspended) Katayama's Kamikaze move on Rosset during the Canadian GP has earned him a suspended one race ban for driving 'without due care and attention'. Katayama insists that Rosset "closed the door on him" !!?? Qualifying Tyres Banned Next year teams will not be able to use qualifying tyres, nor will the rumoured dual compound tyre be legal. The ban comes into effect from January 1997. New Renault For France The next version of the RS8B will be available for the French GP. Renault will also be announcing their motorsport plans at the French GP. It is expected that they will announce their withdrawal from F1. One twist is that they may announce continued support and engine supply for the Williams team. New Minardi Driver For Germany Minardi may replace Fisichella for the last six races if his sponsorship deal fails to come off. The replacement will be Giovanni Lavaggi formerly of Pacific Racing F1. Giancarlo Minardi is keen to keep Fisichella who "has so much talent" as well as fellow new kid Tarso Marques for 1997. Austria Tipped For GP Next Year. The rumours continue to contradict each other, but then that is half the fun :-). This week it looks like Austria is the favourite to replace the Hungarian GP with the Nurburgring staging yet another European GP, though it may be labelled the 'Luxembourg' GP. China looks on course for a GP in 1998. Qualifying Engines, Ban Rejected. Qualifying tyres may be out, but qualifying engines are here to stay (for the moment at least). Qualifying engines usually evolve into race engines when reliability is satisfied. Schumacher / Jordan Dispute Over The long running Schumacher / Jordan legal dispute looks set to be settled out of court. It centres on Schumacher signing for Jordan in 1991, then moving to Benetton after just one race. The two sides are keen to settle out of court to avoid publicity (oops) and it is expected that Jordan will relieve 100,000 UKP. Alesi Tests Driver Head Protection Unwittingly, Jean Alesi tested the new driver head protection when his Benetton went sideways into a tyre wall at around 60 mph. Alesi's head could be seen to be hit by a flying tyre. He said "I felt awful the morning after the crash....the side protection is very, very good because I didn't have any head or neck pain." Canada Review Williams, Benetton, McLaren and Jordan will probably look back at Canada with a sense of achievement. Ferrari will be staring, wondering how come it all went so wrong. Ferrari's bad luck started on the parade lap when Schumacher's car failed to get away. This was followed by Irvine retiring with broken suspension and Schumacher's eventual retirement with a broken drive shaft. In another race where few cars finished Williams showed their class by dominating. Hill's two stop strategy paid off and he won for the fifth time this year. Martin Brundle had his best race of the year Canada Results Pos. Driver Team Time 1 Damon Hill Williams Renault 1.36.03.465 2 Jacques Villeneuve Williams Renault +4.183 3 Jean Alesi Benetton Renault +54.656 4 David Coulthard McLaren Mercedes +1.03.673 5 Mika Hakkinen McLaren Mercedes + 1 lap 6 Martin Brundle Jordan Peugeot + 1 lap 7 Johnny Herbert Sauber Ford + 1 lap 8 Giancarlo Fisichella Minardi Ford + 2 laps Not Classified Pedro Lamy Minardi Ford lap 44 Accident Luca Badoer Forti Ford lap 44 Gearbox Gerhard Berger Benetton Renault lap 42 Spin Michael Schumacher Ferrari lap 41 Drive shaft Olivier Panis Ligier Mugen Honda lap 39 Engine Mika Salo Tyrrell Yamaha lap 39 Engine Pedro Diniz Ligier Mugen Honda lap 38 Engine Rubens Barrichello Jordan Peugeot lap 22 Clutch Andrea Montermini Forti Ford lap 22 Loose Ballast Heinz Harald Frentzen Sauber Ford lap 19 Gearbox Jos Verstappen TWR Arrows Hart lap 10 Engine Ricardo Rosset TWR Arrows Hart lap 6 Accident Ukyo Katayama Tyrrell Yamaha lap 6 Accident Eddie Irvine Ferrari lap 1 Suspension Tables Drivers Damon Hill 53 Jacques Villeneuve 32 Michael Schumacher 26 Jean Alesi 21 David Coulthard 13 Olivier Panis 11 Mika Hakkinen 10 Eddie Irvine 9 Gerhard Berger 7 Rubens Barrichello 7 Heinz Harald Frentzen 6 Mika Salo 5 Johnny Herbert 4 Martin Brundle 2 Jos Verstappen 1 Pedro Diniz 1 Constructors Williams Renault 85 Ferrari 35 Benetton Renault 28 McLaren Mercedes 23 Ligier Mugen Honda 12 Sauber Ford 10 Jordan Peugeot 9 Tyrrell Yamaha 5 Footwork Hart 1 News Back Issues The anonymous FTP archive for back issues of the news is now in place. The address is....... Address ftp.u-net.com User ID anonymous Password no password needed Path /com/enigma/news-archive The Best Driver Ever? No 14. Niki Lauda Few drivers win the World championship, very few win it more than once and only seven have won it on three or more occasions. Niki Lauda is one of those rare people. His Formula1 career started in 1971 when he raced in his home GP at the Osterreichring in a March. He retired due to poor handling. His first real season was with March in 1972, Niki paid to drive and was in deep debt. 1973 saw him paying BRM to drive, this time however he scored his first points when he finished 5th in Belgium. His performance in overshadowing his team mates meant he was offered a three year deal with BRM. He could pay off his debts and race for himself. Ferrari wanted Niki in 1974, and somehow he managed to get out of his contract with BRM and join them. This was the start of his real racing career, he won in Spain and Holland and scored enough points to finish fourth in the title race. He may have finished higher if he hadn't retired from the last five races. The form he showed in 1974, came to fruition in 1975. Wins in Monaco, Belgium, Sweden, France and the US were enough for him to take the title by nearly 20 points. 1976 looked set to be another Championship year, wins in Brazil, South Africa, Belgium, Monaco and Britain along with podium finishes in the US, Spain and Sweden meant that Niki looked set to retain his title. However an horrific accident at the Nrburgring saw him badly burned and he missed the Austrian and Dutch GPs. He returned at Italy where he came fourth. The final race in Japan was run in appalling conditions, and Niki retired, this left James Hunt needing to finish third or better to take the title. Hunt managed his task and Niki missed out on a second title by 1 point. Not bad for a driver that was nearly killed! Niki continued his impressive form in 1977 when he regained his title. He only won three times that year but he managed seven other podium finishes and two other points finishes. Consistency saw him win the title by a seventeen point margin. In 1978 Niki left Ferrari and went to join the Parmalat sponsored Brabham team, he won in Sweden (in the famous "Fan Car") and Italy; he managed five other podium finishes, but retirements in all the other races meant that he could only finish fourth in the championship. He stayed with Brabham in 1979 and had his worst season, apart from sixth in South Africa and fourth in Italy he retired from every other race. Niki retired from Formula1 at the end of that season. He built up his airline business while he was away and in 1982 he returned to Formula1 with the McLaren team. Two wins in 1982 showed that the speed was still there. 1983 was another year dogged by retirements, but McLaren introduced their TAG turbo at the end of that year. 1984 saw Niki back on form, the McLaren MP4/2 was a good car (John Barnard designed it), the TAG V6 turbo was a good engine and Niki was a good driver, the three elements jelled well and five wins, four seconds and other points finishes were enough for him to take his third world title, albeit by 0.5 points from his team mate Alain Prost who had won seven races that year. 1985 saw Niki win just once, in Holland, two other points scores were drowned out by 11 retirements and 1 dns. Alain Prost won the title, Niki finished 10th and he retired again, this time for good. Niki managed 25 wins (29 other podium finishes), 24 poles and 25 fastest laps from 171 starts putting him in the top five in each category. He was one of the truly great drivers, and now manages his airline business. He still had links with Ferrari up until last year, as a consultant. Copyright June 1996 Formula 1 News Check out our Web Site at: http://www.u-net.com/enigma/formula1 http://www.enigmatic.co.uk/formula1 Updated news available from the home page. Back issues from anonymous FTP ftp.u-net.com/com/enigma/news-archives ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe send e-mail with "Unsubscribe F1" in the body to F1Admin@bigvern.demon.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------- This document is most definitely Copyright June 1996 Formula 1 News. This publication is free for the Internet community and may be freely distributed to news groups and forums provided it is reposted completely, in a wholly unedited form complete with this copyright notice and credited to Neil Whiley. None of these articles are guaranteed 100% true, accurate or correct. We report it as we hear it. In many cases one weeks story will be completely contradicted by next weeks, such is life :-) Formula 1 News is written and edited by Neil Whiley at Enigma Electronic Publishing (Neil@bigvern.demon.co.uk). ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR] * Origin: (1:3615/51) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: DB500006 Date: 06/28/96 From: PETER CURLE Time: 09:27am \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: Formula 1 ******************** (-: Formula 1 NEWS :-) ******************** The Electronic Formula 1 News Service for the Internet World Wide Web server at http://www.enigmatic.co.uk/formula1 *** June 27th 1996 *** *** Issue Number 32 *** **************************************************************** In This Issue *Why is it late?? *Senna Enquiry Latest *Gil de Ferran Linked To Stewart *New Tyrrell For Katayama *Driver Rumours (latest) *Sauber After Hart or Honda Engines *Bridgestone Testing Gets Serious *France Preview *News Back Issues *The Best Driver Ever? James Hunt Why is it late?? Those of you that live in Europe will appreciate that the Semi Finals of Euro 96 (Especially the England Germany game) will have had a slight affect on Formula1 news. Namely that it is precisely one day late. For those of you who do not know what Euro 96 is.......... it's too late as it is nearly over. Try to get on the ball for Euro 2000 :-) Damon Hill had pictures sent to him while he was in Canada!! Senna Enquiry Latest The latest news that I have on this subject is that the Italian public prosecutor Maurizio Passarini is seeking for Frank Williams and Patrick Head to be tried for manslaughter. Six further Williams team officials and two senior officials from the Imola track are also being included. No charges have been brought yet and the matter is unlikely to be considered before the end of July. Maurizio Passarini has completed his investigations and has submitted his report to the magistrate who will decide if any charges are to be brought against the accused. The main element of the report surrounds the steering column in Senna's car which had been altered before the race. An independent report concludes that the steering column snapped as Senna entered the Tamburello, while Williams maintain that the column was intact until the moment of impact. The case against two other Williams staff is to be dropped. Gil de Ferran Linked To Stewart The rumours surrounding Gil de Ferran and Stewart GP continue to grow. Paul Stewart spoke to de Ferran but added "He's one of a number of drivers that we might be interested in, but we are nowhere near to signing any of them". New Tyrrell For Katayama Ukyo Katayama will get to play in the new Tyrrell for the French GP. Mika Salo has had the revised car since Monaco. Driver Rumours (latest) This week it is the turn of Mika Hakkinen, he has been linked with Benetton for 1997. This has led to rumours of Frentzen rejoining Mercedes at McLaren and Gerhard Berger retiring. Berger said "I couldn't retire even if I wanted to - I have a two year contract" Sauber After Hart or Honda Engines With Ford giving exclusive use of the hi spec V10s to Stewart GP next year, Sauber are looking at other engine suppliers to propel their cars next season. Team boss Peter Sauber is reported to have had talks with Mugen Honda and Brian Hart. Bridgestone Testing Gets Serious Bridgestone stepped up their testing program this week when Jos Verstappen had the tyres fitted to his TWR Arrows Hart and openly tested them at Silverstone. The car even had Bridgestone logos on it. France Preview Into the second half of the season, last year this signalled a run of four Pole positions for Hill though he wasted them with the collision at Silverstone and the first lap spin at Hockenheim. Michael Schumacher won in France last year with better pit stop tactics, giving him his second French win in a row. The race itself usually sees a good number of finishers (16 in 1993 and 1995) so the points have to be earned. The track is not one of the fastest circuits and drivers usually lap at an average of 115 mph. This should suit the Ferrari, Benetton and Williams cars, while Jordan may find themselves struggling a little. The weather is usually very humid which is a tremendous drain on the drivers, this gives Schumacher an advantage as he is probably the fittest driver in F1. The best place for action is at the Adelaide hairpin, and there are places to overtake so lets hope for some racing. News Back Issues The anonymous FTP archive for back issues of the news is now in place. The address is....... Address ftp.u-net.com User ID anonymous Password no password needed Path /com/enigma/news-archive The Best Driver Ever? No 15. James Hunt Known to many as "Hunt the Shunt" James earned his nickname from his early career where he littered race tracks with crashed minis and Formula 3 cars. He was helped into F1 by Lord Hesketh, James raced in Formula2 and then Formula1 in a customer March. His debut at Monaco in 1973 saw him finish 9th, incredibly he went on to score points and set fastest laps at the British and US Grand Prix. In his first Formula1 season he finished 8th with 14 points. Not bad when you consider he was not entered for seven of the races that season. In 1974 Hesketh entered their own car, the Hesketh 308 Ford. The season was spoilt by trivial mechanical problems and James only managed to finish six times, four of those in the points. He finished 8th again, this time with 15 points. 1975 saw James record his first win, again mechanical problems dogged his season but a win in Holland and three second places saw him establish himself as a top contender. He finished 4th with 33 points that year. 1976 is always remembered for Niki Lauda's terrible accident. The racing in 1976 was brilliant. Hunt had filled the seat at McLaren left by Fittipaldi. Hunt scored 8 pole positions three of which came in the first four races. He won in Spain, where he was disqualified but later reinstated, he won in France, Britain (disqualified again for using spare car, not reinstated) Germany, Holland, Canada and the US GP east. He went into the last race three points behind Niki Lauda and when Niki retired due to the appalling conditions James had to finish third or better to clinch the title. He managed to keep on the flooded track, finished third and clinched the title by one point. 1977 was not a great defence of the title, James suffered eight retirements, three of those due to collisions with other drivers!. He did manage three wins, in the British GP, the US and Japan. 40 points and fifth in the championship were tough to take. James' last year with McLaren saw him finish six times, three of those in the points. The retirements were mainly driver errors, much of it induced by him trying so hard to keep up with the ground effects cars like the Lotus. His qualifying was reasonable, mostly in the top ten with some second and first row performances. Hunt struggled in 1978 and at the end of the year he moved over to Walter Wolf racing. 1979 was to be James' last in Formula1. Six retirements all but one due to mechanical failure and one 8th position out of seven races were not enough to keep James motivated. He decided to quit after the Monaco GP. He never had any regrets. James moved into the commentary box with Murray Walker and the two of them worked together for many years until 1993, when at the age of 45 James Hunt had a massive heart attack and sadly died. His record of 10 wins, 14 poles and 8 fastest laps from 92 starts puts him in the top 20 drivers of all time. Not many drivers score 8 poles in one season. Copyright June 1996 Formula 1 News Check out our Web Site at: http://www.enigmatic.co.uk/formula1 Updated news available from the home page. Back issues from anonymous FTP ftp.u-net.com/com/enigma/news-archives ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe send e-mail with "Unsubscribe F1" in the body to F1Admin@bigvern.demon.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------- This document is most definitely Copyright June 1996 Formula 1 News. This publication is free for the Internet community and may be freely distributed to news groups and forums provided it is reposted completely, in a wholly unedited form complete with this copyright notice and credited to Neil Whiley. None of these articles are guaranteed 100% true, accurate or correct. We report it as we hear it. In many cases one weeks story will be completely contradicted by next weeks, such is life :-) Formula 1 News is written and edited by Neil Whiley at Enigma Electronic Publishing (Neil@bigvern.demon.co.uk). ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR] --- PCBoard (R) v15.22/100 * Origin: (1:3615/51) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: DB500007 Date: 07/03/96 From: JOE SWEENEY Time: 12:32am \/To: DENNIS WETHERHOLD JR. (Read 6 times) Subj: Re: multi-teams On 07-02-96 00:42 DENNIS WETHERHOLD JR. wrote to JOE SWEENEY -=> Quoting Joe Sweeney to Dennis Wetherhold Jr. <=- JS> You echoed my thoughts ....Seriously though, I think that havin JS> 3 teams is really stretching one's resources. Look at Roush Racin JS> Granted both Mark and Ted are tied for ninth in points right now, JS> however, the Roush stable is not as consistant as they were with j JS> two teams. DW> Well who is the third person in the Roush team? Mark Martin, Ted Musgrave, Jeff Burton. I just noticed that you're in Allentown...I'm originally from Bethlehem. While I was growing up I practically lived at the old Nazareth dirt track and the Dorney Park track. Although I'm only 6.5 hours away, I don't make it up there much as I'd like to...Once in a while I manage to combine visiting family with one of Pocono's races. --- * WR 1.31 # 698 * Rubbin' is Racin' --- DB 1.58/004376 * Origin: The Computer Forum 804-471-0736 (1:275/17) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: DBA00000 Date: 07/02/96 From: RALF M. DICKHUT Time: 01:17pm \/To: FRED FINDLING (Read 5 times) Subj: Re: F1 rejects CO>> Since i sure like to see Micheal Andretti go back to Formula 1. Since CO>> he did have a rough time with it, but i really wanted to see his talents FF> C)>in full bloom in a forumla 1 based car. And despite his bas season i CO>> wished he did stay for another year, than to just give up and come CO>> back to CART. FF> FF> I agree, Micheal caught McLaren at the wrong time and suffered as a FF> result. McLaren had lost their works Honda deal when Honda decided to FF> pull out and they were unable to secure another works engine deal for FF> that season. So they were stuck with using customer-spec Cosworth HB FF> engines which anyone can buy, but aren't competitive with the V-10 FF> works engines from other manufacturers. McLaren also had trouble with FF> building a good chassis that year and the cars were mediocre although FF> the late Senna did have a few sucesses with them [...] The McLaren was not too bad as Senna scored 73 points in the 93 season and finished 2nd in the championship. FF> I think McLaren was pre-occupied in trying to create a competitive mount FF> for Senna and Micheal got the short end of the stick as he suffered with FF> cars that weren't up to the job. Perhaps the outcome would have been FF> entirely different if Micheal had been in a Williams instead of a FF> McLaren!! Of course McLaren spent more attention to his No. 1 driver, Senna. And as stated above, the Mc Laren wasn't so bad. The only thing that was poor was Andretti's performance! Remember those riciculous spinn offs! I'm glad he left and hope he never comes back - especiallly as I hear of his (new?) nick name in this area: Michael "crash 'em all" Andrettti. Ralf --- Yuppie v2.12 * Origin: RALF M. DICKHUT (2:2449/990.10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: DBA00001 Date: 07/04/96 From: MICKEY LIGHTSEY Time: 08:22pm \/To: BOB STEPHENSON (Read 5 times) Subj: # 3 -> Hiya Mickey, -> -> > Yes Martin is a big whiner, I used to like him but now he is almost -> > bad as Wallace, poor Martin, has never won a NASCAR championship, m -> > he can whine his way to one? -> -> Funny how any driver who doesn't pull any punches during an interview -> labeled a whiner. OK, maybe Rusty gets a little overboard, but Mark? Mark used to not, but he does now, he out of all the Ford drivers complained the most about Chevy, and he has really whined when he was wrecked, or wrecked, etc, I'd rather they not even talk and cool off first, but you are right, Mark is nowhere as bad as Rusty, hey I live really close to where Mark does. -> I'll tell ya' what, i'd rather hear someone bitch, complain, and -> basically tell it like it is rather than have my intelligence -> insulted by the "aw shucks" crap the majority of drivers try to put -> over on us. I wouldn't, like how Sterlin Marlin lost the Michigan race because of gas and he was dominating the race, when he was interviewed he took it like a real man, where Mark would have said something like "we had a killer car, nobody had us covered and to lose on gas, etc" where Sterlin was "well it just happened ". Hey I still respect Mark very much as a driver though.. --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.10 * Origin: Tarheel Connection 90,000+ Files V.34 910-643-9570 (1:3654/9.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: DBA00002 Date: 07/04/96 From: MICKEY LIGHTSEY Time: 08:25pm \/To: DENNIS WETHERHOLD JR. (Read 5 times) Subj: Re: # 3 -> -=> Quoting Mickey Lightsey to Dennis Wetherhold Jr. <=- -> -> ML> Wrong, Earnhardt, Gordon or T Labantawill get it, not Jarrett, -> ML> hopefully Earnhardt! -> -> Well we shall see when the end of the year comes around. I'll save -> this post and remind you when one of those 3 don't win. -> Yes, you save this message and I'll be sure to remind you at the end of the season when Jarrett doesn't win, remember we started this thread when Jarrett was 1st or 2nd in points, he want win it, so if one of those 3 doesn't win, you still think Jarrett will or do you want the whole field :) --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.10 * Origin: Tarheel Connection 90,000+ Files V.34 910-643-9570 (1:3654/9.0)