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Formula 1 July 2015

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THE WAY OF SMILE Topic of the month BACK IN BUSINESS The story of the F1 Canadian GP F1 CANADIAN GRAND PRIX Results BLUFF À LA MICHELIN F1 background CRUCIAL START The story of the F1 Austrian GP F1 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX Results BAD TIMING Portrait of Nico Hülkenberg WELCOME TO GOODWOOD Festival of Speed MOTOGP IS THE BEST EXAMPLE Maurizio Arrivabene said POKER The story of the MotoGP Catalan GP MOTOGP CATALAN GP Results POLICE ON TRACK Danilo Petrucci interview TRICKY CHICANE The story of the MotoGP Dutch GP MOTOGP DUTCH GP Results TATTOOS The secrets of the riders

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'You can go a long way with a smile.

You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.'

Al Capone

SMILE

Smile is a universal expression. Behind that the mo positive emotion, right? But it's also known that gesture too.

What do I mean? Someone estimate that we have ab smiles. Like genuine, fake, sarcastic, wry, stiff, polite

A fake smile doesn't necessarily have a sarcastic o also possible that the person who smiles a fake smile in a given situation, but he's being polite enough in Why am I saying this? Because after the Dutch GP I s

ost logical meaning is some t it can be an ambiguous

bout 50 types of different e etc.

or devious message, it’s e maybe isn't that happy n this way. saw both.

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POLEMICS Journalists’ and fans' best friend. In this case also the riders helped to create them with his immediate reactions. It’s not a surprise as Marc is a really honest guy, meanwhile Valentino adores to be in the middle of attention.

Plus both know perfectly how to communicate.

The press conference after the race was like a second round of a fight. Rossi wasn’t that happy listening some of the provocative questions, but if someone knowes how this world workes, is him.

For me it was impressive to hear how many things they have in mind during riding at the maximum level and it was also grandiose how they can use their mind and capacity in front of the press.

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Topic of the month

FACTS

Valentino was in front. Marc did a perfect last lap. a bit open. Marc entered hardly as this was his last Valentino picked up the bike and went straight cro thinks it wasn’t fair.

Valentino like all the riders loves to win, but for h sweeter if it comes in a spectacular way. And spect mean the huge gap, but the battle skin to skin.

Even like this it’s slightly possible that he had all th already and he forced the contact to have a reason to chicane. He is good and tricky, but maybe not this m Who is right? We can’t say. But as always, laughs bes

Valentino left the door t chance. They touched. ossing the gravel. Marc

him the victory is much tacular for him doesn’t

he scenario in his head o go straight and cut the much. st who laughs last.

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I did a mistake three laps to go so Valentino could open a gap. During the whole race I studied perfectly the last chicane, to put the bike to the correct place and not to leave space to him. But I didn’t expect that he would cut. What I feel is that we won the race. Five points more or less for me doesn’t matter. Also this time I learned something from Valentino, how to motocross.

What I did was the perfect last chicane. I stopped to bike well to be able to turn at do the correct line to close the place before the second chicane.

After this experience I know what I need to do the next time.

MARC MÁRQUEZ

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Topic of the month

Who was in the better position to do the corner correctly?

I remember that I was in front, so maybe me.

I remember that I was inside, so maybe me.

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In the penultimate lap I did my best laptime 1:33.6 (the same he did in the 4th lap, me int he 25th). He sais he made an error, but it’s not true, I was faster and that’s it.

I tried to do the same in the last lap, but I couldn’t.

About the last chicane, I have to rewatch, because maybe I’m wrong, but I was ahead, I already started to turn and he hit me behind my elbow, I guess, like in Argentina.

He forced me to go wild. Maybe he tought we were in PlayStation, you know, when you run into someone at that becomes transparent. But I was there and I couldn’t do anything else.

I was hoping to have a bit of advantage before the chicane, but I heard that he was there.

I thing that he arrived a bit late as I was already next to the kerb, with my knee down.

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Topic of the month

JORGE LORENZO

Well it’s true that you cannot go straight or go into the gravel, grass to be faster than normally you are. But it’s also true that the contact from Marc to Valentino was huge. Vale entered the chicane in first position, so in my opinion, Vale deserved the win this time.

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MIKE WEBB, race director WILCO ZEELENBERG

I really don’t think that Valentino forced the touch. Vale was braking late at taking the normal line to enter. As soon as Marc was arriving and sliding, there was no where to go. Valentino was not able to take the corner, only go straight. If he would have stayed on his line, probably both would have been on the floor or only Valentino.

He had to shortcut as had nowhere to go. And also Vale was clear in front.

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Clearly we had a lots of video reviews that it was a race incident, was clear c during the entire last chicane maneuve Valentino.

We have a really good helicopter shot t entitled to his line.

Valentino at that point decided he had But Marc also left the track and went ac So from the rules point of view both rid and through the turn and exited the tu first and second. At no point did they c view no advantage was taken. End of st

GIACOMO AGOSTINI

Valentino cannot cut the chicane, but Marc cannot push him out. If I was in the jury, I would stop the race just in the corner. So who is leading, is the winner. Valentino that time was leading, so he is the winner.

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CARLO PERNAT

and a lots of discussion. I have to say cut. Valentino was was always in front er. Very clearly Marc made contact with

that he's always in front and is therefore

d to stand up and go across the gravel. cross the artificial grass. ders left the track. They entered the turn urn in the same relative positions, as in change positions. So from that point of tory.

The picture I take with me from the GP is the blood in the eyes of Márquez and the sarcastic smile of Valentino.

Márquez has to stop saying stupid things as the bike of Valentino was always in front and who is behind is always wrong it these sitations.

For me there were too much polemics afterwards.

Both are phenomenon and amable riders.

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FREDDIE SPENCER

At the end Valentino won the race and he was defenately the strongest during the race. Marc tried, he also did a good job and made up the distance at the end. He comes from some tough races, so he did a good job too.

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PHIL READ

Valentino was very clever. Actually he has been pushed out from the circuit by Márquez, but he realized to pick it up and go straight, jump the curb and gently open the throttle. Finally he won by 50 metres. Brilliant riding. For me it was a racing incident. Marc caused him to run out.

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After two lost race and moreover after the frustrating and bitter race in Monaco, Lewis Hamilton is on the top again. He not just won the Canadian GP in front of his team-mate Nico Rosberg, but he increased his advantage in the overall standings.

Starting from pole (the 44th one of his F1 career) Hamilton comfortably led the opening 29 laps before pitting. With this he became Britain's all-time lap leader, breaking the previous record of Nigel Mansell with 2089 laps.

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The race was quite uneventful again. The most thrilling moment was the spin of Kimi RäikkÜnen at the hairpin on his new tyres. With this mistake he lost around seven seconds. Prior this Valtteri Bottas had been running five seconds behind him, but thanks to the Williams team’s really quick reaction, they pitted Bottas immediately which resulted finishing him third. This is their first podium finish this year.

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I love Montreal. I love this track; I love the city and really it was just a fantastic weekend and it’s great to get back on the top step. For me personally and I’m sure I’m speak for the team, I want to dedicate this to my engineer Bono’s [Pete Bonnington’s] father, who I know it’s been a tough weekend for him but he has been amazing all weekend and he helped me win this today and this is really dedicated to him.

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I wouldn't say it's a relief because I've had good pace for both of the past two races - I'm just happy to get another win for me and the team. It was quite close after the stops. I think because Nico was in my tow he was using less fuel, so I was having to save a bit while managing the gap.

I had a couple of lock ups but luckily they weren't too bad and not enough to cause any real problems, so I felt in control.

Lewis HAMILTON

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I’m really happy for us as a team and I’m really proud, a proud member of the team. This was a really good teamwork all weekend. And then the mistake of Kimi allowed us to get one position and we also changed the plan with the strategy during the race, which I thought was really dynamic.

We really needed this result. Like last year we saw that, it really boosts confidence. We know again now that we are a top team and that we can fight for podiums.

Valtteri BOTTAS

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CANADIAN GRAND PRIX Circuit Gilles Villeneuve· Montreal, Canada

RECORDS RECORDS

LAP RECORD 1:13.622 R. BARRICHELLO (2004)

FACTS

FASTEST POLE 1:12.275 R. SCHUMACHER (2004)

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CORNERS

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LENGHT 4361m

The 2011 Canadian GP holds a few strange records thanks to the unseasonable weather which caused that the race was being halted for two hours.

The most Safety Car deployments (6 times) during a race; the longest race ever 4hrs 4min 39.537secs and the lowest average racewinning speed with 74.844 kp/h.

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QUALIFYING CLASSIFICATION QUALIFYING CLASSIFICATION

Q1 Q2 Q3 1.

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18* 19** 20***

Lewis Hamilton Nico Rosberg Kimi Räikkönen Valtteri Bottas Romain Grosjean Pastor Maldonado Nico Hulkenberg Daniil Kvyat Daniel Ricciardo Sergio Perez Carlos Sainz Marcus Ericsson Fernando Alonso Felipe Nasr Felipe Massa Roberto Merhi Will Stevens Sebastian Vettel Max Verstappen Jenson Button

GBR GER FIN FIN FRA VEN GER RUS AUS MEX SPA SWE SPA BRA BRA SPA GBR GER NED GBR

Mercedes Mercedes Ferrari Williams / Mercedes Lotus / Mercedes Lotus / Mercedes Force India / Mercedes Red Bull R / Renault Red Bull R / Renault Force India / Mercedes Toro Rosso / Renault Sauber / Ferrari McLaren / Honda Sauber / Ferrari Williams / Mercedes Marussia / Ferrari Marussia / Ferrari Ferrari Toro Rosso / Renault McLaren / Honda

1:15.895 1:14.661 1:15.893 1:14.673 1:16.259 1:15.348 1:16.552 1:15.506 1:15.833 1:15.187 1:16.098 1:15.622 1:16.186 1:15.706 1:16.415 1:15.891 1:16.410 1:16.006 1:16.827 1:15.974 1:16.611 1:16.042 1:16.796 1:16.262 1:17.012 1:16.276 1:16.968 1:16.620 1:17.886 1:19.133 1:19.157 1:17.344 1:16.361 1:16.245 NO TIME

1:14.393 1:14.702 1:15.014 1:15.102 1:15.194 1:15.329 1:15.614 1:16.079 1:16.114 1:16.338

*Vettel was penalised 5 grid places for passing another car under red flags during FP3. **Verstappen was penalised 5 grid places for causing a collision at the previous round and a further 10 places for using his fifth engine of the season. ***Button failed to set a qualifying time within the Q1 107% requirement of 1:21.141, so races at the stewards' discretion. Penalised 15 grid places for using a fifth turbo and a fifth MGU-H.

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171kg

5.6 g

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DRS

8 340 2 55 155 kg

5.0 g

Droit du Casino

4 173

DRS

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8 320

1 Courbe Saint-Laurent

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151kg

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Coin Senna

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Average deceleration 155 kg

GEAR 5.4 g

Total driver pedal load

7 240 SPEED km/h

Circuit Strategy by UBS Canada is a fascinating race strategically - there is usually little to choose between the one and two stop strategies in terms of race time, although a two stop is clearly preferable if you can run in clear air, as a front-runner. Overtaking is quite easy on the 350km/h straights.

Driving a one stop requires a more careful approach in managing tyres, but can work out well as there is a high (60%) chance of a Safety Car. Montreal is the hardest track of the year on brakes and coping strategies are needed towards the end of the race.

3 140

7 260

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TYRE ALLOCATION Supersoft

Soft

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Rain

Source: Lotus, Pirelli, UBS

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Race distance: 70 laps / 305.270 km Fastest lap: Kimi Räikkönen 1:16.987 (on lap 42) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10* 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Lewis Hamilton Nico Rosberg Valtteri Bottas Kimi Räikkönen Sebastian Vettel Felipe Massa Pastor Maldonado Nico Hülkenberg Daniil Kvyat Romain Grosjean Sergio Pérez Carlos Sainz Daniel Ricciardo Marcus Ericsson Max Verstappen Felipe Nasr Will Stevens

Mercedes Mercedes Williams / Mercedes Ferrari Ferrari Williams / Mercedes Lotus / Mercedes Force India / Mercedes Red Bull R / Renault Lotus / Mercedes Force India / Mercedes Toro Rosso / Renault Red Bull R / Renault Sauber / Ferrari Toro Rosso / Renault Sauber / Ferrari Marussia / Ferrari

Retired Roberto Merhi (Marussia / Ferrari) on lap 58 Jenson Button (McLaren / Honda) on lap 55 Fernando Alonso (McLaren / Honda) on lap 45 *5-second penalty for causing a collision

Half shaft Exhaust Exhaust

1:31:53.145 hour +2.285 secs +40.666 +45.625 +49.903 +56.381 +1:06.664 +1 Lap +1 Lap +1 Lap +1 Lap +1 Lap +1 Lap +1 Lap +1 Lap +2 Laps +4 Laps

MILESTONE STATISTICS STATISTICS 2.285

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341.9 km/h Top speed – Grosjean/race 0 Safety car periods 25 Pit stops 36 Overtakes

70 LAPS Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes)

2 leaders: Hamilton - 69 laps, Rosberg – 1 lap

TYRE

margin of victory

TYRE WINNING STRATEGY

This was the fourth 1-2 finish in 2015 for the Mercedes team and the 20th in the Silver Arrows’ Formula One history.

Used supersoft (28 laps)

New soft (42 laps)

WORLD FASTEST STANDING LAP WORLD STANDING

FASTEST LAP 1:16.987

1:17.105

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on soft compound

WEATHER WEATHER

Air

Sunny

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Track 37-42ºC

20-22ºC

Humidity 27-34%

1 Lewis Hamilton 2 Nico Rosberg 3 Sebastian Vettel 4 Kimi Räikkönen 5 Valtteri Bottas 6 Felipe Massa 7 Daniel Ricciardo 8 Daniil Kvyat 9 Romain Grosjean 10 Felipe Nasr 11 Sergio Pérez 12 Nico Hülkenberg 13 Carlos Sainz 14 Max Verstappen 15 Pastor Maldonado 16 Marcus Ericsson 17 Jenson Button

151 pts 134 108 72 57 47 35 19 17 16 11 10 9 6 6 5 4

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Tyre war in Formula 1! Just not in the way that many people imagine. In fact, the situation resembles that of the Cold War. The parties have not yet openly opposed each other, and we can probably assume that real competition will never occur between Text and pictures: John Townsend them. Some warning shots have been fired already.

Or rather distracting? But can it be it is only a bluff?

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Bluff à la MICHELIN? Text: Miklós Vég / Photos: Michelin

Background

The news that caught the attention of the whole Formula 1 society had arrived before the Monaco Grand Prix: Michelin would be willing to return to the premier class! The French trademark had the best timing possible for their announcement, as the FIA invited entries for the competition only a few days later for the companies interested to be the Formula 1 official tyre supplier. The winner will provide the tyres for the F1 teams between 2017 and 2019.

However, the comeback was subject to conditions. Pascal Couasnon, Michelin's Director of Competitions Department, already made it clear in the first second that his company sticks to the introduction of the 18-inch (or even bigger) tyres as these are the future of the tyre industry and they wish to produce much more durable tyres for F1.

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Then he quirked to the current supplier, Pirelli, saying that the drivers cannot show their real capacity because of the quick consuming tyres, but Michelin wants to give back the real enjoyment of racing.

Wondeful ideas. But it will be a ticklish case for the French. The teams insist on keeping the 13-inch wheels, and Bernie Ecclestone does not want to hear at all about the more durable tyres. He says it just would worsen the situation as the races become more boring.

In addition, the majority of the participants are satisfied with Pirelli, as the leaders of the sport, the Italians produce the tyres they ask for!

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Couasnons and co. presmuably know, they must know! This is why their comeback could be just a mere a bluff. It is not criticism or mud-slinging, but more a compliment, as it cannot be anything else but a brilliant PR stunt. The management knows very well that it would be really difficult to beat Pirelli, therefore, they feel free to come out with ideas that make them popular amongst the fans, as people want to hear exactly they are talking about now! Meanwhile half of the world hates the penny-pinching Formula 1, the fans thirst for ideas like Michelin’s one. They want durable tyres that allow the drivers to push their limits and they want technical innovations, for example the 18-inch tyres.

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Michelin has nothing to lose. Moreover, thanks to their application the company is in the news successively which has a solid PR value as their ideas make them really likeable for the fans, who are potential buyers‌ What if they lose the petition? Nothing. They can only be the positive hero who tried to change the present (boring) F1, but others were not open minded enough for this.

If they win after all? Then we can be the audience to a new play, in which the script had been fixed and written is stone.

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The race was decided in the first corner, where Nico Rosberg was able to overtake his biggest rival, the pole-man, Lewis Hamilton. His perfect start made him to close the gap to ten points in the standing.

Hamilton got a five seconds penalty later because crossing the white line at the pitlane exit. But even like this he finished second.

For the third position it was a battle again between a Ferrari and a Williams driver, but this time it was Sebastian Vettel and Felipe Massa.

During Vettel’s pitstop the team had some problem to fix the right rear wheel which caused him to arrive back to the track after the Brasilian.

The safety car was called into action on the first lap when Kimi Räikkönen slided in the exit of Turn2 in the first lap and took Fernando Alonso with him. As the barrier was really close, the Spaniard had nowhere to go, so finally he arrived on the top of Räikkönen’s car. Luckily both walked away uninjured.

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It’s an awesome feeling, of course, to win again here in Austria. I'm very, very happy.

The start made the race. It was a great start and I managed to defend in the first couple of corners and then I really just tried to push flat out this time.

I was really happy with the car and happy to see the gap I could open up to Lewis, so it really worked out perfectly today.

As I said, the good start was very important as I knew from past races this year that it's very difficult to overtake the same car on track. After I passed Lewis I was able to control the lead quite comfortably. Towards the end I felt some vibrations on the right front tyre but I was able to manage it to the flag.

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AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX Red Bull Ring · Spielberg, Austria

RECORDS RECORDS

LAP RECORD 1:08.337 M. SCHUMACHER (2003) FASTEST POLE 1:08.082 R. BARRICHELLO (2002)

FACTS

At 4.326km, the Red Bull Ring is one of the shortest circuits on the current calendar. Only the Circuit de Monaco (3.340km) and Interlagos (4.309) are shorter.

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QUALIFYING CLASSIFICATION QUALIFYING CLASSIFICATION

Q1 Q2 Q3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15* 16 17 18** 19*** 20****

Lewis Hamilton Nico Rosberg Sebastian Vettel Felipe Massa Nico Hülkenberg Valtteri Bottas Max Verstappen Felipe Nasr Romain Grosjean Pastor Maldonado Marcus Ericsson Carlos Sainz Sergio Pérez Kimi Räikkönen Daniil Kvyat Roberto Merhi Will Stevens Daniel Ricciardo Fernando Alonso Jenson Button

GBR GER GER BRA GER FIN NED BRA FRA SPA SWE SPA MEX FIN RUS SPA GBR AUS SPA GBR

Mercedes Mercedes Ferrari Williams / Mercedes Force India / Mercedes Williams / Mercedes Toro Rosso / Renault Sauber / Ferrari Lotus / Mercedes Lotus / Mercedes Sauber / Ferrari Toro Rosso / Renault Force India / Mercedes Ferrari Red Bull R / Renault Marussia / Ferrari Marussia / Ferrari Red Bull R / Renault McLaren / Honda McLaren / Honda

1:12.218 1:09.062 1:10.976 1:08.634 1:11.184 1:09.392 1:11.830 1:09.719 1:11.319 1:09.604 1:11.894 1:09.598 1:11.307 1:09.631 1:12.001 1:09.652 1:11.821 1:09.920 1:11.661 1:10.374 1:12.388 1:10.426 1:11.158 1:10.465 1:12.522 1:12.867 1:12.092 1:10.187 1:14.071 1:15.368 1:11.973 1:10.482 1:12.508 1:10.736 1:12.632

1:08.455 1:08.655 1:08.810 1:09.192 1:09.278 1:09.319 1:09.612 1:09.713

1:09.694

*Kvyat got 10 grid places penalty for using a fifth engine in 2015. **Ricciardo got 10 grid places penalty for using a fifth engine in 2015. ***Button got 25 grid places penalty for using a 6th turbocharger, a 6th MGU-H, a 5th engine and a 5th MGU-K. ****Alonso got 25 grid places penalty for a 5th engine, a 5th turbocharger, a 5th MGU-H and an unscheduled gearbox change.

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Remus

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2 4 160

152 kg

Schlossgold

Rauch

6 190

8 315

Rindt

6 250

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Würth Kurve

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154 kg

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Castrol Edge

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154 kg

155 kg

GEAR 5.4 g

Total driver pedal load

7 240 SPEED km/h

Circuit Strategy by UBS With the shortest lap of the season at less than 70 seconds, the grid is always tight which means qualifying is crucial. The four long straights also mean that getting past a car which has good straight-line speed is not easy. Track temperatures can vary a lot from day to day making tyre performance hard to judge. The timing of the pitstops is key though because this is a track where the aggressive ‘undercut’ - pitting before your rival to force him to come in earlier than planned - certainly works for a team that can look after the tyres better than its rivals.

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Race distance: 71 laps / 307.020 km Fastest lap: Nico Rosberg 1:11.235 (on lap 35) 1 2* 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Nico Rosberg Lewis Hamilton Felipe Massa Sebastian Vettel Valtteri Bottas Nico Hülkenberg Pastor Maldonado Max Verstappen Sergio Pérez Daniel Ricciardo Felipe Nasr Daniil Kvyat Marcus Ericsson Roberto Merhi

Mercedes Mercedes Williams / Mercedes Ferrari Williams / Mercedes Force India / Mercedes Lotus / Mercedes Toro Rosso / Renault Force India / Mercedes Red Bull R / Renault Sauber / Ferrari Red Bull R / Renault Sauber / Ferrari Marussia / Ferrari

Retired Romain Grosjean (Lotus / Mercedes) on lap 36 **Carlos Sainz (Toro Rosso / Renault) on lap 36 Jenson Button (McLaren / Honda) on lap 9 Will Stevens (Marussia / Ferrari) on lap 2 Kimi Räikkönen (Ferrari) on lap 1 Fernando Alonso (McLaren / Honda) on lap 1

1:30:16.930 +8.800 +17.573 +18.181 +53.604 +1:04.075 +1 Lap +1 Lap +1 Lap +1 Lap +1 Lap +1 Lap +2 Laps +3 Laps

Gearbox failure Power Unit failure Electrical failure Oil leak Collision Collision

*5-second penalty for crossing the line at the pit exit **5-second penalty for speeding in the pit lane

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326.1 km/h Top speed – Hamilton/qualifying 1 Safety car period (6 laps) 21 Pit stops 17 Overtakes

Used supersoft (32 laps)

TYRE

3 leaders Rosberg – 67 laps, Hamilton - 3, Vettel - 1

TYRE WINNING STRATEGY

margin of victory

Nico Rosberg (Mercedes)

STATISTICS 8.800 STATISTICS

71 LAPS

After his 40th podium finish in his Formula 1 career, Felipe Massa needs only two more to reach in the all time standing Damon Hill and Mark Webber.

New medium (39 laps)

WORLD FASTEST STANDING LAP WORLD STANDING

FASTEST LAP 1:11.689

1:11.235

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WEATHER WEATHER

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Cloudy

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Track 27-35ºC

14-16ºC

Humidity 42-48%

1 Lewis Hamilton 2 Nico Rosberg 3 Sebastian Vettel 4 Kimi Räikkönen 5 Valtteri Bottas 6 Felipe Massa 7 Daniel Ricciardo 8 Daniil Kvyat 9 Nico Hülkenberg 10 Romain Grosjean 11 Felipe Nasr 12 Sergio Pérez 13 Pastor Maldonado 14 Max Verstappen 15 Carlos Sainz 16 Marcus Ericsson 17 Jenson Button

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BAD TIMING Text: Miklós Vég / Photos: Force India, Williams, Porsche

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Before getting into Formula 1, Nico Hulkenberg had won everything that a young driver could. He is a former German Formula BMW champion, he won the recently forgotten A1GP, he was the best in the Formula 3 Euro Series, and he clinched the GP2 title in his rookie season. It was not surprising that right after he entered into the premier class, where in his first season he also caught some attention because like a young engineer he produced a few parts handmade and also – according the management’s declaration – he was helping in design some important parts too.

This is how his F1 history began. In 2010 (during his first F1 season) everyone was convinced that he would be one of the great future champions. Supporting this, he took his first pole position in Brasil. Later after being ’forced’ to move to Force India in 2012, he finished 4th in Belgium (holding up a Ferrari and a Red Bull too), then in Brasil he was yet again leading the race for a while, but because of a mistake he eventually finished 5th. At the end of 2013 he had some nice moments with Sauber. In Italy he finished 5th after a genial qualifying, while in South Korea he finished 4th ahead of Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton.

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This was the season when he negotiated with Ferrari, but in the end he didn’t get a chance so he returned to Force India, where he attracted attention to himself many times, but it was more and more visible that he was stuck in the middle field. All his effort, all his work and results were for nothing as he never got a possibility from the big ones. The question ’why’ was asked by many several times.

The answer is really complex, but the question can be answered easily: he is in the right place (means the Formula 1), but at the wrong time.

Nowadays most of the young drivers arrive to F1 from talent academies (like the success of Lewis Hamilton and the McLaren or Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull) and then in a short period of time they are already at one of the top teams. Their career had been arranged since their teenage years, however, talent, strength and the right attitude is also needed. But Hülkenberg doesn’t come from any driving academy.

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Then there is an other group, the young drivers with strong financial background, sponsors or a support of a company from an aspiring motorsport-nation (the drivers who are often branded as money-drivers, but the massive financial background doesn’t mean necessarily that they are lacking of talent). It’s not needed to say that Hülkenberg doesn’t have any big company behind him, and he cannot even depend on German support as there are several other big talents who are from the same nation and who achieve better results.

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Without doubt HĂźlkenberg is not in an easy situation, and hopelessness affected his motivation when Porsche appeared!

According to their agreement last year, the young German participated in the WEC Belgian round, the Le Mans 24-hour race with the factory’s LMP1 team, and also with a huge surprise they won the epic French race.

In the best possible moment! Success not only gave him his the faith back (in Austria we could see him with big smile on his face every time), but he has been put back on the map of top teams, which he needed a lot as being 27, he not only has to compete with his opponents, but against time as well...

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Ken Block burns tyres of Hoonicorn Mustang

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We were lucky enough also during FoS that the VIP guest tweeted, posted a lot.

The most active was Ken Block without any doubt.

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’What an atmosphere! What a live paddock! Not like Formula 1. I love it!’

Exclamied the enthusiastic Maurizio Arrivabene, team principal of the Scuderia Ferrari over MotoGP on the morning of the Italian GP. He was talking about his passion for the two-wheeled world an Valentino Rossi, but the sharp ears can hear more.

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How is it to be here again?

Ferrari is a job, a passion, but the old passion are the bikes. Mugello equals to Ferrari, so I couldn’t wait to come here and return at least as a guest.

Who is going to win the race?

I’m a big fan of Vale as he IS MotoGP. Thanks to the things he has done already and what he is still doing for the sport.

Then I worked a lot of years for Ducati, so also Ducati is a big passion for me. Seeing these three Italians, Iannone, Dovizioso and Vale fight for the victory would be the best.

But how is it possible to find the balance between the love for Ducati and Valentino?

How is it possible to support all of them?

Listen, it’s really easy. I support Italy. Ducati was a job, so it’s a thing that reminds me of the old times. I always feel a bit of melancholy, sadness when I’m thinking about what would have been if Valentino had the bike of today.

You saw the difficult years of Ducati and Ferrari too. Now there is some improvement on both sides.

I think that they are ahead of us a lot. Dall’Igna has all the knowledge and ability to understand the priority of the technical things, exactly what Valentino were asking few years ago.

But what do you think about the regulation of MotoGP? Lot of people say that Ducati has too much advantage.

I would prefer to talk about the way how MotoGP is presented, much better than Formula 1. You arrive at the paddock which is full of people with all their enthusiasm, what a beautiful atmosphere.

This is the way to do it. Not keeping the paddock exclusive. What does exclusive mean? Empty?

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But also have a look at the public area.

It’s packed. If a stone would be thrown there it would not hit the ground.

All it means that the MotoGP is communicated really well and this is what the F1 should follow too.

Yes, but we cannot forget that we are in Mugello now. One of the most iconic locations.

Like the Monza for F1. The Italian Grand Prix in Formula 1 is Monza. If you ask me which are the most important circuits for the MotoGP, I say Assen, Jerez and Mugello. Meanwhile for the Formula 1, they are Hockenheim (what we don’t have anymore), Spa Francorchamps, Silverstone and Monza.

It wasn’t the first time that Arrivabene criticized the restrictions on the paddock passes in F1.

During the winter test in Barcelona provocatively he was sitting outside in the grandstand with Esteban Gutierrez and some other Ferrari team members.

It wasn’t the first time that Arrivabene criticized the restrictions on the paddock passes in F1. During the winter test in Barcelona provocatively he was sitting out grandstand with Esteban Gutierrez and some other Ferrari team members.

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Briefly Jorge Lorenzo did it. For win in a row. What a series, what a Poker.

There was no bluff as he was leading the whole race, which also means that he led 118 laps continously since Jerez.

Also this is his longest winning series in his MotoGP career.

The key moment for the victory was the qualification. As Valentino Rossi said after the race, starting from the third row it’s impossible to win.

Thanks to the lot of crashes Dani Pedrosa finished third. The Honda rider arrived back to the podium after a really difficult period, missing three races beacuse of this arm pump problem and operation. But still the 20 seconds difference between him and the Yamaha riders is too much. Marc Márquez crashed out again like in Mugello.

After this race it’s like to restart the season. Valentino Rossi had a 29 points advantage on Jorge Lorenzo after Argentina, now only a single point divides them.

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I felt that someone touched me on lap 3 and then I saw a rider wide really fast, but I was not sure who it was, I couldn’t see either the colours. I tought that it was Maverick or Aleix. If he touches me just a bit harder, I could crash too.

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This was one of my hardest races. Especially the last 10 laps.

Valentino was riding so well today. I tried to keep the two seconds of gap, but suddenly in lap he recovered six tens. Also before I was risking a lot and I was going on the limit, but that time I said to myself ’Jorge you have to push even harder, risking more also risking the crash. Normally I don’t do this, but today I had to otherwise Valentino could overtake me.

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Of course my target was to finish the race. Today was the day that I felt to be closer to the two Yamahas. In the first two laps I felt strong behind Jorge, but as you could see, we still have problem with the corner entry.

Riding alone during a practices is one thing, but managing the slides with other riders close to you, it’s a completely different thing.

Finally I decided to go wild, but I saw that the wall was coming fast, so I left the bike.

Yes, I’m disappointed because again we lost many points, but as I said already yesterday, in this situation I have to take more risk. Finishing 20 seconds after the two Yamaha, just for staying on bike, it’s not my style.

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WEATHER

Circuit de Barcelona • Montmeló, Spain • 05-0

MOTOGP AIR 28ºC

HUMIDITIY

TRACK 49ºC

46%

RACE: 25 laps / 118.175 km STARTERS: 24 POLE POSITION: Aleix Espargaró 1:40.546 new best lap FASTEST LAP: Marc Márquez 1:42.219 (lap 2)

TYRE ALLOCATION FRONT SLICKS

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Medium

Hard

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Soft

Medium

1.

Jorge Lorenzo

Movistar Yamaha MotoGP 42:5

2.

Valentino Rossi

Movistar Yamaha MotoGP +0.8

3.

Dani Pedrosa

Repsol Honda Team

+19.

4.

Andrea Iannone

Ducati Team

+24.

5.

Bradley Smith

Monster Yamaha Tech 3

+27.

6.

Maverick Viñales

Team SUZUKI ECSTAR

+29.

7.

Scott Redding

EG 0,0 Marc VDS

+36.

8.

Stefan Bradl

Athinà Forward Racing

+42.

9.

Danilo Petrucci

Octo Pramac Racing

+49.

10.

Álvaro Bautista

Aprilia Racing Team Gresini +52.

11.

Jack Miller

CWM LCR Honda

+53.

12.

Eugene Laverty

Aspar MotoGP Team

+55.

13.

Loris Baz

Athinà Forward Racing

+55.

14.

Mike di Meglio

Avintia Racing

+1:0

15.

Alex De Angelis

E-Motion IodaRacing Team +1:2

16.

Héctor Barberá

Avintia Racing

REAR SLICKS - FACTORY NOT CLASSIFIED

Medium

Hard

Aleix Espargaró (Team Suzuki Ecstar) on lap 21 Nicky Hayden (Aspar MotoGP Team) on lap 14 Marco Melandri (Aprilia Racing Team Gresini) on lap 7 Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) on lap 7 Pol Espargaró (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) on lap 5 Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda Team) on lap 4 Cal Crutchlow (CWM LCR Honda) on lap 4 Yonny Hernandez (Octo Pramac Racing) on lap 3

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1 Valentino Rossi

ITA

Yamaha

138

3 Andrea Iannone

ITA

Ducati

94

4 Andrea Dovizioso

ITA

Ducati

83

5 Marc Márquez

SPA

Honda

69

6 Bradley Smith

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Yamaha

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7 Cal Crutchlow

GBR

Honda

47

8 Maverick Viñales

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Suzuki

46

9 Pol Espargaró

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Yamaha

45

10 Dani Pedrosa

SPA

Honda

39

11 Danilo Petrucci

ITA

Ducati

39

12 Aleix Espargaró

SPA

Suzuki

31

13 Scott Redding

2 Jorge Lorenzo

RECORDS Circuit record: 1:42.182 M. Márquez (2014) Best pole: 1:40.893 D. Pedrosa (2013) Fastest race: 42:56.914 min M. Márquez (2014) 2014 Winner: Marc Márquez

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Ducati

26

15 Héctor Barberá

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16 Loris Baz

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17 Álvaro Bautista

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18 Jack Miller

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19 Stefan Bradl

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20 Michele Pirro

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21 Nicky Hayden

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Honda

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22 Eugene Laverty

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SAT 55 797

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GBR

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07 June, 2015 12:21 Weather: sunny

Air 27ºC

Track 45ºC

Humiditiy 48%

Race: 23 laps / 108.721 km Started: 32 • Finished: 26 Pole position: Johann Zarco 1:45.895 new best lap Fastest lap: Álex Rins 1:46.474 (lap 2) new record POINT SCORERS 1 Johann Zarco 2 Álex Rins 3 Tito Rabat

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4 Sam Lowes (GBR / Speed Up) +3.914; 5 Luis Salom (SPA / Kalex) +7.080; 6 Thomas Lüthi (SWI / Kalex) +7.383; 7 Jonas Folger (GER / Kalex) +8.839; 8 Franco Morbidelli (ITA / Kalex) +10.352; 9 Dominique Aegerter (SWI / Kalex) +10.638; 10 Lorenzo Baldassarri (ITA / Kalex) +10.730; 11 Álex Márquez (SPA / Kalex) +11.052; 12 Mika Kallio (FIN / Kalex) +16.338; 13 Simone Corsi (ITA / Kalex) +16.649; 14 Hafizh Syahrin (MAL / Kalex) +19.584; 15 Julián Simon (SPA / Speed Up) +19.657

WORLD STANDING 1 (-) 2 (-) 3 (↑1) 4 (↓1) 5 (↑1) 6 (↓1) 7 (-) 8 (-) 9 (↑5) 10 (-) 11 (↓2)

Johann Zarco Tito Rabat Sam Lowes Thomas Lüthi Álex Rins Jonas Folger Franco Morbidelli Xavier Simeon Luis Salom Mika Kallio Julián Simon

FRA SPA GBR SWI SPA GER ITA BEL SPA FIN SPA

Kalex Kalex Speed Up Kalex Kalex Kalex Kalex Kalex Kalex Kalex Speed Up

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9

17 5

12

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An other perfect job by Danny Kent, who finished on the top again from the 6th place, where he was still riding in the penultimate lap. How close was it? The first six riders crossed the finish line within a second, Just centimeters were missing for Enea Bastianini to take his first ever win, but also this time the tiny bit difference (0.035 seconds) wasn’t on his side.

To make the Leopard Team happier EfrĂŠn VĂĄzquez finished third.

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CLASSIFICATION 07 June, 2015 11:01 Weather sunny

Air 26ºC

Trac 37ºC

Race: 22 laps / 103.994 km Started: 34 • Finished: 28 Pole position: Enea Bastianini 1:50.137 new be Fastest lap: Efrén Vázquez 1:50.606 (lap 12) new POINT SCORERS 1 Danny Kent 2 Enea Bastianini 3 Efrén Vázquez

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Honda Honda Honda

40:5 +0.0 +0.6

4 Niccolò Antonelli (ITA / Honda) +0.687; 5 Miguel Ol 6 Jorge Navarro (SPA / Honda) +0.913; 7 Isaac Viñales 8 Romano Fenati (ITA / KTM) +8.917; 9 Brad Binder (R 10 Philipp Öettl (GER / KTM) +14.968; 11 Jorge Martin 12 Andrea Locatelli (ITA / Honda) +17.340; 13 Niklas A 14 Fabio Quartararo (FRA / Honda) +19.320; 15 Maria +19.366

FALLS 1

16 11

4

ck ºC

Humidity 46%

est lap record

59.419 minutes 035 secs 600

liveira (POR / KTM) +0.827; s (SPA / Husqvarna) +8.871; RSA / KTM) +11.068; n (SPA / Mahindra) +16.596; Ajo (FIN / KTM) +19.086; a Herrera (SPA / Husqvarna)

Friday Saturday Sunday (Total 15 in 2014)

WORLD STANDING 1 (-) 2 (-) 3 (↑1) 4 (↑1) 5 (↓2) 6 (-) 7 (↑2) 8 (↓1) 9 (↓1) 10 (↑1)

Danny Kent Enea Bastianini Miguel Oliveira Efrén Vázquez Romano Fenati Isaac Viñales Brad Binder Fabio Quartararo Francesco Bagnaia Niccolò Antonelli

GBR ITA POR SPA ITA SPA RSA FRA ITA ITA

Honda Honda KTM Honda KTM Husqvarna KTM Honda Mahindra Honda

FULL RIDERS AND CONSTRUCTORS CHAMPIONSHIP CLASSIFICATIONS

149 98 77 76 75 64 57 54 50 42

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MOTOGP WAS PART OF HIS LIFE SINCE HE WAS BORN. HOWEVER, TEN YEARS AGO HE STILL HAD NO IDEA HOW TO RIDE A ROAD RACING BIKE AS HE COMES FROM MOTOCROSS. NOW HE RIDES WITH THE TOP RIDERS OF THE WORLD, THIS YEAR WITH PRAMAC DUCATI, A SATELLITE TEAM. HE IS ONE OF THE NICEST GUYS IN THE PADDOCK SMILING MOST OF THE TIME, BUT YOU WILL LEARN SOON THAT HE CAN ALSO GET ANGRY QUITE EASILY. HE IS TRYING TO FOLLOW THE FOOTSTEPS OF HIS IDOL, LORIS CAPIROSSI ON AND OFF THE TRACK, THAT’S WHY HE WANTED TO BE A POLICEMAN TOO!

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I heard that you are a real perfectionist.

Sometimes maybe too much. What if things don’t go as you imagined?

I get angry a lot. Perhaps I take it a little bit too far. It’s fine for me, but for others it’s already too much.

Are you short-tempered in your private life as well?

Even worse. I get angry really often, but I’m learning to be better person also in this point of view.

What makes you get angry?

The people who make me wait. But my weakest point is when things don’t go as I predicted.

When I am 100% sure of myself and things are not going well, I get angry.

And how can you calm down? Who or what can help you?

Well, it passes by itself basically. Five minutes and it’s already all gone.

So do you prefer to stay alone? Even your girlfriend (Irene Saderini, reporter of the Italian Sky TV) cannot help you?

No-no. Also because most of the time she is the one who gets me angry (he laughs).

In Mugello your focus went a bit on Michele Pirro. Not only because he also rides a Ducati, but he is a policeman too, so there was a joke about who would be the fastest cop on track.

Could you please explain what does it mean exactly? Being a policeman in your case.

It is strange, indeed. Especially for people who are not Italian. I do not know whether you remember, but Capirossi was a policeman too.

I was a huge Capirossi fan because my dad worked for the team of Loris. Still he works in the paddock this year with Leopard Racing.

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So since I was born my dad had been working with Loris until 1995, so growing up my hero was Loris. I wanted to race motorcycles as he did and I wanted to become ’Fiamme Oro’. (the sport section of the Italian police force Polizia di Stato – the editor) But what does it mean exactly?

So all the branches of the Italian Armed Forces, the ground force, the Carabinieri (military police), the navy, the air force, then the Poliziotti (Police) and fire fighters have their own sporting team.

Basically it’s a way in Italia for helping the athletes. Because most of them just cannot make a living as a mere athlete. Do you remember the ski racer Alberto Tomba? He was a Carabinieri.

Or also Valentina Vezzali is a Poliziotta. So being a member of the team allows you to get a salary.

To become part of the Fiamma Oro, you have to do a lot. First of all there is a selection every year.

You have to bring your CV with your last year’s results. There is only one or two places per year, it depends on the sport.

For the moto racers for example, there is only one place at the Police all the other military bodies don’t have place for us.

If you pass the selection you have a one year course ahead of you, where you learn to shoot, the law, everything. At the end you become a policeman.

For the Italian State I’m a policeman hundred percent (I have the card, the handcuffs, the gun etc.) but I don’t do normal service. My service is the sport.

After Loris I was the first Police on track again, I finished the course in 2011.

Later Simone Corsi and Michele Pirro became a policeman too and now also Bastiannini is in his way even if he is still not 18.

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I see you really different comparing to last year.

Last year I had a really difficult period.

Especially before getting injured. The team had many financial problems, we didn’t do any test before arriving to Qatar, so I hadn’t even ridden the bike before. It was really tough also because nothing was working…

We did not have the people to work, the team was in big trouble and we didn’t know anything about that engine, electronics etc. I began to become afraid, because the bike didn’t do what I wanted.

I was afraid to hurt myself. Fortunately or unfortunately, when I decided to make a step backwards, life intervenes. In Jerez we said ’we have to do something otherwise there will be a problem’. The team was working all night long to find a solution. Then during the warm up the bike accelerated alone…I broke my wrist.

It was fortunate, because only before this, I wanted to stop racing. I said Jerez and that’s it.

I do not enjoy being afraid. I like to ride a motorcycle, but not like this. I don’t do things I don’t like and I didn’t like it all.

Also I didn’t get any money from the team.

Health is before everything, I believe.

But after four races you came back…

Being stopped I had time to rethink everything. I thought that if I give up, you lost. Yes in Jerez I really thought about stopping, but then I continued.

But something has changed after all. I started to work on myself, to change my mentality and to take everything a bit easier, I felt that I had to do something different to make my life change. On the outside I cut my hair and I also got a tattoo.

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So finally the love of riding the bike won.

Have you ever had any other option in your head?

Since I was a little child, I wanted to race. I always saw my daddy in the TV and I was really proud of him. Even if in school it was really difficult.

You know, if you are different, they always attack you. I mean if you don’t have the newest shoes, they tease you. If you don’t play football with them after the school, they tease you. Or if you don’t go out every Saturday or if you have a van instead of a car like I had. But me I just wanted to ride a bike, so I resisted all the other things. Now my former classmates maybe want to live my life.In the end I proved that I was right.

Couldn’t have been an easy period…

Well, my teachers didn’t understand me either. Few of them supported me, but most of them hated me. Once one of the mistresses examined me and I didn’t know anything because I missed a week having a race. ’But do you think you will make a living on this’ – she asked. I do not know - I said - but even in Latin. After I met her. I do not know whether she remembers this situation, but finally she is very proud of me, because she always sees the articles about me.

Both your father and girlfriend is working in the paddock, so they are with you during the races. Does it help you?

Last year the only good thing was to have my dad in the box next to me. It was the only year that we worked together. It was really comfortable. Now I know that he still watches me all the time and it makes me happy.

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But with my girlfriend we see each other rarely during the races. In this world it’s difficult to have a relationship because at the end of the day, you are here to work. Often something goes wrong, that makes you angry and it’s difficult to handle it. I think a working place is not a place to meet a person in general. I would like to spend more time with her, but it’s difficult. Nevertheless, at the end of the day I’m glad to have her here, and I’m also glad that I can be here.

Well after your last season it’s a big change where you are now.

Last year in Misano I decided to go to Superbike and to leave MotoGP. I had some offers here too, but I didn’t like them too much. I said ’well let’s go to WSBK with a Ducati and try to win’. The Monday after Misano was the day to sign the contract. The Friday before the race in the afternoon I got a call from Francesco Guidotti without any previous sign saying that they had decided to take me. When the phone rang I was reading my WSBK contract in front of me. I said okay, good for me it’s good. ’But don’t you want to know what kind of bike you will ride?’ – he asked. ’Yes, tell me’. - I answered. And now I’m here.

What was the first thing you did after this great news?

Shortly before I had to go to Dr. Zasa (Michele Zasa, leader of the Clinica Mobile – the editor) with my wrist, he asked me whether I knew someone who can take in two dogs who were waiting for a new owner.

After my talk with Guidotti I said: seeing that someone has helped me I have to help someone too.

So I called Michele and I told him that I would take care of the two dogs. I gave them the names Gas and Tex even if they are both girls.

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AFTER THE PRE-EVENT PRESS CONFERENCE IN MUGELLO, THERE IS NO DOUBT, THAT DANILO SHOULD BE INVITED MORE OFTEN. ALREADY WITH HIS FIRST SENTENCE, HE BECAME THE STAR OF THE DAY.

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Sincerely, I don’t know why I’m here, because all of these guys can talk about podium, podium and podium… I think I’m close to the podium only because the podium (Márquez, Lorenzo, Rossi, Dovizioso, Iannone) is just right next to me.

On Sunday being in the top10 would be already a great result for me. It’s already like a dream. You know 10 years ago I was watching the races from the sofa without never ever riding a road racing bike before. Being here now is a great success for me. Now I have another 10 years going back to the sofa.

Yes, this year I look different but only because the other seasons I was joking.  Apart from the joke. After the first test in Valencia my team manager, Francesco Guidotti said to me: ’Ok, you are really fast, but now let’s weigh you.’

Clearly, I weighed too much for a bike, so I had to lose some kilos. I worked really hard during the winter.

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Danilo has opened his family photo album for us.

And clearly we cannot miss the Police group picture from the MotoGP paddock.

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TRICKY CHICA

Text: Niki Kovรกcs / Photos: 2SNAP, Yamaha

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Valentino Rossi had a clear target before the weekend, improve his qualifying performance and he did it. It was ’only’ his 60th pole position (18,8 %) out of his 319 starts which is almost half of the number of his 110 win (34,5%) till the 2015 Dutch TT. During the race his only opponent was Marc Márquez who after Catalunya went back to his 2014 chassis (with the new swingarm). Rossi couldn’t take an advantage during the race, then with six laps to go he made a mistake and Márquez took the lead. But in the penultimate lap he ran his best laptime during the race and overtook back the Spaniard.

So the final decision left for the very last corners, for the chicane that could tell its stories for hours.

What happened after is history now. (For more have a look also on our ’Topic of the month’) Rossi took an other unforgettable, spectacular and divisive victory.

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Results Formula-1

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Dutch GP

WEATHER

TT Circuit Assen • Assen, Netherlands • 25-27

MOTOGP AIR 20ºC

HUMIDITIY

TRACK 30ºC

66%

RACE: 26 laps / 118.092 km STARTERS: 24 POLE POSITION: Valentino Rossi 1:32.627 new best lap FASTEST LAP: Marc Márquez 1:33.617 (lap 4) new record

TYRE ALLOCATION FRONT SLICKS

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Soft

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REAR SLICKS - OPEN

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1.

Valentino Rossi

Movistar Yamaha MotoGP 40:5

2.

Marc Márquez

Repsol Honda Team

3.

Jorge Lorenzo

Movistar Yamaha MotoGP +14

4.

Andrea Iannone

Ducati Team

+19

5.

Pol Espargaró

Monster Yamaha Tech 3

+24

6.

Cal Crutchlow

CWM LCR Honda

+24

7.

Bradley Smith

Monster Yamaha Tech 3

+24

8.

Dani Pedrosa

Repsol Honda Team

+24

9.

Aleix Espargaró

Team SUZUKI ECSTAR

+26

10.

Maverick Viñales

Team SUZUKI ECSTAR

+27

11.

Danilo Petrucci

Octo Pramac Racing

+29

12.

Andrea Dovizioso

Ducati Team

+29

13.

Scott Redding

EG 0,0 Marc VDS

+46

14.

Yonny Hernandez

Octo Pramac Racing

+49

15.

Loris Baz

Athinà Forward Racing

+52

16.

Nicky Hayden

Aspar MotoGP Team

+56

17.

Álvaro Bautista

Aprilia Racing Team Gresini +59

18.

Mike di Meglio

Avintia Racing

19.

Marco Melandri

Aprilia Racing Team Gresini 1 La

NOT CLASSIFIED Alex De Angelis (E-Motion IodaRacing Team) on lap 24 Eugene Laverty (Aspar MotoGP Team) on lap 16 Stefan Bradl (Athinà Forward Racing) on lap 6

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RECORDS Circuit record: 1:34.548 D. PEDROSA (2012) Best pole: 1:33.462 M. Márquez (2014) Fastest race: 41:19.855 min C. Stoner (2012) 2014 Winner: Marc Márquez

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WORLD STANDING 1 Valentino Rossi

ITA

Yamaha

163

2 Jorge Lorenzo

SPA

Yamaha

153

3 Andrea Iannone

ITA

Ducati

107

4 Marc Márquez

SPA

Honda

69

5 Andrea Dovizioso

ITA

Ducati

87

6 Bradley Smith

GBR

Yamaha

77

7 Cal Crutchlow

GBR

Honda

57

8 Pol Espargaró

SPA

Yamaha

56

9 Maverick Viñales

SPA

Suzuki

52

10 Dani Pedrosa

SPA

Honda

47

11 Danilo Petrucci

ITA

Ducati

44

12 Aleix Espargaró

SPA

Suzuki

38

13 Scott Redding

GBR

Honda

30

14 Yonny Hernandez COL

Ducati

28 16

15 Héctor Barberá

SPA

Ducati

Thursday

16 Loris Baz

FRA

Yamaha Forward 14

Friday

17 Álvaro Bautista

SPA

Aprilia

11

Saturday

18 Jack Miller

AUS

Honda

11

(Total 4 in 2014)

19 Stefan Bradl

GER

Yamaha Forward 9

20 Michele Pirro

ITA

Ducati

8

21 Nicky Hayden

USA

Honda

8

NOT FINISHED 1ST LAP

22 Eugene Laverty

GBR

Honda

7

Héctor Barberá (Avintia Racing) Jack Miller (CWM LCR Honda)

23 Hiroshi Aoyama

JPN

Honda

5

24 Mike di Meglio

FRA

Ducati

2

1

9.857

14.513

7

ap

6

25 Alex De Angelis RSM ART 1 FULL RIDERS AND CONSTRUCTORS CHAMPIONSHIP CLASSIFICATIONS

Briefly

BEFORE THE BACKFLIP

The original race was red flagged in the first lap, because of the oil came out from Luis Salom’s bike after his crash.

The new, 16 laps race was led by Jonas Folger in the first half. Then it was Tito Rabat who was trying to build a gap, but just like in the previous race, Johann Zarco arrived.

The frenchman was unbeatable again who celebrated his victory with his trademark backflip.

After three 4th place Sam Lowes could stand to the podium again.

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CLASSI

27 June, 2015 12

Weath sunny clouds

Race: 16 laps / 7 Started: 30 • Fin Pole position: Jo Fastest lap: Tito

POINT SCORER 1 Johann Zarco 2 Tito Rabat 3 Sam Lowes

4 Álex Rins (SPA / 6 Xavier Simeon (B 8 Mika Kallio (FIN 10 Simone Corsi ( +11.749; 12 Domi Nakagami (JPN / K +20.468; 15 Hafizh

WORLD STANDING

IFICATION

2:46

her: with s

Air 21ºC

Track 30ºC

Humiditiy 68%

72.672 km nished: 25 ohann Zarco 1:36.346 new best lap o Rabat 1:37.449 (lap 6) new record

RS

FRA SPA GBR

Kalex Kalex Speed Up

26:13.410 minutes +0.757 secs +2.080

1 (-) 2 (-) 3 (-) 4 (-) 5 (-) 6 (-) 7 (-) 8 (-) 9 (↑1) 10 (↑1)

Johann Zarco Tito Rabat Sam Lowes Thomas Lüthi Álex Rins Jonas Folger Franco Morbidelli Xavier Simeon Mika Kallio Julián Simon

FRA SPA GBR SWI SPA GER ITA BEL FIN SPA

Kalex Kaley Speed Up Kalex Kalex Kalex Kalex Kalex Kalex Speed Up

159 114 96 89 87 75 62 59 43 40

FULL RIDERS AND CONSTRUCTORS CHAMPIONSHIP CLASSIFICATIONS

/ Kalex) +3.738; 5 Thomas Lüthi (SWI / Kalex) +4.530; BEL / Kalex) +5.045; 7 Jonas Folger (GER / Kalex) +6.140; / Kalex) +8.105; 9 Álex Márquez (SPA / Kalex) +8.376; (ITA / Kalex) +9.670; 11 Julián Simon (SPA / Speed Up) inique Aegerte r (SWI / Kalex) +17.537; 13 Takaaki Kalex) +18.104; 14 Randy Krummenacher (SWI / Kalex) h Syahrin (MAL / Kalex) +20.894

FALLS 2

3

12 7

Friday Saturday Sunday (Total 18 in 2014)

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SLIDING FIN(N)ISH The man and the moment of the day was Niklas Ajo and his arrive to the finish line. The finn rider made a misake in the very last chicane so he almost crashed.

Somehow he managed to hold himself next to his bike finishing the race in a never seen way, sliding on his knee.

The action was really spectacular, but costed him a lot of points loosing his 8th place.

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Briefly

The leader group was made by sever riders this time fighting till the last moment. Miguel Oliveira made the best movement before the last chicane. Thanks to this he won his second race in front of Fabio Quartararo and Danny Kent.

Briefly

CLASSIFICATION 27 June, 2015 11:02 Weather sunny with clouds

Air 19ºC

Track 25ºC

Humidity 81%

Race: 22 laps / 99.924 km Started: 36 • Finished: 28 Pole position: Enea Bastianini 1:41.283 new best lap Fastest lap: Jorge Navarro 1:42.135 (lap 16) POINT SCORERS 1 Miguel Oliveira POR 2 Fabio Quartararo FRA 3 Danny Kent GBR

KTM Honda Honda

37:54.427 minutes +0.066 secs +0.117

4 Jorge Navarro (SPA / Honda) +0.179; 5 Romano Fenati (ITA / KTM) +0.252; 6 Enea Bastianini (ITA / Honda) +0.526; 7 Brad Binder (RSA / KTM) +0.540; 8 Karel Hanika (CZE / KTM) +21.406; 9 Niccolò Antonelli (ITA / Honda) +21.472; 10 John McPhee (GBR / Honda) +21.663; 11 Francesco Bagnaia (ITA / Mahindra) +21.693; 12 Andrea Migno (ITA / KTM) +21.723; 13 Livio Loi (BEL / Honda) +22.024; 14 Hiroki Ono (JPN / Honda) +22.204; 15 Philipp Öettl (GER / KTM) +22.596

FALLS 7

Friday

5

Saturday

20

Sunday

8

(Total 16 in 2014)

WORLD STANDING 1 (-) 2 (-) 3 (-) 4 (↑1) 5 (↓1) 6 (↑2) 7 (-) 8 (↓2) 9 (-) 10 (-)

Danny Kent Enea Bastianini Miguel Oliveira Romano Fenati Efrén Vázquez Fabio Quartararo Brad Binder Isaac Viñales Francesco Bagnaia Niccolò Antonelli

GBR ITA POR ITA SPA FRA RSA SPA ITA ITA

Honda Honda KTM KTM Honda Honda KTM Husqvarna Mahindra Honda

FULL RIDERS AND CONSTRUCTORS CHAMPIONSHIP CLASSIFICATIONS

165 108 102 86 76 74 66 64 55 49

THE MAGI OF TATTO Text and photos: Niki Kovรกcs

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My body is my journal and

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Background

Álvaro B

During the winter of 2013/14 I got the first (on my left) of these birds.

Their are swallows. Golondira (in Spanish) is a symbol of liberty and it’s also nice. This winter then I got the other bird to have them as a couple and also I have the kiss of my girlfriend, Grace.

The gun comes from a film that I saw with Tom Cruise and I really liked that he had the gun there every time.

This was my first tattoo ever, a Chinese writing. I have never told to anyone the meaning, it’s a secret.

It’s from 2003. It was a long time that I wanted a tattoo, but I was thinking about only one.

Then I loved it so much, so I knew to have others later.

Bautista

MotoGP

In the summer of 2014 I got the symbol of scorpion together with the cross on my calf.

After a bit of break I got this saying: only with a positive mindset, you can get positive things.

It’s from 2013 when I had some difficulties, so I felt that I need it.

When I won the world championship in 2006 I knew that this is the moment for an other tattoo, as I wanted to remember that moment for ever.

This is where the no19 tattoo comes from.

When someone said to me that the numbers of the tattoos cannot be pair, I got made my name with a star same time when I had the 'XIX'.

The star is because it’s nice and this time I wanted to have a bigger one.

Finally it’s like a drog.

Background When I got my first one my parents were ok with that. After the second one my dad said, ’No it’s a fake. It must be a fake, otherwise I cut your arm.’ My mum was almost crying, but then she said that it’s nice even if it’s a too big for her.

Still now they are not so convinced, but this is how it is. I love them.

I don’t tell or show them when I have a new one, but if they realize I explain.

I never wanted to tattoo all my arm for example, but I like to have different ones at different places. It’s really nice to have all your life, the important feelings, things with you like this.

”

Grace like them. Also she had one before, but since we are together she has three more. Also she has the cross for example like my sister and me.

This is the of scorpion made it to

”

I’m t my t

This big one on my shoulder is a Japanese design and it means optimism and power. I just liked the form and the meaning too, there wasn’t any special reason to do that.

The other two tattoos are from a vacation in Thailand in 2011. They come from from Buddhism and the main meaning is protection.

This one ca mindset on saint cross this, which It brings yo Why did I they say th be impare

”

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It’s like a drog. For sure I’ll have more.

cross I got together with the symbol n. My sister has the same one, we ogether.

I just wanted a positive thing on me, as I'm a really positive guy. :)

terribly afraid of the injection or cupping, but having tattoos I just feel a bit of pain, but I’m not afraid.

ame together with the positive ne. They call it Caravaca cross, it's a s in Spain. I also have the medal of h I wear every time. ou luck and also protects you. do two at the same time? Because hat the number of your tattoos has to e every time.

”

It's a Mexican School I just mad it, because I loved it.

Same as before, I had to do two at the same time. It's from the day when I had my first swallow on my chest.

Maverick Viñales

Background I wanted to got a tattoo since I was 12-13 years old, but not flowers or stuff like this, but something with real meaning.

The reason for the first one was the fact, that my father is a really important person for me and that time he was supporting me a lot so I wanted to remember for him also in this way and he liked it a lot.

Angel is the name of my dad. I made it in 2012 before the Montmeló race.

Then suddenly, after the race I got also my surname just to celebrate my victory and to remember who I am.

The one on my back I made this year, just because of the change to move to MotoGP. It’s completely my idea, I knew all the elements I wanted to put.

I like the guns so much, because they are agressive like me on the track during overtaking for example.

The cards are just the symbol of playing as I like to play in general.

The letters are for my grandfather, José Antonio Viñales plus the M for Maverick.

There is a cross as well. I’m religious, but not in a special way.

Maybe I’ll have more, that it’s not planned yet. But if a big change comes in my life, I’m pretty sure to have other ones.

Áleix & Pol Espargaró

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I have two small tattoos only. I would like to get more, but the problem is that I’m a bit afraid of how they gonna look like when I get old. For example I really would like to get one full of my arm, but I really don’t think it fits for and older man.

I also wanted to get my dogs face on me, but still I have the same doubt.

But a small 44 I will add for sure.

So now I have my number and an „L” like Laura, my wife.

The no41 I have since 2006. This is not only a number for me, it’s much more.

The „L” we did together after our engagement in Brasil.

She as the „A” and me this one.

The 44 I got after Aleix had done the 41, because I really liked it, but I wanted to have it at a different place.

The „Never give up” one comes from a promise that I made myself. My first year in Moto2 was a disaster. During the first 10 races I could score points only twice. So I said, 'if I win or at least I finish on the podium, I'll make this tattoo to remember myself that I can do what I want if I fight strong enough'.

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