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AN ALMOST INDEPENDENT MONTHLY MAGAZINE /OCTOBER 2009 Exclusively with The Independent on the first Tuesday of every month

Boy Racers FULL THROTTLE AT 130MPH WITH THE TURBO-TWEENS

The Science of Surfing EVERYBODY’S LEARNING HOW

PLUS! CAMERON DIAZ HUGH HEFNER USAIN BOLT

Vote Bush!

WHY REGGIE BUSH IS THE SUPERSTAR-ELECT OF US FOOTBALL

This magazine sings, dances, flies and even scores a touchdown.

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THE ONLY SHOT THAT GIVES YOU WINGS.

SMALL ENOUGH TO CARRY ON, STRONG ENOUGH TO DOWNGRADE JET LAG. Whether you’re a sun-bronzed tourist or be-suited businessman, air travel can be an exhausting affair.

But stress not! At only 60ml the new Red Bull Energy Shot is small enough to take through security control,

keeping you alert while you prepare for that meeting or take in the in-flight movie. Red Bull Energy Shots are non-carbonated and served unchilled. Wings while you fly? Who could ask for more!

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PRINT GOES LIVE It’s not often that a magazine can call itself revolutionary, but we’re delighted to say this one can.

This very issue of The Red Bulletin takes us from print to Print 2.0, thanks to the incorporation of some nifty software known as ‘augmented reality’.

We’ll spare you the technical details (phew!), but the fun stuff is this: simply by holding the mag up to a computer you can take it ‘beyond the page’ and into the world-wide web. So, for example, if you hold the cover up to your laptop’s webcam, and your browser is on http://en.redbulletin.com/ print2.0, it’ll link through to a video package explaining exactly how augmented reality can enhance your reading experience in a way you almost certainly never imagined, with music, film, animations and more.

Then turn to page 5 and Red Bull Air Race ace Paul Bonhomme will give you an ‘as live’ introduction to the magazine and the world of augmented reality. Head to our Now and Next pages, find the story about Black Gold on page 20 and do the same again with the mag. Lo, you’ll find the band’s latest video on the website. Clever, eh?

Further in, you can read about Burcu Cetinkaya and Cicek Güney – the girls putting the glam into rallying – then link to exclusive interviews with them and videos of them driving flat-out… and crashing!

And we’re not done yet, no way. Our Reggie Bush cover story, on page 48, combines with an exclusive mini-movie of Reggie at home, as he talks to correspondent Jan Cremer, while page 62 will take you right into the pocket-rocket world of the Red Bull Rookie motorbike racers.

No other magazine has ever tried anything like this, and we have plenty more ideas for the future. But for now, just get your magazine and computer primed and prepare to be amazed…

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hanging out.

Meet the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 How can you not love hanging out? Hanging out is for inside jokes, secrets, updates, flirting and doing the things you’ll reminisce about the next time you hang out.

We thought hey, even if you can’t be in the same room, coffee shop or time zone, you can get together on Facebook®, Twitter™, Instant Messenger or MySpace®.

That’s why we loved building the new BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone.

Just because you’re not together, doesn’t mean you can’t hang out. So get out there and introduce yourself to the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 handset.

Available at all major stockists. Search ‘LOVE BlackBerry’.

© 2009 Research In Motion Limited. All rights reserved. BlackBerry®, RIM®, Research In Motion™, Suretype™, SurePress™ and related trademarks, names, and logos are the property of Research In Motion Limited and are registered and/or used in the U.S. and countries around the world. Screen image simulated.

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AUGMENTED REALITY IN THE RED BULLETIN

A BULLETIN BULLSEYE! There’s a remarkable and revolutionary added-extra in this very magazine.

It can connect to the internet to provide a new reading experience, incorporating film, sound and animation. We call it Print 2.0

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WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF RED BULL

Inside your augmented-reality Bulletin in October…

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12 GALLERY The month’s most vivid scenes

18 NOW AND NEXT What to see and where to be in the worlds of culture and sport 21 ME AND MY BODY Austrian female mountain biker Lisi Osl talks downhill and downtime 23 WHERE’S YOUR HEAD AT? According to Hollywood babe Cameron Diaz, it’s head-banging at the front of an AC/DC concert 24 KIT EVOLUTION Usain Bolt named his sprinting spikes after a vegetable. A gentle tug on the roots shows 1960s winner Wilma Rudolph put in the groundwork

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27 LUCKY NUMBERS The World Conker Championship may attract nuts, but its global competitors prove it’s moved out of the playground 28 WINNING FORMULA Gravity-defying trial biker Thomas Oehler regularly leaves earth for a few seconds via bicycle. Our explanation eliminates the jumps in logic

Heroes

32 BURCU CETINKAYA The girl from Istanbul is setting hearts aflutter in the male-dominated world of rallying. Side careers as a TV presenter, basketball champion and bellydancer will just have to wait

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36 WERNHER VON BRAUN The man who blasted American astronauts to the moon was a German-born aristocrat who became an unlikely star of the space race 40 HERO’S HERO Former F1 ace David Coulthard has a soft spot for Playboy and its creator Hugh Hefner. No, not that soft spot 42 BRIAN VICKERS Since making the top 12 in the NASCAR championship, Brian Vickers has been feeling the pressure, but, “Everybody likes a good hard fight, right?”

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48 REGGIE BUSH He’s the breakaway American Football star adapting to charging down reporters on Hollywood red carpets. Meet the New Orleans Saints player they’re calling the USA’s David Beckham

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56 SCIENCE OF SURFING In a sport worth $10 billion, there’s not much to choose between the top pros, so state-of-the-art technology is now being used to work on all-important technique 62 RED BULL ROOKIES We meet the teenage motorcycle tearaways who hurtle around tracks at 130mph on a Sunday before getting up for school on Monday morning 68 SKATEBOARDING IN CUBA Ryan Sheckler goes under the radar in Havana to learn how skateboarding thrives in one of the most culturally isolated places on earth

More Body & Mind

78 PROJECT COBRA Hangar-7’s Bell Cobra TAH-1F is a military helicopter with a Hollywood past. She now picks up airshow points rather than downed fictional pilots 80 F1 COMES TO ABU DHABI The United Arab Emirates will host this year’s Formula One end-of-season blowout. We look at how the hot new destination is shaping up for the future 82 GET THE GEAR Jumpers for goalposts? No chance. The NFL comes to Wembley this month, along with all the garish kit you need 84 LISTINGS Worldwide, day and night, our guide to the ultimate month-long weekend 88 NIGHTLIFE Telepathe go electro in Edinburgh, Felder Felder have designs on London and we go clubbing in Moscow 94 BULL’S EYE The art of telling a joke 96 SHORT STORY Petty rivalries and small-town pressure go under the microscope in Andrew Holmes’ parish council meeting from hell 98 STEPHEN BAYLEY The design guru sheds light on what makes sunglasses so cool FOR MORE LIKE THIS, VISIT: WWW.REDBULL.COM 09

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Wisecracks and wisdom from the world of Red Bull and beyond.

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“In the media, it’s as if two women working with a producer means we didn’t do s***, basically. We just put our names on it, right? I mean, that never happens with guys” D\c`jjX C`mXl[X`j# f] k_\ knf$^`ic# fe\$k_ldg`e^$EP:$ \c\Zkif$Y\Xk K\c\gXk_\# Zfd\j flk Ô^_k`e^ X^X`ejk j\o`jd `e k_\ dlj`Z `e[ljkip fe gX^\ 0)

“I HAD A GOOD CONVERSATION WITH MY MUM, AND I WAS LIKE, ‘I MIGHT CRASH, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO REACT IF YOU SEE ME LYING OUT THERE?’ SHE WAS LIKE, ‘WE’RE STAYING AT HOME’” =Xd`cp YXZb`e^ ]fi :_i`j 9`iZ_ nXj efk `dd\[`Xk\cp ]fik_Zfd`e^ n_\e _\ Xe[ k_\ I\[ 9lcc O$=`^_k\ij Xii`m\[ Xk Cfe[feËj 9Xkk\ij\X Gfn\i JkXk`fe

“ANOTHER TIME, I TORE THE INSIDE OF MY BOTTOM LIP AWAY FROM THE JAW. I HAD TO EAT BABY FOOD FOR A WHILE, AND YOU’VE GOT TO EAT A WHOLE LOT OF IT TO FEEL FULL” Jkl]Ôe^ k_\ Zfdg\k`k`fe Xe[# ]fi X n_`c\ YXZb k_\e# _\i ]XZ\1 8ljki`Xe dflekX`e Y`b\i C`j` Fjc% C\Xie dfi\ XYflk _\i fe gX^\ )(

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“IT’S VERY TRANSIENT – APPARENTLY IT’S THE SECOND BIGGEST TOURIST ATTRACTION IN LONDON – BUT THERE’S STILL THE GUY SELLING RAVE TAPES, WELL, CDS NOW, AND THE GUY SELLING UNDERWEAR OUTSIDE THE TUBE” K_\ Cfe\cp GcXe\k >l`[\ Kf :Xd[\e# Xj ni`kk\e Yp iXgg\i Xe[ ^iXe[ ]ifdX^\ f] k_\ I\[ 9lcc Dlj`Z 8ZX[\dp jkX^\ Xk 9\jk`mXc# Aljk AXZb

“I discovered this amazing magazine called Playboy that was read by the truckies who worked for my father. I used to read it from cover to cover – every single word.

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TRICK TREAT Taking skateboarding back to the old school

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Things to do, see and scramble over this month Motorbikes on the beach, a palace gets graffitied, snow in l ondon and a -list d Js in a car park. t his is not your normal line-up of stuff to do in o ctober. r esidents of Weston-super-Mare will be having bank h oliday flashbacks when 100,000 people descend to watch a motorised battle on its beach (above). t he Weston beach r ace is an annual free-forall for scramblers, quads and bikes with sidecars across the dunes in a three-mile sand-churning race (10-11 o ctober).

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KIT EVOLUTION

RUNNING MATES Sprinters today chase the latest fashions as well as records and dreams. Fifty years ago, runners were helped by Aussie wildlife. Do keep up

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OLD GOLD ADIDAS RENNSCHUH

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HARD & FAST Top performers and winning ways from across the globe

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LUCKY NUMBERS

WORLD CONKER CHAMPS International sport’s most cracking prize is up for grabs this month, somewhere in a field in the middle of England…

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WINNING FORMULA

HEIGHT CLUB

When we say jump, one man on his pushbike says, how high? The question then remains, how does he leap to levels others cannot reach?

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“o nce the front wheel is hooked on the tower, the friction between the wheel and the platform becomes important. o ehler has to move forward to bring his centre of mass over the edge. l ocking the front wheel, he moves his shoulders over the bars. The friction and the forward movement of the body creates a torque, which in turn adds angular momentum to the bike and the back wheel bounces up by about 90 degrees. w ith precise timing he lets the front wheel loose and pushes the bike forward by stretching his arms, landing safely on the platform. “c onservation of energy can give us an estimate of the initial velocity. The initial kinetic energy, mv²/2, has to be equal the potential energy, mgh, plus the rotational energy, Iw²/2. h ere m is the mass of the bike and rider, v is the velocity at the ramp, g is the acceleration due to gravity, h is the vertical distance, I is the moment of inertia of the bike, and w is the angular velocity of the bike.

To bring the centre of mass up to the edge of the platform and rotate the bike by 90 degrees within 200 milliseconds, the initial velocity when he reaches the ramp has to be around 25km/h.”

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HIGHER MATHEMATICS “w hat seems like a smooth ride up to a tower of pallets requires perfect timing,” says Thomas s chrefl of the s t pölten u niversity of a pplied s ciences in a ustria.

“The time between take-off from the ramp and landing the front wheel is less than a second. w ithin that time, the bike has to be both pulled and pushed, and the wheels have to be locked and

unlocked several times, in order to stop safely on a small platform – in this case, one that is just 1.6 x 1.2m in area and is 2.9m above the ground. “w ith a carefully controlled speed, v, o ehler rides over the ramp and pulls up the front wheel of the bike. h e takes off and the bike moves upwards with its wheels in vertical position; if he has too much of an initial velocity he would smash the bike into the tower. a t the time when he pulls up the bike to land the front wheel, the centre of his mass (body + bike) is about the same height as the platform. ideally, most of the initial kinetic energy has been transferred into potential energy.

w ords: Tom hall

LEAPING BEAUTY h igh jump in cycling is not like the high jump in athletics. f or starters, the bikers have a ramp to help them, but it’s only a very little one, about 50cm tall at the high point. a nd then there’s the crash mats – the cyclists don’t bother with them. Twenty-six-year-old a ustrian trials bike rider Thomas o ehler certainly didn’t have them when he made history in a ugust with a new world-record jump of 2.9m. h is is a very unique skill. “i always want to go further and higher,” says o ehler. “in order to get there i have to complete an ascent in two parts. i jump towards the obstacle, land the front wheel on top of it, then use my momentum to pull the bike up to the top. my feet never leave the pedals. “it feels really liberating to leave the ground. you’re in the air for what feels like ages, but it’s only a tiny amount of time, perhaps less than a second. w hen you hear the crowd cheer you know the job is done. “you have to have a lot of strength in your legs to get height and also in your upper body to pull the bike up. but most of this move is actually in the technique. i’ve been riding for 14 years and that practice is paying off.

“The bike i use is a cross between a street bike and a trials bike. it has a lower frame like a trials bike, but also has suspension forks for absorbing landings. most trials bikes only have rear brakes or no brakes at all, but i use strong brakes on both wheels for better control in the street: that’s where i prefer to do most of my tricks. but i like winning competitions just as much. it’s a great feeling. it makes the day better.”

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Heroes

If boundaries were meant to be pushed, these men and women were born to push them 32 BURCU CETINKAYA 36 WERNHER VON BRAUN 40 HUGH HEFNER 42 BRIAN VICKERS

HEROES

BURCU CETINKAYA Motorsport’s most eye-catching competitor is a 28-year-old former snowboard champ cum nascent rally star. Turkey’s queen of speed talks about overcoming sexism and why a ‘normal life’ is still some years off Words: Ruth Morgan Portraits: Donald Milne

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A heavy rain batters the streets outside as Burcu Cetinkaya sits in the same café in an Istanbul suburb she’s been coming to since she was a child. A few customers greet her, as do the staff, and she exudes calm despite the occasional ringing of her mobile phone and the myriad pursuits occupying her whirlwind life.

The 28-year-old multilingual former basketball and snowboarding champion is also a TV presenter for the Turkish equivalent of Top Gear. Oh, and she’s currently learning to kickbox, bellydance, do the tango and has just started stunt driving. But her biggest passion in life is the fast-paced, mud-laden and male-dominated world of rally driving.

In just four years, the ebullient blonde has impressed and surprised team bosses and fellow drivers with her speed and persistence, being described as a ‘tiger behind the wheel’ by Red Bull Rally team principal Raimund Baumschlager. Along with co-driver Cicek Güney, an equally striking Turkish snowboarding champion, Cetinkaya recently notched up her fourth victory in the Turkish Ladies Rally Championship in her Ford Fiesta ST. British fans will be able to glimpse her live later this month, when she travels to the UK for the final round of the Ford Fiesta SportTrophy International in Cardiff, which runs alongside the World Rally Championship. Last year Cetinkaya and Güney were the lone female team. This year, it will be the same.

Cetinkaya could be forgiven for having mixed feelings about her return to Wales. A top-10 finish in 2008 would have won her the international championship, but a crash in a water pass, followed by a car fire, meant she was forced to retire and had to make do with second place. But pragmatism is something that all drivers have to learn. “A championship is a championship,” she says with a shrug. “That was last year. It’s over.”

Cetinkaya has had to deal with her critics with a similar nonchalance. In a culture where Muslim daughters are expected to follow more conventional

paths in life, Cetinkaya has spent several years overcoming the scepticism of her family, friends, team managers, and motorsport’s ingrained chauvinism, just to get behind the wheel.

She was just 12 when her father, who works in the motor trade, took her to watch a rally.

“I was fascinated by it,” says Cetinkaya. “But at 12 years old you don’t even know how to drive.

I tried to convince my dad to take me to more rallies but he tried to keep me away from it. He could see I was falling in love with it and he didn’t want his baby girl to be a rally driver.”

After competing in snowboarding and studying for two years in the US, before graduating in Istanbul, Cetinkaya began racing at 24 – a late stage at which to begin a pro racing career. With no money, backing, or experience, she sold her car, her only possession, to raise the cash to race.

She applied to enter a new championship, the Volkswagen Polo Ladies Cup, but was turned down when the CEO saw her surname. A colleague of her father’s, he knew the family wouldn’t approve. With trademark tenacity, she hunted him down. “I found the gym he was going to,” she says. “I waited there for six hours, and finally I ran into him and said, ‘Hey, this is my life. I am 24 years old, my father is not going to hold you responsible.’” He agreed to let her enter on the condition that her father sign a permission slip, something Cetinkaya managed to convince him to do. With the money from her car sale, she tracked down European Championship driver and garage owner Volkan Isik and bought an old Fiat from him to practise in. And, because people seem to have a hard time saying no to Cetinkaya, he agreed to transform her into a rally driver as well.

Four times a week she, Isik and her former co-driver would get up at 5am and drive for over an hour to a stone pit outside Istanbul to practise, enlisting the help of some trucker friends from her father’s company to block off the road. She returned to the city in time for work at her father’s office. “I was

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carrying my nice ladylike shirts and skirts in the car,” she says, “and after being covered with dirt, gravel and dust I would stop at the gas station, go to the toilet, change, wash my face and go to the office.” The training paid off. In 2006, Cetinkaya achieved a coveted top-10 position in the qualifying rounds of the Turkish Fiesta Sporting Trophy, earning her a heavily subsidised place in the championship. The director of the Ford Turkey rally team, Serdar Bostanci, initially discouraged Cetinkaya from entering due to her lack of experience and the tough male competition.

That was all she needed to hear. Within five months, she went from being ranked outside the top 50 to cracking the top 10. “Anything that tries to keep me down gives me the desire to fight,” she says.

Her astonishing drive has earned her many admirers in motorsport. “There aren’t that many people, male or female, who have the level of commitment required to get to the top,” says M-Sport’s Andrew Wheatley, who has been following her career since she began with Ford. “And she learns so quickly.

She could genuinely become one of the fastest drivers in Europe.”

The buzz following that first rally led to a TV role, and Cetinkaya has presented a programme on cars for national station TV 24 ever since, fitting filming in around her rally driving priorities.

Turks have come to accept that an attractive woman can both talk about cars on TV and race them in real life, she says. “They all seem to admire it, especially the guys.” She adds: “Even in areas where they are very conservative, I have support.” But being a woman in a rally car has also meant extra pressure. “When people see me really sweaty in a rally car they don’t usually have a problem with me being a woman. But when they see me dressed up on TV, they say, ‘She’s never going to drive fast, why do people sponsor her?’

But this is also what I’m fighting for. I think you can stay beautiful and still keep pushing in a rally car.

I don’t think it should take away your femininity.”

When she recorded a fast stage time on an event, teams would look at what had gone wrong for the men rather than what she had done right. “They always had to take it to the negative,” she says.

“When I started going faster at every stage and being consistent, it got better. But it took me over two years to convince people.”

The biggest challenge facing Cetinkaya remains from those closest to her. Although proud of her success, her family, past boyfriends and close friends all believe she should give up her rallying dream in favour of a more ‘normal’ life. “My family

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keep asking me, ‘When are you going to get married and start having children? You’re 28 years old.’” she says. “And I’m like, ‘No I want my dream, that is my child’. Every day I receive at least 30 emails from people who don’t know me, saying they are happy to see me race, but you’re constantly having to justify yourself to people close to you. You can really feel down sometimes and think about what you’re missing, but something has always drawn me to go on. If I had it all easy, I don’t think I would have learned to get up when I fall down.”

Cetinkaya and co-driver Güney, who met nearly 15 years ago on the snowboarding circuit, have been a team for three years, and together tackle the many demands of international rally circuits; from crashes, breakdowns and fires, to extreme temperatures. “We’ve got great synchronisation now,” says Cetinkaya. “I was the first driver she rallied with so maybe that’s the reason. Feeling the fear of someone you are responsible for is worse than feeling your own, so the best thing is that Cicek has no fear whatsoever. She’s crazy. She’s as strong as a guy co-driver. But for me it doesn’t matter if it’s a guy or a girl – it matters that it’s Cicek.”

Cetinkaya is showing no signs of slowing, or settling, down and says she’ll only consider a ‘normal life’ when she is, “about 35 – no wait, that’s way too soon, when I’m about 40”. Next year she wants to compete in the World Rally Championship or the Intercontinental Rally Championship in a more powerful S2000 or Evo 9 car. “I think the best part of rally driving is when you are really going to the limits,” she says. “In that moment so much is balanced. It’s like dancing. Having the co-driver’s notes, feeling the car, hearing the engine, controlling your feet, your hands, your eyes, all together in such harmony. You’re not thinking about anything else. I just love that feeling.”

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WERNHER VON BRAUN Behind the Apollo moon landings 40 years ago stood a square-jawed German scientist who employed genius and charm in equal measure to drive mankind to the reaches of space and understanding

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Now, this is rocket science, so listen up. The Saturn Vs that boosted 12 men to the moon between 1969 and 1972 consisted of three million parts and weighed 6.7 million pounds. Each. (Warning! High-explosive propellant accounted for six million of those pounds.)

Their first-stage fuel pumps each had the force of 30 diesel locomotives: five were required to hose half a million gallons of refined kerosene/liquid oxygen in just 2.5 minutes – that’s 3350 gallons per second – to generate 7.65 million pounds of thrust, the force of 85 Hoover Dams, at launch.

Then six further engines would fire – five on the second stage, one on the third. Using a mix of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, these provided a further 1.25 million pounds of oomph.

Heroic in scale – at 363ft, they were within a nosecone of topping St Paul’s Cathedral – these rockets were built with microscopic care.

At the zenith of the Saturn-Apollo project, 375,000 people, working for 20,000 companies, were involved. NASA’s annual budget rocketed from $5 million to $5.2 billion in just five years. It was a colossal task. Yet as far as most Americans were concerned, just one man was in charge of it all: Dr Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun. They were wrong, but not by much, and theirs was a very understandable misconception.

Just seven years after the last of 1402 of his V-2 missiles had wreaked death and destruction on London during World War II, this Prussian-born minor aristocrat was informing, entertaining and engaging America with magazine explanations of how man might break free from Earth’s bonds: space stations that revolved to generate their own gravity, permanent lunar bases, missions to Mars, etc.

“He was a PR man’s dream,” says Ed Buckbee, NASA’s public affairs officer throughout its Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programmes. “For someone so well qualified as a scientist, with that much knowledge of rocketry, it’s very unusual to have such good communication skills, too.”

Von Braun, tall and broad, with his leading man’s jawline and shock of wavy hair, doctorate in physics, flair for engineering and honed leadership qualities, was the complete package. He had been passionate about rockets since the age of 12, since he’d lashed fireworks to his go-kart, lit their fuses and terrified pedestrians along one of Berlin’s swankiest streets.

Twice. By 15, he was obsessed with astronomy.

But he wanted to visit, not just look.

“He would have gone into space, definitely, given the opportunity,” says Buckbee. “He trained in zero gravity. He wanted to be familiar with the problems the astronauts faced.”

Von Braun, an excellent pilot and inveterate risk-taker, admired and envied the men who perched atop his ‘German candle’, and they, in turn, saw themselves reflected in him.

He was not, however, in sole charge: Houston, under the command of Bob Gilruth, had the astronauts, command and service modules, and lunar lander; Cape Canaveral had the pyrotechnic launches; and von Braun himself was based in ‘the Watercress Capital of the World’. Even when it was renamed ‘Rocket City’, Huntsville in Alabama, home to the Marshall Space Flight Centre, was never NASA’s most glamorous location. But it did have its most glamorous, most compelling employee, the man who glued everything together.

“What was amazing about von Braun was that he kept his team focused,” says Buckbee. “They could have earned a lot more in industry, yet he kept them together. He was the man who made things happen.

You wanted to work for him, wanted to perform well. It was an opportunity you would never have again. He convinced you the project would be successful, and you wanted to be a part of that.”

Even though he never took his eye off the goal, von Braun was not blind to the problems that his ubiquitousness caused.

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each other from the beginning. That he was foreignborn also caused him problems. At the Apollo 11 press conference all the questions were directed at von Braun. He was the guy with the charisma, the quotes, the answers. Our department got it in the neck for weeks after. Eventually the bureaucrats dropped him off the press-conference list.”

Yet von Braun never pretended to be infallible.

Unworried about losing face, he would happily ask those briefing him to recap. Confused by workaday gadgets, he was surprised to discover that his wife possessed an electric drill: she did the DIY, he did the 25,000mph rockets. This, though, was part of his charm. Likewise, it was the breadth of his knowledge – more than its depth – that impressed, making it clear you were in the presence of a genius.

For six years, however, his huge resource was wasted. Operation Paperclip, which whisked von Braun and 117 other top German scientists out of Europe at the end of World War II, had been a major coup for the US military. They were installed at Fort Bliss, Texas, but having sneaked them from under the noses of the Russians, they didn’t seem to know what to do with them. Some requisitioned V-2s were launched out of White Sands, New Mexico, but for much of the time, these ‘prisoners of peace’ twiddled their thumbs. The optimistic von Braun, however, remained convinced his time would come.

Things began to happen with the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. Von Braun was not averse to playing the Red-threat card to advance his cause, and he and his loyal team were soon relocated to the Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville. But he also used his subsequently raised profile to promote peaceful exploration of space through a series of seemingly fantastical magazine articles. None other than Walt Disney was convinced, and he made three TV films with von Braun. More than 42 million viewers watched the first of these – Man in Space – in 1955, and were mesmerised.

Disney, the covers of Time and Life magazines, a portrait by Norman Rockwell, US citizenship by 1955… America had a new hero: Von Brown, Missile Man. A rocket star. Although many, understandably, never forgave him his membership of Himmler’s SS, enforced or otherwise, or his complicity in the use of slave labour to build V-2s,

it wouldn’t be long before he had most of the rest of world in his palm, too, while reaching for the moon.

It was the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite, on October 4, 1957, that truly snapped America out of its lethargy. That pesky metal ball could be seen and heard by every US citizen. America had to respond.

Von Braun immediately launched an impassioned plea, pointing out that America could have had its own satellite two years earlier if his team had been consulted. President Eisenhower, the former Supreme Allied Commander, was wary of his ex-enemies (despite his own German ancestry), but when the US Navy’s all-American missile, Vanguard, proved a ‘Flopnik’, he grudgingly gave Huntsville its head.

The next stage was Yuri Gagarin’s orbit of Earth in Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. President Kennedy, recently inaugurated and soon to be reeling from the Bay of Pigs fiasco, needed a good-news story.

Von Braun, since July 1960 part of the newly constituted NASA, was among the scientists who wrote to him telling him that America could, by the end of the decade, send a man to the moon and return him safely to Earth.

Buckbee: “Two weeks later JFK came to Huntsville and spent more than six hours asking von Braun question after question. The project might never have happened had he not been so persuasive.”

“We choose to go to the moon!” announced JFK with typically toothy confidence in May 1961.

It was a bold boast – America had just 15 minutes of space experience – that would be brilliantly expedited. But to von Braun’s dismay, Apollo 11’s lunar landing on July 20, 1969 was the end of an era, not the beginning. Problems on Earth – Vietnam, civil unrest, corruption on Capitol Hill – were more pressing than sending men into space.

The impetus fizzled, albeit not before von Braun had mapped out the next 25 years of space exploration, including the use of a space shuttle.

In 1972, for the first time in his life, von Braun joined the private sector. He was happy there, preaching and implementing his doctrine of satellites’ usefulness to the world below. Time, though, proved to be against him. He was diagnosed with cancer and had his left kidney removed in September 1973 – but it was too late. He fought hard and long, dying on June 16, 1977. He was 65.

Perhaps no other human of the 20th century had carried the burden of witnessing so closely mankind at its very worst and very best, but although controversy casts a shadow over his achievements, it cannot eclipse them. Indeed, they continue to shine.

“For eight years he was in charge of that vast project – yet at the same time he was looking to the future,” says Buckbee. “His processing capacity was immense. In Huntsville they’re still following his road map with [rockets] Ares I and V, still looking at ways of putting men back on the moon.

“And we have Space Camp, too. I started it in 1982, but it was his idea; he wanted to get the next generation interested. Half a million children have been through the programme, and now lots of its graduates are working for us. He’d have loved that.”

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HUGH HEFNER

It’s pretty easy to pin the label of ‘playboy’ on most Formula One drivers, but for this particular ex-racer, it’s a word that has a special significance

I might be setting myself up by nominating Hugh Hefner, the Playboy magnate, as my hero, but I have a few good reasons for doing so. Growing up in the village of Twynholm, in the south-west corner of Scotland, with a population of only 700, is about as far as you can get from Hefner’s world of bunny girls, the Playboy mansion and the fast, expensive, glamorous lifestyle he presented in his magazine.

In Twynholm, I was three miles from school and 30 miles from a town with even the most basic entertainment, like a cinema, or a McDonald’s. It wasn’t quite like living in the Highlands, but it was certainly pretty remote. The Playboy world could hardly have been further away, even when I got into motorsport, through karting and watching Formula One on the BBC. Things started to change when I found out about this amazing magazine called Playboy, which was read by the truckies who worked for my father’s road haulage business. These guys spend a lot of time on the road, on their own, so copies of Playboy, with stories from exotic locations around the world and, yes, pictures of naked girls, were pretty popular, as you might imagine. And when they were discovered by a young boy on the brink of becoming a teenager, who hadn’t been able to get close to a girl, well…

I should point out here that I didn’t become a fan of Playboy just because I wanted a quick thrill. I used to read it from cover to cover – every single word.

People sometimes forget that it had some of the very best writers and that it was much more than a porn mag.

Through Playboy I started to learn about a world I could only dream of. Hefner 40

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very much had an idea of ‘lifestyle’ that shaped it. Yes, it featured naked women, but they weren’t the point of the magazine. It was more about aspiration and a certain kind of good living. Whether you bought into it all was a different question, but obviously a lot of people did because Playboy was hugely successful.

For a long time, when I was much younger, I would love to have met Hefner, who was a kind of mythical figure in his Playboy mansion, and I do now have friends who have been there. But by the time they’d become friends I’d sort of left Playboy behind as I was more interested in reading Autosport! And now, if I’m honest, I’m glad I haven’t met him, so that I’ll never have to risk being disappointed by a hero in the flesh.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure he’s a very interesting guy and I’d enjoy talking to him about how he has run the business – as far as I understand, he has

kept it all in the family – but I think, now, it’s probably best to bottle it and enjoy my memories for what they are.

I won’t dismiss it though, because I’m sure Playboy has influenced me. Although I took my racing very seriously, I knew that there was always another side to it – the glamour and the parties. I always knew it wasn’t just about the driving; that there could be an off-track lifestyle associated with what happened on it.

Perhaps because of that aspect of motorsport – particularly Formula One – drivers often get labelled playboys. Fair enough, but in my case I really have to say ‘not guilty’. When you’re in the public eye as a sportsman or a celebrity, all you have to do is get a new girlfriend and suddenly you’ve become a playboy, which is a bit much. Most guys by the time they get to their mid-30s have had two or three girlfriends, haven’t they? Does that make them all playboys? I don’t think so.

Michael Schumacher managed to escape all that because he was married throughout his Formula One career, but someone like, say, George Clooney, who’s in his late 40s and not married… well, he gets the playboy label. Sometimes it feels like all you have to do is go to a party to be called a playboy.

What I would have to admit though is that the life I’ve lived as part of the Formula One community is much closer to what I read about in Playboy than anything I was born to in Twynholm. But as a very fulfilled recent father, any thoughts of bunny girls are a long time gone.

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Brainy Bri is a rare-breed racer who can think even faster than he drives. And after giving Red Bull Racing Team its first-ever NASCAR win, he’s on a roll that could take him to the title Words: Herbert Völker and Paul Wilson

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Brian Vickers’ brain is quicker than anyone else’s in NASCAR. The man himself wouldn’t get his tongue in a twist saying that 10 times in a row after 500 miles pulling 5G, not least because it’s true. He’s reading the pop-psych books the serious papers recommend and loves learning so much that next on his to-do list is mastering Mandarin Chinese.

Oh, that and becoming NASCAR champion, which current form suggests he just might.

Since 2004, the NASCAR Sprint Cup – the top level of this kind of motor racing – has finished with The Chase, a 10-race play-off involving the top 12 drivers after 26 regular-season races (the 2009 F1 calendar has 17 races in total, World Rally a mere 12). This season, skimming off that top dozen gave 27 drivers who had competed in 20 or more regular races a longer-than-hoped-for post-season.

The guy in 13th has the blow softened by a milliondollar bonus, but he’d rather the cachet of competing than the cash.

It’s a controversial format, one that prevents a single driver Doing A Schumacher, storming away with the championship and making the last races of the season irrelevant, but doesn’t reward the best driver over the course of the season. “I agree with the reasons why they made the changes,” says Vickers, “but I’m also a purist.” He’s also profiting from The Chase, having finished the second half of the pre-Chase Sprint Cup scoring more points than anyone else and sneaking into the top 12 with a seventh-place finish at the Chevy Rock & Roll 400, in Richmond, Virginia. Before that final race, he’d been the guy in 13th: now he’s in with a shout of being the man of 2009.

It’s a finish to the season for him and the rest of the Red Bull Racing Team that no one predicted.

Vickers’s team-mate Scott Speed is in his rookie year, the team itself is only competing in its third NASCAR season and Vickers only turns 26 on October 24, the day before the seventh race of The Chase. A return of six poles and one win – the

Carfax 400 at Brooklyn, Michigan, in August – during the regular season, driving for a relatively new team, shows that Vickers deserves to be in that special dozen. He certainly thinks and talks like a man destined for the top.

Brian, you’d won a NASCAR Sprint Cup race for your old team in 2006, so your second career win, and fi rst for Red Bull Racing Team, must have been a bit special?

“The team has done a lot of good work in the past couple of years, and we’ve put ourselves in the position to win a lot of races, and for one reason or another, it hasn’t worked out. A lot of that was bad timing and luck, but this time all the stars were aligned, you could say. We’d prepared a really good car. Starting from pole helped, but in our races, unlike Formula One, rarely does the pole-sitter win the race. We stayed up front all day, had good pitstops and at the end of the race it was a fine balance between trying to conserve enough fuel to win, but use enough to stay ahead of the guys we knew had more than us. We were able to save enough fuel and get across the line. I didn’t have enough fuel to do a burnout [the celebratory ‘donuts’ the drivers do on the track’s infield]. It was a great day for us.”

It came in the 23rd of 26 races, so you must have been thinking that this season was slipping away from you…

“Yes, it’s somehow part of the sport, but it can be frustrating when you’ve got the quickest car and are on pole six times [the sixth was the race he won in Michigan], and everything’s going well... and then two cars get in your way... or the rain suddenly starts when you could really do without it. Not to mention our own mistakes, and there were some. So the first win was a real release. It may have been late, true, but still.

Does your reputation as ‘the smart one’ among NASCAR drivers take away from your driving?

“I’m not sure. I guess from an early age I’ve always

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enjoyed learning and education, it was very important in my household when I was growing up. I still read a lot and always have. This is a tough question to answer… I definitely consider myself, I suppose, an intellectual. I think through things – that’s part of who I am as a driver and a person.

I would not go as far as to say there aren’t many smart drivers in our series. My driving style is definitely more calculated than some other guys who don’t think things though, and get in over their heads and think they can go really fast.

I can go fast, but I can think through stuff too.”

It’s easy, if you look at the specifics of the races, to get the impression that NASCAR is a lot more complex than Formula One, even though most of the tracks have a very straightforward layout.

“Yes, that’s sort of true. Both formulas are complex in their own sense. In NASCAR, race strategy is a lot more open than in Formula One. In a road course, like in Formula One, you just work the race backwards and you can set two or three pitstops and drive pretty much carefree in between, as tough as it is. But in our sport, every yellow flag can turn things on their head in a flash. There might be six pitstops,

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“I CONSIDER MYSELF AN INTELLECTUAL. I THINK THROUGH THINGS, THAT’S PART OF WHO I AM” or even 14. You’ve got to be prepared for both. On some tracks the tyres go off so quickly that you may lose three seconds per lap, so you have to hit on the right moment to change them and decide whether to change just two or all four. The sum of all these decisions can tremendously affect the outcome of the race. That’s why we never say that the fastest car will win; actually I think that it’s usually not the quickest car that wins the race.

I mean, there are 43 cars on the track, and most of the tracks are very tight and there are walls on either side. Usually, if there’s a mistake by anybody, it’s going to ruin your day even if you’re not involved in the incident yourself. There are so many factors that end up affecting race strategy, but at least it’s exciting for the fans.”

And it’s exciting for the drivers too, it seems.

You boys seem to get more excited than drivers in other racing series.

“We race more. In F1, how often do two guys really get together? There aren’t too many opportunities for it. Usually the guy on pole wins the race, the guy in second finishes second, they all follow each other around for the whole race, through the chequer, everybody pulls in the garage and that’s it. For us,

it’s every lap. We’re door-to-door, there are doublefile restarts. If there’s an incident, it’s not because somebody broke a transmission, it’s because somebody hit somebody – and they’re going to be pretty upset about it. It’s more the nature of our racing than a cultural difference. If you put the 22 Formula One drivers in our cars, to rub fenders, bump and bang, race each other door-to-door for 500 miles, they’d probably be pretty mad about it too. We’re a product of our environment.”

It has been said that F1 is like figure skating and NASCAR is like ice hockey. Do you agree with that statement?

“Absolutely, I think that’s a great way to put it.”

Do you like the ice-hockey element in your sport?

“Basically, yes. There’s something to be said for figure skating: the finesse, the technology, the speed of a Formula One car. I mean, it’s a true race car, but our sport is a lot of fun and it’s very entertaining for the fans. Everybody likes a good hard fight, right?”

Might it be the case that you’re too nice for this environment? NASCAR fans certainly prefer their bad boys to their good guys.

“I think as long as you’re authentic, which applies to both the good guys and the bad guys, then things take care of themselves. I don’t go out of my way to avoid a good tussle, like recently in Michigan [against Kyle Busch, Vickers’ former NASCAR teammate at Hendricks Motorsport, and the man he pipped for a place in The Chase], but nor do I make a drama out of it. You know there are some people who you meet in life who are just going to do stupid things. You just learn to accept it. You just don’t let it bother you. I have patience. You just live your life and run your race. When you’re involved in a controversy with Kyle, he can talk himself into a hole. I’m definitely better than him at talking my way out of situations. He doesn’t think through his actions, much less his comments.”

Red Bull Racing Team came to a completely new world as total new boys three years ago.

How hard is it get a foothold in NASCAR? “I’d say two years rather than three; one year was practically lost to realignment. We’re competing against teams who have been in the game for 25 years and have depth and organisation. So from that point of view, yes, it’s great that we’re already on a par with them. Take team number 48, for example: Jimmie Johnson has won the last three championships for them, but before that it took them five years to win the first one. We’ve beaten team number 48 several times this year [Red Bull Racing Team is team number 83, named for Vickers’ car; Speed drives car 82]. That shows where we’re at. I mean, now we can really get going. We’ve got the resources, the team is in place and Scott Speed is constantly improving.

We’ve got fast cars, smart people, huge enthusiasm and an incredibly strong desire to succeed.”

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One of America’s most promising gridiron talents is a sensation on the field, and a red-carpet darling with millions in endorsement deals and a celebrity girlfriend off it. See any parallels to David Beckham? Running back Reggie Bush does

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It says a good deal about the rising stardom of young Reggie Bush that he was picked to co-star in the debut commercial of the English footballer charged with rescuing American soccer.

Over the course of one day, Bush, a talented running back for the New Orleans Saints, took free kicks and played keepyuppy with David Beckham while an Adidas crew filmed them.

Then it was Beckham’s turn, and Goldenballs obliged by slipping into a helmet and pads to kick field goals and run pass routes against Bush.

“Obviously he’s a great kicker,” says Bush. “But he also has good feet, good hips and is very agile.” The commercial was filmed in early 2007, following Bush’s breakout first year in the National Football League. After a season foiled by injuries, coaches and experts are expecting great things this year. One of the game’s most versatile players, he has set team scoring records and kept opposing teams up at night with his speed and unpredictability on the field. Bush has already graced the cover of Sports Illustrated, the yardstick, if ever there was one, for measuring sports fame in America, five times – as many as Björn Borg, Carl Lewis and Michael Phelps. He has a house in the Hollywood Hills, has appeared in music videos, had lunch with Condoleezza Rice, and appeared on the cover of

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a PlayStation game. A regular on the red carpets, his on-again, off-again relationship with reality TV star Kim Kardashian has become a tabloid obsession in the USA. So does he consider himself the American Beckham?

“Yes, I would say so,” says Bush, without blinking. In a country filled with national sporting ‘heroes’, Bush is a special case.

Highly touted since his high school days in La Mesa, California, Bush has taken an exceptionally straight path to the upper echelons of professional football. Of the 100,000 high-school football players America produces every year, only 215 will ever make it to the NFL, according to the league’s player association. The focus necessary to make it from hyped high-school star to university standout to paid professional is immense, to say nothing of the body required to sustain persistent punishment on a weekly basis.

Bush has not only made it – avoiding the typical temptations of money and early fame that have often corrupted the promising young athletes of ‘America’s game’ – but he excelled almost immediately upon his arrival in the NFL. Along the way, his photogenic good looks and ease in front of the camera have earned him millions in endorsement deals, as one of the league’s most marketable stars.

“I take it and I enjoy it and see it for what it’s worth,” says Bush of his rapid rise. “It is a privilege to play in the NFL and something I dreamed of all my life. I enjoy it while I can now, as long as it lasts. At any given time, it can be over.”

“There are days when you don’t feel like even getting up. Everything hurts and is sore. Every day is a challenge” The player’s time in the NFL has been defined by both incredible promise and frustrating setbacks. Injuries forced him to miss games last season, and his focus this year on staying healthy is all-consuming.

During the preseason training camp in New Orleans a few weeks ago, he would wake up most mornings in a long, narrow oxygen tent. The tent aids his body in its recovery from knocks, bruises and strains suffered during the day’s training. Bush typically rises at 5.30am, relaxing his muscles in the hot tub of his eight-room New Orleans apartment. Rented during the season, the apartment has views of the steamboats chugging down the Mississippi and is filled with signed jerseys by the game’s former stars, from Joe Montana to Dan Marino. Kim Kardashian, with whom he’s been in a relationship for two years, stays over on occasion, but his most steadfast flatmate is Rocky, a three-month old boxer dog. Bush spends the early morning at the black marble bar in the middle of the kitchen, watching TV while powering through a calorie-filled breakfast prepared by his cook, named ‘Chef’. Then he’s off to the weights room before driving the short distance to practice shortly before 8am.

“It’s mentally really hard,” says Bush. “There are those days when you don’t feel like even getting up, because everything hurts and is sore. Every day is a challenge.”

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Despite this being only his fourth season, Bush’s team-leader status is unmistakable. In the rough and tumble of the training sessions, he is a paragon of concentration and precision.

“You have to run through people… and you get hit and it hurts and it’s really tough,” says Bush. “During the game you don’t feel it, though. The adrenaline is pumping and you don’t feel the pain.”

At 1.30pm, he steps off the practice field for his daily interrogation at the hands of local and national media: his expectations for the season, questions about the knee on which he had surgery at the end of last season. He answers for 10 minutes before devoting his attention to the young fans hovering at the pack’s edge, waiting for autographs. Almost all of the kids are wearing a shirt with Bush’s number 25 on it.

“I’ve done some great things here and there, but not yet on a consistent level,” says Bush, later. “I’m still far away, but I have my sights on this year.”

So do his New Orleans Saints. The team has never competed in the Super Bowl, let alone lifted the sport’s most coveted trophy. But with Bush as the focus of the Saints’ high-octane offence, fans as well as sport analysts are tipping the team for a deep playoff run. The rest of America will be watching.

For decades it was the Dallas Cowboys who could cloak themselves in the mantle of ‘America’s team’. Hurricane Katrina changed all of that. Following the devastation wreaked upon the city and the south coast in 2005, the Saints’ home, the Superdome, served as a temporary shelter to 30,000 of the disaster’s victims. During the 2005 season, the Saints played their games in three different stadiums. When they finally opened their 2006 home season in the Superdome, 70,000 fans were on hand; Bono performed live with U2 and sports network ESPN broadcast the game, recording the highest viewing figures in the team’s history.

“But it wasn’t only about the game,” says Bush, who donated money from sales of his shirt to many of the victims of the

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where over 100 people work for the organisation. Practice is a series of organised drills and scrimmages, overseen by coaches for each position and camera teams (including three mounted cameras) which are recording the players’ every move for later analysis in the video room.

At the edge of the sweltering practice field, a pack of microphone and Dictaphone-wielding journalists wait predatorily for the Saints’ star attraction to finish the session.

By early afternoon most players have left for lunch, save for Bush and a few others. He takes hard passes at short range from quarterback Drew Brees and works on his starting speed.

His speed has always been his greatest asset. As a child, his parents, who both worked in blue-collar jobs, found it tough to control his boundless energy. He started playing football at nine, despite his parents’ initial hesitation. When he was 16, Bush ran the 100m in 10.38 seconds. His ability to catch the ball as wide receiver, as well as run the ball, requiring the strength and endurance to batter through the opposing team’s ranks, drew the attention of top college scouts. A stand-out prospect at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, where he read politics, his potential was confirmed when New Orleans made him the second player taken overall in the 2006 college draft.

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His four touchdowns in a game against the San Francisco 49ers in November 2006 set a team record. The rookie had become an integral part of the team disaster. “It was about life for all the people who had to live in the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina.”

The ensuing season was Bush’s first in the NFL. And if he struggled initially, he began lighting up the league by the midway point. His four touchdowns in one game against the San Francisco 49ers in November 2006 set a team record. As the Saints continued an improbable march to the playoffs, the rookie had become an integral part of the team.

Going into this season, New Orleans fans and independent analysts are expecting more from the team, and from Bush.

A knee injury forced him to miss last season’s game between the Saints and the San Diego Chargers at Wembley Stadium.

More than 83,000 fans caught the shootout that ended in a Saints victory, a figure that astounded Bush, a Premiership fan who believes it’s possible to fall in love with both ‘footballs’.

American football “has passion, just like soccer”, he says.

“It has every emotion that they have. The great players, the ups and downs, championships… and so on.”

As for his Beckham claim, Bush still has not quite managed to prove himself. It says everything about his confidence that, were he to try Beckham’s preferred sport, he’s sure he’d play at the top level. “I would play striker, and score the goals,” he declares. For now, it’s touchdowns he’s going to have to score if his team has a chance of holding aloft the coveted Vince Lombardi trophy at the end of the season.

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But alongside quivers of boards, tubs of Sex Wax and discarded suntan lotion bottles on board the Indies Trader IV, Red Bull performance manager Andy Walshe has set up a high-speed film camera, a stationary bike and a filmediting suite. A jet ski outfitted with another camera, of the style used by military analysts to track missile flight paths and explosion patterns, hovers in the water between sets of waves, filming the surfers at up to 300 frames per second.

Surfing has become “more and more competitive, and to be successful you

Alongside boards, Sex Wax and suntan lotion is a high-speed camera and editing suite have to be better and better”, says Walshe. “To get an advantage, you need to bring in some of these measures to give them that little edge.”

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“We brought them here to the Mentawais because we wanted to put them in an environment which most closely represents the competition arena,” says Walshe. The island chain’s waves are world-renowned, and over 10 days, the surfers spend long hours in the water, every paddle stroke and heartbeat transformed into digital data that can later be analysed.

The high-speed camera shoots thousands of frames of footage, taking down every bottom turn and every aerial during the sessions. Hydration and lactic acid tests measure the surfers’ fitness and their rate of recovery. GPS equipment strapped around their chests measures paddle rates, their velocity on the wave and the angle of their trajectory above it.

“We can slow it down so that the athlete can see very subtle body movements, shifts in weight, even the way the board is performing,” says Walshe. “It’s a shift in perspective on how you look at sport.”

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“Pretty much every pro athlete in every sport is doing this, and I think it’s great they’re starting to do it with surfers,” says Sofia Mulanovich, a former world champion and a regular on the ASP Women’s surfing tour podium.

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ddressed by Valentino Rossi, the eight-time motorcycle World Champion, the 2009 Red Bull Rookies Cup field are in awe. The curly-topped Italian many regard as the finest motorcycle racer ever has just registered his 100th Grand Prix victory in Holland, and the Assen tarmac is still warm from the scorch of some of the fastest racing tyres on the planet.

This gaggle of teenage racers, inspired by their hero, are revving, blipping, itching to burn their smaller but still superquick machines into a future that shimmers like Rossi’s present.

In their throttle-hand lies their destiny; their exhausts bark ambition. Speed, balance, power… if harnessed with sufficient skill they’ll morph into success, glamour, fortune.

This cameo from the Dutch GP distills the essence of the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup – a stepping stone for the world’s best teenage motorcycle racers into the wheeltracks of the Pedrosas, the Schwantzs, Doohans, Hailwoods and Agostinis.

Fixed fast-forward as they are onto their futures, these lads (for lads they are) still have humility enough to be rendered agog in Rossi’s presence: “It was so cool he took time to congratulate us.

It was very special,” says eventual Assen winner Sturla Fagerhaug, just 17 and far from the fjords of his Norwegian homeland.

Reverential he may be, but Fagerhaug has already marked himself as one to watch, having starred all season in races even the MotoGP big boys drop everything for. “My friends in the paddock say that when we’re on track, all work stops and the teams watch. They know it’s going to be a good race,” he grins.

Fagerhaug can afford to smile as he’s just had a brilliant season – dominating early on with three wins from the first four races, although failing by a whisker to take the title. He was pipped by two points in the last round by 16-year-old Czech Jakub Kornfeil. The two came to the final, double-race weekend of the season in August, at Brno in the Czech Republic, tied for the lead on 99 points. In the first, Saturday contest, a race-long, 10-man battle for first place left Fagerhaug fifth and Kornfeil eighth, giving Sturla a three-point nod going into Sunday’s decider. But Kornfeil’s victory to Fagerhaug’s second spot, meant a five-point swing and a Czech championship.

Tough as that result was for Sturla to swallow, a Brno showdown was always on the cards, for those who understood how to ‘read’ form during the eight-race season. “Sturla was in his third Red Bull Rookies season and made great use of his experience,” says rider coach Gustl Auinger. “It wasn’t that he slowed down in the second half; the other riders improved so much that by the last races we had a large group, all with a very high level of ability, pushing the bikes very hard. The first 10 who crossed the line were separated by just 2.3 seconds.”

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ensuring rider skill, not technical advantage, prevails. The Rookies race (and boy do they race – sometimes kicking a rival’s bike to nudge it offline through a corner) on the same tracks and at the same MotoGP events as their heroes. And the knowledge that they’re in the presence of greatness makes these pocket-rocket racers maybe even keener to succeed than their illustrious elders.

They’re battling, after all, not just each other, but for their very futures: the Red Bull Rookies Cup is desperately hard fought.

Such is the fury and speed of the action, with the entire pack often circulating as a swarm, spectators must concentrate almost as hard as the competitors to follow the action. All bikes and leathers have the same livery, with only unique helmet colours and overall patches to tell the riders apart.

Auinger, a past winner of motorcycle Grands Prix and a racing icon in Austria, is much more than a dictator of racing theory to his charges, which this season numbered 28. “He’s a friend as well as a teacher,” explains Fagerhaug. “In my second season, 2008, I really began to appreciate what he could teach me. I talked to him a lot and really started to pick up the pace.

I was winning races by the end of the year.”

Though obviously thrilled to see riders improve and succeed, Auinger doesn’t waste time soaking up rays of victory. “Gustl spends his time with the guys who are struggling,” explains Fagerhaug. “He wants us all to do well.”

Why? Because the Red Bull Rookies Cup isn’t a place to stay; it’s a championship designed for those who burn to move on up.

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early-season form led to occasional rides for the KTM factory GP team. In the bigger series, he’s now further back rather than a front-runner, but there are compensations: “The race wins were really exciting,” he reflects, “but it’s great to be competing with the riders you see on TV. When you get passed by a faster rider, you see you can go even faster than you think you can.”

Success… promotion… dreams of the big time. Fagerhaug is quick, however, to dismiss suggestions that the GP rides or increased press attention derailed his championship charge.

“I did get a lot of attention,” he admits. “Back home I was in the papers and on TV – that doesn’t happen to motorcycle racers in Norway. But I don’t think that really affected the way I rode.

I enjoyed it and it motivated me to want to succeed even more.”

So much for the dream. There’s still a grounding betweenrace reality, working as an electrician with his father, who’s anything but the archetypal ‘racing dad’. Neither of Sturla’s parents have driven him to race, but they do drive him to races – often through the night in the family motorhome.

The family-as-travelling-clan model must work, as it was adopted, too, by the Kornfeil entourage, as they watched their son snatch the title, though always with one eye on the classroom.

“We told Jakub that he could only race as long as he succeeded at school,” explains dad Marek Kornfeil, who’s another throughthe-night road warrior. “School is still number one and he does well,” says Marek. “We know that English is very important for his racing, so he has extra private lessons. Most of the races are on Saturdays, so we can be back home for school on Monday.”

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back at school,” says Jakub. “There I’m a normal pupil. Before the Red Bull Rookies Cup no one noticed my racing, but it’s a bit different now. There’s a lot of publicity. At school they found out about it, especially when I became successful, and they started supporting me. That’s great, but I really don’t want to act the big racer with them, I would rather keep it to myself.

I have to say that since I started winning races, more girls seem interested in me, but I don’t have a girlfriend at the moment.”

The words, reassuringly, are still those of a teenager, for it’s easy to forget how young these not-yet-adults are, when they’re surrounded by the flashgun glamour of a race weekend.

Some may find outrageous the idea that the schoolkids – some as young as 13 – can race elbow-to-elbow at more than 125mph, but they’re living their dreams. Nail-nibbling mums and dads can take some comfort, at least, in the knowledge that the racing takes place on some of the safest tracks in the world, with the same race officials and medical support as MotoGP. The kids themselves can be disarmingly frank about the dangers. Colleen Scholtz, mother of Mathew who made his series debut in 2008, aged 15, says: “Mathew has said, ‘Mum if I get injured or killed doing this, you have to know I’m doing something I love and I don’t want to do anything else.” He won a race in his first season.

The family Scholtz, from Durban, South Africa, have one of the most hard-core travel schedules of any of the competitors.

“It’s a lot of travelling,” admits dad Peter, “but it’s worthwhile.

Normally it takes about 30 hours from home to the racetrack.”

And they’re not the only long-haulers: 2009’s Rookies hail from Japan and Australia as well as the USA and Europe, crossing language and cultural barriers as naturally as finishing lines.

Fagerhaug – at 17 a veteran! – became the natural leader of a boisterous media-friendly posse that included Scholtz, Californian Jake Gagne and the other ‘fast men’ of the series.

Kornfeil, who came from outside the spotlight to last-second stardom, was infinitely more reserved. This year’s champ isn’t the garrulous, gregarious type, finding kinship instead with Japanese rider Daijiro Hiura – just 13 and with little English and no Czech. Hiura took a first win in 2008, but couldn’t repeat his success in ’09, despite four podium finishes.

Hiura summed up his respect for Kornfeil after his own fourth place in Brno. “Jakub was so determined. When I passed him he would pass me straight back at the next corner. He had the win in his heart.” Kornfeil had towed his pal around during practice and then helped him to pole position during qualifying to determine the grid for both races (Kornfeil qualified fourth).

“He thanked me afterwards,” says Kornfeil. “He said that chasing me had motivated him and made him better.”

Fagerhaug started from third, and the pressure of being the man of the moment, in front of a Czech home crowd, was telling on Kornfeil. “I was feeling the pressure for the first race on Saturday. There was so much attention, I just didn’t ride at my best. In a way that was good: I finished behind Sturla and that took the pressure off, so I just had to ride my own race on Sunday.”

And he did so brilliantly, crossing the line a fraction ahead of Fagerhaug, to provide a fitting finale to an epic tussle.

Throttles down, engines off and the team managers, sponsors and the big-league GP manufacturers begin to sift through the stats of the 2009 Red Bull Rookies Cup, wondering which young gem might be polished into a rare diamond.

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GROWING UP FAST Superbike World Championship rider Johnny Rea (above) relives his Red Bull Rookies Cup success “The Red Bull Rookies set-up that I was involved in was different to the current one.

Back in 2003, we rode as an independent team in the British 125cc Championship.

Now, the Red Bull Rookies Cup is incorporated into the Grand Prix schedule, using equal bikes and engines, which therefore makes for closer racing. But the vision remains the same, and it’s even more exciting now.

“I wouldn’t be where I am today without the Red Bull Rookies programme. In the UK, it was second to none because, to put it simply, it actually gave me the opportunity to race on a bike.

When you think about what’s involved in motorbike racing, it isn’t a very cheap sport to get into. So the Red Bull Rookies Cup opened so many other doors for me as well.

“I got my ride when I was just 15. After answering an ad

in Motorcycle News, a group of hopefuls assembled at the Rockingham circuit in the UK for testing. Five of us were eventually flown out to Cartagena in Spain for the final selection, and I made the cut as the third rider of the Red Bull Rookies team.

I haven’t looked back since.

“I remember I always used to watch MotoGP on TV, and when I was a Red Bull rider I was allowed to spend the day trackside in the Red Bull hospitality area at the actual race at Donington.

For a young kid, that’s a really special memory.

“Everyone riding knows what’s at stake in Red Bull Rookies: the chance of being picked up by a good team in World Superbike, World Supersport and MotoGP. So the youngsters that come through the programme are really giving it their all. There are real risks involved and accidents do happen, but they are rare occurrences.

It’s just a part of sport.

“Through motorsport I’ve achieved so many things and been to so many places that, at 22, I feel I’ve lived the life of a guy in his 70s. Not only are there Red Bull Rookies looking to jump into my shoes, but my own little brother, Richard Rea, rides in the Irish Superbike Championship. So maybe I’ll be looking closer to home for the next Jonathan Rea!” 67

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athed in the orange light of a Havana sunset, crowds gather along the Malecón to meet friends and catch up over shared bottles of rum. The hum of voices joins the unending symphony of horn blasts and mechanical splutters from ancient American cars as they roll past the architectural patchwork of buildings that stand in silent testimony to Cuba’s tumultuous past. Among the sounds that have long defined the city at dusk, the roll and scrape of skate wheels on concrete is audible. Collective cries of victory and commiseration fill the Prado main street as Havana’s skateboarders converge in a small square for a night of competition. Tonight’s crowd is larger than usual: US skate champion Ryan Sheckler is in town. In a country officially shaded from the global flow of information, Sheckler’s fame here demonstrates the ingenuity and passion of Cuban skaters determined to bring the outside world in. Skateboard videos and magazines have been passed on by visitors, and illegal internet connections made and shared by hushed groups in small rooms. The Cuban youth doesn’t have the luxury of adopting a passing craze – here a life on four wheels must be fought for.

A man named Che is judging the contest with Sheckler. Che, 36, has been skating for 26 years and has become skating’s unofficial figurehead in Havana.

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in my father’s eyes are not good,” he says. Che’s father fought for the revolution, naming his son Che Alejandro Pando Napoles in honour of its leaders, Che Guevara and Fidel Alejandro Castro.

Over the years, he has learned to live with Che’s lifestyle, his acceptance signified by the tattoo of Castro he allowed his son to draw on his right arm with nails and ink: Che’s first creation.

Che has been promising disbelieving kids for months that Ryan Sheckler would arrive. “Many skaters feel an isolation in Cuba,” he says. “Like people can’t come in, they can’t get out. Having Ryan come here, it seemed impossible back in the day that someone like him could do that.”

Skateboarding arrived in Cuba when its global popularity in the ’80s leaked American magazines into the country, inspiring the first would-be boarders to attach Russian-made roller skate wheels to wood. A small, underground community has grown on Havana’s streets, gathering a pace that’s now pushing a new generation of skaters into the light. Donations of equipment come from foreign visitors, and when in short supply, skateboards are painstakingly crafted from plywood in homemade presses, wheels and trucks being bargained for and reclaimed from old boards or skates.

‘You don’t need money.

Government needs to understand this is good for kids. It keeps them out of trouble’ Tonight the excitable crowd presses into the square and spills out onto the road. Young EMOs look down from stone statues, 20-somethings in faded Michael Jackson T-shirts and jeans hang back, intrigued, and the skater kids grin, battered boards held still with mended trainers, grip tape standing in for cloth and rubber. Ryan Sheckler surveys the crowd surrounding him with a bemused smile.

With international sponsors, a clothing range and an MTV series under his belt, skateboarding has given Sheckler star status at just 19. He’s flown around the world, hobnobbing with music and sport royalty, and has built his own indoor skatepark in California. But as he begins to skate the makeshift Havana skatepark, Sheckler’s branded clothes are all that sets him apart from the wheeling throng. Skateboarding is common language enough as Sheckler laughs and high-fives with the Cuban kids as if they were old friends.

There are both crashes and triumphs as they skate, and grazed legs are freshly scraped in the quest to land the next trick. Skaters of all levels line up for their turn, surrounded by the densely packed forest of enthusiastic spectators. A core of contenders soon emerges, executing kickflips and bigspins on the concrete, grinding backside tailslides and 50-50s on the ledge. They are the members of the 23 y G crew, named after the skatepark set between two roads, 23 and G where skateboarding first began in Havana.

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is tough, but friendly. “It’s different here,” says Sheckler. “If I try and skate a spot at home and fall, kids laugh. Here, I’ll be skating and when I land a trick they’re psyched and when I fall they’re like ‘c’mon, you got it’. That’s the brotherhood of skateboarders here. These kids are wild.”

The crew is spending the week taking Sheckler around their favourite skate spots, a trip organised by former Argentinian surf champion and filmmaker Tomas Crowder. A tireless advocate for Cuban skateboarders, Crowder has been working on a film about the skate scene for nearly four years, as well as organising the only official skate competitions and encouraging government ministries to promote the sport. Though he has been sanctioned by the government to help develop action sports in the country, his efforts are still jeopardised by red tape, a lack of funds and, as ministers come and go, a constantly shifting official attitude towards his endeavours. He hopes the film, The Other Che, will publicise globally the struggle of skaters in a country where monthly earnings average around $13, and show Cubans the real potential of skateboarding.

“Action sports, which involve a huge amount of trial and error, really build confidence,” he says. “If you are able to lose your fear, and pull off a really hard manoeuvre, why can’t you achieve something that someone tells you is impossible? In troubled communities where self-esteem is low, these sports can really help. It gives another perspective on life.”

As the final rounds of the contest are played out, Sheckler presents new pairs of Etnies trainers to the ecstatic final few. They hold the boxes protectively, as if someone may take them away, grinning with disbelief. The trainers will last infinitely longer than the cheap pairs they mend almost daily. And they have come from Ryan Sheckler, giving them a rare sense of legitimacy too. Skaters are officially seen as little more than vagabonds in Cuba, something they are trying to change.

“In the past, people in Cuba were starving,” says Che. “It was like war without the bombs. But even then I still got so much fun. If you’re skating with your friends you don’t need much. Water and maybe bread. You don’t need money. The people in government need to understand that this is good for kids. It keeps them out of trouble. Give a kid a skateboard and he will be the happiest kid.”

The end of the contest brings pandemonium as fans surround Sheckler. One moment he’s sharing a trick, the next he appears posing for pictures with a legion of giggling girls. Then, his arm around the shoulder of 23 y G skater Roberto Pons, he beatboxes for an impromptu freestyle rap in a language he doesn’t understand. “This is wild!” he grins afterwards. “I love this place.

“It’s a 100 per cent turnaround from living in America and having piles of skateboards,” he says.

“Here it takes a week to make one board. They do what they have to do to be involved in this world. It shows their passion. I’m definitely going to try not to snap anymore boards. I take it for granted how many skateboards I have because I’d never seen the other side of it. But I’ve never seen a place so happy.

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They have almost nothing here, but everyone works together. You can lose that in America.”

The 13 members of the skate crew have clubbed together to create a 23 y G T-shirt for Sheckler, which they give him at the end of the night, apologising for the stains on the only shirt they had. With his endless supply of branded clothes, it has been a while since Sheckler put on a stained T-shirt, but he thanks them, looking genuinely touched. Despite his jet-set lifestyle, it seems that Sheckler may remember this evening for as long as the kids who surround him.

Che and the 23 y G skaters are largely unsure of what to expect in the future. They hope for easier access to equipment, skateparks and the opportunity to see other countries. The younger skaters dream of sponsorship, while Che fears the effects of too much change. “Having people coming here and giving away stuff is a temporary solution,” he says.

“But I don’t want Cuba to become commercial, or that will be the end of how we do things here.”

One certainty in the future of Cuban skating is that it will continue to be fought for. “If I didn’t have to work I would just spend all my time skating, skating and skating some more,” says 17-year-old 23 y G skater Fernando Verdecia Maseda. “It belongs to us. It’s our goal. It’s our purpose in life.”

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Culture, comedy and choppers; if it’s interesting, it’s in 78 HANGAR-7 INTERVIEW 80 TRAVEL 82 GET THE GEAR 84 LISTINGS 88 NIGHTLIFE 94 BULL’S EYE 96 SHORT STORY 98 MIND’S EYE

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The Hangar-7 Flight Log

Bell Cobra TAH-1F A Hollywood star is reborn in open-air live theatre. Yes, that’s right, we’re talking about a helicopter…

PHOTOGRAPHY: LUKAS NAZDRACZEW/RED BULL PHOTOFILES (1) ANGELO KAUNAT/RED BULL PHOTOFILES (1)

This whirlybird catches the eye, not least when it’s in the very capable hands of its regular pilot, one of only three men in the world able to pull off a loop-theloop in a helicopter. And though the aircraft in question here cannot be flipped (very few can; it’s about being able to change the pitch of the rotors quickly enough during the loop), it does turn heads thanks to its iconic status and evocative flying technique.

After the spin, though, the facts: this Bell Cobra TAH-1F, like thousands of others, lived a former life in service, before the Apache came along and stole its thunder. A direct descendant of the Huey familiar from Vietnam war footage and action films, this particular 1980s-vintage Cobra was found, in two pieces, by chopper chap Chuck Aaron, who restored it to air-show standard

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in 2002. Showbiz folk were impressed enough to find work for Aaron and his machine on JAG and other TV shows.

In 2004, the Cobra’s antics were noted by an emissary of the Flying Bulls, the fleet of special aircraft, and those who fly them, housed at Hangar-7 at Salzburg airport in Austria. Pilot Siegfried Schwarz is the man behind the controls now. A former mountain rescue chopper pilot trained by the Austrian army, Blacky, as his surname dictates, is one of the world’s top practitioners of helicopter aerobatics.

“You can, in theory, do the same manoeuvres in a helicopter that you can do in an aeroplane,” says Schwarz, “plus the ones you can’t, such as being still in the air and then tipping forwards out of the blue. That’s a nasty one if you’ve got passengers onboard.”

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Abu Dhabi With its futuristic Formula One racetrack about to host its first GP, the city is set to steal Dubai’s thunder It was perhaps inevitable that when Abu Dhabi got the chance to upstage Dubai it would do so rather noisily.

On November 1, the final race of the 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship will roar into town, and all eyes will be on the UAE’s capital.

For once, Abu Dhabi’s brash neighbour will be outdone.

But with a stunning array of attractions and developments in store for the capital over the next two decades, Dubai had better get used to it.

There exists an unspoken rivalry between the cities, which has only intensified with Dubai’s meteoric rise. As the skyscrapers went up with astonishing speed, and the Burj Dubai – the world’s tallest man-made structure – poked its spire through the desert haze, Abu Dhabi could only watch and wonder. Yet Dubai’s unbridled ambition saw the city bulge and sprawl in any which way it could find an outlet for its insatiable appetite for growth. There were problems with traffic congestion and pollution, while the cost of living spiralled. Abu Dhabi took note.

Oil rich and in no hurry to attract the tourist dirham like the city next door, Abu Dhabi set about doing something that Dubai might have benefited from – it drew up a plan for slow, steady and sustainable expansion 80

that would make the city a modern global capital of over three million people by 2030.

Visitors to the first Grand Prix will witness one of the initial phases of the plan taking shape on Yas Island. The 25km2 landmass just off the Abu Dhabi coast will eventually play host to golf courses, malls, hotels, marinas, Ferrari and Warner Brothers theme parks, aquaria, a sports stadium, beaches and residential areas.

To the south of the Island is the Yas Marina Circuit, which will throb with the rasp of F1 cars in early November; and the iconic Yas Hotel, a striking curvilinear structure swathed in pivoting glass panels that shimmer in the wind and create the illusion of a flowing veil.

From its stylish Bridge Bar, you’ll be able to see the racetrack snake underneath, and with eight restaurants and cafes there will be no shortage of places to refuel.

It’s all such a far cry from the bedouin settlement and pearl diving community founded by the Bani Yas tribe in the late 18th century.

Reminders of the city’s past are evident at Qasr Al Hosn or the White Fort – which, dating back to 1793, is the oldest building in Abu Dhabi – and at Heritage Village, where recreations of traditional souqs and palm huts evoke the rustic simplicity of bedouin life.

The discovery of oil in the late 1950s made the island city the wealthiest of the seven Emirates when the UAE was formed in 1971. Dusty tracks in the sand soon gave way to gridiron streets and ugly concrete edifices, then the new millennium brought the overly lavish Emirates Palace hotel, and the imposing and majestic pale domes of the Sheikh Zayed Mosque. But the journey has only just begun.

Saadiyat Island is poised to open, just half a kilometre from Abu Dhabi’s coast. As

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well as yet more golf courses and luxury hotels, it will be home to a new cultural district that will boast the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim by 2013.

For now, you can watch the crane-dotted landscape of Abu Dhabi take shape from the elevated comfort of Tiara – the capital’s highest revolving restaurant at 126m. The dramatic vistas of turquoise waters lapping alongside the long and arcing Corniche up to the eastern mangroves are impressive, and probably a lot more so than the food.

Which is why the city’s epicureans are gasping with combined excitement that they’ll be getting their own celebrity-chef restaurant in time for the big race. The opening of the Marco Pierre White Steakhouse & Grill at the new Fairmont Bab Al Bahr hotel is a firm indication that Abu Dhabi is establishing itself on the world’s culinary map.

And as for all the other new restaurants, bars, hotels, iconic architectural feats, golf courses, luxury island resorts and tourist attractions that will be springing up in the coming years, not even the most fervent Dubaian could dispute that Abu Dhabi’s rise is firmly and steadily on track. =fccfn I\[ 9lcc IXZ`e^ `e k_\ L8< ZXg`kXc Xk nnn%i\[YlcciXZ`e^%Zfd

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American Football In honour of the NFL coming to Wembley and our cover star Reggie Bush, here’s the right stuff for scrimmage and pilgrimage

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Never be bored – here’s the world’s best sporting action ASP WORLD TOUR 05 - 17.10.09 N`k_ fecp knf ifle[j ]fccfn`e^ k_\ 9`ccXYfe^ Gif `e Dle[XbX# k_\ _\Xk `j fe% 8ljkiXc`Xe D`Zb =Xee`e^ n`cc _fg\ kf Zfejfc`[Xk\ _`j Z_Xdg`fej_`g jkXklj n`k_ X n`e Xk k_\ 8jjfZ`Xk`fe f] Gif Jli]\ij Nfic[ Kfli% Dle[XbX# <ljbX[`# JgX`e

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SUPERBIKE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP/ WORLD SUPER SPORT CHAMPIONSHIP 23 - 25.10.09

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WRC FINALE 23 - 25.10.09 NXc\j n`cc gcXp _fjk kf k_\ k\ej`fe$Z_Xi^\[ Ô eXc\ f] k_\ Nfic[ IXccp :_Xdg`fej_`g# Xj Zfek\e[\i J YXjk`\e Cf\Y X`dj ]fi X i\Zfi[$Yi\Xb`e^ j`ok_ k`kc\% K_\ Gif[lZk`fe :Xi Nfic[ IXccp :_Xdg`fej_`g n`cc Xcjf Y\ [\Z`[\[# Xj n`cc k_\ =`\jkX JgfikKifg_p @ek\ieXk`feXc% :Xi[`]]# NXc\j

COS CUP FINAL 23 - 25.10.09 K_\ >\idXe eXk`feXc jbXk\YfXi[ Z_Xdg`fe n`cc Y\ [\Z`[\[ Xk JbXk\ij GXcXZ\ k_`j dfek_% K_\i\ `j X gi`q\ f] ö(#''' fe f]]\i# Ylk dfjk `dgfikXek n`cc Y\ k_\ YiX^^`e^ i`^_kj f] Y\Zfd`e^ Y\jk `e k_\ Zflekip% Dlejk\i# >\idXep

MOTOGP OF MALAYSIA 23- 25.10.09 K_\ j\XjfeËj g\elck`dXk\ iXZ\ gifd`j\j kf Y\ XZk`fe$gXZb\[ Xj k_\ k`kc\ Ô ^_k `ek\ej`Ô \j% JgXe`j_ i`[\i ;Xe` G\[ifjX n`cc Y\ X`d`e^ kf Z_Xcc\e^\ Zlii\ek Z_Xdg`fe MXc\ek`ef Ifjj`# n_fËj [\k\id`e\[ kf kXb\ k_\ k`kc\ ]fi k_\ j`ok_ k`d\% J\gXe^# DXcXpj`X

FIS SKI WORLD CUP 24 - 25.10.09 K_\ 8cg`e\ Jb` Nfic[ :lg n`cc Y\^`e k_`j dfek_ _`^_ XYfm\ J c[\e fe k_\ I\kk\eYXZ_ >cXZ`\i% K_\ XZk`fe n`cc b`Zb f]] n`k_ Nfd\eËj >`Xek JcXcfd# `e n_`Z_ iXZ\ XZ\ C`e[j\p Mfee Ô e`j_\[ e`ek_ cXjk p\Xi# Xe[ n`cc Y\ ]fccfn\[ fe Jle[Xp Yp k_\ d\eËj Zfdg\k`k`fe% Jfc[\e# 8ljki`X

DTM HOCKENHEIM 25.10.09 RED BULL SOAPBOX RACE 07.10.09 Fm\i *'#''' g\fgc\ Xi\ \og\Zk\[ kf nXkZ_ k\Xdj YXkkc\ `k flk fe k_\ jcfg\j f] A\iljXc\d `e k_\`i _fd\dX[\ iXZ\ij% A\iljXc\d# @jiX\c

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ASP WOMEN’S WORLD TOUR 26 – 30.10.09 K_\ I`g :lic Gif J\XiZ_ n`cc Y\ cXe[`e^ `e Gfikl^Xc ]fi k_\ Ô ijk k`d\# b`Zb`e^ f]] k_\ j\Zfe[ _Xc] f] k_\ Ë'0 nfd\eËj Zfdg\k`k`fe% 8cc k_\ k_i`ccj Xe[ jg`ccj ZXe Y\ nXkZ_\[ c`m\ fe i`gZlic%Zfd Xe[ Xjgnfic[kfli%Zfd% G\e`Z_\# Gfikl^Xc

EUROPEAN FORMULA 2 CHAMPIONSHIP 30.10.09 - 01.11.09 8j k_\ Xcc$e\n =) Z_Xdg`fej_`g i\XZ_\j `kj Ô eXc jkX^\ `e JgX`e# Iljj`Xe iXZ\i D`b_X`c 8c\j_`e Xe[ :XeX[`Xe [i`m\i IfY\ik N`Zb\ej n`cc Y\ _fg`e^ kf j\Zli\ k_\ fm\iXcc kfg jgfkj k_\p _Xm\ Y\\e Ô ^_k`e^ ]fi Xcc j\Xjfe cfe^% :`iZl`k [\ :XkXclepX# 9XiZ\cfeX# JgX`e

FORMULA ONE ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX *'%('%'0 $ '(%((%'0 K_`j p\Xi _Xj Y\\e X j\Xjfe kf i\d\dY\i% =fid\i YXZbdXib\ij _Xm\ Y\\e i\Yfie n`ee\ij# k_\ Zlii\ek Z_Xdg`fe _Xj ]Xck\i\[ Xe[ ]fid\i Z_Xdg`fej _Xm\ Zfej`[\i\[ ^\kk`e^ YXZb Y\_`e[ k_\ n_\\c% Jf `kËj Ô kk`e^ k_Xk k_\ )''0 Z_Xdg`fej_`g \e[j n`k_ X Ô ijk% K_\ `eXl^liXc =( [Xp&e`^_k iXZ\ n`cc j\\ [i`m\ij iXZ\ fe `ekf k_\ \m\e`e^% 8Yl ;_XY`# L8<

FIS SNOWBOARD WORLD CUP 31.10.09 =i\\jgfikj fe + Xi\ kXb`e^ fm\i 9Xkk\ij\X Gfn\i JkXk`fe ]fi k_\`i =i\\q\ \m\ek ]ifd FZkfY\i *'$Efm\dY\i (% K_`j p\Xi k_\ XZk`fe n`cc `eZcl[\ X c\^ f] k_\ =@J JefnYfXi[ Nfic[ :lg% >i\Xkj jlZ_ Xj ;Xeep BXjj n`cc [\jZ\e[ fe Cfe[fe kf [f YXkkc\ `e k_\ 9`^ 8`i Zfdg\k`k`fe# n_`Z_ n`cc Y\ ]fccfn\[ Yp c`m\ dlj`Z% Cfe[fe# <e^cXe[

O’NEILL COLDWATER CLASSIC 02 – 08.11.09 8]k\i X kfli f] jfd\ f] k_\ nfic[Ëj dfjk `Zp nXk\ij# k_\ :N: jli]\ij n`cc Xii`m\ Xk k_\ Y`ik_gcXZ\ f] k_\ j\i`\j Æ :Xc`]fie`X% K_\ Zfek\jk n`cc [iXn k_\ Zifn[j Xj k_\ Ô eXc YXkkc\ gcXpj flk f]] k_\ JXekX :ilq j_fi\j Æ p\j# k_Xk nXk\i [f\j ^\k Zfc[ jfd\k`d\j% JXekX :ilq# :Xc`]fie`X# LJ8

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Keep on rocking through autumn with a feast of festivals, gigs and major club nights MAYER HAWTHORNE 07.10.09

BEN KLOCK 09.10.09

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RIOT FEST 07 - 11.10.09 K_`j knf$c\^ gleb ifZb ]\jk`mXc gifd`j\j kf Yi`e^ Êlkk\i dXp_\dË kf k_\ Z`kp f] :_`ZX^f% :XkZ_ k_\ Xggifgi`Xk\cp eXd\[ XZkj jlZ_ Xj ;\X[ D`cbd\e# Dli[\i :`kp ;\m`cj Xe[ :fZb JgXii\i% :fe^i\jj K_\Xki\# :_`ZX^f# LJ8

PHOTOGRAPHY: JAMES PEARSON-HOWES (3), MORITZ SCHELL (1)

MARK DE CLIVE-LOWE @ SPIRIT OF SOUL FESTIVAL 08.10.09 K_\ E\n Q\XcXe[$AXgXe\j\ fe\$ dXe dlj`Z dXZ_`e\ n`cc gcXp _`j fecp c`m\ [Xk\ `e 8ljkiXc`X Xk k_\ I\[ IXkkc\i Xj gXik f] k_\ Jg`i`k f] Jflc =\jk`mXc% 9l`c[`e^ kle\j ]ifd jZiXkZ_ lj`e^ \]]\Zkj# b\pYfXi[j Xe[ [ild dXZ_`e\j# _`j Y\jgfb\ YXZb`e^ _Xj \Xie\[ _`d ZfccXYfiXk`fej n`k_ ^i\Xkj jlZ_ Xj ;Xd\ J_`ic\p 9Xjj\p Xe[ MXe\jjX =i\\dXe% Jp[e\p# 8ljkiXc`X BREAKOLOGY FIFTH BIRTHDAY 09.10.09 K_\ ZclY e`^_kËj _Xc] [\ZX[\ n`cc Y\ Z\c\YiXk\[ `e jkpc\ Xj kfg kliekXYc`jkj Ife` J`q\ Xe[ JZiXkZ_ G\im\ikj j\k lg ZXdg Xk K_\ Kn`jk\[ G\gg\i% ;ild 9Xjj c\^\e[ J`q\ Xe[ k_\ Z\c\YiXk\[ ;D: Z_Xdg`fej Gi`d\ :lkj# Kfep M\^Xj Xe[ Gclj Fe\ n`cc \ejli\ k_Xk 9i\Xbfcf^p b\\gj ^f`e^ jkife^% K_\ Kn`jk\[ G\gg\i# ;lYc`e# @i\cXe[

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DJ MEHDI 09.10.09 K_\ GXi`j$Yfie _`g$_fg ;A Xe[ gif[lZ\i _Xj ZfccXYfiXk\[ n`k_ Xik`jkj jlZ_ Xj :_ifd\f# ;X]k Gleb Xe[ D: JfcXXi Xe[ \og\i`d\ek\[ n`k_ [XeZ\ Xe[ [`jZf% 9lk _`j ]Xmfli`k\ gcXZ\ kf Y\ `j Y\_`e[ k_\ [\Zbj# [f`e^ n_Xk _\ [f\j Y\jk% :clY 9fejf`i# 9\ie# Jn`kq\icXe[

TONY ALLEN 09.10.09 K_\ c\^\e[Xip [ildd\i Xe[ jfe^ni`k\i# n_f _\cg\[ Zi\Xk\ k_\ X]ifY\Xk ^\ei\ Xcfe^ n`k_ ]\ccfn dlj`Z ifpXckp =\cX Blk`# n`cc Y\ Yi`e^`e^ _`j le`hl\ Y\Xkj kf GXi`j ]fi fe\ e`^_k fecp% Efk kf Y\ d`jj\[% =XZkfip CX :`^Xc\# GXi`j# =iXeZ\

15 YEARS OF COMPOST 10.10.09 K_\ :fdgfjk i\Zfi[ cXY\c _Xj ^ff[ i\Xjfe kf Y\ Z\c\YiXk`e^% 8]k\i (, p\Xij `e Ylj`e\jj# k_`j _`^_cp XZZcX`d\[ <lifg\Xe `e[`\ cXY\c `j jk`cc ^f`e^ jkife^# X ]XZk gifm\e Yp k_\ ZXc`Yi\ f] Xik`jkj jk\gg`e^ fe jkX^\ kf kfXjk k_\ k\Xd% K_\ XZkj Xgg\Xi`e^ `eZcl[\ Bil[\i ;fi]d\`jk\i# AXqqXefmX# >`cc\j G\k\ijfe# 9\XeÔ \c[ Xe[ ;A ?\cc% 8 nfik_p c`e\$lg `e[\\[% Dl]]Xkn\ib# Dle`Z_# >\idXep

TWIN ATLANTIC 06.10.09 K_\ Xck$ifZb ]fli$g`\Z\# Xe \Xicp j`^e`e^ kf I\[ 9lcc I\Zfi[j# Xi\ Yi`e^`e^ k_\`i >cXj^fn jkpc\ kf k_\ <d\iXc[ @jc\% 8ZX[\dp )# ;lYc`e# @i\cXe[

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FELDER FELDER K_\ >\idXe [\j`^e kn`ej Xi\ dXb`e^ nXm\j `e k_\ nfic[ f] ]Xj_`fe n`k_ k_\`i \c\^Xek kXb\ fe k_\ ifZb$Z_`Zb cffb% I\X[ k_\`i `ek\im`\n fe gX^\ //%

RICHARD THE THIRD @ ROCKING THE DAISIES FESTIVAL 10.10.09

TIM SWEENEY: BEATS IN SPACE 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY 16.10.09

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K_\ 9@J iX[`f j_fn _Xj Y\\e j_fnZXj`e^ gif^i\jj`m\ [XeZ\ kiXZbj ]fi (' p\Xij k_`j dfek_# Xe[ E\n Pfib$YXj\[ ]fle[\i f] k_\ j_fn K`d Jn\\e\p `j kXb`e^ k_\ Z\c\YiXk`fe fe k_\ ifX[% ?\ n`cc Y\ jg`ee`e^ k_fj\ kle\j k_Xk _Xm\ _\cg\[ dXb\ k_\ j_fn `Zfe`Z fe Yfk_ j`[\j f] k_\ 8kcXek`Z% GcXjk`Z G\fgc\# Cfe[fe# <e^cXe[

FORT KNOX FIVE / KRAAK & SMAAK 10.10.09 :fe]lj`e^cp# k_\ =fik Befo =`m\ _Xj ]fli d\dY\ij# Ylk k_Xk _XjeËk jkfgg\[ Zi`k`ZXc XZZcX`d Y\`e^ _\Xg\[ lgfe k_\d Xe[ k_\`i ]leb jfle[# d`o\[ n`k_ \c\d\ekj f] _`g$_fg Xe[ \c\Zkife`ZX% ;lkZ_ ki`f BiXXb JdXXb n`cc dXb\ Xgk jkX^\ ]\ccfnj n`k_ k_\`i ]leb Y\Xkj gclj X ]lcc c`m\ YXe[% Nfic[ :X] # G_`cX[\cg_`X# LJ8

16 YEARS OF THE DANUBE RAVE 10.10.09 CfZXc C`eq _\if <i`Z =`jZ_\i jkXik\[ jdXcc YXj\d\ek gXik`\j (- p\Xij X^f n_\e k\Z_ef nXj `e `kj `e]XeZp% 8j k_\ ^\ei\ ^i\n nfic[n`[\# =`jZ_\i Y\ZXd\ Xe `ek\ieXk`feXccp i\efne\[ ;A% =fi k_\ Xee`m\ijXip f] k_\ ;XelY\ IXm\# n\cc$n`j_\ij jlZ_ Xj ;A ?\cc Xe[ >i\^fi Ki\j_\i Xi\ \og\Zk\[ kf af`e k_\ gXikp% C`eq# 8ljki`X

AIRWAVES FESTIVAL 14 - 18.10.09 K_\ @Z\cXe[`Z ]\jk`mXc k_Xk jkXik\[ `e Xe X`iZiX]k _Xe^Xi `e (000 `j jk`cc ^f`e^ jkife^% Efn jgi\X[ XZifjj j\m\iXc Z`kp cfZXk`fej# k_\ ]\jk`mXc gifd`j\j ^i\Xk `ek\ieXk`feXc Xe[ _fd\^ifne kXc\ek# n`k_ ^\pj\ij X j_fik Ylj i`[\ XnXp kf _\cg n`k_ k_\ _Xe^fm\i% MXi`flj cfZXk`fej# I\pbaXm`b# @Z\cXe[

PURSUIT GROOVES 15.10.09 MOSCOW CLUBS K_\i\ _Xj Y\\e X i\mfclk`fe `e k_\ DfjZfn ZclY jZ\e\ f] cXk\% Kf _Xe^ flk n`k_ DfjZfnËj Zffc\jk `e k_\ dfjk jfl^_k$ X]k\i m\el\j# j\\ gX^\ 0'%

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FAT FREDDY’S DROP 16.10.09 K_\ [lY Xe[ i\^^X\ flkÔ k Xi\ fe\ f] E\n Q\XcXe[Ëj dfjk Zi`k`ZXccp XZZcX`d\[ \ogfikj f] k_\ cXjk (' p\Xij# Xe[ k_\ j\m\e$g`\Z\ YXe[ Xi\ Xk k_\`i Y\jk c`m\% K_\ GXcXZ\ K_\Xki\# D\cYflie\# 8ljkiXc`X

WAREHOUSE PROJECT PRESENTS: EROL AND FRIENDS 16.10.09 Jlg\ijkXi ;A <ifc 8cbXe n`cc \c\Zki`]p k_\ le[\i^ifle[ ZXi gXib cfZXk`fe f] NXi\_flj\ Gifa\Zk Xe[ lec\Xj_ X j\c\Zk ^iflg f] j\c\Zkfij fe k_\ Zifn[% QfdY`\ EXk`fe af`ej >i\^ N`cjfe Xe[ Ifip G_`cc`gj kf \ejli\ k_Xk k_\ ZclY e`^_k c`m\j lg kf `kj _l^\ i\glkXk`fe feZ\ X^X`e `e )''0% DXeZ_\jk\i# <e^cXe[

SANY PITBULL 16.10.09 K_\ dlj`Z`Xe Xe[ gif[lZ\i ^i\n lg `e k_\ ]Xm\cXj f] I`f# 9iXq`c Xe[ _Xj dX[\ X Ô id dXib fe k_\ dlj`Z jZ\e\ fm\i k_\ gXjk )' p\Xij n`k_ _`j fne jkpc\# [lYY\[ ÊYX`c\ ]lebË% I\[ild# ?\cj`eb`# =`ecXe[

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Double Vision Felder Felder are pegged to follow in the footsteps of London Fashion Week supremos Alexander McQueen and Christopher Kane.

Andreas Tzortzis meets the Iggy Pop-worshipping German twins J\k `[pcc`ZXccp Xdfe^ k_\ ifcc`e^# m\i[Xek _`ccj f] N\jk\ie >\idXep# N`gg\i] ik_ `j X m`ccX^\ f] fYm`flj Z_Xidj# Zfd]fik Xe[ gi\[`ZkXY`c`kp% @k nXj Zc\Xi k_Xk 8ee\kk\ Xe[ ;Xe`\cX =\c[\i e\\[\[ kf ^\k flk Xj jffe Xj gfjj`Yc\% K_\ kn`ej \jZXg\[ Ôijk `ekf k_\ dlj`ZXc m`iklfj`kp f] C\[ Q\gg\c`e# K_\ 9\Xkc\j Xe[ @^^p Gfg Æ Xik`jkj n_f nflc[ cXk\i `ejg`i\ k_\`i [\j`^e X\jk_\k`Z Æ ]fi p\Xij% 8k (/# `k nXj k`d\ kf \jZXg\ gifg\icp# dfm`e^ kf 8djk\i[Xd kf c`m\ `e X jhlXk Xe[ k_\e fe kf df[\cc`e^ afYj Xifle[ <lifg\% K_\p j\k Zflij\ ]fi :\ekiXc JX`ek DXik`ej :fcc\^\ f] 8ik Xe[ ;\j`^e# n_\i\ k_\p jkXik\[ k_\`i \gfepdflj cXY\c `e )''-# jffe n`ee`e^ XZZfcX[\j Xe[ Cfe[fe =Xj_`fe N\\bËj gi\jk`^`flj E\n >\e\iXk`fe 8nXi[% 8 ]\n n\\bj X^f# =\c[\i =\c[\i n\i\ Xdfe^ k_\ _\X[c`e\ij Xk I\[ 9lccËj =Xj_`fe =XZkfip# X =Xj_`fe N\\b j`[\ jkX^\ Yc\e[`e^ lgjkXik Xe[ \jkXYc`j_\[ kXc\ek fm\i k_i\\ [Xpj f] ZXknXcb j_fnj Xe[ e\knfib`e^ `e k_\ Fc[ Jfik`e^ F]ÔZ\ `e ?`^_ ?fcYfie# Cfe[fe% ?fn [`[ knf ^`icj ]ifd N`gg\i] ik_ \e[ lg dXb`e^ k_\`i dXib fe k_\ Cfe[fe ]Xj_`fe jZ\e\6 8ee\kk\ ]Xi i`^_k 1 @k nXj jlZ_ X ^iX[lXc Z_Xe^\% Jkl[p`e^ Xk Jk DXik`ej# c`m`e^ `e Cfe[fe¿ @ k_`eb n\ _Xm\ Z`kp g\ijfeXc`k`\j# n\ XcnXpj ]\ck Xk _fd\ c`m`e^ `e X Z`kp% ;Xe`\cX i`^_k 1 @k nXj dfi\ c`b\ n\ e\\[ kf ^\k flk f] k_\i\% Jf n\ dX[\ ]i`\e[j `e k_\ Z`k`\j n\ kiXm\cc\[ kf Xe[ jX`[# ÈF_# ZXe n\ Zfd\ YXZb Xe[ m`j`k pfl Xe[ jkXp ]fi X i\Xccp cfe^ k`d\6É @e k_\ \e[# n\ e\m\i c\]k Cfe[fe% N_Xk [`[ pfli gXi\ekj k_`eb f] pfl lgg`e^ jk`Zbj Xe[ c\Xm`e^ Xk (/6 81 Fli dfk_\i nXj k_\ Ôijk kf k\cc lj XYflk JX`ek DXik`ej% ;1 J_\ nXj c`b\¿ Xcc k_\ Y\jk [\j`^e\ij ^f kf JX`ek DXik`ej% K_\i\ nXj ef fe\ `e fli 88

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MORE BODY & MIND A story by Andrew Holmes

Morning Ciggy The Parish Council’s plans go up in smoke…

Minutes of the Parish Council Meeting held on Tuesday, February 3, 2009, in the Village Hall at 7.50pm.

The Vice-Chairman, Cllr Bridget Cooper, opened the meeting at 7.50pm.

Members of the Public in attendance: No members of the public in attendance.

1) Apologies were received from: Chairman Beryl Fame.

2) Declaration of Interests: None made.

3) Borough & County Councillor Reports: None received.

4) Matters Discussed: 4.1 Best-Kept Village Competition.

To date, preparations for Lower Bourne’s entry into this year’s Best-Kept Village Competition have been proceeding well.

A letter was read out on behalf of absent Chairman Beryl Fame.

“Need I remind members that, with the exception of 2001, when the event was cancelled due to the foot and mouth outbreak, Lower Bourne has never failed to achieve lower than runner-up status in the competition. While this is to be commended, I feel ‘The Big Push’ is needed in order to ‘Go For the Win’ this year, and would like to propose we launch a campaign calling on every member of our community for their support, not only to see to it that their own property is ‘spick and span’, but that they themselves maintain ‘decent standards’ in the run-up to the competition and for its duration.

“With this last point in mind, I propose formally asking Miss Stenton to refrain from her ‘morning ciggy’ while walking to and from Barker’s Post Office & General Stores each day.

“Far be it from me to ‘cast aspersions’ on Miss Stenton’s habit, but cigarettes in these enlightened times are decidedly ‘non-U’ and could be perceived as ‘lowering the tone’. I am sure Miss Stenton would respond well to a ‘friendly request’ 96

asking her not to smoke in the street to serve the ‘greater good’.”

There was much discussion surrounding this latter proposal, with Cllr Drake suggesting that personal feelings lay behind the issue, referring to last year’s planning dispute. No agreement was reached regarding the suggestion.

Nevertheless, it was unanimously agreed to launch a campaign aimed at galvanising the village to Best-Kept… success and Cllr Drake’s suggestion of ‘We Can Do It!’ was adopted as campaign title.

Minutes of the Parish Council Meeting held on Tuesday, March 3, 2009, in the Village Hall at 7.50pm.

The Chairman, Beryl Fame, opened the meeting at 7.50pm.

Members of the Public in attendance: No members of the public in attendance.

1) Apologies: None received.

2) Declaration of Interests: None made.

3) Borough & County Councillor Reports: None received.

4) Matters Discussed: 4.1 Best-Kept Village Competition.

‘I’m sure Miss Stenton would respond well to a friendly request asking her not to smoke in the street’ To date, preparations for Lower Bourne’s entry into this year’s Best-Kept Village Competition have been proceeding well.

Chairman Beryl Fame thanked the council for agreeing her proposal for a Best-Kept Village campaign. However, she expressed surprise that her suggestion for a title, ‘The Big Push’, had not been taken up.

Despite Cllr Drake’s protestations, it was agreed that 200 ‘We Can Do It!’ leaflets be shredded and a new ‘The Big Push’ design drawn up. And, in addition, Cllr Cavanagh was asked to investigate the permissions situation regarding the possible use of Lord Kitchener’s image.

Chairman Fame also expressed surprise at the lack of support regarding her request to ask Miss Stenton to refrain

MORE BODY & MIND last year’s planning dispute. In view of the offensive tone of the note, she proposed the council seek to impose an Anti-Social Behaviour Order upon Miss Stenton. Cllr Drake was informed that the order would be sought on environmental grounds. Despite Cllr Drake’s protestations, it was agreed that the Parish Council would approach County with the request.

Cllr Cavanagh confirmed that images of Lord Kitchener could be used without charge. It was agreed to press forward with ‘The Big Push’ leaflet.

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from smoking in the street. Despite Cllr Drake’s protestations, it was agreed to write to Miss Stenton with a ‘friendly request’ along these lines.

Minutes of the Parish Council Meeting held on Tuesday, April 7, 2009, in the Village Hall at 7.50pm.

The Vice-Chairman, Cllr Bridget Cooper, opened the meeting at 7.50pm.

Members of the Public in attendance: No members of the public in attendance.

1) Apologies: None received.

2) Declaration of Interests: None made.

3) Borough & County Councillor Reports: None received.

4) Matters Discussed: 4.1 Best-Kept Village Competition.

To date, preparations for Lower Bourne’s entry into this year’s Best-Kept Village Competition have been proceeding well.

The Clerk read a short reply from Miss Stenton regarding the ‘friendly request’ that she refrain from smoking in the street. In light of its contents, Chairman Beryl Fame took the opportunity to refute allegations made concerning

Minutes of the Parish Council Meeting held on Tuesday, May 5, 2009, in the Village Hall at 7.50pm.

The Chairman, Beryl Fame, opened the meeting at 7.50pm.

Members of the Public in attendance: Miss Eleanor Stenton and a representative of the Bridgeforth Mercury.

1) Apologies: None received.

2) Declaration of Interests: None made.

3) Borough & County Councillor Reports: None received.

4) Matters Discussed: 4.1 Best-Kept Village Competition.

To date, preparations for Lower Bourne’s entry into this year’s Best-Kept Village Competition have been proceeding well.

After a lengthy discussion, the Clerk confirmed that it was not possible to exclude the Bridgeforth Mercury from discussions concerning the council’s application to impose an Anti-Social Behaviour Order upon Miss Stenton.

Lively words were exchanged between Chairman Beryl Fame and Miss Stenton.

After a short adjournment, the meeting was resumed and Cllr Drake pointed out a typographical error in ‘The Big Push’ leaflet in paragraph two, which referred to ‘the Beast-Kept Village competition’. Further lively words were exchanged after a satirical interjection by Miss Stenton.

Chairman Beryl Fame proposed to most strenuously pursue an Anti-Social Behaviour Order against Miss Stenton.

Following a further incident, during which Chairman Fame and Miss Stenton had to be restrained, the meeting was adjourned.

Minutes of the Parish Council Meeting held on Tuesday, June 2, 2009, in the Village Hall at 7.50pm.

The Chairman, Beryl Fame, opened the meeting at 7.50pm.

Members of the Public in attendance: Miss Eleanor Stenton, a representative of the Bridgeforth Mercury, the Press Association, BBC, ITN, The Daily Mail,

The Sun, Daily Mirror and others.

1) Apologies: None received.

2) Declaration of Interests: None made.

3) Borough & County Councillor Reports: None received.

4) Matters Discussed: 4.1 Best-Kept Village Competition.

To date, preparations for Lower Bourne’s entry into this year’s Best-Kept Village Competition have been proceeding well.

Lively words were exchanged between Miss Stenton and Chairman Beryl Fame, with Chairman Fame refuting allegations made concerning last year’s planning dispute. In response, Miss Stenton refuted allegations concerning her sexuality. After an incident during which both women had to be restrained and Cllr Fleet sustained a possible broken nose, the meeting was adjourned.

Minutes of the Parish Council Meeting held on Tuesday, July 7, 2009, in the Village Hall at 7.50pm.

The Vice-Chairman, Cllr Bridget Cooper, opened the meeting at 7.50pm.

Members of the Public in attendance: No members of the public in attendance.

1). Apologies were received from: Chairman Beryl Fame.

2). Declaration of Interests: None made.

3). Borough & County Councillor Reports: None received.

4) Matters Discussed: 4.1 Chairman’s resignation.

In view of the upcoming case, Chairman Beryl Fame tendered her resignation, which was accepted by the council.

4.2 Best-Kept Village Competition.

Damage to hedgerows and verges had been sustained during the intense interest surrounding the feud between chairman Beryl Fame and Miss Stenton, and it was agreed to withdraw from this year’s contest, but to press forward with preparations for next year’s competition.

It was unanimously agreed to launch a campaign aimed at galvanising the village to Best-Kept… success and Cllr Drake’s suggestion of ‘We Can Do It!’ was adopted as campaign title.

About the author Andrew Holmes is 37 and lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife and son.

He has published four novels: Sleb; All Fur Coat; 64 Clarke; and his latest work, Rain Dogs and Love Cats, which is “about a wedding DJ who becomes embroiled in something nasty”. www.myspace.com/64clarke 97

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A Shade More Cool Stephen Bayley ponders the instant glamour effect of a pair of sunglasses

‘Nothing apart from having a bolt through your neck transforms your mood so quickly’ transforms your personal mood and appearance so quickly and dramatically.

Most people are flattered by shades.

And the meanings involved in wearing them are satisfyingly complex because they are so paradoxical: at the same time, sunglasses offer the wearer escape from observation. As soon as you put them on, you achieve that editorial control of your world… even down to colour balance.

Sunglasses make you feel more private, more protected. Yet they instantly give you greater stand-out. You need a big ego to wear sunglasses.

Why? Because they make you both unsettling and sexier. Anyone who has seen the famous harpy who brightens and tightens US Vogue without her trademark shades knows that, naked, she looks like a cute dormouse. But Anna Wintour is only one of millions who enjoys unsettling us with her protective eyewear. We all do it because behind them moods cannot be read.

So far as I’m concerned, there are only two types of sunglasses and each has military origins. A US Army Air Corps programme in the 1930s led to the creation of Bausch & Lomb’s Ray-Ban ‘Aviator’.

Introduced in 1938, the Aviator became an important element of the global fashion statement that was General MacArthur.

Successor to the Aviator was another military design, also by Bausch & Lomb, known as the Ray-Ban Wayfarer of 1952.

Plastic frames were a technical innovation for the Air Force, but in the decade of Mid-Century Modern, which also gave us tail fins and Elvis, the Wayfarer succeeded because of product semantics.

Its distinctive trapezoidal frame spoke a non-verbal language that hinted at unstable psychological danger (James Dean liked them), but tempered by the mechanics of the sturdy arms which, according to the advertising, provided a gratifying, stabilising masculine effect.

If ever there was a timeless classic, this is it, but above function-inspired aesthetics, celebrity endorsement also made the case for the Wayfarer. Marilyn Monroe used them. Audrey Hepburn wore them in Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s. JFK, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Andy Warhol all did volunteer product placement. Here are people with lots to say and more to hide.

Excluding the option of being dead, an agreeable way to identify with this elite is… to wear sunglasses.

Their eternal summer shall not fade.

Stephen Bayley is a former director of the Design Museum in London and an award-winning writer

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Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, but, actually, even when his gold complexion is dimmed, I still tend to reach for sunglasses. Seeing the world through a glass darkly does not necessarily suit my mood – sunglasses can be rose-tinted – but I always enjoy the effect of editing and control over the observed world that sunglasses bring.

The great screenwriter Terry Southern once described the editing process as “brightening ’n’ tightening”. That’s what we do with sunglasses: not always brighter, but certainly tighter.

The eyes absorb a disproportionate amount of the body’s available energy, so lessening the load makes ergonomic sense. Although by the same score, sunglasses have a degrading effect on general acuity and hand-eye co-ordination, even as they flatter the wearer’s appearance. Put it this way: have you ever seen a serious tennis player in shades? Rafael Nadal would rather squint than compromise response time by fractions of a second. So they make you feel and look better, but perform worse. It’s a familiar dilemma.

In mythology, eyes are the windows of the soul. So to replace transparent windows with impenetrable dark glass is a psychologically interesting decision. To the rest of the world, sunglasses change your eyes from windows to mirrors.

There is poetry here since windows answer questions, but mirrors ask them.

Although sunglasses have their origin as prosthetic devices for protection from harmful or distracting glare, wearing them has very little to do with function and everything to do with a personal statement. Sunglasses are one of the most potent semantic tools in anyone’s wardrobe: nothing else, apart, perhaps, from having a bolt through your neck,

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