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THE LAST TURN, WHICH IS CALLED THE RED BULL MOBILE CURVE, might have to be renamed the Red Bull Help I’m Really Dizzy Can I Get Off, Please? curve, after Sebastian Vettel spun his car round-and-round during FP1 in a graceful Viennese waltz. Teammate Daniel Ricciardo also had a hairy trip across the grass at the same spot, leaving the Red Bulls both well down the timing sheet in FP1. At the top it was the Mercedes duo, Nico Rosberg ahead in a car fitted with a new titanium skid plate which made the back of the car look like a sparkler. In FP2, the Mercs swapped places, with Lewis Hamilton dominant by almost 4/10ths. However, he had a technical issue later in the session, complaining of a loss of power. Vettel and Ricciardo’s floors needed changing after their FP1 expeditions, and they returned to the action to post the sixth and eighth quickest times respectively, some way off the Silver Arrows, which are looking mighty sharp ahead of qualifying.
SINGAPORE SWING BEST OF LUCK to anyone doing the UBS track run this evening, for you’re in for a rough 4.3km. SpaFrancorchamps might be a longer lap, but Spielberg is built on the side of a mountain. With a gradient of 12 per cent in places, those drivers who went out for their track walk on bicycles came back out of breath. One local man who knows a lot about saddle sores is in the paddock. This week, Styrian rider Christoph Strasser won the Race Across America for the third time, and hobbled along to pay us a visit. He rode 4,900km nonstop from the west coast of the United States to the east, taking seven days, 15 hours and 56 minutes. His average speed was 26.42mph. How long would it take in a Formula One car? Don’t make Strasser weep.
ROBBIE WILLIAMS IS SET TO HEADLINE THE OFF-TRACK ENTERTAINMENT at this September’s Singapore Grand Prix. The pop star, who is who is promoting his new album Swings Both Ways, will take to the Padang stage on Saturday night after qualifying. The video for Williams’ 2000 hit Supreme showed the singer as a 1970s F1 daredevil, fighting Jackie Stewart for the world title. Maybe JYS will join him on stage. Just don’t let him take the microphone, we have to go to bed by sunrise.
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FERNANDO ALONSO PLANS TO RACE IN THE LEGENDARY LE MANS 24 HOURS AFTER HE RETIRES FROM F1. The Ferrari driver, who waved the Tricolour to start this year’s race, has been linked to a potential return of the Scuderia to LMP1 class. Regardless of whether Ferrari competes or not, he says he is determined to race at La Sarthe. “I will, that’s 100 per cent,” the Spaniard said. “I need to wait until I finish Formula One. If I do something, I do it 100 per cent, I don’t do 50-50, so first I will try to do some more years in Formula One, try to win championships, try to help Ferrari, and then one day… of course, I cannot be seated at home on the sofa. Endurance is a category that you can race when you’re a bit older without big problems, and that will be my intention.” The Le Mans retirement home is quite a popular destination for ex-F1 drivers, the most recent big name to enter being Mark Webber with Porsche. Where else can you get fireproof slippers and a titanium bed-pan?
Photography: Getty Images (5), Markus Kucera (1)
COLD CASE
MY FAVOURITE THINGS
VALTTERI BOTTAS Unsurprisingly, most of them are Finnish. SPORT: Apart from motor racing, ice hockey is my favourite sport. I always cheer for Finland and the Pelicans, who are the side from my home-town of Nastola. FOOD: I like healthy food. I eat organic because you can eat more of it. My favourite is wild Finnish salmon with vegetables and salad.
THE FIA REOPENED THE CASE FILE on the Felipe Massa/Sergio Perez crash in Canada, after Force India appealed for a review. They said their driver was in hospital when the stewards penalised him five grid places and he couldn’t tell his side of the story. Having convened here in Austria, the stewards listened to new testimony, but stood by the original decision, leaving Perez with another headache and a lot of work to do tomorrow.
THE RED BULLETIN Spielberg, ISSN 1995-8838 Herausgeber und Verleger Red Bull Media House GmbH Team Principal Wolfgang Winter Pole Position Boro Petric, Adam Hay-Nicholls Chief Constructor Dominik Uhl Photo Finish Markus Kucera Text Engineer Clemens Stachel Production Editor Nadja James Managing Editor Lisa Blazek Roving Reporter Lukas Wagner Photo Reporter Philipp Horak Bull’s Mouth Eric Silbermann Third Driver Christoph Rietner Supply Industry Muhamed Beganovic, Moritz Gottsauner-Wolf, Martina Powell, Florian Wörgötter Cocktail Supply Georg Eckelsberger Quizmaster Raffael Fritz Translations James Conway, Friedrich Hügle, Desmond Tumulty Chief Mechanic Nancy James Submarine Engineer Paul Keith Carriage Designer Paul Stuefer Junior Designer Isabel Erlebach Senior Illustrator Dietmar Kainrath Funny Nina Ball Cover Michael Pleesz Repro Men Clemens Ragotzky (Ltg.), Karsten Lehmann, Josef Mühlbacher Master of Chaos Michael Bergmeister Production Matthias Zimmermann Marketing Lukas Scharmbacher Publisher Franz Renkin Sales Alfred Vrej Minassian, Thomas Hutterer, Romana Müller International Sales Patrick Stepanian sales@at.redbulletin.com Office Heroines Manuela Geßlbauer, Kristina Krizmanic IT Michael Thaler Head Office Red Bull Media House GmbH, Oberst-Lepperdinger-Str. 11–15, A-5071 Wals bei Salzburg, FN 297115i, Landesgericht Salzburg, ATU63611700 Racing stable Heinrich-Collin-Str. 1, A-1140 Vienna Phone +43 1 90221-28800 Fax +43 1 90221-28809 Contact letters@redbulletin.com Website www.redbulletin.com
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MUSIC: My favourite album of all time is the greatest hits of The Offspring. Pretty Fly For A White Guy is a classic. HOLIDAYS: You can’t beat northern Finland. I love nothing more than being in the middle of nowhere up there, especially in the winter so I can go ski-dooing and cross-country skiing. The best resorts are Ruka and Levi.
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ATTACK-ATTACK By Karl Wendlinger
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TEAM SPIRIT IS INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT. In motorsport, your teammate is your main rival. If you’re better than him, then you’ve already achieved something. As the drivers’ world championship is more important than the constructors’, the battle to be the number one driver within the team is always going to create tension. Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost in the late 1980s at McLaren are proof of that. The two best drivers in the world at the time, driving the best car, fought tooth and nail. And today’s Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg are proof of it now. But differences between the drivers have a negative impact on team spirit, because one driver’s mechanics and engineers will try to be better than the other driver’s. A good relationship between teammates depends on how they get on personally but it’s also about politics. Every driver will try to get the important people in his team on side, of course, so that he can do more testing and so that adjustments will be made to better suit his own particular driving style. Whether a team deals with these caprices or not always depends on whether there’s an obvious number one driver. But if both drivers get the same car, which is the way many teams handle things, then race strategy is what makes the difference. The team management decides, for example, who should pit first for new tyres and issues team orders if the number one driver is to cross the line first or if they fear there’s a technical problem. Of course, a driver will feel hard done by if he’s forbidden from overtaking, especially if he’s quicker and has been better in practice.
“If you want to be the fastest, you shouldn’t brake so slowly.”
But personally, I’ve never found the radio to be unsporting. If I’d been quicker over the course of the championship, I’d have never had to let anyone past. Furthermore, the focus is the greatest possible success for the team. Infiniti Red Bull Racing proved forcefully last season that Formula One is still sportsmanlike, regardless of legitimate discussion about team orders. Sebastian Vettel dominated every race without Mark Webber having to slam on the brakes. Team spirit is even more important than it used to be in Formula One today. The reduced testing, the new technology and the rule changes mean that the drivers have to confer more within the teams to understand the technology better and to be able to keep on improving. The competition outside the team has got tougher, too, and the difference in times between those chasing the leaders is constantly decreasing. Your chances of winning increase if you have the ideal working relationship. It’s even more important to have a good relationship with your teammates in endurance races like the 24 Hours of Le Mans or GT racing, where there are two of you in the same car and both man and machine are stretched to the limit. When I was a racing driver, I always had people in my entourage who I could rely on 100 per cent. My Formula One teammate at Sauber, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, was always a bit of a joker. Michael Schumacher, who I drove with at Le Mans as a Mercedes junior, was a good guy, too. By day we went head to head for the best time. In the evenings we would have a shandy and play pool. When I came out of my four-week coma after my accident in Monaco in 1994, it helped to see that my teammates and other people I knew from Formula One had shown their concern. But the people I’m most grateful to are my very closest team, which consists of my wife, who protects and looks after me and has suffered with me, and my parents, who hardly left my side when I was in hospital. I wanted to be a racing driver from the first time I went to amateur races as a little boy with my father. The journey from go-karting to Formula One became ever quicker and riskier. When you love what you do, you also accept that something might happen. But if you have a team that works together in a professional way, that gives you a sense of security and reduces your fear of the risks.
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GOOD PLACE TO PARTY. When I think back to the Austrian Grand Prix it brings a smile to my face. I had such a fantastic time over here. First of all, the location is absolutely fantastic: the track is surrounded by beautiful nature. Secondly, the circuit had lots of character, with some wonderful corners. And then there were the fans. There were Austrians, of course, and Germans who had come over to support Michael Schumacher, and there were loads of Finns as well. There was a competition to see who could make the most noise and I am reliably informed it was the Finns. It was a good place to party because of all the campsites – a bit like Silverstone and Spa – and Finns live to party. In my situation, of course, I had to focus on my programme, I couldn’t go partying with my countrymen. Mainly, it is the memories of driving that stick with me. I can picture a lap of the A1 Ring like it was yesterday, when actually it’s been 13 years since I last raced here – wow! I can still feel the steering wheel in my hands, the molecules in the tyres moving around,
and the bumps in the seat of my pants. It was my type of circuit, the kind where you have to hold your breath going around corners. It was attackattack-attack the whole way around, so aggressive. It required guts and plenty of them. To win here twice was particularly rewarding. Turn 1 was my favourite. The McLaren was always so good through that corner. You could brake tremendously late, because it was uphill. As soon as you came off the brakes you floored the gas without a moment’s delay – Bam! – taking as much kerb as possible. You had to get it absolutely perfect as there was a long straight afterwards. It was brilliant fun. I am an ambassador for MercedesBenz, so you can guess which team I’m supporting this season. They always wanted to be number one. Even before I was born they were in Formula One, it’s in their blood. They’re at the top of the mountain now, on such confident form. Their technical team is superb. They will be difficult to beat this weekend, although I’m sure Infiniti Red Bull Racing would love nothing more than to get one over on the Silver Arrows here on their home tarmac.
I’ve had some incredible teammates: Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Johnny Herbert, Martin Brundle, Mark Blundell and, of course, David Coulthard. That’s an amazing line-up of teammates, and so I know how challenging it is to have competition from the other side of your own garage. From the team’s side it can be difficult to manage. My policy was to do my talking on the track, and never get into verbal battles or mind games off it. I think that worked pretty well for me. Communication is a big secret to success in terms of inter-team dialogue, but in the outside world the social media age adds new challenges, not to mention column inches. We didn’t have Twitter when I was racing in F1. Now drivers can share their innermost thoughts without any filter at any time of day or night – often when they are emotional. I think Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton are doing a fantastic job this season. My only advice would be to do the talking on the track, because that’s the only place it matters. And enjoy it; this is a great track and I’m really pleased it’s back on the calendar.
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TRACK RECORD Driving for Infiniti Red Bull Racing means he’s in one of this circuit’s company cars. But how many of our questions can Daniel Ricciardo answer in the time it took Michael Schumacher to set the lap record in 2003?
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OF SPIELBERG At the last Austrian Grand Prix, Michael Schumacher came back from a seemingly hopeless position to seize victory. It was a truly hot pursuit as
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hoo the cows from the field one more time. Michael Schumacher roars over the 28C asphalt at the head of a screeching parade of 17 of the fastest racing machines in the world. It’s a Sunday in May in Spielberg, Austria. The alpine meadows unfurl beneath clear skies. The spruces lining the course have dusted the track with pollen. A light shower begins to fall – real racing weather. Schumacher sits in his Ferrari F2003-GA, the 920hp engine hisses behind him. It’s the 2003 Formula One season. After two false starts, the last Austrian Grand Prix (until now) begins in tumultuous conditions. Schumacher is in pole position despite spinning on the slippery pollen in the qualifying session. On lap 22, the five-time world champion sets the fastest lap time in the Austrian Grand Prix so far. Worshipped in Germany and Italy, admired throughout the rest of the world – often begrudgingly – Schumacher’s seemingly endless series of triumphs, which began in 2000, had earned the displeasure of many fans. He came across as overly cool and overly ambitious. Someone who dashes right up to the limit of legality and, at times, skids over it. In 2002, he could claim the mantle of world champion a full six races before the end of the season. But his first victory at the A1 Ring had a bitter aftertaste: by order of team management his teammate, Rubens Barrichello, was forced to cede the lead on the home straight. The spectators responded with jeers. Schumacher had some making up to do the following year. A clean win was in order. The last Formula One race on the A1 Ring sticks in the memory as an entertaining racing spectacle – and a miraculous moment in the career of perhaps the greatest champion that motorsport has ever seen.
Completing his fastest lap so far, it’s all going like clockwork for the 34-year-old. With a top speed of 316kph, he’s roaring towards his 67th Grand Prix victory. But fate has other plans. On his 21st lap, his teammate Barrichello heads into the pit. Barrichello’s pit stop takes 20 seconds. Far too long. Something is wrong with the fuel pump, the pit crew are late docking the hose into the tank. What no one realises is that there is still some fuel left in the nozzle. Two laps later, Schumacher turns into the pit lane. Schumacher trains his gaze on the lollipop straight ahead of him. The mechanics get to work changing the tyres. As they go to insert the fuel nozzle, the drops of fuel left over from Barrichello’s pit stop drip unnoticed onto the searing-hot monocoque of the Ferrari. Seconds go by. Then flames start licking around the tank opening. The pump mechanic frantically attempts to remove the nozzle from the car. A colleague comes to his aid. The pair tug at the hose and at last the nozzle comes loose with a jerk. Flames shoot from the hose and from the car’s fuel tank. A third mechanic rushes to help. The flames catch him in the face, just as the first mechanic douses the fire with foam. Michael Schumacher finds himself in a cloud of foam. He has seen the fire in his rear-view mirror, but he hasn’t moved an inch. All hell is breaking loose around him, but he stares straight ahead stoically. The fire is extinguished, the lollipop goes up. Schumacher remains motionless for a further two seconds, then hits the gas. He shakes his head in irritation. He’s still in the pit lane as he wipes foam from his visor with his left hand. The entire spectacle lasts a full 20.4 seconds. The lead seems a long way away.
But calm reigns anew as he goes in for his second pit stop. The crew have been working frantically on the pumps. This time the pit stop goes without a hitch
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Men without fear. The Ferrari catches fire while refuelling during a pit stop, but Schumacher keeps calm and trusts his team. Back on track he finishes the job alone
On the straight once again, Schumacher lines up behind Colombian Juan-Pablo Montoya in the Williams-BMW and Kimi “Ice Man” Räikkönen in the McLaren, his fiercest competitor in the race for the world championship. Schumacher had dominated the 2002 season like no other driver before him. Eleven victories, five times runner-up, one third place. To this day, he is the only driver to make it to the podium for every single race in a season. But with the start of the new season in São Paulo his luck had turned. McLaren had rolled out a well-balanced car. For the early races, Ferrari settled on the previous year’s F2002 and in the first three races the world champion charger only managed to place, with one retirement. It is only with the arrival of the F2003-GA, also known as the “red shark” for it side ventilation grilles, that the Italians manage to turn a corner. Schumacher’s victories in San Marino and Spain reduce Räikkönen’s lead to just four points. The stage is set for a close-run duel for the world championship in Spielberg. Every point counts. Bit by bit Schumacher catches up to Räikkönen’s McLaren. In the pits the mechanics work feverishly on the tank. The first cars are already heading to a second pit stop when the race is decided on the 31st lap. Montoya has been leading the field since the pit fire. His Williams FW25 is fast and has so far proven reliable. The Colombian tears out of the Castrol corner. Back in the pits, his colleagues monitor his engine data on their screens in real time. They can see the water pressure falling. Then the oil pressure. Montoya brakes hard in the Remus hairpin as smoke pours from his engine. Four seconds behind him, Schumacher senses that his moment has come. He has battled his way forward to end up in Räikkönen’s slipstream. His red shark reaches its top speed on the track and the Remus hairpin is up ahead, offering the best chance for overtaking. Towards the end of the straight he pulls up beside Räikkönen. Tyre to tyre they take the hairpin. The smoke clears from the engine, and on TV screens the black “1” against the yellow background now appears next to Schumacher’s name. Capricious fate dictates that no one should witness the most spectacular
overtaking manoeuvre of the race. Every TV camera is trained on Montoya’s smoking Williams. Schumacher’s leap from third to first takes less than 10 seconds. You need a mighty strong vehicle to win at the Red Bull Ring. There’s not an engine in the field that can develop as much power as the Ferrari’s V10. Within two laps, Schumacher has a lead of 1.946 seconds. On laps 36 and 38 he sets a new lap record for the circuit. In lap 41 the German pulls out all the stops and his wonder car clocks a lap of 1:08:337 – still the course record to this day. The Tifosi among the 80,000 spectators are beside themselves. But calm reigns anew as Schumacher goes in for his second pit stop. While the drama has been playing out on the track, the pit crew have been working frantically on the pumps. This time the pit stop goes without a hitch. After Räikkönen heads into the pit lane, Schumacher is back in front. The lead is his, and he has no mind to relinquish it. The next day the newspapers fall over themselves in praise: Schumacher is the “fakir of the third millennium”, the “sorcerer” who passed through the fire, the “driver without fear”. The ignominy of the team orders scandal is forgotten. “Yes, now I feel like a winner,” says Schumacher in the victory interview. The significance of his pursuit race will prove decisive at the last race of the season in Suzuka. Schumacher wins his sixth world championship just two points ahead of Kimi Räikkönen. It’s a title which had been won at the Remus hairpin. The demonstration of will and character Schumacher delivered in Spielberg continues to inspire the next generation of drivers. When Lewis Hamilton was battling a fuel problem in the pits shortly after the start of the 2011 Chinese Grand Prix, mechanics scurrying madly about the car, he recalled Michael Schumacher’s fiery pit stop in Austria. As a teenager he had watched it on TV: “You could see that he didn’t even move his head during the fire. He stayed calm,” Hamilton told journalists later. “That helps the people around him. I’ve tried to absorb these things into my own mentality.” And Hamilton, too, converted his high-stress situation into eventual victory. And perhaps victory will be his again.
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New Formula One
ENVIRO F-1 The future is green – and even Formula One is changing its ways. Here we present three environmentally friendly alternatives which will surely find favour with Jean Todt SOUNDLESS SOLARMOBILES With additional power assistance for rainy-day races. Plus flower beds instead of those unsightly kerbs.
Illustrations: Martin Udovicic
TRUE HORSEPOWER Propulsion through sensitive free-range farming. Organic combustion engines with up to four stomachs. Efficient gas compressors. Orders are whispered through headsets. Comes with bonus organic fertiliser production.
PILOT’S MUSCLES Back to basics – no exhaust, no environmentally harmful substances, litres of sweat and 100 per cent eco-friendly. With a muscular speed limit.
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Long-term relationship. Jacky Ickx spent five brilliant seasons with Ferrari. But at his home race in the Belgian town of Spa (above) he couldn’t catch a win. He has a daughter with his first wife Catherine (below): Vanina, who’s also a racing driver.
Right first time. In 1970 the Belgian won the first Grand Prix at the Österreichring. He was one of the greatest F1 drivers to never become a world champion. And he’s a living legend of the Maranello red
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Hold still dammit! Despite the rumours, there was deep trust between drivers and technicians in the late 1960s. For Ickx it was enough for eight Grand Prix victories in Formula One – and a perfect bite.
The five-year Ickx. In 1973, Ickx broke up with Ferrari. Right in the middle of the season, he stepped out of the 312BS (below), headed to McLaren, then to Lotus, then to Williams, then to Ensign, then to Ligier – but his F1 glory years were over.
Multi-talented. Formula One was never enough for racing genius Ickx. Between 1969 and 1982 he won the Le Mans 24 hours six times, which is why they called him “Monsieur Mans”. Or did they name the race after him? Victory in the 1983 Paris-Dakar was the icing on the cake.
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RINGING THE CHANGES. In the good old days, it looked like a big garden party. Today, the Ă–sterreichring may have lost some of its down-home charm, but at least now everybody knows where the spectators and the drivers should be sitting.
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PRACTISE DURING PRACTICE At the Red Bull Ring, get your eyes used to the beauty of Styria and qualify for higher goals (mountains) or flatter bums (massage)
Edelsteine Krampl Bahnhofstraße 7, 8741 Weißkirchen This is Europe’s first stone zoo and the world’s biggest gemstone fountain. ORF – Austrian TV – once visited and featured the gem cutters in their music programme Klingendes Österreich [Musical Austria]. Reason enough to pay them a visit and have a look over the seven staff members’ shoulders to see how a rough stone is turned into a true gem. www.edelsteine-krampl.com Eisenbahnmuseum Ainbachallee 14a, 8720 Knittelfeld You might find it hard to believe, but there are technological marvels besides racing cars. Steam, diesel and electronic engines, for example. They may not hit 300kph, but they certainly make as much noise as
a Formula One car. The railway museum has numerous exhibits and old design classics for you to admire as well as a record-breaking collection of approximately 1,300 railwayman caps. www.eisenbahnmuseum. Militärluftfahrt Zeltweg Hangar 8, 8740 Zeltweg Those for whom the world’s quickest and most expensive travelling circus isn’t decadent enough should go and take a look at Austria’s largest air base. It is 5000m2, houses 29 aircraft, such as Drakens, as well as numerous anti-aircraft guns, radars and other military equipment, all of which you can be sure is just as unaffordable as a Formula One car. www.hgm.or.at and www.luftstreitkraefte.at Red Bull Ring Red Bull Ring, 8724 Spielberg Motorsport history has been written on the tarmac here for decades now. And it’s not just the elite of the sport lapping around the 17m-tall bulls made from 39 tonnes of stainless steel. Visitors can have a peek behind the scenes of Europe’s most modern racing track and explore the facilities on guided tours. www.projekt-spielberg.at
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Spa & Wellness at the G’schlössl Murtal Murhof 1, 8734 Großlobming You’re guaranteed a relaxing experience – no engines – at the Hotel G’Schlössl Murtal. Even those not staying at the hotel can enjoy the full spa programme by getting a Day Spa Ticket, which includes a bathing bag, two towels and a pair of slippers. Sports fans get their money’s worth, too. If you can’t get back into the groove after a sports massage, full-body peeling or the ultimate “Stressless Package”, you’re beyond help.
Wirt’n & Musi in Murtal There’ll be music for the Formula One Grand Prix. But so it doesn’t all stop when the race is over, landlords and publicans from across the region are encouraged to support local music projects year round. There certainly won’t be a shortage of talent. But just in case there ever is, the Murtal holiday region knows what to do and will happily procure you the stars of tomorrow. www.murtal.at and www.projekt-werkberg.at
Illustrations: Robert Rottensteiner
SIGHTSEEING
Puch Museum Judenburg Murtaler Platz 1, 8750 Judenburg Puch is a word that no doubt sends most of us off into nostalgic reverie, on either two or four wheels, with or without an engine. The Puch Museum in Judenburg is lovingly devoted to an Austrian automotive legend. Relive the magic of a Puch 500, the all-terrain feeling of the Pinzgauer and Haflinger and the freedom of a Puch Maxi or motorbike. www.puchmuseum.at
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BULL TEST
SATU R DAY, J U N E 21 , 2014
WE ARE ALL 1 Differences between football and Formula One? There aren’t any
FIFA
Continually re-elected President for Life.
Absolute democracy. Everything revolves around the ball. And at the end, the ball has to go over the line. Brazilian (5x) or German (3x).
They might have a chance – as long as they don’t draw New Zealand or Slovakia.
FORM OF GOVERNMENT SPORT
TO WIN YOU NEED TO BE …
SO WHAT’S UP WITH THE ITALIANS?
F1
Self-appointed king/emperor in perpetuity (And what’s wrong with that? At least the Brits and the Austrians get it.) Democratic absolutism. Everything revolves. And at the end, the car has to go over the line. German (Vettel, Rosberg) or Brazilian (Senna, Piquet, Fittipaldi). What, Ferrari? But isn’t Schumi German?
We can safely rule out a World Cup Germany v England final: if Rosberg is the world champion, the German 11 will flop in Brazil.
THE WORLD CUP AND THE F1 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP HAVE NEVER TAKEN PLACE IN THE SAME COUNTRY IN THE SAME YEAR. THAT MEANS …
If Hamilton wins, the Three Lions will fluff the penalties. Lewis, Nico – work out which is more important. And don’t be so self-centred!
Goal line camera, chip ball, vanishing spray? Who needs it?
TECHNOLOGY
We’re doing everything we can to keep the cars from driving as fast as they can.
Please, it couldn’t be more eco-friendly. We play on natural turf! Are active throughout the game and make baffling decisions. Are already married. Photography: Getty Images
BOSS
OK, so none of the national teams has a female coach, but Angela Merkel can’t be everywhere at once, can she?
An annual World Cup? Sepp, why didn’t we think of that?!
AND WHAT ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT?
Everything is organic with us. And with real men besides!
REFEREES
Are active after the race and make baffling decisions.
GIRLS
Want to get married.
IS IT A MACHO SPORT?
F1 is open to all genders, women just have to qualify. Maria Terese de Filippis managed it in 1958. Now there’s even a female team boss in Formula One.
WHAT CAN FIFA AND F1 LEARN FROM EACH OTHER?
A duel between two teams with 11 drivers each? That’ll get them revved up, Bernie!
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BULL TIME
SATU R DAY, J U N E 21 , 2014
1.923 SECONDS FOR ETERNITY The Infiniti Red Bull Racing team pulled off a perfect tyre change at the 2013 US GP in an unbelievable 1.923 seconds. A world record! In that time:
11,000 20 14 6 8 2 1 5 2 ?1 Usain Bolt just about manages 20 METRES
The world is 11,000 TWEETS richer
Light races around the Earth 14 TIMES
EIGHT BABIES are born
A three-toed sloth moves SIX CENTIMETRES
Marcel Hirscher makes it through TWO GATES at a World Cup slalom
Tiger Woods earns a mere FIVE DOLLARS
TWO TERABYTES pass through the Internet worldwide
Let alone change your UNDERWEAR
But you can’t fold A T-SHIRT
Photography: Pirelli
You can read one of these sentences
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BULLSKY
SATU R DAY, J U N E 21 , 2014
HOROSCOPE On Earth as it is in Heaven. And on the circuit as it is in the Milky Way. Star astrologer Boro Petricelli has interpreted the tyre marks left by the planets and already knows for certain that Mercury – the god of speed – in Gemini will look favourably on those who were born in months that start with J or J, not A or A
STAR WARS CAN MERCEDES STRIKE BACK? NICO ROSBERG June 27, 1985. Mercury says: I’m even quicker with my emotions than with my speed.
LEWIS HAMILTON January 7, 1985. Mercury says: More space, more speed. In other words: You there, get out of my way!
Jupiter is promising more than Mercedes can deliver. Nico will be a bit disappointed at the finish, but should still count himself lucky. Looks like his first non-podium finish, but he’ll still be way out in front on the leaders’ board.
Unpredictable Uranus, unpredictable Lewis… First the god of surprises will give Lewis the fastest lap, only then to happily gnaw away at his wiring. You’ll never win if you don’t see the finish line – it’s the law of destiny.
RACING BULL WILL THE HOME SIDE KNOCK OUT ALL GUESTS? DANIEL RICCIARDO July 1, 1989. Mercury says: Speed through endurance. The skies over Daniel are empty. Only Uranus, the mischief-maker, is flashing a warning light. And sending Daniel back to the pits! But have no fear. Daniel’s day is yet to come.
SEBASTIAN VETTEL July 3, 1987. Mercury says: Quick! Quick! Ah, so this is where the planets are. All shining on Sebastian’s car. A fierce duel between Mercury and Pluto is promised: victory! Or break down while leading the race.
THE (NOT YET) MAGNIFICENT SEVEN RIDE TO THE PODIUM? N. HÜLKENBERG VALTTERI BOTTAS FELIPE MASSA Aug 19, 1987. Looks Aug 28, 1989. April 25, 1981. good! Too good? Uranus will tamper In the thick of things Who cares? The Force with his engine. again. Which means will be with you. No points for him. another retirement.
ROMAIN GROSJEAN April 17, 1986. No problem. No points.
JEAN-ERIC VERGNE Apr 25, 1990. Six points. Or six curses. Not your fault, JEV.
DANIIL KVYAT April 26, 1994 The sun will gift him a ray or two of points.
JULES BIANCHI Aug 3, 1989. Venus will fight with his engine. Ouch!
Illustrations: Isabel Erlebach
21. 6. 2014
WEATHER MORNING
AFTERNOON
18 °
22 °
It will be a dry Saturday with a mixture of broken cloud and sunny spells throughout the day.
NIGHT
TOMORROW
15 °
25 °
Provided by UBIMET. We hope our meteorologists’ predictions will be as precise as our astrologer’s. www.ubimet.com
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B U L L’S E Y E
SATU R DAY, J U N E 21 , 2014
CLOSED CIRCUIT COVERAGE
Not all in Spielberg is as it seems. Frankly, the
Bull’s Eye is baffled
Whoever had put a sign outside the Red Bull Ring on Thursday saying “Queue Here For Your Free Rolex” was going to be in big trouble.
In his spare time, Merc’s electronics wizard liked to practise his hand shadow puppet moves. Here, he bores a former Ferrari colleague with his “Snake approaches a Goat” move.
F1 engineers say the ultimate F1 driver is very light, F1 marketing people say the ultimate F1 driver is a female Hollywood star, so we proudly introduce Mini Driver… Minnie Driver? Get it?
Photography: Philipp Horak
The man had his instructions: first paint a white line across the front row of the grid, then write the names “Hamilton” and “Rosberg” on the top slots.
It wasn’t the pain that was so bad, it was the thought of explaining to the medical team exactly how his gold autograph pen had got stuck there.
SATU R DAY, J U N E 21 , 2014
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B U L L’S E Y E
Just another FIA conference: Fernando sleeping, Sergio playing with a bottle, Daniel practising smiling, while behind them we have from left to right, John Tracy from Thunderbirds, Kermit sound-a-like Esteban and Joe 90.
He was smiling now, but all that would change once someone told him this wasn’t the Fairmont Hairpin, Monaco.
Instead of the usual symbol for the men’s toilet, Red Bull was trialling a new fast-track running man for those who had eaten too much Kaiserscharm.
Photography: Philipp Horak
Force India’s Will Hings was the only witness to what Fernando had just done to his press officer.
“Hold the barriers together with a grill” is what the instructions should have said. But poor spell checking meant the sheet given to the construction workers said “Hold the barriers together with a girl.”
As the FIA tried out new press conference technology, Max was amazed at how lifelike the new Fernando hologram was, right down to the “I’m always angry” look.
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BULL TEST
SATU R DAY, J U N E 21 , 2014
TAKE FIVE Welcome to our F1 Guide For Dummies. Wanna place bets on this season’s result? Here’s the lowdown on the top five teams in the title race
FERRARI We’re not even halfway through the season and Luca di Montezemolo has declared that the team will now focus on getting ready for 2015. Since their current endeavours are, by their own admission, completely pointless, they won’t be here in Austria. Oh wait, they are. How strange.
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MERCEDES The Silver Arrows are the dominant force this year, but all anyone really cares about is the in-fighting. Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg started the season as mates, grew to hate each other and are now in a period of mutual suspicion. It’s expected that by Hungary they will be spotted having a furiously hissed argument while shopping in IKEA.
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FORCE INDIA The announcement of Force India’s Smirnoff sponsorship was derailed by a mumbling Kimi Räikkönen, who upended the car and attempted to drink its contents. Nico Hulkenberg’s middle name is ‘Underrated’, while Sergio Perez’s crash in Canada breached the team’s ‘you break it, you pay for it’ policy, originally introduced to dissuade Adrian Sutil from touching glassware.
INFINITI RED BULL RACING The team have bounced back from a torrid winter after Renault appeared to have sent them the engine from a Clio diesel. Daniel Ricciardo grinned so broadly after his victory in Canada that the top half of his head fell off. Meanwhile, Sebastian Vettel has dug out his Australia-shaped dartboard.
Photography: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images (1), Markus Kucera (4)
MCLAREN No one is more surprised to find McLaren fifth in the constructors’ championship than McLaren, who seem to have forgotten how to make an F1 car work. Indeed, they are the only team to have designed their car using ERS. As in, “Have you designed the chassis properly?” “Er…” “And the aero?” “Er…”
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BULL HEAD
SATU R DAY, J U N E 21 , 2014
SPIELBERG IS THE GRAND PRIX
DRAIN YOUR BRAIN This quiz extends over three days, Friday to Sunday. There are 12 questions in total. Get them right and with a bit of luck you could win a weekend for two in Spielberg. Please send your answers to: spielberg@at.redbulletin.com. Join in! 5. What’s the name of the hill (not city!) next to the circuit? A Zeltberg B Wegberg C Schönberg D Spielberg
6. Where would the drivers at the Austrian Grand Prix get to – give or take – if they drove in a straight line instead of round in circles during the race? A Monaco B Monza C Budapest D Hockenheim
LATGALE Daugavpils
Hockenheim Budapest
Monaco Monza
Photography: Getty Images (4), picturedesk.com (1)
7. Which driver has very unpleasant memories of his Grand Prix debut in Spielberg? A Mika Häkkinen (1998). A front tyre came loose at the start and rolled over his helmet. B Nigel Mansell (1980). A leaky fuel tank meant he had to drive in overalls drenched in petrol. C Keke Rosberg (1978). He had a punch-up with a track marshal and broke a finger. D Alain Prost (1980). His favourite Bordeaux had spoiled on the journey.
8. Where was the Austrian Grand Prix held before the Spielberg circuit was created in 1969? A In downtown Graz B On the Aspern Airfield in Vienna C At the military airport in nearby Zeltweg D On the Grossglockner High Alpine Road
This what you’ll win, if we draw your name out of the hat (and all your answers are right): 1st prize. A weekend for two in Spielberg. 2nd prize. Das große Servus-Kochbuch (the big Servus Cookbook, either to learn to cook or to learn German). 3rd-10th prize. Red Bulletin bath towels, designed to fit on all the beaches of the world, from Melbourne to Abu Dhabi. Find Friday’s questions on: issuu.com/redbulletin.com/docs/f1-friday
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FAVOURITE TRACKS
SATU R DAY, J U N E 21 , 2014
BERNIE’S RECORDS He came up with their haircut – and was the only one to keep it. He wrote their best songs – but John and Paul kept changing the lyrics. Now Bernie is bigger than the other four ever were. Here, in a worldwide exclusive, we publish the original titles of their global hits for
She Loves Me Can Buy Me Love All You Need Is Money Let It Be Me r Standing There He I Left Yes, Today Here Comes The Sunday nely People) Ecclestone Rigby (All the Lo We Can Kick It Out n The Ballad of Euro and Ye Yellow Car Pay Back Pit Lane I Am The Wallet Lady Slavica Back In Upper Styria Bernie Ecclestone Ecclestone Cover Concept by Bernie
Photography: Polaris/laif (Montage)
the first time