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SATURDAY, 3 JULY, 2021<br />
AN ALMOST INDEPENDENT F1 NEWSPAPER<br />
THE SECRET HISTORY<br />
OF TOTO WOLFF<br />
The Mercedes boss‘ days of records, rallying,<br />
and racing with <strong>Red</strong> Bull
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Sensational days in red-white-red:<br />
finally, there are fans in Spielberg<br />
again, Max Verstappen (pictured) is<br />
hot favourite, and teammate Checo<br />
Perez is driving his 200th GP.<br />
CLOCKWORK<br />
ORANGE<br />
After last week’s successful Styrian GP,<br />
this weekend’s Austrian GP is all about<br />
setting a record: if Max Verstappen can<br />
repeat his victory from last Sunday,<br />
he will be the first F1 driver in history<br />
to win four times at this track.<br />
In yesterday’s two free practice<br />
sessions the Dutchman posted excellent<br />
lap times, showing he has no intention<br />
of letting his rivals have the slightest<br />
say in his role as boss in Spielberg this<br />
weekend.<br />
“Don’t let the lion stand around in his undershirt.” Can’t understand a word<br />
we’re saying? Maybe reading our columnist on page 6 will help.
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We’ve been waiting for these pictures for over a year: well-filled stands, and<br />
it’s only Friday. 100,000 spectators are expected for the weekend.<br />
“Is rain coming?” “Not today.<br />
But probably on Sunday.”<br />
Christian Horner and Ferrari<br />
boss Mattia Binotto are<br />
certainly talking shop about<br />
the weather here.<br />
No more records: from the race after next, it will barely be possible to stop<br />
in less than two seconds due to a change in the pit stop regulations.<br />
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Warning, track limits: yesterday,<br />
the drivers repeatedly lost lap times<br />
because they drove over the yellow<br />
“sausage kerbs”. This could also be<br />
an issue in today’s qualifying.
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From the hunted to the hunter: after<br />
years of dominance, Mercedes is no longer<br />
the favourite. It’s good for the sport.<br />
The <strong>Red</strong> Bull Skydive Team already jumped in yesterday for their<br />
big performance at the GP on Sunday.<br />
Impressive rookie Yuki: still racing in F2 until this year, Tsunoda in<br />
the AlphaTauri was in the top 5 for long stretches yesterday.<br />
Australian with an affinity<br />
for football: Daniel Ricciardo,<br />
here on the podium in 2017.<br />
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PIT BITCH:<br />
HELEN PARADYCE<br />
Fish eggs, baseball bats, clown cars<br />
and underdressed lions. Our confused<br />
columnist reckons 2021 is shaping up<br />
nicely, if a little strangely…<br />
C<br />
an a year have passed since we were last here, bursting with<br />
hope and expectation that a full season of Formula 1 lay<br />
ahead of us? The hastily commissioned team-branded<br />
masks were barely fit for purpose, but we didn’t care, we<br />
were about to go racing and could see the light at the end of the<br />
tunnel, except the light turned out to be the oncoming train<br />
transporting the second and third waves of the pandemic.<br />
However, as always in F1, the sport took a look at the regs, found<br />
a way to navigate around the problems and beat every other sport to<br />
the competitive punch. Staging a whopping 26 F1 races in 52 weeks<br />
is a unique, unbelievable performance, except that ‘unique’<br />
and ‘unbelievable’ are generally words I use when having<br />
to think of something non-committal to say to actor<br />
friends after the opening night of a terrible show.<br />
I just don’t think F1 needs to be rammed down our<br />
necks at a rate surpassed only by the number of<br />
times everyone has to be deep-throated with a<br />
cotton bud, to prove viral purity. If you are<br />
constantly fed a diet of caviar, eventually you see it<br />
for what it is – slimy, salty fish eggs.<br />
Here in Austria there is nothing fishy about food<br />
preferences, best summed up as ‘veal is life’. And if it’s<br />
not schnitzel, they love a bit of a dairy, to the extent they<br />
actually have a cheesy libation called Lattella, something I<br />
assume would only appeal to fans of Daniel Ricciardo’s shoey.<br />
Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy to be here, because the delights of<br />
an Austrian double-header bring back memories of the fun I had as a<br />
chalet girl in Kitzbühel. Of course, after the holiday romance wore<br />
off, double headers gave way to back-to-backs and then, when<br />
regular partners decided it was all a bit unsanitary, the inevitable<br />
one-time assignations with desperate old flames looking to rekindle<br />
a dead romance. Yes, we’re looking at you Istanbul Park.<br />
Going back to caviar, it has to be said that the current season is<br />
the finest Royal Beluga, as we’ve finally got the Max-Lewis fight<br />
we’ve been craving. Lewis is still Lewis and Max has matured into a<br />
calmly confident driver, who no longer tries to win every race at the<br />
first corner of lap one. It also helps that he no longer looks quite so<br />
much like Alfred E Neuman off the cover of ‘Mad’ magazine.<br />
Mercedes’ troubles haven’t been helped by Valtteri Bottas’ woes,<br />
the normally ultra-reliable Finn sometimes looking about as<br />
IMPRINT<br />
‘If you are<br />
constantly fed<br />
caviar, eventually<br />
you see it for what<br />
it is – slimy, salty<br />
fish eggs.’<br />
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competitive as a one-legged man at an arse-kicking<br />
contest. I refuse to feel sorry for F1 drivers, given<br />
the life they lead, but a bit of sympathy for VB might<br />
be in order. I remember Eddie Irvine comparing being<br />
Michael Schumacher’s team-mate to waking up every<br />
morning and being hit on the head with a baseball bat.<br />
This year’s great racing hasn’t got in the way of gallons of ink<br />
being wasted in the media on what really matters – wobbly wings,<br />
exploding tyres and comedy trackside hazards. Fans just want to see<br />
the drivers racing hard, not Coco driving his Clown Car, with the<br />
mirrors and doors popping off and the steering wheel coming away<br />
in his hand, as he honks his horn after hitting a Sausage Dog kerb.<br />
Looking back at the Styrian GP, I can’t believe Verstappen didn’t<br />
win Driver of the Day. The last time I paid attention, all of the<br />
Netherlands was duty bound to vote for Max after every race, even<br />
if he retired on the formation lap. Then I realised they were all too<br />
busy packing their caravans with all the orangery they can find –<br />
scarves, shirts and of course the lion costume – ready for this<br />
weekend’s full house. They’ll be here in their colourful thousands<br />
singing their strange songs with lyrics such as “Laat de leeuw niet<br />
in zijn hempie staan”, which as you all know translates as: “Don’t<br />
let the lion stand around in his undershirt.” No, me neither.<br />
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Toto Wolff as we know<br />
him: in command, on<br />
the Mercedes pit wall.<br />
THE SECRET LIFE OF<br />
TOTO W.<br />
The world knows him as Mercedes’ commanding team<br />
principle. But TORGER CHRISTIAN WOLFF used to be a<br />
very different type indeed. A glimpse into the secret<br />
<strong>Red</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong> archive reveals a multifaceted racer<br />
who didn’t shy away from drama.<br />
Words WERNER JESSNER<br />
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Helmet on for a drive<br />
from hell. “They always<br />
say only locals can drive<br />
fast here. I drove up<br />
from Vienna, practised<br />
a bit and now we’ll see<br />
what happens.”<br />
BILDSYMPHONIE/ANDREAS TRÖSTER<br />
TOTO,<br />
THE RECORD-<br />
HOLDER<br />
The Nordschleife of the<br />
Nürburgring is rightly considered<br />
the toughest racetrack in the<br />
world. In April 2009, Toto tried to<br />
break the lap record of 7 minutes<br />
and 7 seconds in a Porsche 911<br />
RSR. He did it on his first attempt:<br />
7:<strong>03</strong>.28. Then there was the<br />
unofficial – timed by a hand-held<br />
stopwatch – Niki Lauda record<br />
from the 1970s of 6m58s. Toto<br />
wanted to break that too. The fact<br />
that fingernail-sized chunks of<br />
tyre were coming loose on the first<br />
lap should have given Toto pause<br />
for thought. Hardly, and so the<br />
inevitable occurred... He came off<br />
at the notorious Fuchsröhre<br />
(Foxhole) at 268kph. It took<br />
months for him to be able to taste<br />
and smell again after the fearsome<br />
crash; the deceleration on impact<br />
shook his nerves badly.<br />
Toto’s friend Niki Lauda<br />
called the attempt “the<br />
most stupid suicide<br />
mission I’ve ever heard<br />
of in my whole life”.<br />
Porsche said: “It was<br />
the worst-damaged<br />
roll-cage a driver had<br />
ever managed to bring<br />
in by himself.”<br />
The record is gone:<br />
7:<strong>03</strong> minutes for<br />
20.8km. Toto said<br />
afterwards: “The car<br />
seems a little bit<br />
dangerous to me.<br />
Anything can happen on<br />
the Nordschleife.<br />
You’ll quickly end up<br />
in the local hospital<br />
in Adenau if you<br />
don’t watch out.”<br />
The Porsche 911/997<br />
was the tool of choice<br />
for the attempt to break<br />
the Nürburgring lap<br />
record in 2009. The<br />
460hp racing car had<br />
dominated the 24-hour<br />
race on the same circuit<br />
in previous years.
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Full-on attack: Toto<br />
quickly won his way to<br />
spectators’ hearts with<br />
his uncompromising<br />
driving style. And he<br />
thought internationally<br />
right from the off; in<br />
2002 he even finished a<br />
respectable sixth in the<br />
N-GT category at the FIA<br />
GT Championship.<br />
TOTO,<br />
THE RALLY<br />
DRIVER<br />
Even though he cut his motorsport<br />
teeth on the race track, he was just<br />
as taken with rally driving. And as<br />
Toto probably thought at the time,<br />
it would at least provide a lot more<br />
fun in a day than you’d get in a<br />
long-distance race, which largely<br />
consisted of waiting around. He<br />
was a latecomer to the rally stages<br />
but he learned quickly. And as we<br />
know of Toto, he didn’t do things<br />
by half measures. From July 2006<br />
to late 2013 he was involved with<br />
Austrian Raimund Baumschlager’s<br />
elite rallying outfit, BRR, and<br />
drove their cars, mostly<br />
Mitsubishis. The highlight from<br />
that period was second place in<br />
the Austrian championship behind<br />
team-leader, Baumschlager<br />
himself.<br />
Wolff’s co-driver<br />
Gerald Pöschl guided<br />
the future team<br />
boss through thick<br />
and thin during their<br />
rally years.<br />
Among the established<br />
rally-drivers, Toto was<br />
seen as someone who<br />
sought his limits at<br />
the upper extreme<br />
and learned from his<br />
mistakes. He is<br />
convinced, “I could<br />
have made a living from<br />
rally driving.”<br />
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TOTO,<br />
THE BULL<br />
In the early 2000s, Toto took<br />
part in the FIA-GT World<br />
Championships and in other<br />
major long-distance races in São<br />
Paolo, Spa-Francorchamps and<br />
Silverstone. He racked up class<br />
wins over a number of years for<br />
Porsche, BMW and Ferrari<br />
alongside team-mates such as<br />
Karl Wendlinger, Dieter Quester<br />
and Philipp Peter. In 2006, he<br />
wrote history with the latter<br />
pair and German legend Hans-<br />
Joachim Stuck when he won<br />
the first Dubai 24-Hour Race<br />
wearing blue <strong>Red</strong> Bull overalls.<br />
Legendary… Class<br />
victory for Wendlinger/<br />
Wolff/Quester/Zonca<br />
at the 1000 Miles<br />
of Interlagos in 2004.<br />
And who recorded the<br />
quickest lap in the<br />
toughest of conditions?<br />
Yup, Toto Wolff.<br />
You wouldn’t have<br />
thought back in 2004<br />
that this young man with<br />
the nice hair and the<br />
plastic watch would<br />
years later go on to<br />
become the successful<br />
Mercedes team principal<br />
and the toughest rival for<br />
his partner of many<br />
years, <strong>Red</strong> Bull.<br />
ARCHIV DIETER QUESTER<br />
Toto Wolff, Philipp Peter<br />
and Dieter Quester<br />
celebrate winning the<br />
2005 Misano 6 Hours in<br />
their BMW E46. Virtually<br />
like father and son,<br />
Toto only contested<br />
one long-distance race<br />
without veteran star<br />
Dieter by his side.
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LEARN<br />
AND<br />
COME BACK<br />
STRONGER<br />
After a tough start to his F1 career PIERRE GASLY has<br />
bounced back in style. And for the Frenchman, the strength<br />
of his recovery is founded on the lessons he learned in his<br />
earliest years in single seaters. Here, Pierre picks the races<br />
that made him one of F1’s hottest properties…<br />
Words MATT YOUSON<br />
Pierre Gasly has experienced more<br />
than the average 25 year-old – even<br />
more than the average 25 year-old F1<br />
driver. At the moment, he’s riding the<br />
crest of a wave, delivering the sort of<br />
electrifying qualifying laps and strong races<br />
that mark him out as a top talent.<br />
Of course, Pierre has been here before.<br />
Few drivers will experience the rapid rise,<br />
shattering fall, and extraordinary return<br />
that the young man from Rouen has been<br />
through. But through it all Gasly has shown<br />
remarkable resilience, a mental fortitude he<br />
says comes from experience.<br />
“You always improve and year-after-year<br />
you become stronger. But also you become<br />
who you are race after race, building, getting<br />
more experience,” he says. “And also, you<br />
progress from the mistakes and failures,<br />
because that’s how you improve.”<br />
When asked to list the races that have<br />
made him the driver he is today, Pierre,<br />
perhaps surprisingly, largely opts for<br />
formative experiences during his time in<br />
the <strong>Red</strong> Bull Junior Team. He confesses it’s<br />
difficult to list only a few when there are so<br />
many – but these are the races that stand<br />
out for him.
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SANDRO BAEBLER<br />
A member of F1’s elite<br />
band of race winners,<br />
Pierre Gasly has matured<br />
to become one of the<br />
sport’s top talents.
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2013 FORMULA<br />
RENAULT 2.0, CIRCUIT DE<br />
CATALUNYA, SPAIN, SEASON<br />
FINALE. TECH 1 RACING, P6<br />
“My final race in Formula Renault<br />
2.0 sticks in my mind because I won<br />
the Championship that day – but it<br />
was a very tight battle with Oliver<br />
Rowland that went down to that<br />
final race. I remember qualifying<br />
was going really badly! I had a lot<br />
of traffic and yellow flags and just<br />
couldn’t do a lap. It was a highpressure<br />
situation, I was down in<br />
P20 with just one more chance –<br />
which had never been something<br />
that happened before during that<br />
year. I had a clean lap and took<br />
pole position.<br />
“I went into that last race of<br />
the season leading by eight points.<br />
Rowland tried to pass me on the<br />
first lap and crashed into me, trying<br />
to win the title. He broke his front<br />
wing, and damaged my car. He<br />
picked up a drive through penalty,<br />
but I was able to recover and finish<br />
sixth. It was quite an intense<br />
experience but dealing with that<br />
sort of thing was valuable later.”<br />
Unrewarded in Italy<br />
2015 GP2 FEATURE RACE, MONZA, ITALY, DAMS, DNF<br />
“There were a couple of memorable races in GP2 but the one that really<br />
stands out is from my first year, in Monza. I took my first pole position<br />
Looking back, I remember at the time feeling that I was really fast in<br />
qualifying and that in the race we were struggling a bit more – but even so we<br />
were leading quite comfortably. And then we broke the driveshaft during the<br />
pit stop. I remember it being difficult to digest. It was an important one. It<br />
would have been my first win in GP2. For me, I learned to accept that you can<br />
sometimes have a great weekend on a personal level but with no reward.”<br />
An emotional victory<br />
at Silverstone<br />
2016 GP2 FEATURE<br />
RACE, SILVERSTONE,<br />
ENGLAND. PREMA, VICTORY<br />
“In 2016 I won the GP2 title, and<br />
the weekend that really stands out<br />
for me was Silverstone. It was my<br />
first win of the season, but it sticks<br />
in the mind because it was a<br />
particular sort of weekend. On<br />
Friday, I was involved in a road car<br />
crash. It was a bad one. [Travelling<br />
to the circuit, with Pierre in the<br />
back of the car with his mother, the<br />
car was involved in a collision with<br />
another vehicle, and reportedly<br />
rolled four times before coming to a<br />
halt 50m from the road].<br />
“My Mum went to intensive care<br />
with broken vertebrae, broken ribs<br />
and a head injury. She was kept in<br />
intensive care and it was quite<br />
worrying. I went to the track and<br />
was fastest in practice, then in the<br />
afternoon I qualified P2 and won<br />
the race on Saturday. It was odd<br />
because my parents were not there<br />
at the time to celebrate with me. I<br />
was strangely motivated but it was<br />
one that, mentally, was not easy: to<br />
go through the weekend but still<br />
manage to perform.”<br />
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2020 FORMULA 1<br />
ITALIAN GRAND PRIX,<br />
ALPHATAURI, VICTORY<br />
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2017 SUPER FORMULA<br />
AUTOPOLIS ROUND, JAPAN,<br />
TEAM MUGEN, VICTORY<br />
More often than not a GP2/F2<br />
champion can find an F1 seat for the<br />
following season, but with no seat<br />
available at <strong>Red</strong> Bull’s F1 teams,<br />
Pierre was sent to Japan for a year<br />
of racing in the high-powered Super<br />
Formula championship. He came<br />
within half a point of winning the<br />
title, and had the final two rounds<br />
not been cancelled due to Typhoon<br />
Lan, may have gone one better – but<br />
the experience was critical. Pierre<br />
lists his race win at Autopolis as the<br />
stand-out race – because he and his<br />
team decided to gamble on the<br />
unknown Soft compound tyre. It<br />
was part of a larger learning cycle<br />
that saw him take a much deeper<br />
dive into technical matters – if only<br />
to be better understood.<br />
“Japan was a lot of new things<br />
for me. When I went to Japan, I had<br />
no idea what was going to happen. I<br />
built a relationship with Honda and<br />
Japan: wiser and more experienced<br />
was also able to spend more time<br />
than usual with my team and<br />
understand how they operate.<br />
I didn’t speak Japanese, only one<br />
guy in the team spoke English,<br />
so there was a lot of potential for<br />
miscommunication. I became more<br />
involved on the technical side<br />
so they could understand what I<br />
needed. Great experience. I learned<br />
a lot and was much more involved<br />
than I’d been in other series where<br />
the driver gives feedback but<br />
concentrates mostly on driving.”<br />
Unexpected joy in Monza<br />
Pierre’s performances in Japan,<br />
learning new circuits and new<br />
technology, embedding himself<br />
in a different culture and<br />
producing results from day one<br />
earned him a call-up to Toro<br />
Rosso for the final few F1 rounds<br />
of 2017 before a full-time drive<br />
for 2018. In 2019 a step up to<br />
<strong>Red</strong> Bull Racing resulted in the<br />
toughest time of Pierre’s career<br />
as he struggled with the RB15<br />
and was eventually sent back to<br />
Toro Rosso to build again. In Spa<br />
that year he also lost close friend<br />
Anthoine Hubert to a fatal crash<br />
in Formula 2. It was a dark period<br />
for Gasly, but through the next<br />
year he channelled the negative<br />
energy into positive races,<br />
scoring his first podium in Brazil<br />
and then last year an incredible<br />
first win at the Italian Grand Prix.<br />
“It takes so many things to win<br />
a race in F1. When I crossed the<br />
finish line I just thought of my<br />
team, my family — I was so<br />
thankful for all of their hard<br />
work, their sacrifices,” he told<br />
The Players Tribune. “I knew that<br />
I was the one who had physically<br />
crossed the line, but they had all<br />
been there right beside me. That<br />
cool down lap ... I wish I could<br />
experience that a million times.<br />
The best feeling. The best.”<br />
Reflecting on those years,<br />
Pierre says they have made him<br />
the driver and person he is now.<br />
“You always have challenges<br />
in life, whatever you do,” he says.<br />
“It’s not only myself. Everyone<br />
can relate to that. It’s important<br />
to face those challenges and I<br />
think that’s also what shapes you<br />
as a person – as a driver, as a<br />
human. This period of my life<br />
shaped who I am today and even<br />
if it was tough I never gave up and<br />
I always had a clear idea of what I<br />
want to achieve in the sport.”<br />
And have all of these formative<br />
experiences contributed to the<br />
success he’s now enjoying? Pierre<br />
grins: “Of course! The good days<br />
but also the mistakes and failures<br />
– because that’s how you improve<br />
yourself, how you learn and come<br />
back stronger.”
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