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Fast facts about the Dutch Grand Prix

Fast facts about the Dutch Grand Prix By Balazs Szabo on 27 Aug 2023, 10:00 Formula One returned after its traditional summer break, albeit this time it is not the Belgian Grand Prix, but the Dutch Grand Prix to kick off the second half of the season. F1Technical's senior writer Balázs Szabó picks out the trivia and stats about today's Zandvoort F1 race. Long history – Today’s Zandvoort race will be the 33rd FIA Formula One World Championship Dutch Grand Prix. The race joined the calendar in 1952 and was a fixture on the schedule until 1985 with the exception of several years – 1954, 1956, 1957 and 1972. The inaugural race was won by Alberto Ascari who led a one-two-three finish for Ferrari. Construction - Situated on the Dutch North Sea coast, the town of Zandvoort already hosted motor racing on its streets as early as the 1930s. After World War II, the permanent venue used today was constructed among the sand dunes, making use of roads laid out by occupying forces. Dutch designer John Hugenholtz is often credited with creating the circuit alongside his work at Suzuka. But while Hugenholtz became circuit director at Zandvoort, it's actually ‘Bentley Boy' Sammy Davis from England – winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1927 – who is said to have advised the Dutch Automobile Racing Club on the layout. Banking - Formula One returned to Zandvoort in 2021. Ahead of its return, the track was modified to aid overtaking opportunites: Turn 3 and the last one, Turn 14 (named after former circuit director John Hugenholtz and Dutch driver Arie Luyendyk respectively), were reprofiled and they now sport a 19 and 13 degree banking respectively, which allows the drivers to go through them at much higher speeds. Short layout – Zandvoort is a relatively short track on the current F1 calendar. The circuit sports a lengths of 4.259km which means that drivers need to complete 72 laps to cover the race distance of 306.648km. Overtaking – Due to its tight nature, overtaking has never been easy in Zandvoort. Two DRS zones have been mandated to aid overtaking opportunities with the first one placed 50m after Turn 10 and the second one installed 40m after Turn 13. The first DRS zone has its detection point 50m after Turn 10 and the second one 20m after Turn 12. The most successful ones - Ferrari is the most successful constructor at the Dutch Grand Prix with eight victories. The Scuderia won twice with Alberto Ascari at the wheel with Wolfgang von Trips, Jacky Ickx, Didier Pironi and René Arnoux also having clinched a win with the Maranello-based outfit. The most successful driver is Jim Clark who won the Dutch Grand Prix four times, followed by Jackie Stewart and Lauda, who won three races apiece. The other repeat winners are Ascari, Jack Brabham, James Hunt and Alain Prost with all of them having two triumphs in the Netherlands to their names. Harder compounds – The banked corners at Turn 3 and Turn 14, and the proliferation of of high-speed turns mean that Pirelli arrived at Zandvoort with compounds from the harder end of its range. The C1 compound is nominated at the Dutch Grand Prix as P Zero White hard, C2 as P Zero Yellow medium and C3 as P Zero Red soft. This is the same choice as the last two years (since Zandvoort returned to the calendar) with the difference being that the current C1 compound is softer than its predecessors. Reduced speed – Due to the tight nature of the pit lane, the speed limit is set at 60kph during every on-track action of the weekend. Modifications – The Zandvoort track has gone trhough a few changes since last year. New, upgraded fencing has been installed on the right-hand side at Turn 7and Turn 8 , and in the run-off at Turn 12 to protect marshals. A bump has been removed on the start/finish straight just before the first corner. Furthermore, bumps on the right-hand side between Turns 5 and 6 have also been removed. via F1Technical.net . Motorsport news https://www.f1technical.net/news/

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The uncrowned champion of Formula 1 | Who was …

Stirling Moss died on a silent Sunday, with engines of all categories in the world turned off in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, in what was the last paradox of a life that had many. Even today the Briton holds the record of having been runner-up in Formula 1 four consecutive times (between 1955 and 1958), the first three supporting his great rival and friend Juan Manuel Fangio, without ever adding a title. He is also the non-champion driver with the most wins (16, more than half of those who did try on the crown) and kilometers as the leader of a Grand Prix, and the second with the most pole positions and lap records. Versatile flyer like few others, he won 212 of the 529 races in which he participated, including the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans and three Monaco GPs. “He was wonderful to the end. He just got tired and closed his beautiful eyes. That was it,” his wife Susie told the British newspaper Daily Mail. At 90 years old, Moss had retired from public life in 2018 to cope with the illness caused by a chest infection.

With him goes the last bulwark of a generation known as “Gentlemen Drivers”, the same that reached Formula 1 during the 1950s, years in which sportsmanship prevailed over the idea of succeeding at any cost. As an example it is worth remembering what happened at the 1958 Portuguese Grand Prix, when Moss himself went to ask the stewards to return the second place to Mike Hawthorn after having declassified him for returning to the asphalt in the opposite direction after a mistake. “I would have done the same. It was the fastest way to get out of the danger zone on a corner with no visibility, “he argued with the stewards on that occasion, even though he knew he wasted the chance of reaching the top of the tournament. Two races later, Hawthorn became champion. for just one point, since then Moss has been known in the motor world as the “Champion without a crown”, an idea that Queen Elizabeth II was responsible for materializing by naming him Knight in 2000.

Born in September 1929 in London, Moss was just 21 years old when he arrived on the 1951 F1 grid, a precocity that is explained by having grown up in a family through which he came, not blood but naphtha. Papa Alfred, for example, was a dentist but also an amateur pilot who even ran the Indianapolis 500 in the United States, while his sister Patricia dabbled in rally tournaments. In 1948, he swept the Formula 3 championship by winning twelve of the fifteen competitions, then competing in F2 for the next two years and, finally, reaching the top category in 1951. Things were not easy at first when facing Colossi of the stature of Fangio or the Italian Alberto Ascari, and only in the Belgian GP of 1954 he rose for the first time on the podium.

The move to a top team like Mercedes in 1955 led him to get his first victory and a couple of second places, culminating the season behind his teammate Juan Manuel Fangio, with whom he developed a friendship based on mutual respect that spread for decades. “He was unbeatable, but also a very special person, always kind and polite, a very close man, someone humble who nevertheless achieved greatness. He never said anything bad about anyone nor did he talk about how good he was. I learned a lot, and he never did nothing out of the ordinary when we were teammates. He always acted ethically, being beaten by Fangio was more pleasant than being beaten by anyone else, “the Briton would say years later.

Fangio retired from activity in mid-1958, Moss added his last runner-up that year, then chained three consecutive third ports and, finally, retired from Formula 1 in late 1961 to continue piloting in other categories. But in 1962 he suffered a serious accident on the Goodwood circuit that left him a month in a coma and another six months with the left side of the body paralyzed. Aware of the danger of discipline, he left the tracks to become a commentator for the American network ABC, from where he remained linked to motorsports for decades. Decorated by the FIA with the Gold Medal for his contribution to motorsport, he was also, like Fangio, representative of Mercedes Benz, whose current F1 sports director, Toto Wolff, cataloged him on his social networks “as a huge figure , one of the survivors of a time when motor racing was very dangerous and brave, but also camaraderie. ” Then he wrote: “But above all we will remember him for impeccable sportsmanship. It is not an exaggeration to say that we will never see someone like him again.”

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