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SEBASTIAN VETTEL IS F1 S VOICE OF REASON

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In an attempt to keep Tsunoda’s swearin g to a minimum, the team were trialling gluin g his lips together, but Franz was beginning to regret loosening the lid of the superglue tube with his teeth.

BUT WORSE WAS YET TO COME… “Hello? Yes, I know it’s the plan to glue his lips together, but I think he has it on his eyel ids now.”

Rumour has it that for upcoming races Seb will be encouraging us to “Save the Cees, Dees and Eees”.

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Reportage, action, portraits, the Bullseye does none of those.

Instead, it catches paddock people behaving oddly. Here’s today’s selection…

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STRANGER THINGS

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How much did Haas celebrate getting both its drivers in the points last Sunday in Silverstone? Well, the partying went on so long that Guenther had only just changed into his pyjamas to get into bed when it was already time to go to the track.

“Leave it Lewis, it’s not worth it,” cried Angela. But the seven-time world champion was determined to go and have it out with the American tailor. Lewis had given him the measurements for the trousers in centimetres, but they’d gone and made them in inches.

If you want to know why no Austrian has ever won the Tour de France, just try riding a bicycle for three weeks wearing shorts ma de out of dead cow.

One of the first things you learn at Race Driving School is to always drive on the Racing Lion

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Fabi was getting anxious. She knew Pierre well enough to see the signs on his face. If the ORF reporter nudged him on the shoulder with the microphone just one more time, he was going to get punched in the face.

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“Max, are you hiding down there? Com e on out, first we’ll do Formula 1, then I’ll do a backflip off the iron bull with you on my back!” Mountain bike meg astar Fabio Wibmer made big plans when catching a ride in the Red Bull Racing two-seater. But Max knew: his car doesn’t have a bike rack. Fabio’s plan was going fail.

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We’re not saying the Aston Martin Safety Car is slow, but Esteban got all the way up the hill to Turn 3 before they caught him to ask for their bike back.

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PIT BITCH: HELEN PARADYCE

Scenery-chewing team bosses, civil war in the paddock, frequent flyer bonuses and hand-dyed sheep – all in a day’s work for the Bulletin’s star columnist...

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y last F1 outing was in Miami and you couldn’t ask for a greater contrast than the Red Bull Ring this weekend. If Miami was about the new Netflix audience sipping cocktails in “exclusive guest areas”, Spielberg is old skool; the fans in the campsite are less familiar with prime streaming services than they are with primal urges and hunting down animals in the mountains around the track.

On the subject of Netflix, it emerged in Canada that one of its film crews was present at a team bosses’ meeting to discuss the FIA’s attempts to curb porpoising when some of the main players became, shall we say, extremely animated. Now, whether they were genuinely upset or just chewing the scenery for the benefit of the cameras is open to question but whatever the case, the rumoured Lewis HamiltonBrad Pitt F1 film won’t have to look too far when casting hammy character actors. No prizes for guessing who’d play an Arnie-esque Terminator, declaring “I’ll be back…when we build a better car”, though there might be quite a few candidates to play a cat-stroking Blofeld character.

Bitter disputes between team bosses are nothing new: they date back to ancient Roman chariot racing when the SpartaCars team were protested for keeping their horses’ oats at too low a temperature before a race, but this does seem like an era of particularly vicious verbal sparring.

Indeed, while F1 is usually drawn to racing in places that could do with an intervention by the UN, it now seems the biggest conflicts are taking place within the paddock. Not only are the team bosses screaming at each other, we have drivers fighting as to whether they’re bouncing into oblivion while the F1 and the FIA enter a cold war as the governing body’s new regime thins its numbers.

I can’t help thinking that for a new generation of fans attracted to the sport by the star quality of the drivers, it can’t be too thrilling to learn that the cause of all this friction was caused by 30cm of wire.

I drove here from my current Milan home – I just had to leave beastly post-Brexit Britain – and apart from the beautiful scenery, the car trip meant I was able to avoid humanity’s downward spiral, aka Covid-era air travel. There were horrible stories about passengers being marched off their flights from Montreal for no apparent reason. However, some passengers were clearly treated

*Press release. A document created on an electric typewriter, photocopied 120 times in a team motorhome and then distributed by hand to journalists who didn’t read it. Amazing but true.

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better than others, with a stewardess on one Air Canada flight explaining that the delay was because “we had to pull off an intoxicated passenger.” I always say it’s much better in Business Class.

I started by saying that Spielberg can’t match Miami for razzamatazz, but after Silverstone, the Red Bull Ring seems like Disneyland. If you want a remote location with nothing to do in the evenings, then Silverstone must come top of the list.

In the days before social media, teams entertained journalists with more straightforward fare such as press releases*. It was in Austria in 2000 that David Coulthard racked up his 100th Grand Prix start and a McLaren missive of ‘fun stats’ revealed that over the course of those races, David had sweated 300 litres of fluid. You don’t get that on TikTok. On another occasion, Benetton had its drivers Giancarlo Fisichella and Alex Wurz pose with nine sheep, all with their wool dyed in different colours. The drivers looked… sheepish. How we miss those comics from the United Colours of Baaanetton.

HELEN PARADYCE

‘The fans are less familiar with prime streaming than they are with primal urges’

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CAMP LIKE A PRO Our absolute must-have gadgets for a winning F1 weekend…

Pumpkin seed oil dispenser

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From the pages of yester day’s edition, we know that for AlphaTauri driver Yuki Tsu noda, one of the best parts of F1 is the food available in the pad dock.

But what if he gets lost and suddenly turns up at the flaps of your tent? Hypnotised . His eyes transfixed by the me at sizzling on your king-size barbecue, claiming never to have eaten anything more fascinating than cup-a-sou p?

Protect your food with a lock.

Clogs As any experienced traveller will agree, you can never rely on the weather when you go camping. So if a thunderstorm floods the camp site, you can use these traditional Dutch wooden shoes as lifeboats.

In an emergency, your escape route should look like this: the Aichfeld ends at the Mur, the Mur flows into the Drava, the Drava into the Danube, the Danube into the Black Sea and from there, you’ll can catch a ship home.

Reversible hat

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Now that Fernando Alonso is an honorary citizen of Spielberg, it couldn’t hurt to be prepared for a possible meeting should he set up his deckchair in the gravel after a shunt. So offer him “potaje” instead of “Erdeiplflgulasch” [potato goulash] and call it an “accidente”, not a “Vullklescha”. Schlager, [a hit song] translates as “canción de moda”, although he probably knows that anyway. And “nach Hause” [going home] is “a casa”, which he can now get to on foot.

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Story MATT YOUSON Illustration YANNICK DE LA PÊCHE

On the mean [but exceptionally clean] streets of Thurgovia, all is not what it seems. A darkness stirs beneath the [charmingly bucolic] orchards; a cruel breeze ruffles the [crystal clear] waters of the Bodensee. Crime – from inappropriately-coloured geraniums to incorrectly sorted recycling – lurks in unseen corners. The thinnest of lines holds this fearsome darkness at bay: SEBASTIAN VETTEL. Once just an average four-time Formula 1 World Champion until a freak accident involving an experimental KERS, a poorly designated wet floor and 17 Jägerbombs. Forever transformed, Seb is now something… more. By day, an elite racing driver, by night he’s SENSIBLE MAN: a masked avenger, a hero for dark times, fighting crime and righting wrongs and, most of all offering moderate and reasonable suggestions for a better tomorrow… but always the darkness is there, waiting…

SENSIBLE MAN doesn’t rest, he gets on with things. His things…

Seb. He’s here again.

Every superhero needs a sidekick… even if they don’t want one.

Holy Hilfiger, SENSIBLE MAN! There’s been a disaster!

OK, I’ll get the ladder.

Oh, FFS. No rest for the wicked, eh, Doctor M? Or for that matter for holders of a sensible middle ground in which reason, humanism and a keen sense of collective responsibility hold sway.

No, it’s not another kitten up a tree, there’s been A DISAPPEARANCE!

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Or maybe somebody left a gate open…?

It was just gone!

Buttercup the Cow?

Abducted by aliens!

This is what happens when people don’t respect the countryside code!

You fell for the oldest trick in the book, SENSIBLE MAN, now you’re out of the way, I can put my diabolical scheme into effect.

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I didn’t hear anything!

Did you just hear maniacal laughter?

It was coming from that obviously robotic crow.

Increased, indiscriminate use of pesticides is making the genus Corvus an increasingly rare sight these days! We must hurry!

It’s just as I thought.

While we were distracted, someone has launched a dastardly plan to increase the size of the F1 calendar to…

26 RACES!

But… I mean… well, maybe that’s not so bad?

I like racing.

But think about the ecological impact. Think about the sacrifices made by the garage crews and paddock staff, torn away from their loved ones…

Oh yeah.

Them.

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24 hours later…

… and so that is why, of course, we must limit the 2023 calendar to a sensible 20 races.

Holy Exposition Sensible Man! You saved the day again.

Yes, but we still don’t know who was behind the whole thing.

Surely it was Otmar Szafnauer?

I’ve explained before: just having a ‘Z’ in one’s name doesn’t automatically imply evil intent… maybe we’ll never know …

“Curses!

Foiled again!”

But next time Sensible Man, next time !!!

NEXT TIME: Sensible Man vs the Smog Demon.

SM cleans house, one particulate at a time!

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STARTING ON A HIGH Great careers have begun at the Österreichring: in the history of Formula 1, 12 drivers have competed in their very first Grand Prix in the Alpine republic. And – spoiler alert – for at least one, his first race was also his last...

1964

JOCHEN RINDT

TIM SCHENKEN

Jochen Rindt (1942–1970) at his F1 debut in Zeltweg in 1964

In 1970, the Österreichring was new and so was Australian Tim Schenken who had replaced Brian Redman at Frank Williams Racing. The car was, to put it mildly, a lemon. The De Tomaso 505 chassis was ponderous, unreliable and difficult to control.

It had already taken the life of Piers Courage at the Dutch Grand Prix but Schenken managed to get 25 laps out of the thing on his F1 debut.

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1970

WERNER JESSNER

Three years after his first ever car race, the 1970 World Champion made his F1 debut at his home race on the airport at Zeltweg in a Brabham BT11 prepared by Rob Walker Racing.

More than half the cars in the starting line-up broke down on the concrete runway known as the Waschrumpel [washboard], including Rindt’s and he retired half way through the race with damage to his steering.

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1971

HELMUT MARKO & NIKI LAUDA When Jochen Rindt died in an accident in 1970, it triggered a race to pick up the torch as Austria’s leading motorsport star. Niki Lauda had found finance for a March for his home race, whereas Helmut Marko had gone for a BRM after failing to qualify two weeks earlier at the German Grand Prix in a McLaren. At the Österreichring, Marko outdid Lauda in qualifying (17th and 21st respectively). However, he scored no World Championship points after finishing two laps behind eventual winner Jo Siffert. And Lauda retired.

1974

DIETER QUESTER

Niki Lauda in the pit lane at the Österreichring. Photographed here in 1971, In the background you see his March, which gave up the ghost 20 laps into the race.

1975

JO VONLANTHEN & BRETT LUNGER The American Brett Lunger, who made the first of his 32 F1 starts in Austria, is perhaps best known as one of the people who dashed to help save the life of Niki Lauda when his car was engulfed in flames at the Nürburgring in 1976.

The F1 career of the Swiss car-dealer Jo Vonlanthen, whose Austrian run-out represents his sole participation in the World Championship, was even less conspicuous (his other two F1 races were not part of the World Championship).

Neither of the two 1975 debutants ever scored a single point.

The son of a Viennese family of hardware store owners, Quester landed a drive in a Surtees for the Austrian Grand Prix, hardly a car used to winning. The story about a mechanic leaving his toolbox in front of Dieter’s car at the start is the stuff of legend. But it didn’t matter, because he started from the back.

At least the car held out. He finished ninth in his only F1 race. After that, he dedicated himself to a very successful career in touring and sports cars.

Three of Hans Binder’s 13 World Championship starts were in Austria.

1976

HANS BINDER The Tyrolean timber dealer and uncle of endurance racer René Binder made his breakthrough in Formula 2 with Helmut Marko’s team. Binder bought his way into Ensign for the Österreichring. Starting from 25th on the grid, his race was over by lap 49 when his throttle went. A year later, he finished his home race in a respectable 12th place in a Penske PC4 for the German ATS Racing Team. On his third attempt in 1978, he failed to qualify and then quit F1 for good.

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1980

NIGEL MANSELL

1984

GERHARD BERGER

With a little help from BMW, Gerhard Berger was able to make his debut with ATS in 1984.

It was a day of celebrations for Austrians in Spielberg... Niki Lauda won, Jo Gartner competed in his fourth race and Gerhard Berger his first. In an ATS, sponsored by BMW, he qualified in 20th place and finished his first race in 12th.

Two races later, they would make history. In Monza, Lauda won again, Gartner finished fifth and Berger sixth. In those days, only the first six scored points and three of them came from Austria. We’ve never seen the like before or since.

WERNER JESSNER

2000

LUCIANO BURTI Regular driver Eddie Irvine was sick, so Burti quickly slipped into the driving seat of the Jaguar, the team that was to become Red Bull Racing in 2005. It was a chequered weekend for the Brazilian: both in qualifying and the race itself, he only managed to leave the completely hapless Argentinian Gastón Mazzacane in the Minardi in his wake. The following year, Burti started for Jaguar, but was relegated to the inferior Prost Grand Prix team four races later.

World Championship points? Not for love nor money.

Cameo role: Brazil’s Luciano Burti made his debut here in 2000 but was replaced after 15 races.

2020

NICHOLAS LATIFI The Canadian is the most recent debutant at the Austrian Grand Prix. The F1 season had never begun as late as it did in 2020 – in July we’re usually halfway through the World Championship, but it was an exceptional year in many ways. Latifi struggled to make much of an impression in the inferior Williams: he was last in qualifying and last to finish in the race. Nicky makes his 50th start this weekend and he will be hoping to build on his excellent Q3 appearance last weekend.

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The 1992 World Champion was considered a great fighter who had worked his way up, even selling his house to finance his career. In 1980, he finally fulfilled a lifelong dream: his first F1 start... at the Österreichring... in a Lotus! He qualified in last place, but that wasn’t the worst of it: due to a leak, he sat in caustic racing fuel for several laps and suffered second and third-degree burns. But he soldiered on. Eventually, engine damage did for him, but after that, the only way was up.

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