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Günther Steiner
Guenther Steiner (born 7 April 1965, ) is an Italian and American motorsport engineer and former team manager. Steiner was the Team Principal of Haas Formula One Team from 2016 to 2023, the managing director of Jaguar Racing from 2001 to 2003, and technical operations director of its subsequent incarnation, Red Bull Racing. He is currently a commentator and analyst for Formula One broadcasts. Career Rally (1986–2001) Born in Merano, South Tyrol, the son of a butcher, Steiner studied engineering; however, without completing his degree, he then moved to Belgium, where he began his career as a mechanic in the World Rally Championship for Mazda Rally Team Europe from 1986 to 1988. From January 1989 – 1990, Steiner worked as the assistant team manager for Top Run Srl. He acted as head of reconnaissance, and later as a technical manager, at Jolly Club from 1991 to 1996. In 1997, Steiner managed Prodrive's Allstar Rally team, winning the European Rally Championship with Krzys ...
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2022 Austrian Grand Prix
The 2022 Austrian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Rolex Großer Preis von Österreich 2022) was a Formula One motor race held on 10 July 2022 at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Styria, Spielberg, Austria. It was the second Grand Prix weekend of the season to utilise the Formula One sprint racing, Formula One sprint format. Max Verstappen qualified on pole position and retained the first grid spot by winning the sprint race. Charles Leclerc won the race in spite of late issues with his car, retaking second place in the standings from Sergio Pérez. This race marked Leclerc's third and final win of the 2022 season, his last until the 2024 Monaco Grand Prix, Ferrari's first win in Austria since Michael Schumacher won there for the team in 2003 Austrian Grand Prix, 2003 and Leclerc's first win in his career without starting from pole. Verstappen finished second, and Lewis Hamilton came in third. The entire race weekend was marred by accusations of poor fan behavior. ...
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M-Sport
M-Sport is a motorsport engineering company headquartered at Dovenby Hall near Cockermouth, United Kingdom. It is primarily known for entering the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) since 1997 in partnership with Ford, manufacturing race and rally cars, and providing parts and motorsport services to customers. The company has an automotive evaluation facility at its headquarters, and a second manufacturing facility in Kraków, Poland. In 2023, the M-Sport Ford World Rally Team contest the World Rally Championship and WRC2 support championship. M-Sport also organise, operate and act as promoter of the Junior WRC championship on behalf of the FIA. They also provide the official TOCA engine option used in BTCC since 2022. History M-Sport began in 1979 when rally driver Malcolm Wilson formed Malcolm Wilson Motorsport, primarily to facilitate his own rallying career and offering motorsport contracting services to customers such as rally car preparation. Reflecting the care ...
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Eddie Irvine
Edmund "Eddie" Irvine Jr. (; born 10 November 1965) is a former racing driver from Northern Ireland, who competed Formula One drivers from the United Kingdom, under the British flag in Formula One from to . Irvine was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in with Scuderia Ferrari, Ferrari, and won four Formula One Grands Prix, Grands Prix across 10 seasons. Irvine began his career at the age of seventeen when he entered Formula Ford, achieving early success, before progressing to the Formula Three and Formula 3000 Championships. He made his Formula One debut in 1993 with Jordan Grand Prix, where he achieved early notoriety for his involvement in incidents on and off the track. He scored his first podium in with Jordan, before moving to Ferrari in . His most successful season was in 1999 when he took four victories and finished second in the World Championship, two points behind McLaren driver Mika Häkkinen. In his four years with Ferrari, he also finished ...
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BBC Sport
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC BBC Television, television, BBC Radio, radio and BBC Online, online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as ''Match of the Day'', ''Test Match Special'', ''Ski Sunday'' and ''Today at Wimbledon''. Results, analysis and coverage is also added to the #BBC Sport Online, BBC Sport website and through the BBC Red Button interactive television service. History The BBC has broadcast sport for several decades under individual programme names and coverage titles. ''Grandstand (TV programme), Grandstand'' was one of the more notable sport programmes, broadcasting sport for almost 50 years. The BBC first began to brand sport coverage as 'BBC Sport' in 1988 for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, by introducing the programme with a short animation of a globe circumnavigated by four c ...
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2002 Formula One Season
The 2002 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 56th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 2002 Formula One World Championship for Drivers and the 2002 Formula One World Championship for Constructors, which were contested concurrently over a seventeen-race series that commenced on 3 March and ended on 13 October. Defending champions Michael Schumacher and Scuderia Ferrari were again awarded the World Drivers' Championship and World Constructors' Championship, respectively.Drivers' and Constructors' Standings, www.fia.com
Retrieved via web.archive.org on 28 September 2013
Schumacher finished first or second in every race except for the
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Motorsport
Motorsport or motor sport are sporting events, competitions and related activities that primarily involve the use of Car, automobiles, motorcycles, motorboats and Aircraft, powered aircraft. For each of these vehicle types, the more specific terms ''automobile sport'', ''motorcycle sport'', Motorboat#Racing, ''power boating'' and ''air sports'' may be used commonly, or officially by organisers and governing bodies. Different manifestations of motorsport with their own objectives and specific rules are called disciplines. Examples include Race track, circuit racing, rallying and Classic trial, trials. Governing bodies, also called sanctioning bodies, often have general rules for each discipline, but allow supplementary rules to define the character of a particular competition, series or championship. Groups of these are often categorised informally, such as by vehicle type, surface type or propulsion method. Examples of categories within a discipline are formula racing, stock car r ...
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John Allison (RAF Officer)
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Shakespeare Allison, (born 24 March 1943) is a retired senior Royal Air Force (RAF) commander. He was the Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State. RAF career Educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford,Sir John Allison
Royal Grammar School, Guildford
Allison entered the as a flight cadet in 1961. On graduation, he was commissioned as a pilot officer in July 1964. Flying the F-4 Phantom, he went on to comm ...
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Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in Buckinghamshire, England, about north-west of London. At the 2021 Census, the population of Milton Keynes urban area, its urban area was 264,349. The River Great Ouse forms the northern boundary of the urban area; a tributary, the River Ouzel, meanders through its linear parks and balancing lakes. Approximately 25% of the urban area is parkland or woodland and includes two Site of Special Scientific Interest, Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). The city is made up of many different districts. In the 1960s, the government decided that a further generation of new towns in the United Kingdom, new towns in the South East England , south east of England was needed to relieve housing congestion in London. Milton Keynes was to be the biggest yet, with a population of 250,000 and area of . At designation, its area incorporated the existing towns of Bletchley, Fenny Stratford, Wolverton and Stony Stratford, ...
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Niki Lauda
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (22 February 1949 – 20 May 2019) was an Austrian racing driver, motorsport executive and aviation entrepreneur, who competed in Formula One from to and from to . Lauda won three Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles and—at the time of his retirement—held the List of Formula One driver records, record for most List of Formula One driver records#Total podium finishes, podium finishes (54); he remains the only driver to have won a World Drivers' Championship with both Scuderia Ferrari, Ferrari and McLaren, and won 25 Formula One Grands Prix, Grands Prix across 13 seasons. Born and raised in Vienna, Lauda was the grandson of local industrialist Hans Lauda. Starting his career in kart racing, karting, he progressed to Formula Vee and privateer (motorsport), privateer racing in the late 1960s. With his career stalled, Lauda took out a bank loan and secured a place in European Formula Two with March Engineering, March in , making his Form ...
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Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational corporation, multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the List of Ford vehicles, Ford brand, and luxury cars under its Lincoln Motor Company, Lincoln brand. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the single-letter ticker symbol F and is controlled by the Ford family (Michigan), Ford family. They have minority ownership but a plurality of the voting power. Ford introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management of an industrial workforce using elaborately engineered manufacturing sequences typified by moving assembly lines. By 1914, these methods were known around the world as Fordism. Ford's former British subsidiaries Jaguar Cars, Jaguar and Land Rover, acquired in 1989 and 2000, r ...
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2001 World Rally Championship
The 2001 World Rally Championship was the 29th season of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). In a tightly contested year, Subaru's Richard Burns took his first and only drivers' world title, beating Ford's Colin McRae, Mitsubishi's Tommi Mäkinen and the defending champion Marcus Grönholm of Peugeot. Peugeot successfully defended their manufacturers' title. Calendar The 2001 championship was contested over fourteen rounds in Europe, Africa, South America and Oceania. Calendar changes All 14 rounds from the previous season remained on the calendar for the 2001 season. April was left open with the belief at the time being that Britain would be moved to the spring in 2002, since there had been talks to relocate Rally GB to earlier in the year to make the event better for weather and tourism. The Safari rally was moved to the summer away from its traditional spring date, while Cyprus was also moved to the summer to be back to back with the Acropolis Rally. There had ...
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2000 World Rally Championship
The 2000 World Rally Championship was the 28th season of the FIA World Rally Championship. The season consisted of 14 rallies. The drivers' world championship was won by Marcus Grönholm in a Peugeot 206 WRC, breaking the streak of Tommi Mäkinen who had won the previous 4 titles for Mitsubishi, ahead of Richard Burns and Carlos Sainz. The manufacturers' title was won by Peugeot, ahead of Ford and Subaru. Calendar The 2000 championship was contested over fourteen rounds in Europe, Africa, South America and Oceania. Rally China was originally scheduled to be the tenth round of the season but was cancelled after primary sponsor British American Tobacco withdrew from the event. The Cyprus Rally was added to the calendar as a replacement. Teams and drivers Non Manufacturer Entries FIA Teams Cup Results and standings Rally results Drivers' championship Manufacturers' championship FIA Teams Cup Production World Rally championship Events References E ...
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