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AUTOCOURSE 2022-23 ANNUAL: The World's Leading Grand Prix Annual

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World champion for the third time in his eight year career, the enigmatic Brazillian softened his few remaining asperities to emerge a more complete and rounded performer than ever before. There were certainly fewer signs of the impulsiveness which had occasionally got him into hot water in the past, and his tactical abilities took on a fresh dimension as he squared up to a title contest in which he did not always have the advantage of superior technical equipment. Well, that may account for part of it, Don, but the worst damage was done by the most recent caretakers themselves... The problem is the balance between F1 and "everything else". Personally I'd like to see more "everything else", particularly sports cars and GTs; and now the "ladder" below F1 is more complex than ever before, how's Autocourse going to cover it? - it's clear that GP2 is not the only way to the top now. Because he battled Schumacher perceived at his prime and he was not quite the match. Its odd Villeneuve gets the glory for 97 but Häkkinen not for 98, I'd assume it hinges on the performance and particularly shenanigans of Schumacher rather than the eventual champion. I would like to see less on F1, cos it's everywhere. F1 Racing, Autosport &c. Keep the lap charts (and lap times would be interesting) and team analyses, I'd maybe have less on the race itself and more on the surrounding issues (those little boxes), and a lot more on the other formulae - the coverage of the Split has been minimal when it should have had something pretty in-depth.

From what I remember (don't have the book available here) The #1 spot was left open in respect to both Pironi and Villeneuve since Pironi was in a good position to become the champion. But since there was doubts about what Gilles may have achieved during the year if given the opportunity... As for adding things - looking at the '03 IRL/Indy annual - a lot more historic and/or feature articles in the Clymer and Hungness vein, including those of a nature far more esoteric than the rather generic Jim Clark and "Homemade Heroes" pieces in '03 that easily could've been used in just about any other year.I think exceptions had to be made for '94 - a Top 10 would've looked very odd if you'd been restricted to drivers who did every race.... In addition to what's mentioned above I find it interesting that no #1 was chosen in respect to Villeneuve in 1982, but this was not the case in 1994 with Senna, when Hill was selected. This consists of the full results table for the season, featuring each driver and accompanied since 1996 by a group photo of all the drivers in one of the Grands Prix. Other statistics are also given, such as overall career details for each driver and their average qualifying position over the season. Also, the top 10 driver ranking is now just that, previously it used to discuss all the drivers at the end, those who just missed out and the also rans. Again, gone too superficial rather than really analysing what occurred. Strange points I've noticed just from 1990+ - MS was not listed in 1999 as he did not compete in "nearly" all the races as Autocourse puts it. From memory, I think he started at least half - probably more like 10/16.

As a matter of interest, does anyone have any particular things they'd like to see added or omitted, or maybe changed/improved with the 'Courses? I hasten to add that there's no plan whatsoever to take a hatchet to the titles, far from it, but a wee bit of tweaking in the right direction is always possible. Ferrari' found themselves uncompetitive and Charles Leclerc, and Sebastian Vettel struggled to find the speed that made them winners in 2019, and it was left to the ever-resourceful Red Bull Racing, with the exciting talent of Max Verstappen, to rise to the challenge and further justify their decision to switch to Honda power. AUTOCOURSE includes all the hectic action from the top Touring Car series – the World Touring Car Cup and the British Touring Car Championships as well as the DTM Series running GT cars from Audi, Mercedes, BMW and Ferrari.As for the non-appearance of the 2002 Indy 500 Yearbook, theunions, I'm afraid I can't answer that at the moment - largely due to the fact that I wasn't aware it had missed a year! I'll enquire, however. The nuances of F1’s designs and development are analysed team by team by the much-respected Mark Hughes, enhanced by Adrian Dean’s handsome F1 car illustrations. This sounds like the 'debate' that autosport readers had with John McIlroy on Ten-Tenths last year - many of us were saying 'less F1, more words' and John was -- probably perfectly defensibly from a mass-market point of view -- making it blatantly clear that for every reader who wanted that there were dozens of casual fans who'd be entirely turned off by it....)

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