
Moving On Up: Giancarlo Vecchi
Paddock magazine catches a young rising star, a very promising Mexican driver Giancarlo Vecchi – a one to remember! Name: Giancarlo Vecchi Date of birth: November 27, 1996 Place of birth: México City Team: Scuderia Mopar with Scuderia Mexico…

Five Ways To… make F1 come alive
Codemasters is a company which can be proud of works that are known all around the globe – it’s the birthplace of some of the most interesting motorsport video games. Lee Mather, Senior Games Designer at Codemasters, gives us five…

The Strategy Behind… getting drivers noticed
Sergio Garcia B., a brilliant driver promoter and coach, gives his professional insights on how to make perspective drivers into racing stars. Results? Ideally, the best way for a driver to be noticed by Formula 1 should be by…

The Formula 1 view
Paddock magazine gets a chance to talk to Véronique Rousseau, Director of RC Concepts Monaco, an impressive company specialising in organising incentive and public relation events. We discuss the luxurious hospitality business and what exactly is it influenced by. …

My Race Day: Christian Hollmann
Christian Hollmann is the Deputy Head of Sports at Germany’s leading news agency DPA and one of DPA’s four Formula 1 correspondents. This dedicated Formula 1 reporter tells us about his usual race day. Start of the day: Depending on…

My Fantasy F1 Team: Peter Nygaard
Photojournalist Peter Nygaard (Grand Prix Photo) shares his fantasy Formula 1 set with us and explains why. The car: Definitely the Maserati 250F! Was there ever a more beautiful F1 car? I have talked to a few of the drivers…

Moving On Up: Michael Dorrbecker
Paddock magazine catches up with Michael Dorrbecker, a racing driver we’ll definitely hear about again. Date of birth: 09/01/1993 Place of birth: Gifhorn, Germany Highlights: -2005/2006 National Mexican Champion. -2007 Latin-American Champion -2008/2009 Skip Barber Southern Series Champion -2010 3 races…

Five Ways To… do social media for an F1 team
Head of Caterham F1’s communications, Tom Webb, gives us five hints on how to creatively master the art of social media for a Formula 1 team. Be open: use social media to open the doors to your world and don’t…

My (Australian) Race Day: Enrico Zanarini
Enrico Zanarini gives us his race day schedule. 5 am: I am in Australia, it is the first Grand Prix and I am still severely jetlagged so anyone else who claims waking up at a later time is either…

Making drivers famous
Ignacio de Villota, one of the members of the famous de Villota racing family, provides PR for all the drivers at Emilio de Villota MOTORSPORT. We sat down with Ignacio and he told us the main things that currently have…

The Strategy Behind… getting ready
Adrian Sutil of the Sauber F1 team sits down with us and talks about the preparations for Formula 1 races. Before the training As a Formula 1 driver you have to do a lot of research, analyze the data and…

Moving On Up: Jorge Cevallos Saad
Paddock magazine moves on up with a progressive Mexican driver Jorge Cevallos Saad. Look out for this one, Formula 1! What was your very first experience of motorsports racing? I’ve been a fan of racing ever since I was…



