Inside Formula 1: Business. Lifestyle. Power.
Inside Formula 1: Business. Lifestyle. Power.
Race follows spectators
If you haven’t heard of Geobrugg, there is a lot to discover. The Swiss company is the global leader in the supply of safety nets and meshes made of high-tensile steel wire. Many years of experience and intensive collaboration with…
Driver In Focus: Valtteri Bottas
Paddock magazine investigates the past and present of Valtteri Bottas, a driver who has everyone’s eyes on him this season. Valtteri Bottas began his career racing karts at the age of six. Over the next decade, he amassed countless…
Charity Box: Leg it!
RunThatTrack is a very interesting concept, focusing on Formula 1, charity and, well, running. The concept was conceived over a few drinks at a bar during the 2009 Formula 1 season. Several events and bars later the idea had…
Blast From The Past: How far back was 2009?
Blast from the past: Paddock magazine relives the first ever Formula 1 Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi. The 2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (formally the Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix) was the seventeenth and final Formula 1 motor…
The grip
Firstly, just what exactly is Roadgrip? Today it’s a global organisation with roots in road and surface preparation for the aviation industry, experienced in delivering time-critical projects under the constraints of international contracting. The inventive team takes care of complete…
The right spirit?
Marco Mattiacci was the brain of Ferrari’s business in America when he was suddenly called home to save the Scuderia from more disaster in Formula 1. After seven months, on November 24th, he was replaced by Maurizio Arrivabene, so PADDOCK…
Dropping like flies
Since the new millennium has started, staying in the business has become a merely impossible task for Formula 1 newcomers. The list of teams that had to be sold is long and in recent years, takeovers have even gone out…
If I Ran F1: Mark Hughes
This man has been responsible for setting up and operating several of the newer Formula 1 tracks in the emerging markets. Previously Operations Director in Bahrain, Abu Dhabi and VP – Operations in India, Mark Hughes has set up his…
My Fantasy F1 Team: Martin Whitaker
The head of Sportique 88, a solid and boutique sports and business advisory consultancy, mister Martin Whitaker, shares his very own Formula 1 fantasy set with the Paddock magazine. The car I am going to go purely on aesthetics…
Radio silence
I have been following Formula 1 for the better part of the last two decades and I am still surprised by the speed with which the pit radio rules in the sport were amended. In the weeks between the Italian…
The butcher boy
Non-motorsport fans will automatically associate the name John Booth with the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. However, to all petrol heads, John is known as the Team Principal of Marussia F1 and an assassin of a different kind.…
Santander’s Formula 1 saga
Many people in the Formula 1 paddock were saddened to hear of the passing of Emilio Botin, Chairman of Santander Bank. He was closely involved in Santander’s Formula 1 sponsorship program, which has provided significant results for the bank and…
