{"id":10618,"date":"2024-03-08T15:03:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/?p=10618"},"modified":"2024-03-08T15:03:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T15:03:14","slug":"tazio-10-gerhard-berger-on-ayrton-senna-al-holbert-fabrizia-pons-and-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/?p=10618","title":{"rendered":"Tazio 10: Gerhard Berger on Ayrton Senna, Al Holbert, Fabrizia Pons and much more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

30 Years ago, Ayrton Senna lost his life in a crash in Imola. Formula 1 lost one of its icons. Three decades on, the loss is still palpable. In Issue 10 of Tazio Magazine, Gerhard Berger portrays his close friend, his rival at McLaren he could not beat. Senna, by Berger.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gerhard Berger set aside a couple of hours for our Richard Lieberman to talk about his friend Ayrton Senna. And then he asked for another couple of hours to continue the conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We know most of the facts: how Senna broke through in Formula 1 in an underpowered Toleman in the rain at the Monaco GP in 1984. His meteoric rise, the rivalry with his team-mate at McLaren, Alain Prost. And then that miserable weekend at Imola, on May 1st<\/sup> in 1994. With first Rubens Barichello\u2019s huge shunt on Friday, then Roland Ratzenberger\u2019s fatal crash in practice on Saturday, and Senna\u2019s shunt at Tamburello in the race on Sunday. Formula 1 had lost an icon of a generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Senna, 1989 Brasil GP. Photo Newspress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Who better than Gerhard Berger to talk about Senna, his team-mate for three seasons at McLaren. \u201cYou will always look for weakness in your team-mate. With Senna, I could not find any.\u201d From the first time they were on the grid together \u2013 a Formula Ford 2000 race in Hockenheim, Germany \u2013 to April 1st<\/sup>, 1994, when Gerhard Berger saw Senna\u2019s Williams veer offline at the San Marino Grand Prix. \u201cMy first thought was: \u2018that is a good angle to go off.\u2019 No way I thought he was hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Al Holbert<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, Jim Donnelly talks about Al Holbert\u2019s rich career. IMSA, NASCAR, Can-Am, Indycar, Group C prototypes, Holbert was successful in any car he raced. Taken from us all too soon after his private plane crashed in 1988, we asked Derek Bell, Alwin Springer, Al\u2019s son Todd and many others about one of the great race drivers\/engineers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ferrari Challenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Natan Tazelaar reconstructs the start of what has since become the most prestigious one-make racing series: the Ferrari Challenge. Behind the wheel of the Ferrari 348 Challenge \u2013 the first of the series \u2013 he discovers a racing series that sought to promote Ferrari\u2019s V8 GT cars. The more you think about it, the more it seems strange we had to wait until 1993 to see the first Ferrari Challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Raffaele Paolucci<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fabrizia Pons on 46 years as a co-driver<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Fabrizia Pons formed a female power duo in the beginning of the eighties, together with Mich\u00e8le Mouton. In the hairy-chested days of Group B rallying, Mouton and Pons proved they could beat the men on equal terms. In fact, in 1982, Mouton and Pons were in the running for the world championship up until one rally from the end. After her time with Audi, Fabrizia Pons stepped into the co-driver\u2019s seat next to Ari Vatanen, and would later score another WRC victory guiding Piero Liatti in the 1997 Monte Carlo rally. Even today, she continues competing. A look back on 46 years in the co-driver\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mercedes 450 SLC 5.0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1979, Bj\u00f6rn Waldegaard used this Mercedes 450 SLC 5.0 to secure his first \u2013 and only \u2013 world rally driver\u2019s title. Waldegaard\u2019s was one of four factory-entered 450, the big V8 coup\u00e9 an unlikely rally car, let alone one that could survive the tortures of a 3500-mile track through the Ivory Coast, for the Bandama rally in Africa. With a big 5-litre V8 and the unusual choice of three-speed automatic gearbox, Mercedes nonetheless waltzed over the opposition, giving the SLCs a unique 1, 2, 3, 4 in the rally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Dennis Noten<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The SLC \u2013 one of just nine built \u2013 finished its rally career in 1980. It wasn\u2019t finished competing just yet, though. Belgian tuner Serge Power acquired the car and entered it in the Spa 24 Hours in 1982 and 1983, where it ran as high as fourth place. We got a close-up with this fascinating rally\/race car, in the run up to its sale at RM Sotheby\u2019s auction in May in Monaco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TWR-Porsche WSC95<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What else? Oh, you probably know the TWR-Porsche WSC95 as the car that won Le Mans twice (1996 and 1997) with Joest. But did you know that before that, it was parked in Porsche\u2019s basement as an abandoned project from erstwhile-rivals-become-partners TWR and Porsche. In an exclusive exctract taken from Serge Vanbockryck\u2019s book \u2018TWR-Porsche WSC 95. The autobiography of WSC001<\/a>\u2019 we go back to the fascinating, seldom-heard beginning of this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monaco Grand Prix for sportscars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1952, the Monaco Grand Prix was a sportscar race. It was the first and only time the Monaco Grand Prix ran with sportscars. This is also the reason why the current Monaco Grand Prix Historique runs a sportscar program. We look back in pictures on a tumultuous race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo A.S.O.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, if you want to do Dakar Classic on a budget, have you looked at the Lada Niva? George East tells the secrets. And the usual columns by Hurley Haywood, Steve Soper and Christian Geistd\u00f6rfer. And more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Available for pre-order now<\/a>. Shipping starts around March 20th. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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