IN THE SPIRIT OF BOD AND JENKS

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Editor Joe Dunn
Editor-at-Large Gordon Cruickshank
Production Editor Robert Ladbrook
Features Editor Simon Arron
Grand Prix Editor Mark Hughes
Art Editor Damon Cogman
Designer Andy Coates
Photographer Lyndon McNeil
Staff Writer Samarth Kanal
Digital Assistant Graham Keilloh
Contributing Editors Andrew Frankel, Doug Nye, Mat Oxley
Special Contributors Gary Watkins, Simon de Burton, Paul Fearnley
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Special thanks to the following for helping with this issue
Mercedes-AMG and Audi Sport for their assistance, and Hershel McGriff for his invaluable time

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Founder Editor Bill Boddy MBE
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Details matter.

Alfa Romeo’s new car features the famous emblem of a snake and man next to the cross of Milan. The team tell us this represents not the man being eaten, but being reborn. Just as Alfa itself is reborn in F1 (see our 2019 season preview on page 66). The detailing on the new Alfa C38 also tells of the team’s big budget aero operation. Shown here is the large vertical board on which the badge is imprinted. It keeps the airflow arriving from the barge boards separate from the flow coming from the front tyres. It is essential to keep those two from interfering, as the speed of the air down the body sides enhances the speed of the underbody airflow and thereby increases downforce. It is these tiny intricacies that can define success or failure and would have been unthinkable a couple of years ago when the team existed on the margins of survival as Sauber.

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