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Chris Bristow & Alan Stacey: Two young to die
The record books hold few entries for him yet Chris Bristow is now remembered by some who knew him as…
April 1997
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Britons who could have been champions had they lived
The contemplation of champion promise unfulfilled is always painful. Two years before Bristow and Stacey fell at Spa, the talented…
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Good eggs, Rotten apples
Good eggs, rotten apples too many cars have gained undeserved reputations. Some are over-hyped, others underrated. In the first of…
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Brian Redman
1970 Trophee des Ardennes The script would be rejected as implausible, yet it happened. Gordon Cruickshank reports If your race…
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You're on ... the right road
Finding your way has just entered the Information age. Forget paper maps and hastily scribbled route plans: leave behind the…
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Atmospheric motor racing fiction
I see from Eoin Young's column in Autocar that he finds the new F1 novel, Flat Out by Colin Dryden…
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Kop - A famous hill
We think of speed hill-climbs taking place at Shelsley Walsh, Prescott, Wiscombe and other venues but many of the older…
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A Staniland postscript
After the article on Chris Staniland, racing driver, rider and test pilot, in the February issue of MOTOR SPORT, a…
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VSCC Herefordshire trail
116 pre-war cars mustered at "The Verzons" in February sunshine, after which at Chalky's Conundrum, Hickling and his passengers ate…
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The Shuttleworth collection
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miscellany, April 1997
We hear that the complicated task of reconstructing a Tipo 806 1 1/2-litre twin crankshaft 12-cylinder GP Fiat is under…
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