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Whistling in the dark
Gas turbine racers were hot news for a few experimental years. Gordon Cruickshank explains Gas turbines in cars just don't…
April 2006
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Grand designs 1993
... when Italian invader Dallara whitewashed the British F3 grid. Keith Howard finds out why Motorsport manufacturing is like any…
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Regeneration game
BRM's early '90s rebirth as a sportscar squad coincided with the death of Group C. Richard Heseltine relates a tale…
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Boiler Vroom: How steam power conquered the Land Speed Record
Bonneville and the Black Rock Desert; before Daytona Beach or Pendine Sands in Wales, the Land Speed Record belonged to…
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Opel cadets
Häkkinen, Barrichello, Coulthard, Frentzen, de Ferran, McNish... One series launched them all. Marcus Simmons tells the story The life of…
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Marlborough lights
Graham Skillen had an informative article in the VSCC Bulletin on the elusive Frenchman T B Andre, who sold Marlborough…
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Concorde to caravans
Over the holiday period I was not only kept warm by one of the Brooklands Society's useful fleece jackets and…
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Rumblings, April 2006
The VSCC opened its 2006 season with driving tests at Brooklands. David Marsh in his 1925 Brescia Bugatti was the…
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HE man reports success
The piece about HE cars in the January issue of MotorSport has resulted in a most interesting response from Paul…
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Gaining a police record
I suppose that 159mph will remain the all-time PSR (Police Speed Record) on a public road. The officer who achieved…
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The spy and the Count
Having asked the nearest library to dig out for me the life of Ian Fleming by John Pearson (Jonathan Cape,…
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Wheel to wheel - The month in historic motorsport
Big boost for GP Masters French GP support in 2006; Amon F1 car to race again; historic super-series for '07…
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News in brief, April 2006
The first Leda to join the Formula 5000 revival in the UK will be raced by Ian Jacobs this season.…
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Pace notes
Your guide to what’s coming up Life begins at 40 for HSCC Donington Park: HSCC April 2 The scene is…
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Talk curve - Historic motorsport insight
Treading his own path With a passion for e-war cars and considerable bravado behind the wheel, Julian Majzub has become…
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Marcus Pye's Diary
Comparing sheep to F5000s in New Zealand, and taking a step back in amazement at the Stanton Special Christchurch New…
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Simon Taylor's notebook
Non-championship F1 races have been largely forgotten. But they played their own part in the history of the sport I've…
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