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My only Grand Prix
1981 San Marino at Imola by Miguel Angel Guerra After two and a bit years in European Formula Two, how…
January 2004
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My Hero by Steve Soper
"I never really had a childhood hero, and the guy who became my hero was younger than me! I thought…
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Legends
Stirling Moss More than 40 years on from his retirement from racing, the name Stirling Moss still resonates across the…
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The 20 greatest sportscar drivers
It’s the middle of the night and you’re pulling over 200mph. Are you up to it? The long-distance men were…
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Genius versus destiny
As slender and frail as his beautiful record car, Frank Lockhart had an innate, mysterious engineering sense. He was convinced…
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15 minutes of fame - Idea with wheels
Rial: 1988 Detriot Grand Prix It wasn’t so long ago that a one-car team crewed by a handful of blokes…
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The Ligier JS11's invisible advantage
Gerard Ducarouge, exhausted by months of off-season toil and the heat of an Argentinian afternoon, was only vaguely aware of…
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X-ray spec
Lotus 63 4WD worked at Indianapolis, so it had to be good news for F1, right? Wrong. John Miles, GP…
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Touring circus
Races for pure road cars predate the more famous Le Mans and Spa 24-hour endurance events, as Bill Boddy reminds…
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Liberte, egalite, velocity
Bugatti was a fading GP force by the mid-1930s, but its Le Mans victories were still ahead of it. Phil…
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The one that got away - Corolla coaster
Carlos Sainz: 1998 RAC Rally It doesn’t get much tougher than to be just yards from a world championship –…
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Track test - Mugello
Sicily’s Targa Florio had a considerably faster, more mountainous cousin over on the mainland. Paul Fearnley scales the Futa Pass…
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The day the Germans came
The December editorial about the extreme impression the 1937 and 1938 Donington GPs made, including on the Editor's grandfather, recalls…
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Miscellany, January 2004
Matthew Freddenberg’s Negative Gravity is the story of Miss Beatrice Shilling, who raced her Norton to Gold Star speeds at…
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Christmas GP veteran found
Not all that long ago I recalled Jenks' illegal 1957 Christmas Day drive on public roads in a Formula Two…
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Lea-Francis racer resurfaces
One of the rewarding aspects of trying to answer the shoals of readers' queries I receive is learning of historic…
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WB and the 'fallen woman'
I feel I may have been a bit harsh in describing recently how cramped the back seat of a 'Chain…
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Equatorial home for foolproof car
In a letter from Dr John Mills from Ecuador, I hear of two more surviving vintage cars. Mills discovered Motor…
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Book reviews, January 2004, January 2004
Formula One Racing for Dummies By Jonathan Noble and Mark Hughes ISBN 0764570153 Published by Wiley, £14.99 Don’t be put…
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