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Le Mans phenomenon
In the mid-1980s a privateer team pulled off a remarkable feat in winning the classic Le Mans 24 Hours race…
July 2007
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Taking on the world
The BP/Ford World Rally Team is on the march to retain the Manufacturers’ world title it won last year, as…
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Moss, supreme but untitled
Sir Stirling Moss finished in the top three places in the World Championship every year from 1955 to 1961. He…
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Jim Clark – Life at Team Lotus
Peter Darley Readers may remember that we were so impressed by Peter Darley's photographs that we carried a gallery of…
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Brooklands – the official centenary history
Just in time for the celebrations comes this official history, by respected auto-historian David Venables, of the world's first motor race…
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F-stops, pitstops, laughter and tears
Bernard Cahier Cahier has been in the business since the 1950s, and is still at it aged 79. Now he…
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The Grand Prix saboteurs
Joe Saward This is a book about grand prix drivers who became secret agents, working with the French resistance. Want to…
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Peter Collins: a breed apart
David Rothauser – DVD A labour of love, celebrating a time when drivers approached their motor racing with a strong sense of…
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Letters, July 2007
Cleare facts Sir, I write with regard to the photograph of the Kremer CK5 to be sold by Coys at…
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You were there
Wing Commander MHT Cooke was a lifelong motor racing enthusiast and a devotee of this magazine. He died recently at…
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Silverstone is special
Silverstone is special The BRDC Chairman explains why negotiations about a grand prix at Silverstone are entirely different to other…
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The quiet revolution
The FIA’s plans to make GP cars more fuel efficient might benefit the wider world, but the knock-on effect of reducing…
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Bred Rolls
Can the new Drophead Coupé – a convertible Phantom in all but name – be likened to such illustrious progenitors…
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Lorenzo Bandini: the F1 driver 'as good as Jochen Rindt'
It was on May Day 1955 that Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson won the Mille Miglia, and for almost 40 years…
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Chapman’s triple jump
There are three reasons why the Lotus 49 made everything else obsolete overnight – and the DFV is only one…
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Relative values
Ro dive values Two Cosworth e gines, 40 years and 350bhp apart: Mike Costin, one half of the design team,…
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Cosworth DFV – Horses for courses
The DFV was the world’s most successful F1 engine – but it was much more than that. For more than…
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Bad vibrations
Cosworth was F1’s buzzword – but in sportscars its DFV was a flop, despite the efforts of a famously successful…
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Burning the midnight oil
Dr Wolfgang Ulrich, head of Audi Motorsport, took time out from his Le Mans preparations to talk to Gary Watkins…
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Frank Williams, the history man
Sir Frank Williams’s achievements in motor racing are great and well-known. But, as Rob Widdows discovers, he’s also passionate about…
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