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Remembering David Leslie
Two events this summer will commemorate David Leslie, who died in the Biggin Hill air crash on March 30. During…
July 2008
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Hawthorn cars on parade
The life of Mike Hawthorn, Britain’s first World Champion, will be celebrated at Oulton Park on Saturday June 14 in…
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Racing fit for a Principality
The Grand Prix Historique provides more track action than modern-day F1 can usually muster, although there were some causes for…
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The rite of spring
Large crowds and fierce racing helped to ensure the success of the VSCC’s season-opening Spring Start meeting By Paul Lawrence…
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Tour de force
You can go gently or you can go for it; either way a five-day bash from Paris to Marseilles is…
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Bruce's T55 for sale
1961 McLaren Cooper going under the hammer It was on May 19 1957 at the Monaco Grand Prix that Cooper,…
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Porsche 914: the 'beast' that time (and Le Mans success) finally made cool
There’s fact, and then there’s opinion. Rarely are the two the same. By means of a wholly inadequate segue, take…
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Reviews, July 2008
Murray Walker scrapbook Murray Walker and Philip Porter After the success of The Stirling Moss Scrapbook 1929-1954, which we hailed…
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Doug Nye
A pitlane fire and a telegram to Hitler When the unlucky von Brauchitsch retired from the 1938 German GP, letting…
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Bill Boddy
The taxi that wasn’t… From undertakers’ car to parade float to would-be taxi, WB’s Delaunay-Belleville enjoyed a varied life –…
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