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Record team head for supersonic target
Squadron leader Andy Green officially became the fastest man on earth on Thursday, September 25, when he drove Thrust SSC…
November 1997
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Miscellany, November 1997
Motor Sport are proudly awarding the trophy to the Best Owner/Driver of the 1997 Historic season at the prestigious Historic…
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Golden Arrow set top run again by 1999
Golden Arrow, the stunningly beautiful car in which Major Henry Segrave raised the World Land Speed Record to 231.36mph at…
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Fatalities mar Peking run
Two German competitors in the Peking-Paris Challenge have been killed in a car accident as the event passed through Pakistan.…
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Editorial, November 1997
If you are at all a regular reader, you will not have failed to notice the battle that's been raging…
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Lola to stay in Indycar arena after race track owner steps in
London-based property developer and ardent motor racing enthusiast Martin Birrane has saved the troubled manufacturer Lola Cars from extinction, and…
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Fittipaldi calls time on career
The chequered flag has fallen on the legendary career of Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi. The double F1 world champion and Indycar…
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Events of note
October 15-26 The London Motor Show Annual showpiece of the world's motor manufacturers in Britain returns to Earls Court. Themed…
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Chevron takes Spa spoils
Michael Schimer and Simon Hadfield scored a narrow victory in Motor Classic's Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps last month, in the…
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E-type power drives Lloyd to victory on Manx Classic
Isle of Man-based Jaguar collector Allen Lloyd won two of the four legs of the Manx Motor Racing Club's ninth…
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Peking to Paris: 4000 miles still to go
If Prince Borghese is looking down on us now he must be smiling. He and his pioneers set out in…
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Nelson Piquet: Nigel Roebuck's Legends
Late in the afternoon of November 22 1963, I was stopped by a policeman and reprimanded for riding my bike…
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Motoring sportsmen - Roger Collings
One of the most charismatic exponents of veteran cars, his real love is for his aero-engined monster A Zeppelin-engined road…
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Letters from readers, November 1997
Talbot to the fore Sir, Congratulations on such an excellent article on BGH 23, the 1934 Talbot Team car. The…
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From our Archives - Caracciola in England
There are many thousands of motor racing enthusiasts who have never been able to to see a Grand Prix race…
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The power or the glory?
Is Formula One today merely a sad, bloated caricature of its once glorious past or have we, in fact, never…
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The player
Lance Macklin had a talent that could have made one of our finest drivers. Trouble was, says Chris Nixon, he…
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Saloon car brawlers
Is there anything a nineties touring car can learn from a sixties saloon car? After a day battling with a…
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Nuvolari and the master race
When the might of the German racing scene turned up at the Nürburgring in 1935, no one expected Tazio Nuvolari…
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Co-Drivers - why do they do that?
Artist, masochist or just plain mad? What makes a co-driver take all the risks but not the glory? John Davenport…
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