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Moss Vanwall breaks 1998 auction sale record
Vanwall VW10, in which Stirling Moss won the Dutch and Portuguese Grands Prix in 1958, was sold for £800,817 including…
September 1998
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Fuel filler clue to Clark's Zandvoort winner
A unique fuel filler is thought to have identified the monocoque of a Lotus 49B as R2, the car in…
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Matters of moment, September 1998
Given all the fuss about Rolls-Royce and Bentley right now, you'd be forgiven for not noticing that automotive GBH is…
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Camaro heads back into the fray...
Motor Sport’s Camaro was back in action at Castle Combe on August 8. With two race series combined to create…
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...and GP cars back to the Glen
Thirty Formula One cars, the largest gathering at Watkins Glen since the 1980 United States Grand Prix, wowed spectators in…
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Brocket release
It seems that the angle-grinder Lord Brocket used to slice up part of his car collection will no longer be…
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Sheene, Hill, Brundle and more for Goodwood
Barry Sheene is to race a motorcyle for the first time since he retired from the sport in 1984 at…
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VSCC at Prescott 1-2 August
The VSCC returned to Prescott for its annual two-day bash as the hill celebrates 60 years of competition. While bad…
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From our Archives - Rally Review, September 1998
Why not a World Rally Championship for Drivers? In December’s Motor Sport, when writing of the Tour of Corsica, we…
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Modern times
Great Britain, Austria, German: three Grands Prix in four weekends. Not to mention a three-day Monza test, the first confirmations…
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Letters from readers, September 1998
When winning wasn’t everything Sir, I beg to ask the question "Who won Le Mans in 1927?" In July you…
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Ayrton Senna: Nigel Roebuck's Legends
Gerhard Berger never made any bones about why he left McLaren for Ferrari at the end of 1992. "It was…
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Goodwood circuit Revival
It has taken years of planning, negotiating and hard work but the time has come, at last, for motor racing…
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Short, back & sideways: Channelling Stirling Moss at Goodwood in a Ferrari 250GT SWB
If ever proof was needed that for some people, things come all too easily, then look no further than the…
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Greats who made racing debuts at Goodwood: Moss, Bell, Surtees & Brooks
Stirling Moss Inaugural Goodwood Meeting, September 1948 The place was pretty bleak, but it was a lovely meeting. We…
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Track test - Goodwood
Racing returns to Goodwood this month. Andrew Frankel, in the last of this series of track tests, visits the legendary…
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Jackie Oliver's army: the story of the Arrows F1 team
When Damon Hill’s Arrows A18 faltered on the last lap of the 1997 Hungarian Grand Prix, he lost the chance…
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Coys Historic Festival
This year’s Coys Historic Festival was the best and biggest yet staged. Marcus Pye was there Fifty years fell away…
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'King B' Henri Toivonen: The death of a star and WRC's jaw-dropping category
As the song says about love and marriage, they could have been made for one another. Henri Toivonen and the…
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The worst car I ever drove - Formula flawed
Johnny Herbert – 1986 Quest SF86 Formula Ford 2000 While some of his Formula One seats have left a bit…
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