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Double standards
Sir, Is it true that the Monza banking has not been used for racing since 1961 (MOTOR SPORT, July 1999)?…
August 1999
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Dating game
Sir, Keith Howard repeats the assertion that slick tyres first appeared in F1 in 1971. Smooth tyres have been utilised…
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Enthusiasm vs objectivity
Sir, I find it difficult to believe that your correspondent Mr Cracknell (July 1999) has taken four decades to realise…
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Rodger Ward: Nigel Roebuck's Legends
"Back in 1964, I was doing a tyre test at Trenton, New Jersey, and there's this young guy there, driving…
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Gilles Villeneuve, by Jody Scheckter
How good was Gilles? Well, he didn't win the World Championship. He was capable of it, no question but he…
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On the road to success?
It's hard to believe, but 20 years have passed since a Ferrari driver last won the World Championship with Jody…
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Second opinions
Jochen Mass Four years before Gilles' accident, I had an incident with Bruno Giacomelli at Zolder, coming over the crest.…
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The best Aston Martin for 40 years
It's called Vantage but do not think this is just a faster DB7. Andrew Frankel spends two days on the…
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The worst car I ever drove - Double and quits
Given the length and variety of Walter Rohrl's career you might think he'd find it difficult selecting the worst of…
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The trials of Sammy Davis
Bill Boddy imagines himself in the shoes of one of the best-known of journalist-racers, and ponders the less remembered side…
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Goodwood Festival of Speed
Seven years on, and the spectacle continues to amaze. Whether it was the dramatic sight of visual masterpieces like the…
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B. Bira: Siam's prince of racing
To passers-by at Baron's Court underground station, two days before Christmas 1985, he was just an elderly man, but by…
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Technofile - the rod end bearing
Among the wreckage of a German fighter plane was found the future for racing car suspensions. Keith Howard reveals the…
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The greatest drivers of the century - a personal view
Welcome to part two of Mark Hughes' assessment of the top 100 greatest racing drivers of all time. On the…
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Tunnel Vision
Shaped in the wind tunnel, Bristol's striking Le Mans cars were technologically ahead of their time. Simon Taylor drove the…
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My Greatest Race: Johnny Rutherford
Indianapolis 500, 1974 He'd tried ten times and not once even finished the Indy 500 but in 1974 nothing, not…
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The Miller that came to England
Motor racing's followers after WWII were aware of the beautiful cars built by Harry Miller in the USA. Miller-engined cars…
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Miscellany, August 1999
We are used to TV camera shots from cars in today's races. But who did it first? Certainly a cameraman…
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An Exeter re-enactment
With the worries of the millenium approaching, one bright idea stands out. On January 7/8 2000, the MCC is to…
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Cars in books, August 1999
I read Emma Tennant's memoir Strangers thinking it might include something on David Tennant's Beardmore and a racing `Sascha' Austro-Daimler,…
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