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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)?…
Sir, Is it true that the Monza banking has not been used for racing since 1961 (MOTOR SPORT, July 1999)?…
Sir, Keith Howard repeats the assertion that slick tyres first appeared in F1 in 1971. Smooth tyres have been utilised…
Sir, I find it difficult to believe that your correspondent Mr Cracknell (July 1999) has taken four decades to realise…
"Back in 1964, I was doing a tyre test at Trenton, New Jersey, and there's this young guy there, driving…
How good was Gilles? Well, he didn't win the World Championship. He was capable of it, no question but he…
It's hard to believe, but 20 years have passed since a Ferrari driver last won the World Championship with Jody…
Jochen Mass Four years before Gilles' accident, I had an incident with Bruno Giacomelli at Zolder, coming over the crest.…
It's called Vantage but do not think this is just a faster DB7. Andrew Frankel spends two days on the…
Given the length and variety of Walter Rohrl's career you might think he'd find it difficult selecting the worst of…
Bill Boddy imagines himself in the shoes of one of the best-known of journalist-racers, and ponders the less remembered side…
Seven years on, and the spectacle continues to amaze. Whether it was the dramatic sight of visual masterpieces like the…
To passers-by at Baron's Court underground station, two days before Christmas 1985, he was just an elderly man, but by…
Among the wreckage of a German fighter plane was found the future for racing car suspensions. Keith Howard reveals the…
Welcome to part two of Mark Hughes' assessment of the top 100 greatest racing drivers of all time. On the…
Shaped in the wind tunnel, Bristol's striking Le Mans cars were technologically ahead of their time. Simon Taylor drove the…
Indianapolis 500, 1974 He'd tried ten times and not once even finished the Indy 500 but in 1974 nothing, not…
Motor racing's followers after WWII were aware of the beautiful cars built by Harry Miller in the USA. Miller-engined cars…
We are used to TV camera shots from cars in today's races. But who did it first? Certainly a cameraman…
With the worries of the millenium approaching, one bright idea stands out. On January 7/8 2000, the MCC is to…
I read Emma Tennant's memoir Strangers thinking it might include something on David Tennant's Beardmore and a racing `Sascha' Austro-Daimler,…
Over the last few weeks Jimmie Johnson has won three of the last seven Sprint Cup races and darn near everyone has been hailing Johnson as the first man to…
Because this new generation of cars can follow more closely, you can retaliate once you’ve been overtaken. In combination with a Jeddah track that is one big slipstream and DRS…
The fifth and final category, US racing, is now open for voting. Choose one of twelve greats from NASCAR and IndyCar to join Dario Franchitti and Mario Andretti in the…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). The wins are so numerous they tend to blur into each other. Even Michael Schumacher and…