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Autograph hunting
Sir, I read with interest Nigel Roebuck’s article on Giuseppe Farina, and especially about how he never liked signing autographs.…
August 2006
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Photos from 1982 needed
Sir, Did you take any photos at grands prix in 1982? As part of a future publishing project, Haynes would…
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Le Mans – not the first?
Sir, I am somewhat confused as to why the 1906 Grand Prix at Le Mans Connerré is considered to be…
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You were there...
When David Baxter took these pictures, attending each race was a trek: he lived in Edinburgh and had no car.…
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The Andrettis at the Indianapolis 500: Roebuck's Legends
The sad thing is, winning Indy – the driving part of it – is out of all proportion to the…
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Bobby Rahal
The Champ Car legend, Indy 500 and Daytona 24 Hours winner – and F1 occasional – tells us why North…
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Corvette Z-06
The power of the new Corvette stuns when it's powering down the Mistrale straight, but disappoints when you have to…
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Fordissimo! Le Mans '66 and the march of the GT40
You always remember your first time, they say, even a big boy like Ford Motor Company. Four straight wins at…
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Lunch with... Sir Stirling Moss
Sir Stirling Moss doesn’t eat lunch. At 76 years of age, he’s far too busy. By 7am each day he’s…
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Power struggle
Our theoretical look at the comparative speeds of leading cars from 100 years of GP racing. Part 2: the 1930s…
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Not backwards in coming forwards
With its rear engine and low profile, Porsche’s new GT hardly looked like a rally star; yet it went on…
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Colin McRae
For his first on-track race event, ‘McCrash’ chose the BTCC, at Knockhill in 1992. He was focused on rallying, but…
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Profile: Ferrari 312T3
The car which brought Gilles Villeneuve his first grand prix victory and placed the Canadian firmly in motor racing’s pantheon…
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Silverstone Classic
It’s the biggest historic motorsport meeting in the UK, and with 22 races over three days plus a wide variety…
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Charm, guile and passion...
…Louis Chiron used all three to schmooze his way into the favours of the wealthy Americans who gave him the…
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Panoz GTR-1
It was a case of ‘about face’ when an American hopeful asked Reynard to design its Le Mans contender; here…
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Targa, Targa still burning bright
Sicily’s epic road race has cracked the ton. Although the event’s golden era is 30 years past, the mountains still…
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Racer, author, survivor
Hans Ruesch won scores of pre-war races and then turned to authorship Hans Ruesch is about the last of the…
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Not quite a level playing field
Mille Miglia spin A reader has drawn my attention to a statement in the Daily Mail of May 20, saying…
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Even Homer nods sometimes
A rare slip from DSJ I have always been very glad that Denis Jenkinson and I met at RAE Farnborough…
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