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Modern times
Formula One is more comfortable expressing optimism about the future than nostalgia about the past It prefers looking ahead to…
December 2001
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Tazio Nuvolari: Nigel Roebuck's Legends
In his Cambridge days, my father went with some friends to watch the Donington Grand Prix in 1938. All he…
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Nevada Nirvana
No maximum capacity limit .No minimum weight limit. A compact calendar. And a massive prize fund. No wonder can-am brought…
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Ford's V8
Dan Gurney was always going to excel at a challenging circuit like Bridgehampton. But his 1966 success there owed as…
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Chaparral
Innovation and unbridled success don't always go hand in hand, but still it's strange to rediscover that jim hall's team…
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Denny Hulme's Clockwork Orange
Driving the works Mclaren Can-Am cars must have been a surreal and special away to earn a living. First there…
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John Cannon
With an old car, negligible can-am form but plenty of nous,John Cannon was the only man equipped to cope with…
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Dynosaurs
Plenty of Weird and Wonderful cars were spawned By Can-Am's remarkably Thin rule book. Pete Lyons assesses six of the…
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Tony Dean
Can-Am was in a McLaren rut it needed a new Challenger. Chapparal blew into town with its 'sucker' car but,…
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Shadow of no doubt
A superb car and token opposition meant Don Nichols' team cruised to the title in 1974. But the in-fighting kept…
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Clay Regazzoni's operatic F1 career
Consider the following. "I have to say that what I saw that day at Monza was unethical, unsporting and dangerous.…
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Black flags and red rags
Imagine Rubens Barrichello being black flagged from a race for blocking David Coullhard in his chase of Michael Schumacher. Now…
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Defining the limits: Colin Chapman's career behind the wheel
Chapman the designer; Chapman the race team manager; Chapman the business entrepreneur; we are used to these pictures of the…
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Shed above water
Mark Blundell 1985 SPA F3000 He was just 21. He was running his own team. He had an old car.…
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Active suspension
Search the worldwide web using 'active suspension' as keywords and you will quickly find claims that Williams invented the technology in 1992,…
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Midget gems
Enthusiasts may remember stirling moss' speed record for M.G. But who can recount the Marques countless pre-war and early post-war…
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Lightweight SPL
He worked alongside Chapman at Lotus, so it's no surprise that his choice is so named. This home-built racer is…
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Chimay
The 1972 Belgian GP was at held nivelles. Two weeks earlier,just down the road, the antithesis of that bland track…
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Another Crabbe that liked to Progress Sideways
Although he was far too big for a modern Grand Prix Car, Colin Crabbe made his racing debut in a…
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Air-raiding the archives!
It is war! That was the devastatingly chilling declaration made by Neville Chamberlain in 1939 and now in 2001 by…
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