December 2020
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Hamilton storms to all-time grand prix win record
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Button set for British GT debut with McLaren
Jenson Button will wind back the clock to compete in a British domestic championship for the first time in over…
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Old-fashioned stiff upper lip prevails at Goodwood SpeedWeek
The Covid-19 pandemic may have torn up Goodwood’s familiar event timetable this year but in the traditional British resolve of…
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Padmore beats his own Goodwood Circuit lap record
SpeedWeek's high-speed shootout was described as a one-off, on a circuit clear of spectators, and without the age restrictions that…
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Full-throttle tribute to Stirling Moss at Goodwood SpeedWeek
Goodwood SpeedWeek celebrated the life of Stirling Moss with tributes from drivers ahead of the inaugural Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy.…
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Thumbs up from Emerson Fittipaldi as he's reunited with title-winning Lotus 72
With drivers arriving from around the world, SpeedWeek was a place for reunions. Not just friends seeing each other for…
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Vanwall revived with six replicas
Vanwall is back. Not as a Formula 1 team hoping to reproduce the victories that in 1958 made the team…
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Gerhard Berger: Ferrari pleaded with me to stay
Gerhard Berger has talked candidly about his reasons for leaving Ferrari at the end of the torrid 1989 season. The…
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Limited edition McLaren Senna GTR LM evokes the spirit of Le Mans ’95
As tribute to the five McLaren F1 GTR that finished first, third, fourth, fifth and 13th at Le Mans in…
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Mark Hughes: Electric F1 cars without downforce? It's one option
Honda’s announcement that it will quit F1 at the end of next season was obviously a pretty serious blow to…
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Carl Fogarty: The man who wore the World Superbike crown
Until Ulsterman Jonathan Rea became the new king of World Superbikes, an outspoken young man from Blackburn wore that crown.…
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The old tracks are the best: 2020 F1 season has exposed bland circuits
I guess it’s a by-product of age mixed with experience that makes greybeards such as myself tend to dismiss the…
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Racing in memory of St John Horsfall, the spy who helped topple Hitler
Last month on this page, I attempted almost certainly in vain to elicit some sympathy for the fact that for…
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Honda announces F1 exit, as Mercedes wins Russian & Eifel GPs
In between the Russian and Eifel grands prix, Honda announced it would be pulling out of F1 at the end…
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Slimming down F1: Could two-day grands prix be the way forward?
Because the medical helicopter couldn’t fly due to the Nürburgring fog, the two practice sessions for the Eifel Grand Prix…
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Word on the beat, December 2020
Former Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali has been announced as the new president and CEO of F1, effective next year after…
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2020 Rolls-Royce Ghost review: The appliance of séance
It is strange to think that Rolls-Royces are now made in exactly the same way as almost all other cars,…
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2020 Lexus LC 500 Convertible review
The Mercedes SL was once the undisputed king of the grand tour, its mix of restrained style, effortless performance and…
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