January 2021

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Superfinds book review: Scrapyard challenge

Who doesn’t dream of a forgotten Type 57 Bugatti in a barn (I actually found one once!) or a mislaid…

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Products of the month: Positives of a new lockdown

Aston Martin AMR-C01 simulator Sim-racing systems aren’t exactly rare in this section – well, not since the lockdown boom in…

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Formula E: Spicing up the Chile

Formula E, R1&2 Santiago ePrix January 16-17 Formula E is back with a double-header in Chile to kick off its…

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Behind the scenes of the chaotic 1984 Dallas GP: Flashback

This is the McLaren pit at the end of a practice session for the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix. It’s a…

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John Watson on Niki Lauda: My Greatest Rival

My rivalry with Niki at Brabham in 1978 and McLaren in 1982 to ’83 was not so much about the…

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John Bute: Racing as Johnny Dumfries and walking away from the sport

The name, in gold lettering, on the black bodywork of the JPS Lotus-Renault 98T was Johnny Dumfries. Well, John Colum…

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Precision: Gauge appropriate Allemano

There’s no shortage of watch brands that have been set up to take advantage of the link between timekeeping and…

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Motor Sport Letters, January 2021

While not being particularly enamoured with current Formula 1, I was most impressed with the changes made to the Imola…

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F1 home win legends — a day in heaven

The emotive appeal of victory in a home grand prix spreads beyond the winner himself. When preparing preview material, any…

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Home sweet home: 12 F1 wins that delighted the crowd

Jim Clark Silverstone 1965 For the first half of the British Grand Prix it had looked fairly straightforward, Jim Clark pulling…

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Romain Grosjean: 'My F1 career is coming to an end and I can't do anything about it'

Does Romain Grosjean, coming to the end of his F1 career, still feel he could go up against anyone? “Yes,…

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McLaren's Zak Brown has the car collection of your wildest dreams

To the left sits Jody Scheckter’s history-making Wolf WR1 and an Alan Jones Williams FW07. Further down the line there’s…

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United Autosports: How it all began

“When I first met Zak, I was racing in Formula 3000, trying to eke a living and pay the rent…

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Belle macchine: the biography of Maserati

It took a long time. In the 35 years following my first trip to Modena in 1965, I wrote much…

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Win an Archive Edition of Maserati: The Family Silver

Fourteen years in the making, the two-volume Maserati: The Family Silver by Nigel Trow is the ultimate company history by…

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Arturo Merzario: The little man in the cowboy hat

He won the Targa Florio twice, raced for Scuderia Ferrari, had his own grand prix team, created a car that…

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Racing through Europe

Lead image: Targa Florio May 1966 The Targa in a nutshell, as the Alpine A110 of Jean-Pierre Hanrioud and Jean-François…

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The 2022 BTCC hybrid theory

It’ll be one of those eerie things. The sort where you know what’s happening, yet your brain struggles to compute…

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Lotus 47: Behind the mask

It’s difficult to imagine a Lotus 47 ending up in a scrapyard nowadays, but that was allegedly where this one…

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1981 Laverda Jota 180: orange crush

In 1976, Pete Davies won the Avon Roadrunner race series riding a bike that was virtually street-legal. The machine in…