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Lunch with John Wickham
He co-owned the Spirit Formula 1 team in the early 1980s, helped mastermind Audi’s successes in the British Touring Car…
July 2020
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Precision: Specially made for a swift escape
The watch business has truly joined the online configurator game that has proven so popular in the car industry. One…
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Letters, July 2020
There has, it seems, always been a small gap in Stirling Moss’s history. The result for the 1953 GP at…
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Bella machina: final bow for Campion Martini Lancias
The road to Amelia Island is a calm, gentle drive, tracing the Florida coastline and rolling past pretty wooden beachside…
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Miki Biasion's beloved number one
Think of Miki Biasion and images of Martini-liveried Lancia Delta Integrales throwing up the dust or scrabbling for grip on…
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Lancia Stratos: the game-changer
If it were possible to bottle whatever Cesare Fiorio is made of, you’d be able to name your price. He…
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Lancia in rallying: The champagne years
There was a moment, a pause, and then the realisation – yes, that had just happened. Lancia team principal Cesare…
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Ferrari's future: Running repairs
Caught between eras, Formula 1’s struggle to downsize has only been intensified by coronavirus. No team better encapsulates this struggle…
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Chapman's first Lotus: Moulding the future
The rain came in biblical proportions. On March 21, 1959, Sebring was soaked, and it featured the US race debut…
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Tom Walkinshaw's driving ambition
Tom Walkinshaw was always one to leave a strong first impression. Love him or loathe him – and there were…
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Lancia D50: The grand prix great that doomed a team
Rudi Uhlenhaut, the engineer behind the stupendous W196 Mercedes, described the Lancia D50 Formula 1 machine as “the only car…
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Nothing like a ghost town: Coventry's specialist car crafters
Once it was Britain’s Motor City. Coventry, in the bustling industrial Midlands, was the hub where from 1896 onward such…
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Speedshop: The 'newest' F50 alive
Lockdown might have had a seriously detrimental effect on businesses everywhere – but not, it seems, if you happen to…
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Auctions: Austin Academy salute
HRDC race director Julius Thurgood really started a trend when he had the idea of establishing his accessible Academy series…
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Auctions: Boredom bidding
A few months ago in these pages we expressed a thought that the old car market, while generally on a…
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The Inside Line: Post-Covid-19 auction prices
With the whole world upside-down and few of us knowing what the next few days will bring – never mind…
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Race car buying guide: Tatuus Formula Renault FR2000
It’s hard to think of a more successful or influential junior single- seater than Tatuus’ first one-make Formula Renault racer.…
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Road car buying guide: Austin-Healey MkI 'Frogeye' Sprite
The term ‘cobbled together’ is an understatement in regards to the Austin-Healey ‘Frogeye’ Sprite. The 1950s sports car was the…
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You were there: 1983 1000km of Silverstone
Porsche set the standard in the Group C era, but it faced rare stern opposition at Silverstone in 1983. Brian…
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Parting shot: Jacky Ickx
4 August, 1969 German Grand Prix Jacky Ickx stole the show at the Nürburgring in 1969, sealing pole in his…
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