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Ferrari 550 Maranello Prodrive book review
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The Motor Sport Interview: Otmar Szafnauer
Otmar Szafnauer’s journey from a small village in Romania to the Formula 1 paddock, where he’s been team principal at…
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Flashback: Lotus launches its 1990 F1 car with Warwick and Donnelly
It may have been necessary to leave home at some unearthly hour to reach Ketteringham Hall by 10am, but the…
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Letters - March 2024
Further to your editorial on FIA sexism [The Editor, February], drag racing has a healthier record of female racers. The…
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Alain Prost: 'It sounds like a joke but I’m completely underrated'
He divides opinion. Always has done. And it tends to distil to a single, fundamental question: are you for Senna,…
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How Alain Prost nearly returned… with Ferrari
Alain Prost was 38 when he retired from Formula 1 at the end of 1993. But much like Fernando Alonso…
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Alain Prost on Max Verstappen, Fernando Alonso and Gilles Villeneuve
Max Verstappen “I like him very much because he’s a little bit different in the way he thinks and speaks.…
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Drama in the dunes: Dakar 2024
As the UK braced itself for a January freeze to kickstart 2024, the eyes of the motor sport world shifted…
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Mercedes W154: Silver Arrow with formidable GP winning streak
Voting has now closed in our Race Car of the Century poll and the winner will be announced later this…
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Ferrari 166: the car that conquered Le Mans, Targa Florio & Mille Miglia
Voting has now closed in our Race Car of the Century poll and the winner will be announced later this…
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Jaguar D-type: Groundbreaking Le Mans winner
Voting has now closed in our Race Car of the Century poll and the winner will be announced later this…
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A second chance to make history for Jaguar XKR GTs
Jaguar and endurance racing, the Le Mans 24 Hours in particular, go together like strawberries and cream. Or they used…
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Fragile memories: Incredible photographs from the earliest days of racing
Paris-Madrid inter-city road race, 1903 No windscreen, no cockpit coaming, no protection from flying stones or airborne debris – the…
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Elbows out — The spectacular age of single-make racing
For more than a decade from the mid-1980s, aspiring professional racing drivers and club racers alike never had it so…
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How a team owner got his mojo back with one-make racing
It started with a phone call from Andy Ackerley, the 1982 Champion of Brands. Before he knew it, Peter Briggs…
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The determination that drives Jason Plato: ‘I was banging on Frank Williams’ desk’
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Jim Clark’s race-winning Lotus Cortina goes up for sale
Jim Clark might be best remembered as a double Formula 1 world champion but, as was typical during his era,…
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Porsche Soapbox from Festival of Speed fetches £2600
2003 Porsche Club GB soapbox Sold by Mathewsons, £2600 Long-standing visitors to the Goodwood Festival of Speed will have fond…
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Motor Sport collection: The Finnish line is in sight
Editor’s choice Kimi Räikkönen signed items When it comes to hunting down the finest scribbles in motor sport, Signature Store…
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Racing from the other side of the fence as a VSCC marshal
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