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Letters From Readers - Beer Money, May 2000
Sir, There really is no need to apologise for raising the price of Motor Sport to £3.75 — I consider…
May 2000
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Letters From Readers - Track Diagrams Please, May 2000
Sir, I thoroughly enjoyed the second series of Track Tests, but may I suggest for the third series (for hopefully…
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Letters From Readers - Banking On Sitges, May 2000
Sir, To my shame, I have only just read the March issue. Your item about Sitges caught my eye, as…
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Letters From Readers - News From Tripoli, May 2000
Sir, Regarding the Mellaha Circuit near Tripoli, I lived in that city for five years during the 1960s, and on…
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Letters From Readers - de Cadenet's 375 Plus, May 2000
Sir, I very much enjoyed the March issue and have one or two comments to make. On the subject of…
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Letters From Readers - Mikkola Is Best, May 2000
Sir, The appraisal of 'The Greatest Rally Driver' in your April issue is interesting, and few would disagree with the…
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Letters From Readers - It's Quality, Not Quantity, May 2000
Sir, May I congratulate you on the magazine. I don't care about how many pages it has, or how big…
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Letters From Readers - 375 Plus: True or False?, May 2000
Sir, According to the potted history in your March 2000 issue, the Ferrari 375 Plus of Mr Favero would have…
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Nigel Roebuck
Legends
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The Moments That Changed The Sport
At the time, they seemed trifling events: A freak win for a new F1 constructor in a faraway place; A…
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David Richards: From Co-Drive To Prodrive
My old history master used to say to us that "history is about people, not events." If that's true, then…
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Desiré Wilson, the only woman to win a Formula 1 race
Kyalami, February 1981. As the first race of the season, four drivers are making their Grand Prix debuts, including the…
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The Last Hurrah...
Against all the odds, Jo Siffert won the 1968 British Grand Prix in a private Lotus 49. Rob Walker recalls…
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Disc Brakes
Disc brakes appeared as early as 1902 but it wasn't until Jaguar's stunning Le Mans victory with the C-type in…
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Off the Record
The name of Campbell is firmly linked with record-breaking on land and water but as Bill Boddy reminds us, Sir…
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The Longest Journey
This year's Australian Grand Prix should have been one of the great moments in Jaguar's history. In the end, the…
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Back In Black
This Elise Sport is not just another one-make racer; Lotus has taken a great road car and turned it into…
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Ron Flockhart... 'the best sports car driver on the planet'
I have noted before that it is our habit to forget all too easily those people whose impact on this…
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I Wish I'd Designed...
Ferrari 312 It had a bumpy career with some serious low-points, but the flat-12 Ferrari eventually brought Maranello its first…
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Bill Boddy
Speed at Brighton A recent novel having used an accident at the Brighton Speed Trials as a theme, it seems…
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