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Jack Brabham's champion team building: Working for an F1 legend
My spell with Brabham, at the time when Jack started building racing cars, came about after mechanical and production engineering…
May 2006
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Grand designs 1971
They say trouble comes in threes. Indy fought off two intrusions, but not the third. By Keith Howard By 1970,…
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Tom Sneva: the man AJ Foyt and the Unsers feared
Indianapolis track announcer Tom Carnegie was whipping the crowd up. "It's a new track record!" he called as Tom Sneva,…
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Monaco Grand Prix Historique
Stirling Moss in a Ferguson... Sixty 3-litre Formula One cars... A host of Formula Juniors... Just some reasons to make…
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Car to watch: Brabham BT42
Sportscar driver Paul Knapfield will have one of the first single-seater races of his life when he pilots a Brabham…
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Theory of relativity
How would a 1906 Renault or a 1939 Mercedes fare against last year's McLaren MP4-21? How would they relate to…
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Jeff Allam
Busman's holiday –– Drivers who raced what you wouldn't expect them to... March 793, Thruxton F3,1980. By Nick Phillips It…
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Mille Miglia
You can follow the competitors around Italy but you'll have to drive fast to keep up, says Simon Taylor Mille…
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Clark Rindt, Hulme and Stewart
May17 1964: possibly the finest selection of drivers ever to grace the Mallory Park paddock. Headline event was a round…
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50 years of Mallory Park
It may no longer play host to the top international and British stars, but Mallory Park is still going strong.…
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Frank Williams wins with Japanese ace
One-litre F3 battles used to thrill crowds at Mallory in the late 1960s. Two such races in 1968 resulted in…
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A new life as a top club venue
Amid rumours of housing estates and golf courses, the future for Mallory Park looked bleak through the winter of 1982-83.…
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King Purley shaded by Cevert
Driving a Ford Cosworth GA-powered Chevron, David Purley twice won ShellSport Group Eight rounds at Mallory in 1976. But three…
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Unsung Briton beats foreign heroes
They came in their legions. The cream of international young talent: Carlos Reutemann, Niki Lauda, Ronnie Peterson, Jody Scheckter... But…
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John Surtees: "I knew it as a pony track"
John Surtees gave the Lola Mk4 F1 car its only win in the International 2000 Guineas race at Mallory on…
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Dave Morgan: "My best day at a circuit"
"My first ever circuit race was at Mallory, and I went on to be quite successful there in my Mini…
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Thunder in the park with F5000
Formula 5000 may have been on its last legs in Europe by October 1975, but that didn't prevent a superb…
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Dizzy heights: 40 seconds per lap in F1...
Lapping Mallory in 40sec in a ground-effect F1 car — 75 times — must have taken pretty high fitness levels,…
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Solo, so near yet so far
Pierre Levegh drove this Talbot-Lago for 23 hours at Le Mans in '52 and almost won. Richard Hese!tine relates a…
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Tony Trimmer: the 'bravest' man to ever sit in an F1 car
As conversation meanders towards Super Aguri's debut at this year's Bahrain F1 opener, Tony Trimmer starts chuckling: "They did a…
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