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The Month In Motor Sport
Aug 20: FISA releases draft plans for its proposed GT supercar class. Pre-requisites include a power to weight ratio of…
October 1992
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Don't Let Facts Get In The Way
All of a sudden, the British national press has discovered something new: Indycar racing. Yes, that's right, Indycar racing... born…
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Luck And Judgement
Michael Schumacher becomes the first German since Jochen Mass to win a Grande Epreuve In the end it was the…
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Seeing The Finer Points
I recently came across the following paragraph in a 1931 edition of MOTOR SPORT, in a race meeting report: "The…
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1992 Italian Grand Prix: A Weekend Of Surprises
Mansell retires twice in one day, and as Patrese also falters Senna sweeps to a lucky but deserved victory A…
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Champagne Days
France's old Reims-Gueux circuit might effectively have been a high-speed triangle that put the onus on power rather than skill,…
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Retrospectives
Every now and then friends say "Have you been to such-and-such a circuit (or hillclimb, or rally route)?" and if…
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Future Probable
The Le Mans 24 Hours will be held next year on June 19/20 and regulations have already been published. Entries…
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The Pearl Of Warwick
You have to sympathise with Jean Todt and the Peugeot Talbot Sport team. Winners of four Sportscar World Championship races…
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The Mark Of A Champion?
There was a time when no one thought it possible that a driver from outside the Nordic region could ever…
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Rocket Man
Richard Brown wants to be the first man to break the Sound Barrier on land. He's designing his own rocket…
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Climb every mountain
They call it Unser Mountain. This gigantic chunk of pink granite in the southern part of the Rocky Mountains inhabited…
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Not So Glorious Goodwood...
The worst part of the BARC sprint meeting at Goodwood was that all the way round the circuit I could…
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5s Go Mad Leicester
How much does it cost to acquire a championship-winning racing car? The answer might have fewer noughts on the end…
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One Of Those Weekends...
The traditional track test feature used to be safely rooted in a private test day, at which risks were low.…
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Premium Blend
Introduced with the objective of winning the World Rally Championship at least once in the '90s, the Ford Escort RS…
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Size Isn't Everything
Recently, JaguarSport delivered three examples of the twin turbo, 542 bhp, XJ220, to the Salzburgring in Austria. The £415,000 machines…
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Crewe Cut
Plucking with painful PR consciousness at every strand that connects the Bentley marque and Brooklands, the Crewe car maker recently…
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Out In The Open
It was just approaching six in the morning. It was foggy, with a touch of moisture in the air. As…
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Sensible And Seductive
Volkswagens, particularly the Beetle, and MOTOR SPORT used to be synonymous whilst VW was awaiting post-war recognition. Today, we struggled…
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