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Reutemann remembered
Sir, Thank you for your article on Carlos Reutemann. The F2 meeting referred to (Barcelona, May 1970) was my first…
September 2001
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Fry on the boil
Sir, In his article `Steep Thrills' (August issue), Paul Fearnley failed to mention that Raymond Mays' Shelsley Walsh period of…
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Cooper twins and twin rears
Sir, I greatly enjoyed your interesting feature on Shelsley Walsh. I vividly remember Raymond Mays giving what was termed a…
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Mira-culous Argyll
SIir, I read with interest WB's article regarding the Excelsior and the Argyll cars in your July issue. Here at…
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Hall in South Africa
Sir, I enjoyed Bill Boddy's article 'The Fame of Hall' in the July issue of Motor Sport, having been fortunate…
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Reims means Brooks
Sir, I have just read Chris Nixon's news item in your August edition advising that the old Reims circuit has…
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Commer, full stop
Sir, I read with great interest David Bryant's letter (June issue) on Commer's T35 engine (the T stands for Terrant,…
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Carbon clutch dating
Sir, Keith Howard's Technofile article on carbon/carbon clutches (August issue) implies that Tilton invented the lug drive clutch in the…
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Unfair on Senna
Sir, Your article 'Too Good to be True' stirred, shocked and angered me. I am not joining the Ayrton Senna…
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Modern times
Sweltering in 34-degree Hockenheim heat during the German Grand Prix, I was amused to hear expressions of dismay about the…
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Legends
Sir Henry Birkin 'I was asked to be at a certain house in the Berkeley Square area at 2.30pm, the…
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Superior stock
One of the cars which General Motors brought to Goodwood was the Chevy Monte Carlo in which Darrell Waltrip won…
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Coming up late on the rail
Bill Elliott was the man in 1985, no doubt about it. But canny Waltrip emerged as the champ, his third…
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Darrell Waltrip: talking the walk
Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee sorts out the Good Ol' Men from the Boys. Even the 650-feet straightaways on the…
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Phil Hill: the sad F1 hero
It was, as Charles Dickens once wrote, the best of times and the worst of times. As Phil Hill completed…
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Fast dance saloons
Top event at Goodwood's Revival will be the St Mary's Trophy.David Malsher assesses the chances of the race's two main…
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Goodwood's greatest races madgwick moments
Exciting racing at Goodwood is hardly a new phenomenon. Gordon Cruickshank recalls three favourites from a golden era International Glover…
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What to see when
Paul Lawrence guides you through historic racing's most memorable weekend More than 300 of the finest period racing cars in…
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Hairpin valve spring
For a brief while this simple alternative to the almost-universal helical valve spring seemed to offer real advantages for high-performance…
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Riccardo Patrese
"My mechanics are pushing me into the car. I'm really angry. But I go out, and on the warm-up lap,…
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