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Grands Prix in Australia
Click here to buy the lead image. The Australian Grand Prix enjoyed a long, proud and varied history before the Formula 1 World Championship came to town Down Under in…
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Marshall Teague and the Fabulous Hudson Hornet
Marshall Teague is famous for his ‘Fabulous Hudson Hornet’ that put NASCAR on the map and on a commercial footing in the early 1950s. But he was killed in a…
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Jack Brabham – Personality Parade
To buy the lead image click here. Motoring News was a sister publication to Motor Sport from mid-1955 to 2006. Originally the cover-all that its name suggests, the inaugural front page proclaimed Ban…
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Richard Attwood's Formula 1 adventure
Recently I had cause to call the Attwood household. Mrs Attwood answered and we had a quick chat about dogs. When I asked if I might speak with her husband,…
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"The next thing is a Boxing Day meeting..."
A new Queen settling in; no more rationing; and Bill Haley and his Comets had recorded Rock Around the Clock – although its global impact had yet to be felt. Yep, fun…
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Looking for answers in McLaren's past
McLaren has been here before. The day after the death of its founder in 1970 it bravely decided to continue – because Bruce would have wanted them to. It won…
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The last race of the season
It’s all to play for in Abu Dhabi – unless you’re obsessed with showdowns. I’ve watched a few, it’s true. Smudgy Fuji images from 1976 are a vague memory, and…
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End-of-season slumps
Zoom-and-slump Lewis Hamilton is in exalted company. Fellow multiple world champions Juan Fangio, Jim Clark, Jack Brabham, Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi, Nigel Mansell and Michael Schumacher all suffered post-title ‘depression’.…
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Unearthing the hidden McQueen footage
Three years ago freelance archivist Richard Wiseman (below) was tasked with locating the missing rushes of Steve McQueen’s film Le Mans. He reckoned on a one per cent chance of…
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How Toivonen made his mark
“Sensational on the flat and incredible uphill, he was in another league going downhill. “I remember it as clear as daylight: Hafren, 23.5 miles. We were quickest – 36 seconds…
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Kankkunen through the eyes of his co-driver
Fred Gallagher first met Juha Kankkunen down a firebreak in Northumbria’s Slaley Forest, SS21 of the 1983 RAC Rally. "Henri [Toivonen] and I were surveying this Opel and wondering how…
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Markku Alén makes his mark
International rallying was a different beast in 1973. That year’s Daily Mirror-sponsored RAC was contested by 198 crews over five days and 70 stages; it would have been 80 stages…
