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Maria Teresa de Filippis, 1926-2016
All at Motor Sport were sad to hear of the death of Maria Teresa de Filippis on Friday. While there had been female race and rally drivers before her, de…
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Track Torque with Denis Jenkinson in 1979
It’s time to resurrect another tape from our Motor Sport audio archive, to look back on the 1979 grand prix season with one of my Track Torque programmes from Radio…
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Track Torque with Sir Stirling Moss, part two
There are a great many reasons why Stirling Moss is still the most famous racing driver on the planet, this despite Lewis Hamilton’s unstinting efforts to establish himself as what…
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Track Torque with Sir Stirling Moss
The response to the launch of our new Motor Sport sound archive has been encouraging, many of you telling us that not only have you enjoyed the interview with Lord…
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New series – from the audio archive
Many of you have told me how much you enjoy dipping into the extraordinary treasure trove that is the Motor Sport archive, how stories from past decades bring back so…
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Porsche wins Le Mans
Those of you who tweet will be familiar with Audi’s hashtag #welcomechallenges. Well, the team from Ingolstadt sure had some challenges at Le Mans 2015, and of course the biggest…
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Derek Bell celebrates his first win at Le Mans
It’s been 40 years since Derek Bell took the first of his five victories at Le Mans in the Mirage-Ford GR8 run by John Wyer and sponsored by Gulf. This…
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Jarvis ready for Le Mans
Next weekend, at La Sarthe, Oliver Jarvis will step aboard an LMP1 Audi R18 e-tron Quattro, replacing Tom Kristensen in the team that has made a habit, in recent years,…
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Le Mans experiences
Les Vingt-Quatre Heures du Mans held little interest for me. A motor racing fan since I was five years old, when my parents took me to Goodwood, it was Grand…
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Visiting the Nuvolari museum
Among the pictures on my office walls are two of Tazio Nuvolari. I look across the room and there he is, rounding the Station Hairpin (now Loews) on his way…
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Mechanics' tales: Bob Dance
When you think of the Lotus Grand Prix team, the ‘real one’, as us oldies like to call it, you think of some of the great race mechanics. These were…
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Bentley celebrates first full GT3 season
“We must keep pushing, push even further now that we are the target, now that we are in the crosshairs of the competition, and we need to get as many…
