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From the outset Colin Chapman had no option but to be obsessive about the weight of his cars. He had no access to the exotic twincam engines used by such…
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Back in what some like to call the ‘good old days’ racing drivers were freelancers, heroes for hire, hustling a grand prix car round Monte Carlo one weekend and taking…
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For those of a certain age, the 1990s is remembered as a halcyon period of great rivalries, epic races and dramatic deciders. The decade began with the heated relationship between Ayrton…
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On May 13, 1950 Giuseppe Farina took the chequered flag at Silverstone, and thus by definition won a world championship race at his first attempt, for this was the first…
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Jackie Stewart described Jan Magnussen as “the greatest driving talent to emerge since Ayrton Senna”. The young Dane dominated the 1994 British F3 championship, winning 14 of 18 races for…
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The Parnelli VPJ-4 is one of F1's great coulda-woulda-shoulda stories, writes Preston Lerner. Without it, Mario Andretti would not have won the title with Lotus in 1978
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He is a six-time Le Mans winner, Can-Am champion, the runner-up in the 1969 and 1970 Formula 1 World Championships for Brabham and Ferrari, twice World Endurance champion and Paris-Dakar…
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Monaco Grand Prix, 1995 and a key moment in my career as a commentator. Not only was it the first time that I walked the streets and absorbed the sheer…
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There are good and bad rivalries, some, shall we say, more ‘sporting’ than others. Racing Scott Dixon for championships was tough but there was a lot of respect. My rivalry…
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Given the fanfare that accompanied his departure as Formula 1’s deputy race director in 2016, you might imagine that Herbie Blash – gofer at Rob Walker Racing, number two mechanic to…
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Few expected fireworks from Justin Wilson and Nordic Racing in the 2001 F3000 series, but the combination — plus Coca-Cola sponsorship — brought a spectacular result against talented competition
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Tom Kristensen won the Le Mans 24 Hours at his first attempt, having never seen the circuit until his practice laps in 1997, and went on to win the race…
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Henri Toivonen put in one of the great WRC comeback drives at the Monte Carlo Rally to claim his final victory - and did it in a Lancia Delta S4 that wouldn't even drive straight...
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July 1979, the first corner at Enna, Sicily: my life as a freelance reporter covering the European Formula 2 Championship was about to take a different turn – much like…
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Bernie Ecclestone is one of the world’s great deal makers. He loves them and has done some very good ones, both for himself and for those around him. He transformed…
