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Special brew: The Lotus 72
Chassis 72/5 Fittipaldi’s old faithful Emerson Fittipaldi crashed what would turn out to be his ‘old faithful’ on his first appearance in the car, in Friday practice at Monza 1970…
Racing History
Explore news, articles and features from years gone by in our category all about the history of racing and those that made it. From iconic people to iconic moments with interviews, opinions and much more.
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Can Am combat in the Riverside haze: Parting shot
October 26, 1969 California, US From front: Dan Gurney (McLaren M6B), Chuck Parsons (Lola T163B) and Jackie Oliver (Autocoast Ti 22) at Riverside in October in the penultimate race of…
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Matters of Moment: First McLaren returns home
One of motor racing’s most iconic ‘long lost’ classic sports-racing cars was unpacked in June, on its return to British soil for the first time in 57 long years. The…
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Greetings from Maasai onlookers: Parting shot
April, 1963 East Africa Greetings from Maasai onlookers as the Ford Anglia of Peter Hughes – the son of a Ford distributor in Kenya – and Billy Young tackles the…
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F1
Team orders? 'No way!' said René Arnoux as he seized home French GP win
You have taken pole position at your home grand prix driving for what is ostensibly your national team. You then lead the race, and once a pair of pesky rivals…
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Williams' first F1-winning car leads Classic at Silverstone tribute to Sir Frank
The Williams FW07 which Clay Regazzoni drove to the team's first victory at the 1979 British Grand Prix, will return to Silverstone for the Classic over the August Bank Holiday weekend
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Le Mans victory that earned Graham Hill the 'Triple Crown'
The crowd figures for the 1972 Le Mans 24 Hours vary, but we can safely assume two things: firstly, that it was north of 150,000 strong; and second, that few…
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Mark Blundell: The Motor Sport interview
It's quite common for sports stars to bolt to a tax haven as soon as fame or fortune strike, but convention has seldom been the Mark Blundell way. “I did…
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Tony Brooks: last of the '50s greats
Tony Brooks, who died on May 3, aged 90, was one of the truly great F1 drivers. From his debut win in the 1955 non-championship Syracuse Grand Prix for Connaught…
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Tony Brooks: A winner — but he didn't like the fuss
I’ll miss the phone calls from Tony Brooks. Sometimes it was to clarify something we had written in the magazine, sometimes just to get some information and then discuss Verstappen…
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The genius designer behind the Metro 6R4 and Jaguar XJR-14
He’s spent more than 40 years living at motor sport’s cutting edge. So why would such a man, now on the cusp of his eighth decade, even think about starting…
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Creative counting that saved Metro 6R4. Details matter.
IN THE SPIRIT OF BOD AND JENKS Editorial +44 (0) 20 7349 8484 [email protected] 18-20 Rosemont Road, London NW3 6NE, UK Editor Joe Dunn Editors-at-Large Gordon Cruickshank & Simon Arron…
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Porsche's greatest Le Mans moments
1982 Le Mans 24 Hours Porsche win didn't come as easy as 1-2-3 Porsche laid down a marker with the 956 on its Le Mans 24 Hours debut in 1982.…
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1952 Le Mans 24 Hours: only Mercedes had luck left in the tank
The key players came from all points of the compass. From the south the Ferraris; seven of them, including four monster 340 Americas with their 4.1-litre V12 motors. Soon-to-be F1…
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Tony Brooks at Monaco: Parting Shot
May 19,1957 Monaco Tony Brooks proved that his Vanwall VW 5 could last the distance at the first European Grand Prix of 1957, finishing second at Monaco behind Juan Manuel…
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'Beneath Tony Brooks’s quiet humility was a core of tempered steel': Doug Nye
A former racing driver pal remarked recently “Many of this new generation of F1 drivers seem to be quite good blokes”. He spoke in wonderment, but the likes of Charles Leclerc,…
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Villeneuve vs Pironi: the tragic rivalry
Forty years. Who knows where the time goes? In the midst of one of grand prix racing’s most unpredictable seasons, a friendship pivoted in one controversial afternoon into a deadly…