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Alex Harmer's highlight of 2013
Working at Motor Sport certainly has its perks. In April I visited a BMW Classic workshop near Munich to see the unveiling of the restored Brabham BT52 that Nelson Piquet…
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Simon Arron's highlight of 2013
October 11, Suzuka There are some who complain about the time it takes to get there from Europe, but I’d be perfectly prepared to hitch. Few circuits match Suzuka’s feelgood…
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Brooks: one of the greatest talents
In celebration of the upcoming Motor Sport Hall of Fame, we look back on the careers of our founding members and inductees. Taken from the September 2003 issue of Motor…
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Gordon Cruickshank's highlight of 2013
Like all the best awards ceremonies I’ll air my runner-up highlight first: fighting off the BBC to get time with David Coulthard. We knew things would be tight when we…
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Räikkönen? He’s not (yet) a Ferrari ‘great’
In his top 10 Formula 1 drivers of 2013, published in our February issue season review, Nigel Roebuck places Kimi Räikkönen fourth behind the obvious choices of Sebastian Vettel and…
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Paul Fearnley's highlight of 2013
The anticipation helped. It always does. Two qualifying sessions postponed until Sunday morning because of rain didn’t do any harm either. Revved up! The armies masquerading as Formula 1 teams…
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Moss: in a category reserved for icons
In celebration of the upcoming Motor Sport Hall of Fame, we look back on the careers of our founding members and inductees. Taken from the October 1999 issue of Motor…
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Ed Foster's highlight of 2013
If I knew that neither deputy editor Gordon Cruickshank nor features editor Simon Arron would read this, I’d probably opt for my one and only win in the 2013 Piaggio…
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The farce of the 1999 title decider
Sepang, October 1999. Somewhat against his will – for he had little enthusiasm for helping another Ferrari driver to win the world championship – Michael Schumacher, fully recovered from the…
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Chapman's final years
Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman died 31 years ago this week. He was 54. Peter Warr and Colin Chapman, 1982 He looked older. The toll exacted by a hectic life of…
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Podcast: Frank Williams
The podcast team travelled up to Williams' Grove base for the last recording of the year and chatted to the great Frank Williams. He was on fine form and talked…
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Fangio: the morning I met the Maestro
In celebration of the upcoming Motor Sport Hall of Fame, we look back on the careers of our founding members and inductees. Taken from the November 2010 issue of Motor…
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2013 Formula 1 season review
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Has that line been used somewhere before? This wasn’t so much a tale of two cities, though, as…
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Bruce McLaren's first win at Sebring
Bruce McLaren shouldn’t have been there. Masten Gregory should. Cooper team leader Jack Brabham reckoned the latter the most fearless man he met. Yet even the gung-ho ‘Kansas City Flash’…
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Martin Brundle on Formula 1 in 2014
Finding myself sitting next to Martin Brundle at an awards ceremony on Sunday, I asked him for his thoughts on F1 in 2014. “From what I’m hearing, I think it…
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Double points to be awarded at final GP
Formula 1 fans have been lucky over the last few seasons – the championship has gone down to the last race more often than not with Alonso and Vettel fighting…
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Nuvolari: the man who knew no fear
In celebration of the upcoming Motor Sport Hall of Fame, we look back on the careers of our founding members and inductees. Taken from the October 1953 issue of Motor…