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The month in Motor Sport
Feb 18: Toyota Team Europe is rocked by the resignation of three of its top rally engineers. Feb 20: At…
April 1992
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Matters of moment, April 1992
Sort it out As this issue closed for press, the Sportscar World Championship was still alive. Just. The cancellation of…
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McLaren's MP4/7A
Ever since its crushing defeat by Williams in the South African GP, McLaren has been pushing ahead with development of…
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Obituaries
Leila Lombardi We were saddened to hear of the recent death of Leila Lombardi, who entered the record books on…
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Suspended animation
Active suspension made a triumphant return at Kyalami, where Nigel Mansell ran away and hid As the dust settles once…
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Letter to readers, April 1992
Responsible Dear Reader, Some years ago, when Mr Ecclestone was getting the Formula One teams organised into a responsible body…
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Great scot
It used to be commonly expressed that you could beat neither the Finns in Finland nor the Swedes in Sweden.…
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Port for all
Gone are the days when the old TAP Rally had no roadbook, no mapping of any real value to navigators…
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An offer he culdn't refuse
In 1988 Steve Sydenham gave up banging his head against a brick wall and reluctantly folded Racing for Britain. Now…
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Cutting one's cloth
Everybody in motor racing knows that European Formula 3000 is an expensive pastime. As more sophisticated, and therefore costlier, materials…
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If the mask fits...
Shortly before the South African GP, Longines announced that it was withdrawing as F1's official timekeeper. Like Mercedes-Benz, a couple…
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Bexhill's extravaganza
Doing anything on May Bank Holiday? Fancy a day out at an undersung motoring event that attracted a crowd of…
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The things they say
"The engine responds to wide throttle openings with an outraged gasp and a lurch forward; it's like pinching the Queen's…
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Red light district
The thought occurs, why is it that railway accidents, some of them horrific, are often due to signal failures (alarming…
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Election wheels
The major political parties are rushing about like mad with their election campaigns, and hang the cost. . . But…
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Is 200 mph safe?
A contemporary motoring weekly has done an experiment to see if driving at 200mph on a public road is safe.…
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On a whim and a prayer...
For weeks on end the success of the 1992 Sportscar World Championship depended on the whim of the Sultan of…
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Corporate impact
Ever wondered why some racing car colour schemes stand out much more than others? Ian Hutchinson makes his living knowing…
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Colombian gold
Rob Wilson, an expatriate Kiwi based in downtown Brentford, is an experienced racer who nowadays competes mainly in the states.…
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The sound of Munich
There have been faster racing saloon cars than the BMW M3 - notably the Nissan Skyline GT-R and Ford Sierra…
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