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Journeys through Gaul
Sir, Further to David Goodridge's letter of March he may be interested in my drive back to Calais after last…
April 2000
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More Boddy copy
Sir, Would you please allow me through your letters page to add further praise for WB? Over Christmas I read…
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History lessons
Sir, In accusing you of rewriting history, Alan Baker (Letters, February 2000) is himself guilty of being very selective with…
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Nigel Roebuck's F1 Legends: Estoril 1985 – Senna's spectacular first win
For many of us, grand prix racing entered a fallow period after the death in May 1982 of Gilles Villeneuve,…
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Jackie Stewart: the hero driver, team owner and campaigner
In order to appropriately mythologise Jackie Stewart, he really should be dead, the better to fulfil the time-served, cruelly macho…
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Brother Jimmy: Jackie Stewart's older racing sibling
A wintry day at Oulton Park in 1962 seemed unlikely to be the stuff of racing history. The chill wind…
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Historic Season Preview 2000
For the historic motor racing fan this season promises to be the biggest and best yet. Marcus Pye looks ahead…
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A young driver's guide to surviving F1
Jenson Button is the youngest F1 driver of his era. History shows many who start so young fail to master…
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Thackwell: hit or myth?
Mike Thackwell is often held up as the classic example of the driver who got too much too soon. At…
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Derek Warwick: The worst car I ever drove — Toleman TG181
My worst car? To be honest there's a bloody long queue of them. In there would certainly be the March…
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Campari con brio
He could have been a professional opera singer but Giuseppe Campari's heart lay in motor racing. Bill Boddy profiles the…
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Scalded cat
Ford's new racing Puma is the ultimate version of an already brilliant car. The only problem is it comes with…
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Nomex
Thanks to its extraordinary fire resistant properties, Nomex is reputed to have saved up to 5,000 people from death or…
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The greatest rally driver of all time
It's no easy thing to rank a century of rally drivers, but John Davenport asked some of the great names…
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The Klausenpass
In its day The Klausenrennen was the longest toughest mountain-climb of them all. Andrew Frankel journeys to Switzerland to find…
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Tony Southgate: 'I wish I'd designed... the Lotus 25'
It's a slight problem to choose a car I didn't do because I've been associated with so many over the…
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Bill Boddy
Nazzaro's road car Cars named after racing drivers are not exactly rare. But rare is a car made by a…
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Miscellany, April 2000
The popular VMCC Banbury Run for pre-1931 motorcycles returns to Banbury this year, on June 18, centred on Drayton School.…
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Parting shot
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