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Books
Bugatti Type 50: The autobiography of Bugatti’s first Le Mans car Mark Morris & Julius Kruta. Published by Porter Press International, £60. ISBN:…
April 2019
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Books 2
Rallying 1977 John Davenport & Reinhard Klein. Published by McKlein, €119.90 (£105.40). ISBN: 978-3-947156-10-8 It was the year in which Fleetwood Mac…
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Products
Product of the month Tyre-d of bad sound (see what we did there..)? well Pirelli can give your favourite tunes…
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Events
April 6-7, Goodwood Motor Circuit, UK Exclusivity is the name of the game for the Goodwood Members’ Meeting: you must…
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Precision, April 2019
Emails from the slick PR departments of the big luxury watch brands pour in on a daily basis with details…
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Racing Lives: Jacky & Vanina Ickx
Jacky Ickx enjoyed huge success in multiple motor sport disciplines and had long since retired when daughter Vanina made her…
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Lunch with Fred Gallagher
Belfast wasn’t an obvious hub of motor sport during the 1950s and 1960s, but you could savour your fair share…
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Corsica: a curse… and a charm
“I could devote several pages to the Tour de Corse, which seemed to be jinxed. I entered four times –…
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How rugby led to a seat with Solberg
Fred Gallagher had been only an occasional WRC competitor for the best part of a decade when he landed a…
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Letters, April 2019
Letters In light of Doug Nye’s recent insightful piece on Historic motor sport and the letters from Duncan Wiltshire and…
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Subscribe
Save money on every issue (up to 40% off) Get every issue before it appears in the shops Access to…
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Catch us if you can
The new cars have all appeared, an array of shiny hopes, some already dulled by the reality of a Barcelona…
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Mercedes-Benz
Team manager Ron Meadows, chief strategist James Vowles and chief race engineer Andy Shovlin are a tight-knit pitlane unit at…
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Ferrari
Twenty-five years ago Mattia Binotto was a part of that year’s graduate intake at Ferrari, just another bright young engineer.…
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Red Bull
It’s often claimed that the F1 regulations are so prescriptive they essentially define the car. But paradoxically that only makes…
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Renault
The driver is much more than just the guy who presses the pedals and turns the wheel, trying to do…
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The Rest
Renault’s avowed 2019 target is to close the lap time deficit to the big three Mercedes/Ferrari/Red Bull while pulling…
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Racing’s great blackout
It’s a scene familiar to generations of Formula 1 fans: settling down to watch the live grand prix broadcast on…
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Hit the road
No other sport has as rich and varied a history spanning some of the world’s most exotic locations as motor…
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Trans-Europe express
Budget airlines and accessible fares have made the world a much smaller place, but speed and efficiency aren’t necessarily a…
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