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Editor's Letter
One of my first jobs at Motor Sport was to test a Ferrari GTC4 Lusso. The subsequent report noted that…
August 2019
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Staff list // Details matter
IN THE SPIRIT OF BOD AND JENKS Editorial +44 (0) 20 7349 8484 [email protected] 18-20 Rosemont Road, London NW3 6NE,…
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Matters 1 Le Mans
To the victor the spoils, but also – in the case of Toyota and Le Mans – the pain. The…
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Matters 2 Pryce
Friends of one of Wales’s greatest sons have launched an appeal to keep his memory alive. The fund-raising drive has…
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Matters 3 VW
Volkswagen’s latest evolution of the all-electric I.D.R racer officially became the second-fastest thing ever to lap the Nürburgring Nordschleife recently,…
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Matters 5 VSCC
The traditionally genteel denizens of the Vintage Sports-Car Club have pledged to heed lessons learned last summer, when the tranquillity…
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Matters 4 Silverstone Classic
Sir Jackie Stewart will return to the location of “the best race I ever had” when he is reunited with…
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Matters 6 Clark
The new Jim Clark Museum in Duns, the Scottish Borders town close to where the Scot grew up, will open…
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Matters 7 Michelin
Can you imagine how different motor sport would be without tyre troubles? An unexpected puncture or delamination can turn any…
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Matters 8 Lambo
Not content with riding on the crest of a wave of circuit racing success, Lamborghini has made its off-road racing…
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Matters 9 Ford v Ferrari
Motor racing will get its largest Hollywood representation since the 1970s with the announcement of the forthcoming Ford v Ferrari…
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Matters 10 Obits
They symbolised free thinking and innovation, a time when engineers weren’t constrained by the law of the wind tunnel or…
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Mark Hughes
It probably began in F1 sometime around the turn of the ’80s; the idea that safety advances allowed some drivers…
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Mat Oxley
Friday July 12 marks 50 years since the racing world lost Bill Ivy. The former 125cc world champion was killed…
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Doug Nye
Yesterday is a far more comfortable place. This is certainly true right now – and it has been so for…
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Andrew Frankel
How can we make the world fall in love with lightness? The unveiling of two extraordinary cars in the last…
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Jennie Gow
To grid walk: To amble up and down a group of racing cars or motor bikes while rambling to a live…
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F1 Race Report
There’s always pressure around Ferrari, good times or bad. But there’s a vortex of it at this stage of the…
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F1 Trackside view
The powerful flow of the St Lawrence is almost silent, despite its proximity to this chicane. It’s birdsong that’s dominating…
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F1 Word on the beat
• Confirmation of the 2021 technical regulations was not forthcoming by the middle of June, as had originally been planned. With…
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