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The Ones That Got Away
Jan Magnussen was famously described by Jackie Stewart - who hired him to race for his fledgling GP team -…
December 1998
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A Survivor's Guide to the RAC Rally
Still one of the hardest rallies, the RAC was once a by-word for toughness. John Davenport tells some first-hand forest…
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The Lotus that should have won Le Mans
The Car In 1959 the Lotus Elite made a huge impression in racing. Sports car racing was in decline, while…
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Hill Start
Phil Llewellin returns to the place where his motor-journalism career began and rediscovers hillclimbing's unique and timeless atmosphere. Accelerating like…
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Let Loose...
The F5A was the most successful of all Fittipaldi's Grand Prix designs. Andrew Frankel takes to the track in Emerson's…
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Wanted: Racing Driver
In the swinging sixties, crime sometimes did pay...for motor racing. Gordon Cruickshank investigates Roy James, the great train robber. Like…
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Le Mans Legends - Ferrari 512M
In 1970 and 1971 World Championship Sports Car racing saw the brief but unforgettable era of the Porsche 917 and…
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The worst car I ever drove - Joker vs the Batmobile
It might have gone down as a Touring Car classic, but the Ford Capri was John Fitzpatrick's nemesis. Adam Cooper…
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The House of Hotchkiss
It started as a French armaments company making rifles for Napoleon III, and became one of the most admired early…
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The Complete Works
The kind men at Aston Martin have designed a works-built 600bhp Vantage. Gavin Conway staps himself in for the ride…
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F1's unforgettable Harry Schell
It is purely an age thing, I suppose, this, peculiar tendency we have to forget whole swathes of people who…
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My Greatest Race: Hans Stuck
A moment's misjudgement by a colleague tore a certain third Le Mans win from Hans Stuck's grasp, but he recalls…
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BIritish Racing Misery
I read with amusement the editor's comments on how the V16 BRMs lived up to their original failures at the…
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Miscellany, December 1998
The 1998 Penrite Oil Award for outstanding achievement in the historic vehicle world has been awarded to Brooklands Museum for…
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Motor Racing Sidetracks
Among the wealth of motor racing history it is possible to find interesting side-tracks from the mainstream of events. For…
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VSCC Welsh Trial
This traditional event, dating from 1939, this year reverted to the 200-mile navigational road-run on the Saturday for cars less…
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Miscellany, December 1998
How pleasing it is to have stamps on one's letters recalling Britain's successes in the LSR field, with particular reference…
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Rescued By Radio
In 1947 the Junior CC, with the Jersey MC/LCC organised the first international road race to be held in Britain…
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Obituary: George Tuck
I was sorry to receive news from South Africa that George Tuck had died aged 89. When I began to…
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