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Legends
Alistair Cooke, one of my great heroes, has lived on Fifth Avenue in New York for more than 50 years,…
December 2000
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Jenson Button's incredible first year in F1
It might seem impudent to run a feature in the pages of Motor Sport on Jenson Button, a 20 year-old…
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Jackie Stewart - BRM (1965)
By the time JYS reached Formula One, compatriot Jimmy Clark was the man to beat. Yet the younger Scot refused…
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Clay Regazzoni - Ferrari (1970)
A win, three seconds, one third, two fourths, one pole and three fastest laps in his first eight GPs —…
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Alain Prost - McLaren (1980)
Prost's debut GP season was the opposite to that of Stewart, in that he worked wonders in one of the…
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Ayrton Senna - Toleman (1984)
Of those drivers able to extract a remarkable performance from a car unworthy of their talents, Senna must rank alongside…
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M. Schumacher - Jordan&Benetton (1991)
Has Schuey ever been overawed? I suspect not. He showed no trepidation on his GP debut as he was strapped…
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Jean Alesi - Tyrell (1989)
This Frenchman arrived in F I in a plume of tyre smoke for the seventh race of the 1989 season.…
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Tony Brise: the F1 driver with so little time
Twenty five years on, the photograph still has a mesmeric power to make your eyes prickle, to evoke anger and…
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Johnny Brise: The guiding light who slowly faded away
Johnny Brise won the world stockcar finals in 1956, '59 and '60, a feat unmatched at the time.The builder's son…
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Lucas fuel injection
Complex problems often demand simple solutions. Ensuring that exactly the right amount of fuel reaches the right place at exactly…
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Targa Florio
It was more than a race: It was a passion, a passion so strong that it still burns today. Paul…
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Nino Vaccarella: Sicily's uncrowned racing king
The cheek of it. There is nothing wrong with a Peugeot 306 per se, but this one was a particularly…
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Audits & Plaudits
In the final part of his Metro 6R4 story, John Davenport explains how he had to fight to keep the…
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Ferrari F1 World Champions
Michael Schumacher, arguably the most talented driver of the day, joined Ferrari in 1996 after two consecutive drivers' titles with…
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The classic restorers Hall & Hall
Hall & Hall On a windswept Lincolnshire Airflied, once the home of BRM, the Shriek of a supercharged V16 can…
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I wish I'd designed... Alfa Romeo 159
As a young engineer at Rolls-Royce, I needed a source of inspiration, like most people, and I looked towards the…
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Blue belles
For low-cost performance between the wars, it paid to look to France. Bill Boddy recalls the impact of French blue…
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Design of greatness: How Adrian Newey became an F1 designer
Adrian Newey has achieved remarkable success during the past decade with Williams and McLaren. Indeed, it would not be wrong…
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Christian Danner (Onyx, Formula Two, 1982)
"It was my second year in single-seater racing, so I was still very inexperienced. Mike Earle was running the March…
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