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Listening to the experts
Your responses to our reader survey in the July 2006 issue were very positive, and so were your comments when…
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Matters of moment, December 2006
News views and comment Close out? Cosworth out of F1 for 2007 Spyker's shock switch leaves British firm high and…
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News in brief, December 2006
Watson tried A1GP Formula 1 star-turned-TV pundit John Watson drove Team Ireland's A1GP car around Zandvoort on September 29. It…
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Mini star injured
Matters of moment Veteran driver taken to hospital Mini star injured Racing veteran John Rhodes is recovering at home after…
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Matters of moment, December 2006
Obituary Erwin Kremer 1937-2006 Racing driver, constructor and entrant Erwin Kremer died in October after a stroke He was 69.…
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Diary
November 5, Silverstone Keith Duckworth Trophy F1 race at BRDC Walter Hayes meeting. Tickets: £10. www.brdc.co.uk November 9-12, Llandudno Rally…
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Austrian frost
GP racer gets cool Austrian frost Historic cars to compete in winter ice trophy Former grand prix racer Johnny Cecotto…
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Shelsley honours 60 hillclimb years
The first 60 years of the British Hil!climb Championship will be celebrated in a special three-day event at Shelsley Walsh…
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Matters of moment, December 2006
Books Grand Prix Yesterday & Today by Bruce Jones. Published by Carlton Books. £20. ISBN: 1844421600 This is a well-written,…
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Matters of moment: auctions, December 2006
This month's lot GP Delage Franco-British icon will open auction season Racers who know their history will be fighting over…
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Correspondence of the month
The early signs of greatness Sir, I nearly fell off the chair to see October's photo of Emmo and me…
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Letters, December 2006
Matters of moment Please take a seat Sir, I arrived at Monza for this year's Italian Grand Prix only to…
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You were there
The Thompson International Speedway in Connecticut, known as the 'Indianapolis of the East', will be largely unfamiliar to our readers.…
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Michael Schumacher: Nigel Roebuck's Legends
As I write, two races in the 2006 F1 season remain, and Michael Schumacher, on the brink of retirement, is…
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Colin McRae
Matters of moment Guest column Colin McRae When leading Citroën driver Sebastian Loeb broke his arm, the British rally champion…
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Formula 1
Matters of moment Formula 1 As Michael Schumacher reluctantly calls time on F1, finding God might make life in the…
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Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder
Matters of moment Andrew Frankel Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder One of Andrew Frankel's life lessons has been that meeting your hero…
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Moonlighting
He won 25 grands prix and the Indy 500, but, as Paul Fearnley discovers, it was Jim Clark's exploits away…
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Reynard 961 & 971
Grand designs With every major European junior formula well and truly sewn up, Reynard entered the '90s with one mission…
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Rindt's underrated F1 car: Cooper-Maserati T86
It may not be immediately obvious what this Cooper-Maserati T86 is doing on these pages, other than going rather fast…
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