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Matters of Moment, December 2015
Out the back at Thruxton no one could touch Justin,” says the familiar voice on the end of the phone…
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Reflections with Nigel Roebuck
Drivers who speak their mind are a breath of fresh air in a Formula 1 paddock that trades all too…
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F1 Frontline with Mark Hughes
Nico Rosberg leads away at the start of the second modern Russian Grand Prix. The German started from pole, but…
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The smiling assassin
In the slipstream of four straight world titles, the past 18 months have been difficult by Red Bull Racing’s customary…
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Grand Prix notebook
At this stage of the season, with everything up at the Mercedes end of the grid funnelling down towards second consecutive…
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Mat Oxley
Chance can be a fine thing When manufacturers go racing they learn from other manufacturers; that’s half the point of…
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International racing
Teams split on WEC future More powerful hybrid systems, and potentially more of them... The scope for green technology within the…
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Gordon Kirby
Mission impossible? It was indeed After two and a half years as IndyCar’s president of competition and operations, Derrick Walker has…
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Oliver Jarvis
The battle to stay on terms with Porsche If there’s one country on the FIA World Endurance Championship calendar that most…
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Reviews, December 2015
Alain Prost Maurice Hamilton Hallelujah! Here’s a rare English biography of an unfathomably overlooked motor racing great, with committed input…
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Historic racing
GT40s for Goodwood New races dedicated to Ford GT40s, under 2-litre touring cars and 100-year-old Edwardian specials will be among…
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Road cars
VW’s future options It will be many years before the full ramifications of the Volkswagen emissions scandal are known and,…
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Lamborghini Aventador SV
Raging bull receives sufficient extra pep to challenge the prancing horse | by Andrew Frankel There must have been at least…
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Volkswagen Golf R Estate
The Volkswagen Golf R is one of those machines beloved by lazy motoring journalists for the access it provides to…
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BMW 320d M Sport
Space is limited on these pages, which is why mid-life updates of even quite important cars sometimes fail to make…
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Ford Focus ST
It is well known that next year Ford will launch a new Focus RS, the first with four-wheel drive. If the…
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Letters, December 2015
Right team, wrong venue Martin Brundle’s memories of racing with Stefan Bellof in their normally aspirated Tyrrells at Zandvoort in…
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McQueen. One man and his movie
A film about a film? That’s the premise of a new documentary, but many tales about Steve McQueen and Le…
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A Ferrari for Fangio…
This rare 290MM had a relatively short racing life, but consider the stars who drove it. The Maestro was just…
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“If Colin had still been around, I’d have won the world title a lot sooner”
Hardly a low-key figure himself, Birmingham’s F1 world champion recalls major racing personalities from ‘mesmerising’ Chapman to ‘eerie’ Enzo The…
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