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Use for an old Morgan
Sir, In Motor Sport for January 1956 Bill Boddy described a visit to the Coventry Climax engine factory where the…
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Lesser-spotted Legends
Sir, Good to see Nigel Roebuck choose McLaren's Jo Ramirez as one of his motor racing legends'. It's all too…
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Professor Prost
Sir, While not wishing to enter into a dispute with Giles Newton (Letters, January 2000) regarding the relative abilities of…
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Wimille Correction
Sir, I was very surprised to find myself credited as the sole author of December's article on Jean-Pierre Wimille. May…
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TR Register
Sir, Exactly 30 years ago at the start of 1970, your predecessor Bill Boddy was kind enough to print in…
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Rallying Sorority
Sir, What memories were stirred by your interview with Pat Moss. Naturally, the article brought back to me the names…
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Captain Denis Shipwright
Sir, It was with surprise and delight that I came upon a picture of my grandfather, Captain Denis Shipwright, in…
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Sir Stirling Moss: Nigel Roebuck's Legends
A strange thing, the Honours List. Given poor behaviour is apparently something to be celebrated these days, perhaps we should…
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Eagle-Weslake T1G vs Lotus 49: Beauty and the Best
It's called an Eagle-Weslake T1G, completed just one full season of competition and is perhaps the most beautiful Grand Prix…
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Ari Vatanen: To Hell and Back
A huge crash nearly ended his life, but Ari Vatanen fought on. John Davenport meets Finland's most famous Parliamentarian There…
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Riccardo Patrese: The worst car I ever drove – Alfa Romeo 185T
Will Riccardo Patrese's record of 256 GP starts ever be beaten? Today it's hard to imagine anyone surviving 17 years…
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Lord Austin's Racing Cars
In part two of Bill Boddy's examination of the pre-war racing Austins, he chronicles the many successes of the marque…
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Reality Bytes
With more computers than an early NASA rocket the latest Nissan Skyline GT-R should be almost as much of a…
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Fiberglas
Technofile Making racing car bodies out of aluminium was not only difficult but expensive too. Keith Howard reports on the…
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Didier Pironi: Driven to destruction
Rene Arnoux stood in the Dijon pit lane, listening. Listening to the throttle applications and braking points of an old friend…
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Nurburgring
This is the greatest race track in the world. A place where heroes were made and destroyed. Matthew Franey takes…
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Bobby Rahal: My greatest race
Indianapolis 500, 1986 With team owner Jim Trueman suffering from terminal cancer, Bobby Rahal knew this was the last chance…
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The glory of Goodwood
By Mike Lawrence, Simon Tayler and Doug Nye ISBN 1 85227 826 9 Published by Virgin, £30.00 Goodwood is fast…
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The Speed Merchants
By Michael Keyser ISBN 8376 0232 7 Published by Bentley, £39.95 The first of two Michael Keyser books this month…
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Time and Two Seats
By Janos L Wimpffen ISBN 967 22 52 05 Published by Motorsport Research Group, £129.99 I am willing to bet…
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