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Steam dream
Sirs, I congratulate you on the quality of your recent pictures of the steamer 'L'Obeissante' built by my great-grandfather Amedee…
January 2000
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Gregory the Great
Sir, I too have always been intrigued by the race between Archie Scott Brown and Masten Gregory at Silverstone in…
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Like father, not son
Sir, I couldn't believe Mr Frankel's sanctimonious editorial last month in which, referring to Damon Hill, he remarked "History will…
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Memories of Watkins Glen
Sir, Thank you so much for the quantity of photographs and text devoted in Nigel Roebuck's November column to the…
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Rolt's Wheels
Sir, Your article about the highly accomplished driverTony Rolt whetted my appetite for more information about some of the cars…
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Legend Jo Ramirez
In the contemporary F1 Paddock, folk without enemies are hard to find. It's a hard-nosed environment which can have a…
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Aeroquip Hose
Now a generic and used in almost all racing cars, Aeroquip Hose started live in US Warplanes. Keith Howard looks…
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The future of Formula One
The Pinnacle of Motorsport is under attack. Despite almost exponential viewing figures and financial gain, Formula One is facing a…
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Formula One 2000
By Gordon Murray It all came from a comment Gordon Murray made over five years ago. We were talking about…
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James Garner: The original F1 movie's silver screen racer
It has been 33 years since James Garner last walked on Monza's soil. Then, as Pete Aron, he walked slowly…
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Revisiting the legendary Clermont-Ferrand GP circuit — Track Tests
"It was the best track in France; better by far than everywhere else we went like Rouen, Reims and Paul…
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Bringing up baby
Herbert Austin's baby was a risky venture which might have sunk the ailing firm. Bill Boddy asserts it was the…
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Niki Lauda: The worst car I ever drove – March 721X
It was the one time I needed not to get into a bad car. It was 1972 and I'd bought…
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Swindle!
The Great Grand Prix In 1933 the world's greatest drivers were embroiled in Chicanery of a different sort when they…
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Carrera Panamericana 1999
Imagine 2000 miles of empty road twisting through forests and spearing across deserts, stringing together beautiful colonial towns between Tuxtla…
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Men at Work
Alan R Smith started photographing motor racing in the thirties, going freelance in 1946. Since then his pictures of British…
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Belgium's forgotten Nagant
Motoring history holds all manner of interesting items. Recently I learned that VCC member Mike Bradbrook has owned for the…
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A recreation
To preserve an important piece of Brooklands' history Jim Baxter has built up an interpretation of the motorcycle ridden by…
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Unfinished...
Present day racing has one odd factor to explain away A car can today be placed in the results even…
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Miscellany, January 2000
The famous ex-Joyce/Aked racing AC, so well known in the 1920s, was due to appear at the AC works near…
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