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IRL Pacific Coast Motorsports, the former Champ Car team, will start competing in the IRL IndyCar Series from the Indianapolis…
July 2008
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Gordon Kirby – The US Scene
Goodbye to turbo power As the Champ Cars pulled into the pits at the end of this year’s Long Beach…
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Andrew Frankel – Road cars
Black box vs common sense? Car engineers are a particular bunch – believe me, I’ve met a few. They live…
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Readers' Letters, July 2008, July 2008
Don’t print this letter Sir, At last, somebody says it as it is. I agreed with every word of your…
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It's the quiet ones you have to watch...
The big battle in sports car racing this year is between two teams with the quietest cars on the grid.…
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Goodwood Festival of Speed preview 2008
As the organisers say, it’s much more than just a hillclimb. The theme this year is ‘Hawthorn to Hamilton –…
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The party planners
There’s a date to fix, cars and drivers to find, F1 stars to lure… Not surprisingly it takes a dedicated…
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When Damon Hill left Williams: "I went from Sports Personality of the year to being a nasty smell."
This is the story of how Damon Hill came to lose his drive and win the World Championship at the same…
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Lance Macklin: Cowboy, sailor, racer, inventor… and ‘chippie’
”All my life I’ve wanted to run a chippie”. So said Lance Macklin to his young second wife Gill, and…
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CART: the series F1 once feared – born of necessity, died of neglect
In 1978, Indycar racing was underpaid, undervalued and under the blundering leadership of the United States Auto Club. Purses were…
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Will it be alright on the night?
Just staging an F1 street race, let alone running it at night, is a mammoth task. But that is Singapore’s…
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Lunch with... Peter Warr
At its zenith, Lotus was Formula 1’s most consistently successful team, winning 71 World Championship races in 19 seasons. Ferrari’s…
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Worlds apart: When IndyCar took on F1 in the same race – and won
It was a novel, if not naïve, concept: bringing 10 of the best and bravest IndyCar drivers from America to…
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High targets for Silverstone
Roger Etcell, the man behind Silverstone Classic, has pledged to make it the best motoring festival in the world and…
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Amon Ferrari has first race in 39 years
The Ferrari 312 raced during 1968 by Chris Amon returned to racing after a gap of 39 years when new…
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Vatanen, Gronholm to attend Rally Show
Former World Rally Champion Ari Vatanen is the latest star name confirmed for the Rally Show at Chatsworth on the…
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In brief, July 2008
Willie Green will be in charge of selecting entries for the annual ‘Circuit des Remparts’ race meeting at Angoulême in…
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City-centre F1 demos planned
A series of demonstration events for Grand Prix cars from 1988-98, some in European city centres, is the new project…
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Mercedes joins GpC
The ‘Silver Arrow’ Mercedes C9 Group C car that took five victories in the 1989 World Sportscar Championship in the…
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McLaren stars for Brooklands
Heikki Kovalainen will join McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton at the Brooklands ‘Double 12’ Festival on June 28/29, a week before…
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