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Classics set to return to Crystal Palace on May 25
South London's Crystal Palace circuit will once more reverberate to the sound of tuned engines on Bank Holiday Sunday and…
June 1997
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Audi to build six 'new' Auto Unions
Audi has commissioned British Specialists Crosthwaite and Gardner to build up to six exact replicas of the 1939 ex-HP Muller…
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Moss, Amon and Hopkirk head star turnout for Basildon Retro '97
Forty years after he became the first British driver to win a World Championship Grand Prix in a British car,…
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Editorial, June 1997
I don't know about you but it seems entirely daft to me that the organisers of the historic race meetings…
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British hillclimb champions celebrate Golden Jubilee
The Majority of the 19 surviving champions and their cars will be present when the Midland Automobile Club hosts the…
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The Manx Motor Racing Club
The Manx Motor Racing Club is inviting owners of sports and GT cars built between the 1930s and the mid…
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Astons and Jags take on US muscle
Muscular Aston Martins and Jaguar E-types of the pre-1970 era are taking on Ford Mustangs, Chevrolet Corvettes and Camaros in…
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Miscellany, June 1997
The Bourne Civic Society plans to establish a permanent Raymond Mays Exhibition in the Lincolnshire town where Mays founded both…
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Indy special in late bid for Goodwood
McLaren Cars Sales Director David Clarke intends to run his 1949 Norm Olson Special Indy car at Goodwood's Festival of…
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Ferrari fever hits Coys Festival
The Coys International Historic Festival at Silverstone in July will mark the 50th anniversary of Ferrari when an amazing 44…
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Lola Formula One folds, leaving £6.3 million debts
The Lola Formula One Team went into liquidation last month with £6.3 million debts. Its parent company, Lola Cars, is…
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Events of note
Events or note MAY 23/25 Norwich Union RAC Classic (GB) Entries are now closed but a fine day of spectating…
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Pescarolo wins tour the France retro
A record entry of 220 cars from 21 countries countries took part in the Tour Auto, but it was the…
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Alfa P3 lifts Patrick Lindsay Trophy in VSCC's Thrilling Silverstone meet
Glorious shirtsleeve weather blessed the opening meeting of the VSCC's racing season, the traditional GP Itala Trophy meeting at Silverstone,…
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Legends
The first thing to say about the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix is that it came close to being called off.…
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Frank Sytner
EARLY EXPOSURE TO THE RACE TRACK SPAWNED A LIFELONG PASSION FOR RACING AND A SUCCESSFUL CAREER It was one of…
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Track record rivals
Sir, I very much enjoyed Alan Henry's article on that most enduring of racing cars (Lotus 72:The Most Sumessful GP…
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Future history
Sir, You took a brave decision to revamp a journalistic institution and, for us older readers, it was not as…
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Identity crisis
Sir, Above Nick Harley's letter (Letters, May) concerning the Super Squalo, you publish a picture of car number 48 at…
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Economical with the truth
Sir, I read your editorial (May) with horror. How can a publication devoted to the sport decide that a section…
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