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Editorial, March 1998
By Andrew Frankel, Editor You will not be able to read this without noticing that we have redesigned the front…
March 1998
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Does your car have Goodwood Past?
Goodwood has been deluged with mail from prospective competitors since it announced the programme for its Motor Circuit Revival Meeting…
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Coming soon - the patter of tiny Goodyears
Who can forget the six-wheeled Tyrrell P34 Grand Prix cars which Jody Scheckter, Patrick Depailler and Ronnie Peterson raced in…
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Moss to star on Timewarp TV
You may or may not regard yourself as a racing 'petrolhead', but that title introduces a Stirling Moss evening on…
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Roger Clark 1940-1998
Roger Clark MBE, Britain's greatest rally driver of the pre-four-wheel drive era, and arguably its finest ever exponent of the…
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Underground, Overground, Thunderbolt's free
Optimism thrives in New Zealand. The £100,000 needed to get Golden Arrow running again pales before the dream of Roy…
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Around the World rally set for Millennium
Around the World in 80 Days is the latest challenge set for the Millennium by Philip Young of the Classic…
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Rare Ligier sports-racer back after 27 year rest
En route to entering Grand Prix racing as a constructor in 1976, French Formula One privateer of the mid-1960s Guy…
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Brooks bids for US car auction market
It is scarcely 10 years since I watched agog as Christies sold the Kellner Coupe Bugatti Royale for £5.5 million.…
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Events of note
February 21 Silverstone (GB) Pomeroy Trophy fun event kicks off the VSCC's circuit season. Cars old and new compete head…
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From our Archives
Formula Three Review It started in November 1982 and lasted until June this year: a one-man domination of F3 that…
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Modern Times
By Simon Taylor Every Newspaper and Magazine I pick up seems to be telling me that 1998 is going to…
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Letters from readers, March 1998
Lotus documentary Sir, I wonder if any of your readers could help me with the research for a proposed TV…
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Jean Behra: Nigel Roebuck's Legends
Through my 20-odd years as a Grand Prix journalist, I have been repeatedly surprised by the drivers' lack of childhood…
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"Im not a great fan of modern F1 cars...
...They are so bloody boring." Formula One in 1998 Gordon Murray, designer of the most successful Grand Prix car ever…
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Britain's First Grand Prix Car
Grand Prix Racing began in 1906 in France, but it was 1907 before the first British entry. Bill Boddy describes…
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Blue Genie
Silverstone is deserted while, in the pitlane, Jackie Stewart's F1 car awaits your pleasure...for Stephen Sutcliffe, this was no dream.…
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The Full Monty
The modern Monte Carlo rally may be a carefully organised World Championship round, but past events have taken competitors to…
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The Petty rivalry of David Pearson
The day I first met David Pearson, I was enquiring at his motel room door if he was available for…
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Slack in the 'box
BMW'S potent M3 SMG coupe has borrowed technology from the racetrack to let you sample the benefits of a sequential…
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