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Sir, Reading your magazine has become a must for all the staff who look after historic racing cars here at…
March 2002
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Vaux Unpop?
Sir, I would like to thank you for adding many thousands of pounds to the value of my humble Vauxhall…
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Maserati's Achilles Heel
Sir, Nigel Roebuck's interesting essay on Achille Varzi needs a little amplification. He suggests that Varzi moved from Alfa Romeo…
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Finding the Unser
Sir, I read the article The One that Got Away about Bobby Unser and the 1979 Indianapolis 500 with great…
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Modern Times
At last! The Formula One carousel is about to turn once more. Melbourne is almost upon us. Misleading testing times,…
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Legends - Gilles Villeneuve
We will greatly miss the presence of Jean Alesi in the Formula One paddocks this year. Apart from being a…
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Why Graham Hill was – and still is – Mr Monaco
Time was running out. On several levels. The most pressing problem, however, was to qualify. This process would have been…
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Graham Hill: The smart Indianapolis rookie
It wasn't Graham Hill's first visit to Indianapolis, but it was his first crack at the race - and he…
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Perfect Riposte
He hadn't won a Formula One race for two years and some felt he should retire. But as David Malsher…
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The nine that got away
Graham Hill drove an electric mix of machinery in a Le Mans career that spanned three decades and 10 starts.…
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Crowning achievement
F1 racers don't always make great 24-hour drivers, but on his tenth visit to Le Mans, Graham Hill knew exactly…
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A false economy
In only his second Grand Prix with Ferrari, this unlucky Swede raced into Italian Folklore, but not the record books.…
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Exit stage left
The Rally of Portugal was once a cutting-edge event indicative of a new Era. Former winner John Davenport explains why…
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Summit meeting
Driving over 1000 miles through the Alps isn't a task to be undertaken lightly in 2002. Bill Boddy describes the…
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Lotus 56
He's designed some of the greatest and most successful Formula One cars of the last two decades, but Mr Barnard…
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Banking on the future
Entrepreneurs had spent 50 years trying to persuade the owners to sell Sitges — to no avail. Their on-site chicken…
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Sitges
This Spanish Brooklands suffered a swift fall from grace. It was undeserved, says Paul Fearnley, and only now - 80…
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Raymond Sommer: the racing hero with an independent flair
You might think the man who gave Ferrari their first GP win, humbled Nuvolari, won Le Mans twice, and upset…
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Brands awareness
Formula Ford festival - In the first of a new series, David Malsher recalls how local knowledge (plus a talented…
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Motor Show Memories
With no London Motor Show in 2001, in spite of an attendance of 365,000 in 1999,1 am reminded of past…
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