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George Harrison, Barry Sheene and the Nürburgring: readers revisit racing memories
Matt Bishop’s perceptive piece on the 1976 German Grand Prix and James Hunt’s victory [A frightened James Hunt’s brilliant win:…
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John Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix: the making of F1’s most authentic film
“We are delighted to confirm that the filming, on the Circuit Automobile de Montagne d’Auvergne, for the film Grand Prix, will…
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How James Garner drove the F3 ‘kiddy cars’ and real F1 machinery for Grand Prix
While Brad Pitt’s F1: The Movie failed to earn anything more than a best sound Academy Award back in March, 60…
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JCB Hydromax: how two hydrogen engines delivered 406mph at Bonneville
Andy Green is a rock star in Bonneville. You’d expect no less, given he’s the only human to travel supersonic…
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Bonneville SpeedWeek: where lateral thinking and shared tools chase 200mph
Bonneville SpeedWeek is in its 78th year. It possesses a spirit akin to the Isle of Man TT, its sprawling…
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Charles Strickland Laird’s lost racing archive finds a home in When Gods Wore Nomex
Kevin Rice describes what you are seeing over these pages as “a barn find”, and it’s hard to disagree. The…
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Brooklands 1926: the first British Grand Prix and its centenary return
It is hard to imagine that the speed limit was only raised to a heady 20mph in 1903. With no…
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McLaren MP4/1: how ride height exposed its early porpoising problem
During the summer of 1980, a car that would push Formula 1 into a new era was starting to take…
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John Watson returns to the McLaren MP4/1, 45 years after Silverstone victory
Pembrey in March is never a suntrap. The fifth of that month was no exception. Through the spray came John…
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Alex Wurz on the Benetton weight penalty that shaped his F1 career
There are some drivers whose careers can be measured easily in statistics, their achievements neatly catalogued in tables of wins…
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BAC Mono R shows how far the road-going single-seater has evolved
Can you think of a worse time to have launched a business selling an expensive, single-seat racing car for the…
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Harry Birdsall’s gold-plated Cadillac Elegante comes to auction for the first time
Gold plated car becomes a fact. So ran the headline in the April 28, 1955 edition of The New York…
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Simon de Burton’s auction picks: from a Honda RC30 to a Bugatti Type 35C
1993 Porsche 911 RSR ‘Strassenversion’ Sold by RM Sotheby’s, £3.49m Judging values accurately hasn’t been easy in recent years, so…
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Mario Andretti in the rain at Montreal’s 1978 season finale
October 7, 1978 Montreal, Canada With the 1978 F1 title already in the bag for Lotus’s Mario Andretti, the final…
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