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Matters of moment, August 1989
Split-seconds The sprint scene in this country began at Mucklow Hill in Halesowen in 1900 (with a Mors making FTD),…
Split-seconds The sprint scene in this country began at Mucklow Hill in Halesowen in 1900 (with a Mors making FTD),…
Historic Nurburgring One of the great historic meetings of the year takes place at the Nurburgring in Germany on the…
Berger for Prost As expected, Alain Prost announced his intention to leave McLaren International at the end of the season,…
A fillip for racing Success came early for Renault, after all. it came in appalling conditions in Montreal, when the…
Plus ca change Suddenly, things weren’t looking so rosy for Ayrton Senna. The rot had started with that electronics problem…
The Price of Progress Ayrton Senna must be wondering who he’s offended these days. Since Phoenix nothing has gone right…
Wound Up Tight The first half of the 1989 Formula One season ended on a high-speed note round the flat…
A scorcher! Longer-distance saloon car racing in Britain reached new levels of endurance ten years ago, when the BRSCC and…
A Busy Month Dear Reader, It’s a good thing that the months of June provides us with the longest day…
Too much advice! There is probably just time for you to enter the Fiesta Formula One Nations Cup, and it…
Ole! Fresh from success at Le Mans, the Sauber Mercedes team went to the Jarama track outside Madrid with another…
Brief encounter Perhaps “launch” is too generous a word for the unveiling of the Jaguar XJR-11 in the paddock at…
The survivor Like Hitler’s personal car, there are plenty of “first” Minis around. Sometimes they are a prize to be…
Small wonder! When BMC’s Mini was unveiled in 1959 and enjoyed instant success, it caused a revolution in the car…
From Another ERA Before I drove a small green 1.3-litre Mini at the SMMT test-day at Donington, one sporting an…
Thouroughbred amongst meetings Difficult though it might have been to drag myself away from a paddock full of interesting cars…
We didn't mean that tough Make it tougher, said last year’s entrants as they handed over their entry fees for the 1989 Pirelli Classic…
Boasting Big It took many years to do it, but Vauxhall finally made the breakthrough about a dozen years ago when…
VSCC Colerne While many must have been crying into their wine because Jaguar and failed to achieve its seventh victory…
The Brooklands Society held its annual Reunion in torrid heat on June 18. The theme of the day was the…
Formula 1 podium finisher Stefan Johansson on Moneytron's eccentric owner, who died on December 14 “It’s easy to forget that he spent barely a year in Formula 1 because everybody…
Grand Prix editor Mark Hughes explores the repercussions of Red Bull's disastrous Azerbaijan Formula 1 Grand Prix collision It’s interesting to ponder if there will be ramifications from the…
Over the next month Red Bull will be releasing a series of videos called The A to Z of Formula 1. In this first installment Christian Horner, Adrian Newey, Sebastian…
Over 200,000 racing fans will descend on Goodwood House this summer for the annual Festival of Speed — a world-renowned 4-day event which showcases and celebrates the very best of…