Articles tagged Phil Bennett

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Page 100, February 2014

Lunch With... Steve Soper

This serial race winner and straight talker remained a factory driver for almost 20 years. No shortage of anecdotes here, then...Writer Simon Taylor | Photographer James Mitchell Most of the best drivers who earn their living in sports or touring cars have at least cut their teeth in the single-seater formulae. Steve Soper is different. This man racked up a fine career over more than 20 years,...

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Page 80, December 1993

Island hopping

Over 120 cars congregated in the Isle of Man in late September for the three-day Manx Classic, where Mike Sayers swept the pre-war honours in all three sections of the event in his 1937 Riley Sprite Special. There was rain for the Total Oils Hill Climb on Lerghy Frissel, the longest UK hill, where FTD (89.05sec) fell to local man David Mylchreest in his MGB, pursued by Chris Weedon's Sunbeam...