Doug Nye

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The renowned motor racing historian is the author of countless books and articles on the sport, is adviser to the Goodwood organisation and worked for Motor Sport 40 years ago when Bill Boddy was still in the office. He contributes his regular column presenting a sideways look at motorsport from its very earliest days to the latest trends in Formula 1.

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Strict rules haven't spoilt all the technical fun in F1

Overall, Sebastian Vettel's second consecutive World Championship-winning season was rather less predictable than its outcome might suggest. Most races were quite close and exciting. They were, as Mr Ecclestone sometimes…

December 2011 Issue

By Doug Nye

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Road Test Report on a Sports Car

The Fuel-Injection Triumph TR5 PI On October 3rd last year Standard-Triumph announced the latest model in their successful range of TR sports cars, this one being christened the Triumph TR5…

August 1968 Issue

By Doug Nye

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Clunk-click every race - even in '64

While the 1953 Carrera Panamericana regulations demanded the fitting of seat belts in closed cars, such devices remained a source of contention well into the 1960s. Some early American racers…

June 2010 Issue

By Doug Nye

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Lotus wasn't only Indy innovator

Jackie Stewart is to drive the Ford Museum’s ex-Jim Clark 1965 Indy-winning Lotus 38 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Even with long weeks to go he was thoroughly pumped…

July 2010 Issue

By Doug Nye

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Thousands gather to pay their respects to Mike

On a freezing cold and drippy wet Sunday in January, the little Georgian market town of Farnham – on the Surrey-Hampshire border – is usually very quiet. For me it’s…

April 2009 Issue

By Doug Nye

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Middle-aged but still game

Forty-two years ago the fourth string to Col Hoare’s Le Mans bow carried off an unexpected trophy – and is still flying his colours I will admit it – bawling…

February 2009 Issue

By Doug Nye

'Mick' Hawthorn hits the headlines - Left

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'Mick' Hawthorn hits the headlines

That’s what the papers at first called the blond kid from Farnham when he swapped a pre-war Riley for one of Cooper’s latest single-seaters and began to make waves This…

April 2012 Issue

By Doug Nye

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In Caracciola's footsteps

An irresistible opportunity to take a pedigree Mercedes to the Goodwood hill’s summit Late on Sunday afternoon at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, I was offered a drive in one…

September 2012 Issue

By Doug Nye

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Driven in very different ways 'Iron man' EddIe Hall loved a drIvIng challenge, so goodness knows what he'd have made of autonomous cars... America's fabled Pikes Peak mountain climb —…

July 2011 Issue

By Doug Nye

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Road races that provoked rage

Early city-to-city racing in France provided ample proof of the dangers of motor sport, but despite a public outcry such events were not easily curtailed Against the background of recent…

January 2012 Issue

By Doug Nye

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The supercar that Wimille designed

Jean-Pierre Wimille was the ﬁnest racing driver of the late ’40s, but as early as 1943 in wartime France he’d conceived a lightweight, streamlined ‘supercar’. It was to be rear-engined…

October 2010 Issue

By Doug Nye

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Room on the podium for all

Watching Jenson Button, Nick Heidfeld and Timo Glock blinking in the floodlights at the rain-truncated Malaysian GP’s dusky podium ceremony simply reminded me of the distinctly unchoreographed ‘podia’ witnessed in…

June 2009 Issue

By Doug Nye