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The 'frightening' Israel Grand Prix that drivers abandoned and fled

Motor racing oddballs can really liven up our sport’s history, and the Formula 2 Israel Grand Prix is right up there. Held in November 1970 on the Mediterranean streets of…

June 2022 Issue

By Mark Bisset

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Home & Away: A Cooper-Jaguar's racing adventures

Peter Whitehead pitted his Cooper-Jaguar T38 at Le Mans in 1955 just after a catastrophic chain of events had catapulted Pierre Levegh’s Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR through the crowd at 6.26pm.…

April 2022 Issue

By Mark Bisset

Clisby V6: An Australian F1 engine, how hard can it be?

Wildly eccentric yet immensely talented, self-taught engineer Harold William Clisby was responsible for Australia’s greatest racing might-have-been: a Formula 1 engine which could have beaten the Repco V8 to the…

April 2021 Issue

By Mark Bisset