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The Penske team was in trouble. Firstly, its PC16 hadn't worked in the opening rounds of 1987, and now it faced the Indy 500, running year-old March 86Cs. Then, early…
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Ray Harroun spent seven hours on the three million bricks of Indianapolis getting his bones beaten to powder winning the inaugural 500-mile sweepstakes. Called upon to say a few words…
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He was the face of the radical movement that changed open-wheel racing in the USA forever, and yet he did it with a style and a grace that disarmed his…
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Ayrton Senna's last F1 win was delivered in some style – his McLaren team manager and close friend Jo Ramirez recalls the heady day to James Elson
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It wasn’t an auspicious start. Less than an hour into BMW’s 1999 Le Mans 24 Hours campaign at the pre-event test one car was parked in the barriers, the other…
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Reynard in a Reynard? This we’ve got to see. Especially as the car in question is peak Formula 3000, the long-defunct Formula 1 feeder that roamed Europe as a gloriously…
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Get it stopped. Stuff it in to the apex. Nail it on the way out. Medium-speed, high-downforce is the current Formula 1 way. Flat out is flat out is flat…
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Think of Prodrive and what comes to mind? I’m guessing it’s Colin McRae in his blue and yellow Subaru leaving his WRC competitors for dust. But maybe I’m wrong. Perhaps…
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The most beautiful racing circuit in the world — that was the standard boast. Subjective in the extreme, for sure, but standing atop the valley slopes that tumble to the shores…
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Shielding my eyes against the sun, I gaze back along the straight. Stretching to the horizon is a silver-black band of Tarmac spray-gunned with can and shrouded by converging lines…
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It was what the French call 'Un été de la Saint-Martin"— an Indian Summer. Across continental Europe the weather had been hot, oppressive. During our night time run into France…
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Where in Britain can you still drive in the wheel tracks of Nuvolari, Rosemeyer and Lang? Or recapture for a fleeting moment the zing of supercharged V16s echoing among trees?…
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There is no need to proffer a history of Brooklands here — that story has been told by someone better qualified than me. Everyone knows what Brooklands is, thanks to…
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Strictly speaking, I'd never been to Reims before. But I had, like millions of others, been through Reims dozens of times. Every time I had cause to be almost anywhere…
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Just a 20-minute drive from San Francisco's busy downtown heart lies an oasis: Golden Gate Park. At 50 blocks long (3.5 miles) and half a mile wide its 1013 acres…
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All we have to go on is a crumpled circuit map that magazine editor Paul Fearnley pressed into my hand back in England. That and the knowledge that, each year…
