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It might seem impudent to run a feature in the pages of Motor Sport on Jenson Button, a 20 year-old Formula 1 new boy yet to score a podium place.…
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Having begun as a motorcycle grass track as far back as the 1920s, Brands Hatch has been a racing circuit for over 60 years. For more than half that time…
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When he first came to the notice of Europeans, Yoshio Nakamura was pigeon-holed with the usual 'inscrutable’ tag so beloved of westerners encountering an Asian person for the first time.…
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I have recently spent some time with a remarkable woman, so spirited, so passionate, so bright-eyed. And she is 85 years old. We salute the first woman to race in…
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