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Entering the final half-hour, Chinetti held a 21-second lead with Nuvolari, the 'Flying Mantuan', gaining. Chinetti stopped for fuel and the lead changed — again. WF Bradley of The Motor…
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We all know that there is only one individual sports car in history to not only claim a World Championship but also Le Mans not once but twice. The story…
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The formation finish, staged for the benefit of the cameras, has become commonplace at Le Mans thanks to a certain manufacturer from Germany. Before Audi’s domination of the event, though,…
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Sometimes things just don’t turn out as they should. If you had been in the grandstands at Le Mans one lap into the 24-hour race of 1962, you’d have had…
Le Mans (Sarthe), June 14th. The Le Mans 24-hour race carries with it more tradition and history than any other event in the minds of most people and the occasion…
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Take out of the equation those pedal-to-metal laps around the old eight-mile Spa-Francorchamps or the pre-Hella Licht-S Osterreichring, and a Porsche 917 couldn't live with a Formula 1 car in…
It's hard to think of a recent equivalent to the Matra racing regime. In one glorious decade, from 1965 to 1974, Matra fielded victorious Grand Prix cars and Le Mans…
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Group Five race, Mainz-Finthen Airfield, 1978 Of course there have been a lot of memorable races over the years, especially in the days of the Porsche 962. I particularly remember…
This was one of those moments Spa seems to produce. It ranks with Mika Hakkinen's move on Michael Schumacher last year, or the first lap of the 1963 GP when…
Mercedes Wins "1,000 Miles" When on the morning of Sunday, 12th April, Rudolf Caracciola and Sebastian roared into Brescia on their giant white Mercedes-Benz, travel-stained with all the dust of…
You can look at Can-Am 1974-style in two ways. The embers of a once-great series given a chance to glow one final time. Or proof that it takes only two…
The enormous crowd, estimated at between 55,000 and 60,000 people, which watched the racing at Goodwood on Easter Monday got excellent value for their ticket-money. Not only did 101 aeroplanes…
The 1981 24 Heures de Francorchamps will be remembered for its relatively incident free progress and a superb battle for the lead which went on all through the night and…
Motor sport technology has gone through several boom periods over the years, but perhaps none bigger than the one happening in the modern era. The by-product of this is that…
Everybody loves a trier – although I’m not sure that the world’s biggest manufacturer of cars will (initially) thank me for calling it such. Admittedly Toyota is today more of…
From a personal perspective, Le Mans has hosted far more heartbreaking 24-hour races than this and you need look back no further than last year to know it. And while…
