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He co-owned the Spirit Formula 1 team in the early 1980s, helped mastermind Audi’s successes in the British Touring Car Championship in the mid-1990s, was at the helm of the…
Audi announces its withdrawal from DTM at the end of the 2020 season, leaving only BMW confirmed for 2021
Plans have been revealed for the world’s first multi-brand, all-electric touring car racing series that, organisers say, will differentiate itself from Formula E by promoting performance over efficiency to change…
Robert Kubica will race in the DTM championship this year, after confirming a deal with the French ART Grand Prix team to run a BMW M4. The 35-year-old has been…
The Winkelhock family has tried many branches of the sport. The legacy began with Manfred Winkelhock – a veteran of 56 grands prix – who was killed during an accident…
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It’s July 1988 and I’m at Brands Hatch, waiting impatiently between Druids and Graham Hill Bend for the manic pack of RS500 Cosworths, E30 M3s and assorted Class C and…
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Maranello and Mladá Boleslav: both are touchstones on motor sport’s landscape, yet one is famous the world over while the other is known barely at all. The less celebrated of…
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20. Nicola Larini The Italian’s performance in the 1993 German Touring Car Championship (aka Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft, DTM ) was stupefying. As the series entered its hi-tech phase he grabbed…
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Oil. It’s what our sport runs on. It’s vital, but in the wrong place it can ruin all your plans. It happened to Andy Rouse late in 1977. The place:…
Everything is wrong. The engine won't work below 5500rpm and the red line states 7200rpm. The water temperature already says the massive, 5.4-litre, 560bhp V12 motor is starting to cook…
Roberto Ravaglia collects touring car titles like Rupert Murdoch does media outlets. In the second half of the 1980s the Venetian was the undisputed saloon car king, winning consecutive European,…
