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John Barnard ‘Perfect car’ extract: Racing the carbon car
Taken from John Barnard’s recently released biography, The Perfect Car, we pick up the story as McLaren embarks on the 1981 season with F1’s first carbon car
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A Hockenheim classic: Ickx vs Rindt, 1970
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John Barnard ‘Perfect car’ extract: Racing the carbon car
Taken from John Barnard’s recently released biography, The Perfect Car, we pick up the story as McLaren embarks on the 1981 season with F1’s first carbon car
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A Hockenheim classic: Ickx vs Rindt, 1970
As the dust settles on Silverstone, teams prepare for the run south-east to Germany… but both legs of this traditional July double are in jeopardy Is something rotten in the…
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Save the British Grand Prix
This weekend’s British F1 Grand Prix proved a point to Andrew Frankel: Silverstone needs to stay When it was conceived sometime last week, this column was going…
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2018 British Grand Prix report
This was a close one, a battle royale between Ferrari and Mercedes around Silverstone’s flat-out sweeps on a scorching summer day. The two fastest Formula 1 cars of all time…
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MPH: Ferrari gains ground on Mercedes at Silverstone
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‘Refusing to accept defeat’ – 1987 British GP
I’d been counting down the gap, lap by lap, as the Williams duo blasted past into the braking area for Stowe. Nigel Mansell, the ‘true grit, true Brit’ hero of…
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