Jim Clark – The best of the best, extract #1
The first in a series of extracts this week from Jim Clark – The Best of the Best, written by David Tremayne and published by Evro publishing, available to order now …
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The first in a series of extracts this week from Jim Clark – The Best of the Best, written by David Tremayne and published by Evro publishing, available to order now …
“The car just doesn’t respond the way you like and it’s sliding in places you don’t want it to slide. I want the car to be spot-on when I hit…
Looking into the database for the news on this day March 30 1948 Formula 3 driver and Grand Prix team owner Eddie Jordan was born in Dublin 70 years ago. He…
It’s a glimpse but a telling one. Just over nine minutes into the below film of the 1965 French Grand Prix is footage of the top guns – bar an…
Mark Hughes reports on the Formula 1 season-opener at Melbourne The race turned on a confluence of flukes, a repaying of karmic debt owed to Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari from…
Sebastian Vettel holds off polesitter Lewis Hamilton for victory in Australia Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel won the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix at Melbourne after a mid-race virtual safety car dashed…
Was it ‘party mode’ that gave Lewis Hamilton pole in Australia? Mark Hughes investigates… Lewis Hamilton’s pole-securing final qualifying run, in which he found 0.6sec while everyone else found a…
Record-breaking Hamilton takes clear opening pole of 2018 Lewis Hamilton secured pole position for the 2018 Australian Grand Prix with a stunning fastest lap in qualifying, his fifth pole in a…
Formula 1 is heading to Netflix, but not how you’d think Following speculation of Formula 1 moving its broadcasting focus to streaming services, Liberty has announced a new documentary series…
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