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2016 German Grand Prix
The national anthem had finished, the cars were in their grid places, the drivers walking towards them. Lewis Hamilton paused for a time as he reached his Mercedes and stared…
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The national anthem had finished, the cars were in their grid places, the drivers walking towards them. Lewis Hamilton paused for a time as he reached his Mercedes and stared…
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“It’s about making the driver the limit once again – which he is not at the moment, not usually,” Sebastian Vettel tells Mark Hughes in our exclusive interview, published in…
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This week in motor sport from the Database and Archive, featuring numerous German Grands Prix, birthdays for Le Mans winners and much more. July 25 1982: Nelson Piquet’s retirement hands Renault a…
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31 – 1970 Monaco GP
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). If this race had played out as it started, there’s little chance the 1970 Monaco GP…
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32 – 1988 Japanese GP
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). He’d come this close, nothing would stop him now. Was this destiny? Perhaps, if you believe…
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33 – 1956 Italian GP
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A couple of my colleagues were looking rather doleful, I thought, as I walked into the Silverstone press room on the Thursday before the British Grand Prix. When I asked…
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