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October’s podcast with Tiff Needell
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Will Schumacher go to Sauber F1?
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Motor Sport’s McLaren Special
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‘Dan Gurney for President’
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Lunch with… Professor Sid Watkins
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Patrick Depailler at Long Beach
Formula 1 returns to Singapore in 11 days, so now seems as good a time as any to look back at one of the sport’s great forgotten street circuits: Long…
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Spa’s old circuit still popular as ever
For the last month or so we’ve run a poll asking what your favourite Grand Prix circuit of all time was. Some of you were rather liberal with the criteria…
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Rating Hamilton’s move from McLaren
They insist that they didn’t offer him more money and that he did not seek priority status. The other ‘they’, meanwhile, insist that they fought hard to keep him. So…
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October’s podcast with Tiff Needell
This month we sit down with Tiff Needell – the star of Fifth Gear and Top Gear. He made it, briefly, to Formula 1, but his success came afterwards in…
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Will Schumacher go to Sauber F1?
Finally it’s been confirmed. Lewis Hamilton will move to Mercedes next year, taking the seat of the most successful Formula 1 driver of all time – Michael Schumacher. Replacing Lewis…
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Ron Dennis: still ‘the Man’ at McLaren
Optimising the interaction between two individuals at the appropriate moment of interface can be a challenge – especially when one of them is Ron Dennis. Sorry, I’ll drop the ‘Ronspeak’.…
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Motor Sport’s McLaren Special
November’s edition of Motor Sport is a McLaren special, looking back at the Woking team’s time under Ron Dennis. Dennis took control before the 1981 season, with John Watson winning…
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‘Dan Gurney for President’
When you arrive at the Goodwood Revival this week you maybe intrigued, depending on your age, by a banner on the footbridge that leads from the car parks to the…
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Lunch with… Professor Sid Watkins
Professor Sid Watkins has passed away, aged 84, after a long battle with cancer. His efforts helped transform the safety in Formula 1, to the benefit of us all, and…
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Patrick Depailler at Long Beach
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