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Precision: April 2018, April 2018
Keeping an eye on time: powerful players in the watch world HERMÉS Within the world of high horology, it is…
April 2018
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Formula 1 season preview
In less than a month 20 drivers of 15 nationalities – including four world champions – will slide into the…
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World champion shakedown: Toto Wolff
Mercedes dominated 2017 and is tipped to do so again this season with its powerful triumvirate of driver, team boss…
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World champion shakedown: James Allison
Mercedes AMG F1’s technical director How much effect has the halo had? “The biggest job was trying to make sure that it…
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World champion shakedown: Lewis Hamilton
World champion 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017 What’s been your role in the development of the new car? “I’m not in the engineers’…
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2018: The key questions
How will the season play out? Here we tackle the big points of contention that will provide the answer Will…
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A champion's view: Sir Jackie Stewart
World champion 1969, 1971, 1973 The thing that I, along with probably all racing enthusiasts, am looking forward to this…
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A champion's view: Mario Andretti
World champion 1978 It’s always suspenseful as to who’s done the best work off-season, how the fight will go between…
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A champion's view: Jody Scheckter
World champion 1979 Of course, the big question this year is going to be whether Ferrari will be able to…
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A champion's view: Alan Jones MBE
World champion 1980 We need grid girls back – what a joke! If I could change one thing, it would…
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A champion's view: Damon Hill OBE
World champion 1996 Like many, I’m eagerly looking forward to seeing how McLaren will perform with Renault power. Will it…
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2018 Formula 1 season preview
2018 DRIVERS AND TEAMS The runners and riders for the coming season MERCEDES First team entry 1954. Races entered 168. Wins 76.…
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Nicely in tune
Once a grass-roots staple, Special Saloon racing is flourishing again – and this year welcomes back a sponsor that first…
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Being Björn
He might not be the most famous Porsche driver but Björn Waldegård can lay claim to being the most successful.…
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The wizard from Oz
Ron Gaudion spent only three seasons as a Jaguar race mechanic – but what seasons He’s no braggart, Ron Gaudion.…
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Reborn in the USA
Behind the fanfare at Daytona, the first chapter of a new story was just beginning: the return of Joest Fifty…
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Lunch With... Giampaolo Dallara
We are in the Osteria delle Vigne, a typical Italian family restaurant just a few miles outside the town of…
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You were there special
The world felt like a bigger place in the early 1970s, but that didn’t deter Don Larsen... Writing from California,…
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In their own words with James Cottingham, DK Engineering
How did you get started in historic racing? As a business DK Engineering has been running historic cars for more…
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The great and sideways
The drivers to watch in 2018 Oliver Hart One of the younger generation of historic racers coming through the ranks,…
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