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Andrew Frankel
Road cars Ultimate track day machines It is unlikely you’d be reading this if you had not first been enthralled…
December 2007
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Open season
For most of the F1 year four drivers wrangled over the title chase – including spectacular newcomer Lewis Hamilton. But…
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Hard and fast
Jacky Ickx was blindingly quick in the wet and a man who raced purely for the satisfaction of winning. Although…
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Do it once and do it right...
That’s the mantra of the 92 men who work into the night at every Grand Prix to get the Renault…
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Lunch With... Emerson Fittipaldi
The Hamilton phenomenon has rewritten the Formula 1 record books. But Lewis’s meteoric progress doesn’t diminish the achievements, 37 years…
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Jack Lewis: the F1 driver turned sheep farmer
There are racing drivers who do not look like racing drivers – for example, Bobby Rahal, bless his fireproof socks…
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Salvadori on Brabham
The phrase 'friends and rivals' was rarely more apposite: Black Jack was a good mate, a fine engineer and a…
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A life less ordinary
There was nothing conventional about the way American racer and Land Speed Record chaser Mickey Thompson lived – or died…
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Close quarters
In the cockpit of the groundbreaking car that took Alain Prost to within a whisker of Renault’s first ever Formula…
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Desmodromic valvegear
Mechanical valve closure has many benefits – and it helped long-time proponent Ducati win the MotoGP championship By Keith Howard…
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Brand royalty
With the 8C, Alfa hasn’t just revived its core values, it has done so in dramatic fashion with a supercar…
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Downward spiral
A defection of star drivers and dwindling audiences have dealt a huge blow to both premier US open-wheel series By…
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One-night stand
When the chance to drive a Jaguar XKR at Silverstone in the Britcar 24 Hours came our way, it wasn’t…
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A whiff of success
Aftershave sponsorship landed single-seat specialist Chip Ganassi a drive for Sauber at Le Mans in 1987 – but it soon…
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Bathed in nostalgia
This year's Spa Six Hours allowed those present to immerse themselves in some fine historic racing By Marcus Pye Hallowed…
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Reviews, December 2007
Ferrari Grand Prix Moments Jesse Alexander With over 1500 results coming up for ‘Ferrari’ on Amazon, it hardly needs explaining…
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Doug Nye
When racing went Caracas Maserati was on the verge of a world title – and total financial meltdown. A dramatic…
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Lotus-Cortina
The car that started the trend for homologation specials and managed to make Ford look cool By Richard Heseltine /…
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Bill Boddy
The American Rolls-Royces R-R’s early Stateside history is intriguing and its reputation disputed I have no compunction about discussing Rolls-Royces,…
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