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Whitmore's early upsets
Sir, With reference to your article in December's magazine on Sir John Whitmore in which he talks about his father,…
February 1999
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How quick was Jim Clark?
Sir, I appreciated very much your December issue and Matthew Franey's analysis of the elements which make some drivers great…
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Roebuck's Legends: Elio de Angelis and the GP Drivers Strike
Denis Jenkinson had Catholic tastes in music, as in much else. If his particular devotion was to traditional jazz -…
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The Long & Winding Road
For fifty years Porsche has sought to conquer nearly every motor sport discipline there is. Usually it succeeded. Gavin Conway…
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Porsche 917 track test
You may know Silverstone's national circuit. For those who do not, it's short and very tight. After the pits it…
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The Birth of the 917
The Porsche 917 was born from regulations aimed to make sure such a car was never built. In 1967, alarmed…
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A Place in the History Books
Porsche has, to date, won just one World Championship grand Prix. The driver was Dan Gurney who now talks to…
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The Sportscar with a Penchant for F1...
Porsche's involvement in the World Championship actually began four years before its F1 debut, and at time when the marque…
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From Racing Stock
As Stock Car racing evolved from dirt track derby to billion dollar business, one family has linked four generations. Mark…
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The worst car I ever drove - Axle tramp
When the steering wheel came off, it still steered from the rear...John Davenport hears about a saloon with an attitude…
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Team Managers - Guy Anthony Vandervell
In part two of our series, Robert Edwards looks at the man who walked out on BRM and yet brought…
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France's second best racing driver
Leonce Girardot had a habit of coming second. Did he lack the ultimate talent or was it just all bad…
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Piers Courage, by his family
Some-time, back in the early sixties, shortly after Piers Courage decided that motor racing was going to be his life,…
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Unbeatable BMW
By Jeremy Walton Published by: Robert Bentley Inc. £59.95. ISBN 0 8376 0206 8 We tend to keep reviews of…
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Auto Union album 1934-1939
By Chris Nixon Published by: Transport Bookman, £39.95. ISBN 85184 056 6 I'll declare my interest now to save you…
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the Renault File
By Eric Dymock Published by Haynes, £19.99. ISBN 0 85429 995 5 Few car companies can boast a longer or…
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Achievements: Land, Sea and Air
By Richard Graves Published by Bloomsbury, £30.00, ISBN: 0 7475 3771 2 This book celebrates more or less a century…
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American Sportscar racing in the 1950s
By Michael Lynch, William Edgar, Ron Parravano Published by Haynes, £29.99. ISBN 0 7603 0367 3 Author Lynch claims this…
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A Century of Grand Prix Motor Racing
By Anthony Pritchard Published by AMP, £19.95. ISBN I 899870 38 5 Do not confuse this book with Ivan Rendell's…
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My greatest race: Cliff Allison
Argentine GP & 1000Km, January 1960 He didn't know it at the time, but Cliff Allison's career was about to…
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