March 1995
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Matters of moment, March 1995
Unspectacular, and unnecessary At a pre-season press briefing, Max Mosley spoke confidently about the FIA's chances of avoiding the type…
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Obituary
Frank Costin Frank Costin died on February 5 after a short illness. He was 73. Frank was working for De…
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The unlikely lads
Nigel Mansell, McLaren driver. An unthinkable notion in the past, but now circumstance and market forces have brought the two…
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Fuzzyveldt
The first non-championship Formula 3000 race at Kyalami was a rip-roaring success. Only after the participants had drifted away did…
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A Spaniard in the works
Unpeturbed by his narrow defeat in last year’s WRC, Carlos Sainz got the new campaign off to a flying start…
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Winning is its own reward
Kenneth Eriksson scored his first WRC success since 1991, but his victory was tainted... Staffan Parmander sat in the car,…
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Questions, questions
”Is crash. Is frightening. Is fast. Is funny." Giampiero Simoni's grasp of English may be marginal but no one bettered…
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Miami advice
Who is well placed to win IndyCar races this year? And who will be in charge of the show 18…
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The hares and the tortoise
A late regulation change led to the Porsche factory withdrawing from the Daytona 24 Hours in something of a huff.…
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Canary warp
Thought Volvo's T-5 was a touch extreme, perchance? Enter the T-5R... Just when you thought it was safe to re-emerge.…
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One Race Wonder
When a Mercedes-Benz W165 runs at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in June, it will be only the second time…
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The Mercer
Time was when I tended to overlook American sports-cars as not exactly in keeping with the British vintage scene. The…
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Lunchtime
Those who grew up, as it were, in the days when Lotus were successful in the Grand Prix field must…
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Wrong Routes
Reading in the February issue of Aeroplane Monthly of the sad accident which occurred at the 1952 SBAC Farnborough (RAE)…
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The Things They Say...
He left the country broke and disillusioned, to spend the rest of his days racing foreign cars. He finally met…
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The Things They Said...
"Campari allowed his Maserati to be pushed off by two mechanics, contrary to regulations, on his second pitstop... He was…
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Don't call us...
Delving again into Doug Nye's stupendous history of BRM, which I regard as the motoring book of 1994, and noting…
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Out Of The Past, March 1995
There is interest in the cars of noble families, especially if they took to motoring from early times. I am…
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Film Review
BBC 2, in The Last Machine, featuring early cinema films, made the point that then accuracy was not important, but…
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