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Insight - Quick, quick, stall
Radicals are very driveable and a blast on the track – once you get them going, that is… When you’ve…
March 2009
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Motor Sport takes a stand
Despite the current doom and gloom, the racing community put on a great show at Autosport International. And we were…
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UK festivals for Masters, but fewer trips abroad
Alongside a major presence in the Silverstone Classic, the Masters Racing Series will organise racing festivals at Donington Park (May…
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Classic line-up to span a century of racing
An overhaul of the race content and a new company to promote and organise the event are the major changes…
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In brief, March 2009
Following date clashes with the DTM, the 2009 Jim Clark Revival Meeting will be held at the Lausitz Speedway rather…
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Etcell defends Silverstone record
Roger Etcell, boss of 2008 Silverstone Classic promoters Motion Works UK, has hit back at comments made by Ken Prichard…
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Tour to take in Montlhéry
One of the most famous venues in French racing heritage, the banked circuit at Montlhéry, will be back in competitive…
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One-litre F3 cars come out to play
An initiative by the 1000cc FORMULA 3 Historic Racing Association to bring representative fields of 1-litre F3 cars back into…
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Rally club reunites Monte Minis
Forty-five years after they were part of BMC’s winning team on the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally, two famous works Mini…
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Legends race entry refined
Cars built between 1949 and 1965 will contest the 2009 Le Mans Legends race, run on the Saturday morning (June…
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Bentley plans two-day festival
The Bentley Drivers’ Club will run a two-day race meeting for the first time over the weekend of August 8/9…
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Pre-war cars to be tested on rally tour
A new historic road rally for pre-war cars will be held from March 27-29, when Philip Young’s Endurance Rally Association…
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After sales service
Coys has developed its own unique salesroom as an alternative to selling under the hammer at auction Chris Routledge, the…
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Auctions
It’s not often that a car auction, let alone a car, makes it into the daily papers. But the 1937…
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MSA's champions include our man
The MSA’s Night of Champions award ceremony at the Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall, London, was as big a…
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David Brabham's charity kart race
David Brabham summoned his most charitable racing friends to take part in the 2009 BP Ultimate Celebrity Kart Challenge at…
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Porsche 956/962
Stars of Group C then and now, the 956 and its descendant 962 inspired a generation. Its legacy? Six Le…
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"I raced one"
This former BTCC ace got a career leg-up after being asked to drive a 962 at Le Mans in 1990,…
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Reviews, March 2009
The Maserati 300S Walter Bäumer Two huge monographs on rare cars in one month! Along with Simon Moore’s Alfa 2.9…
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In a Galaxie far, far ahead...
How Jack Sears and the big Ford Galaxie changed the shape of British tin-top racing back in 1963 Touring car…
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