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The other (quicker) Jacques Villeneuve
There’s a little town in Quebec, situated in the nub where three rivers meet, hence the name Trois Rivières. There,…
October 1998
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Book reviews, October 1998, October 1998
The BMC/BL Competitions Department By Bill Price Haynes, £29.95. ISBN 1 85960 439 This is scarcely a second edition of…
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My greatest race - Jacky Ickx
Le Mans 24 Hours June 11-12, 1977 He had already won the great race on three occasions, but Jacky Ickx…
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An Isotta Fraschini Puzzle
I sometimes think that I was put on this earth, ineffectively, to try to answer motor racing puzzles. The most…
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Miscellany, October 1998
I was reminded of an interview I did years ago with Hector Dobbs, who raced, very successfully, a series of…
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Summer Serendipity
Owners of older cars continue to enjoy driving to Mark Garfitt's Summer Serendipity (a word introduced to the VSCC by…
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A Goodwood Trophy
Andrew Frankel was right when he observed that Goodwood was the true successor to Brooklands. With its short races at…
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Cars in Books, October 1998
When I realised that The Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale (Fourth Estate, 1997, ISBN: 1-85702-360-9) was a very…
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A Supercharged Commotion
It happened in 1924. The Alvis company upset Darracq, after these cars had achieved their 1, 2, 3 victory in…
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GP Itala remembered
One of the better things that has happened to me has been to receive a pictorial record of Sam Clutton's…
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Miscellany, October 1998
At the annual Brooklands Society reunion the Napier-Railton was the major attraction, and 13 genuine ex-Brooklands cars and three ex-BMCRC…
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