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Letters, September 2016
Garner’s question time Following Richard Heseltine’s excellent article on the 50th anniversary of the iconic film Grand Prix, I recall…
Garner’s question time Following Richard Heseltine’s excellent article on the 50th anniversary of the iconic film Grand Prix, I recall…
Keeping an eye on the time: powerful players in the watch world by Richard Holt IWC A lot of people find…
Why does the short-lived Can-Am still remain fresh in the memory after 50 years? | writer Pete Lyons Chaparral, Lola, McLaren, Porsche,…
Forget flower power, for race fans the 1960s was all about unbridled horsepower. The Can-Am series was dominated by cars…
McLaren and Lola were already there, so why shouldn’t Lotus join the Brits at the Can-Am party? Planned but never…
Can-Am was blessed with powerfully loud, spectacular cars driven by some of the world’s best drivers, but it also played…
Freshly separated from Ferrari, John Surtees was looking for fresh opportunities during the summer of 1966. The new Can-Am championship…
My personal choice for Can-Am’s six greatest drivers are Bruce McLaren, Denny Hulme, John Surtees, Mark Donohue, George Follmer and…
“I am not driving the car with that...” In an extract from a new Can-Am book, we reveal how junior Lola…
My first choice is Mosport in 1970 when Dan Gurney took over Bruce’s car after McLaren was killed in testing…
We crunch the numbers of the series during its first-generation prime writer Peter Higham So to summarise… the first and original…
There are plenty of American racers who build up a reputation in their own country before they venture to Europe…
The name might be familiar, but his story won’t be. A rising kart star chatted to Jack Phillips There’s only…
It’s the formula that isn’t a formula, but this class of racing has spread worldwide, drawing in privateers and factories…
Thunder and lightening Its forebear had a reputation as one of the most accomplished racers of its kind, but AMG…
Don’t expect a cuddle Its predecessor ‘put an arm around’ amateur drivers, but this pricey new thoroughbred is a much…
A Silverstone hangar is home base for an ambitious outfit Ever wondered what’s inside that big hangar to your left…
A massive success story It might not look the most obvious choice for a GT racer, but results to date confirm…
Whatever the weather, and this time Goodwood was not quite as glorious as in previous years, this was always going…
The editor joins the marque celebrations on the famous hill Friday morning and I’m late. Not the ideal preparation for…
As MotoGP travels to Silverstone, where Formula 1 cars raced five weeks ago, now is as good a time as any to tell the story of how a Norton-based engine beat Ferrari to the F1 constructors' championship
An improved Red Bull and a slightly less than fully fit Mercedes finally swung the balance in the last race of the season, Max Verstappen winning from pole in Abu…
Mercedes’ campaign to win a seventh successive Formula 1 constructors’ championship begins in earnest tomorrow, with the first day of preseason testing. But the hybrid era could have gone in…
Mercedes says it is still investigating why its car was not performing as hoped during F1 testing