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I’m off to Watkins Glen this weekend for an IndyCar race and because I haven’t been there in sixteen years I’m very much looking forward to it. Back in the seventies and early eighties I used to go to the Glen two or three times every year to cover Can-Am,…
Historic Racing
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Jul 4 2008
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Jun 23 2008
Knockhill Speedfair
After working out that we could do quite a large number of races in Britain, and indeed buy a new car for the same price as the Le Mans Classic, it was decided that our first outing in the MGB would be at the Knockhill Classic Speedfair.
With my brother and…
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May 2 2008
Parnelli Jones’s radical ideas
Parnelli Jones is one of the living legends of American racing, up there in the pantheon with Mario Andretti, AJ Foyt and Dan Gurney. Jones dominated three of the seven Indy 500s he started and won the race in 1963, beating Jim Clark. He looked to be a clear winner…
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Apr 25 2008
California Dreaming
The inaugural Formula 5000 race in 1975 at Long Beach.
I’ve enjoyed the pleasure of covering all thirty-four Long Beach Grands Prix, from the inaugural Formula 5000 race back in 1975 through eight Formula One races from 1976-’83 and twenty-five CART or Champ Car races from 1984-2008. This year’s race was…
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Mar 12 2008
Audi v Peugeot – the gloves are off
(1971 Le Mans 24 Hours, Pedro Rodriguez & Jackie Oliver (Porsche 917 LH) leads Gerard Larrousse & Vic Elford (Porsche 917 LH), Mark Donohue & David Hobbs (Ferrari 512M), and Jo Siffert & Derek Bell (Porsche 917 LH))
Do you remember the great days of Les Vingt-Quatre Heures du Mans? When…
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Feb 13 2008
Big things in Littlehampton
I went to Littlehampton this week, a little town by the sea that has many good memories for me.
At the beginning of my journalistic career I spent three years as a reporter on the Littlehampton Gazette, now called the Arun Gazette, presumably in deference to the River Arun which flows…
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Jan 30 2008
Watching and waiting
The passage of time means different things to different people. For a geologist, two hundred and fifty million years is a long time. For us motor racing nuts, seven weeks is a long time. That’s how long it is until the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. And it seems more…
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Jan 28 2008
£20 a minute? That’s ridiculous…
Having not made it onto a racetrack at all last season I am in the throws of doing my medical and re-applying for my racing licence. The medical can pretty much be passed over the phone and the most taxing thing the doctor will do is to take your blood…
