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Last week I enjoyed a long chat with Jim Hall, the creator of the legendary Chaparral Can-Am (below with Jim driving) and long-distance sports cars from the sixties. Those cars were at the vanguard of the aerodynamic revolution as Hall pioneered the use of high-mounted, driver-controlled wings and rolled out…
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Nov 25 2008
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Oct 23 2008
Fast and furious: La Carerra Panamericana
I have long suffered from a fascination with Mexico.
In the days of the Mexican Grand Prix I was sadly not yet on the roster of those that might be asked to write about events at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, the circuit in Mexico City’s Magdalena Mixhuca park. Named after the…
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Oct 20 2008
Audi’s seventh ALMS win
Champion Racing’s Audi Sport North America team finished the American Le Mans Series season in style at Laguna Seca last weekend by winning its seventh race of the year and scoring a one-two sweep with the team’s pair of R10 turbo diesels. Lucas Luhr/Marco Werner took their sixth win this…
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Oct 6 2008
McNish’s outstanding performance
Allan McNish drove a superb race at Road Atlanta last Saturday to win the Petit Le Mans for Audi with team-mates Dindo Capello and Emanuele Pirro. The Scot made a grievous error on his out-lap on the way to the grid, losing control on cold tyres and crashing into the…
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Oct 6 2008
The talented few of motorised sport
I’ve been thinking. Well, you need some thinking time when the editor is asking for a couple of blogs each week, preferably opinionated. A little humour is also allowed, maybe taking us down a track other than that of the racing variety.
Anyway, where was I? Yes. What an extraordinary century…
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Filed under: Blogs, Formula 1, Personalities, Rally, Sportscars
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Oct 2 2008
Big names at Petit Le Mans
The Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta has become one of America’s biggest sports car races. Next weekend’s eleventh running of the 1000Km or 10-hour enduro is expected to draw more than 100,000 people over three days, with fans from 18 countries buying tickets to this year’s race. Peugeot is…
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Sep 18 2008
Aston shows its GT force
If you had to name a marque that was totally immersed in racing you might say Ferrari with it’s Formula 1 exploits and F430 racing, or maybe Porsche with its LMP2 car and countless 911 racers. But then there’s Audi, McLaren of course (but I consider this more a racing…
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Sep 15 2008
A weekend to savour
What a weekend that was! You just didn’t know where to look next!
There was young Sebastian Vettel in the rain at Monza, proving what a lot of people have been saying for a long time, especially those who knew him at BMW. Why did they let him go? Then there…
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Filed under: Blogs, Formula 1, Motorbikes, Personalities, Sportscars
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Aug 18 2008
Nice people, great cars
Finns ain’t what they used to be. At least there is one who ain’t what he used to be.
Down the pub on Sunday night, bereft of a race to argue about since Hungary, we started on why Kimi Räikkönen appears to have lost the plot so soon after winning the…
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Jun 16 2008
Be prepared for a new world
A Pole is leading the Formula One World Championship.
BMW has won a Grand Prix.
A black man looks increasingly likely to become President of the United States.
Some of the world’s biggest banks have lost a great deal of money.
A barrel of oil costs more than ever it has.
The paintings, not the…
