Delta Wing’s CEO Dan Partel says the unique single-seater is by no means dead. In fact, Partel is confident he will be able to strike a deal in the next month to build and test a Delta Wing prototype with a plan to race the car in 2013. In recent… Read more
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The Delta Wing lives!
August 31st, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 5 Comments
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Latest Issue – October 2010
August 26th, 2010 | Web Editor
Ferrari 250 GTO
We take to the Goodwood circuit in Innes Ireland’s Tourist Trophy winnerBritish Racing Partnership
The privateers who took on the works and brought full sponsorship to F1Revival preview
Who and what to see at GoodwoodRobert Kubica
After the disappointment of BMW, Renault is offering a promising futureEmanuele… Read more
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The anatomy of an F1 driver
June 11th, 2010 | Rob Widdows | 9 Comments
So Fernando Alonso has insured his thumbs for the sum of 10 million euros. Now, it’s not unusual for athletes or film stars or models to insure a body part, or even two in some memorable cases…
This got me musing on the anatomy of a Grand Prix driver. The… Read more
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Latest Issue – July 2010
May 27th, 2010 | Web Editor
Lotus 38 and 49
Two iconic Clark cars, both restored by Classic Team Lotus to run againClark’s final race
One of the few English journalists at Hockenheim in ’68 recalls fateful dayColin Chapman
The Lotus boss was a complicated but brilliant man, as a new book recallsGoodwood preview
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Alonso, but not by much…
As the 2010 Grand Prix season beckons, most of my acquaintance are agreed that it’s been a very long time since we anticipated a year with such relish. Schumacher back… Alonso at Ferrari… Button with Hamilton at McLaren… four World Champions in the pack… the prospect of four highly competitive… Read more
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A classic Daytona win
February 1st, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | No Comments
This year’s Rolex 24 hours at Daytona produced a similar result to last year with a Brumos Porsche winning from one of Chip Ganassi’s two cars, but without 2009’s drama when Juan Pablo Montoya battled fiercely with David Donohue. The closing hours of this year’s race were disappointingly flat as… Read more
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Will Ferrari come calling for Kubica?
Renault – in more ways than one – has had a poor time of it in Formula 1 over the last couple of years. True, Fernando Alonso returned to the team, after a single season with McLaren, but even the world’s best driver can do little with a fundamentally uncompetitive… Read more
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Fast cars, pit passes, grid walks and lots of chewing gum
April 28th, 2009 | Web Editor | 2 Comments
Having never attended a British Touring Car Championships event, two of Motor Sport magazine’s very own motoring protégés headed to Thruxton to enjoy a day of fast cars and tight bends as Airwaves BMW Team showed Victoria Newell and Jennifer Carruth behind the scenes at the second round of the… Read more
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Pironi – on a par with Prost?
Dear Nigel,
Didier Pironi was (and still is) given relatively bad press, not just because of his days at Ferrari with Gilles Villeneuve. Was this really deserved, and had he not crashed in Germany could he have actually become a greater champion than Alain Prost?
Steve Draper
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Racing truck or BMW M3?
March 6th, 2009 | Ed Foster | No Comments
No doubt many of you have gone on driving experience days before and, as I’m sure you’ll agree, some are more successful than others.
Parting with £100 is one thing, but when you end up with only three laps of the track and a sandwich for lunch that even urban… Read more
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