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Racing’s great lateral thinker 

The unvarnished facts make for grim reading. Of the three LMP1 cars Nissan took to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2015, only one finished...

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Bellof’s rain dance

When I was young, I was taught a mantra that has stayed with me ever since. I’m not sure I believed in it then and I certainly don’t now, but it has a seductive quality...

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The FIA’s deafening silence

The announcement from the F1 Commission meeting on Monday this week has done little to satisfy fans around the world. Of course there are due processes and any decisions...

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Lunch alone with Paul Newman

Never meet your heroes? Maybe this time would be okay. I was in California to interview the co-owner of the Newman-Haas Racing team, one Paul Leonard Newman, almost 20 years ago...

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No ordinary amateur

By the time the cars got to Firenze, the 978-mile, 1952 Mille Miglia race seemed almost over. In torrential winds and rain, sportscar specialists Karl Kling and Hans Klenk...

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Finding his flow

After a 30-year career as a Formula 1 aerodynamicist, Frank Dernie sees things you and I do not. We peer out of the window and see trees blowing in the wind, clouds scudding...

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Champ or chump?

Interlagos, November 25th, 2012. As the pack exits turn four, our man is facing the wrong way. Three corners ago he was champion elect: now nothing less than a Herculean...

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Loeb’s full Monte

'C’est bon?' said the old dog stepping from his brand new box of tricks. Oui, Sébastien. C’est très bon. The helicopter shot showed a crowd of people surging forward...

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