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Week of champions

I know you’re probably here for tales of Bugattis and Bizzarrinis, but I was thinking about the Passat CC the other day. In fact it was just the Volkswagen CC or Comfort Coupé...

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Racing school

As I wrote in an earlier article, I believe great racing drivers are both born and made – it's a combination of nature and nurture. For several decades, teams and manufacturers...

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A Storm over Le Mans

There were a couple of crummy garages down at far the end of the Le Mans pits, just where the grandee-team cars would open up the throttles as they rejoined the 24-hour race...

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The mighty Michèle Mouton

One thing we should all do this year is acknowledge the 40th anniversary of Michèle Mouton’s 1982 World Rally Championship campaign, for it is by some margin the finest performance...

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Taking sides

The coffee machine has only just been unpacked after moving house, which tells you how early on in proceedings I am. Consequently I haven’t got around to putting books on shelves...

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Solberg versus the Welsh forests

As the penultimate stage loomed before him, the champion’s title aspirations appeared to be on life support. Victory last time out in Japan may have provided some much-needed respite...

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The finale to end them all

That was the craziest final 10 minutes to an F1 season I can remember. For decades, anyone who was in Abu Dhabi will be telling their grandchildren how lucky they were...

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Did the best man win?

It’s the last lap of the last race of the season. And the title seems sewn up. Indeed the team is already celebrating their man’s victory. But then something happens involving...

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