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Meeting Ayrton Senna

He was taller than I had expected, and more annoyed too. I’d been waiting under the awning at the foot of the steps leading to the McLaren motor home when he emerged...

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Miss Shilling’s orifice

A racer of cars and motorcycles, Tilly Shilling was also a brilliant engineer. Joana Fidalgo reveals her most important – and perhaps simplest – contribution to the war effort

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The Astons I created

Ian Callum is famed for designing the Aston Martin DB7, but that was just where his role in the brand’s rebuilding began, as he recalls here

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The real deal?

They really should have charged another £3000. Anyone happy to lay down the requisite £552,000 (once you’ve added VAT at 20 per cent) surely wouldn’t have quibbled...

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Newey’s masterpiece?

‘It will have Formula 1 levels of performance,’ says Adrian Newey in that laconic, matter-of-fact way of his. Motor racing’s sharpest mind delivers the claim with such...

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Bad company

It was late and I was tired. We’d been on the road for hours. I just wanted a beer and a bed, and I could not care less which variety of either they came in...

Motorsport

The thrill of driveways

I’ve just had a look on Rightmove, but it seems you can’t filter for ‘driveway’. Which will be a shame if I ever win a big EuroMillions rollover. Perhaps at the point a nine-figure...

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Pushing to the limit

Steering is usually the first thing we learn how to do. Whether it is sitting on a lap and working an actual wheel or simply picking up a plate, frisbee or frozen pizza...

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