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Meeting royalty couldn't be this intimidating. I'm beginning to wonder if anyone who works for Ferdinand Piëch has ever had a beer with the bloke. Here at the 1998 Geneva show...
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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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Things that restore your faith in humanity: the returned wallet; a nice comment on YouTube; Hugh Laurie; a lift door held open; the success of the Morgan 3 Wheeler...
Motorsport
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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Dear Colin, Some cars work as a whole, others can show painfully differing visions between interior and exterior design teams. What car in your opinion has the least well matched...
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John Surtees was a very great driver, and rider. As a person and at least to a hack asking questions he thought obvious or trite, he could be difficult. Curmudgeonly even...
Motorsport
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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I saw a Maserati Bora streaking along the Mall in London the other day, nipping past the traffic until its driver – making the most of going down the gearbox...