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2 weeks ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Gordon Cruickshank |Andrew Frankel |Paul Fearnley |Tim Scott
Rivalry is one of the prime tenets of motor sport. But in the case of the long defunct Gnoo Blas circuit in Orange, 177 miles west of Sydney, motor racing was simply the common factor in an intense contest with the neighbouring city of Bathurst, just 35 miles back down the road. Bathurst and Orange had populations of similar sizes, around 18,000 each in the early 1950s, but Bathurst had one thing that Orange did not – Mount Panorama.
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1 month ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Paul Fearnley |Matt Bishop
Malaysia is a beautiful country, and Sepang is in a beautiful part of that beautiful country, the state of Selangor, on the west coast of peninsular Malaysia, its beaches lapped by the South China Sea. Most F1 folk used to stay at hotels near Kuala Lumpur International Airport, which is not actually in Kuala Lumpur at all – any more than London Gatwick or London Stansted or London Luton are in London – but is actually very near Sepang, and therefore very convenient for the Sepang circuit.
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2 months ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Doug Nye |Paul Fearnley |Matt Bishop
Gamston, Cadours and Caen: Matt Bishop looks back on when non-championship F1 races were a significant part of the motor sport calendar In Sydney, Australia, a few days ago, Sébastien Loeb won the Race of Champions; in Melbourne, Australia, in a few days’ time, another motor sport legend will win the Australian Grand Prix. I do not know who that will be, and neither do you, but, like you, I am very much looking forward to finding out.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Paul Fearnley |Simon de Burton |James Elson
Doc Hudson: he’s got more than a couple of Piston Cups in his garage. A star character voiced by Hollywood legend Paul Newman in the wildly successful 2006 Cars film, its depiction was based on the brilliant ‘Fabulous Hudson Hornet’ NASCAR. In CGI form, the talking car became an icon all over again. However, it was its stunning prowess on track first made the car a household name.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Paul Fearnley |Simon Taylor |Nigel Roebuck |Mark Hughes
2025 will be the year that Formula 1’s most successful ever driver and team will be united: Lewis Hamilton will race in Ferrari red. The much anticipated move shines a light on the fact that no British driver has competed full time with the Scuderia for over 30 years. Back in racing’s ‘golden age’ though Enzo Ferrari and his team utilised the talents of British racers frequently, with numerous world championships their reward.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Paul Fearnley
Few knew: ‘Uncle Ken’, firm of handshake and belief, kept a mean secret; and, with views to his past, present and, wisely, future, Jackie Stewart had let a couple of Ford bigwigs in on it, too. Stewart’s super-supportive soulmate Helen wasn’t told, to prevent her the agony of counting down the days to the rest of their lives together; and nor was team-mate François Cevert, so obviously living his best life.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Paul Fearnley
What’s blue-and-white and red all under? John Surtees’ Ferrari 158 wore North America’s racing colours at a topsy-turvy Mexico City decider, its welfare ostensibly catered for by influential US importer Luigi Chinetti’s NART organisation. This was due to Enzo’s hue and cry over the Italian national body’s stubborn refusal to sanction the homologation of his mid-engined 250 LM as a GT.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Paul Fearnley
“I had my own thoughts, of course, but we also tried to cherry-pick ideas. For instance, we didn’t stay completely within the racing community; we went to the aerospace industry for our chassis structure. North American was building the Atlas missile at that time; the Convair was at Fort Worth. Both were using fibreglass epoxy structures. I met a young fellow who had been involved in the design of jet engine fairings, but he wanted to get into the boat business.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Denis Jenkinson |Michael Tee |Paul Fearnley
1963The year of Profumo, great train robbers, ‘loveable mop tops’ – and the grassy knoll. In its midst, a quiet Scottish hill farmer delivered on all the promise that had been so smack-in-the-face obvious to lovers of motor racing in the three seasons past. Fifty years ago, Jim Clark embarked on a run of success that would confirm him as the greatest racing driver in the world, perhaps the greatest we’d yet seen – or would ever see. These were indeed halcyon days. No wonder.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Shaun Campbell |Mark Hughes |Paul Fearnley |Eoin Young
James Hunt was the first Grand Prix driver I really disliked. It was, I suppose, a result of me being a member of the establishment, schooled in manners and diplomacy by Bruce McLaren. And if James specialised in anything apart from driving very fast, it was tweaking the nose of the establishment. He flatly refused to conform. He had surfed into Formula 1 on the foaming Hesketh champagne wave. The portly, wealthy young Lord Hesketh had come up through the proper schools, so he knew how to behave.
