(NOTE: Please check the added material at the end of this article from noted exponant of the genre Chris Ellard, added 28/1/18) I was talking recently with my journalist friend…
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Back when Murray Walker and James Hunt were a newly matched commentary team and Bernie Ecclestone hadn’t yet got his hands on “F1″the brand , the amount of TV coverage…
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July : The school holidays were still in full swing, the summer was not far past it’s peak and here we were sat in my car in a muddy field…
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Kevin, the Ice cream man stopped his van as it headed past us towards the exit. It was something after 6pm on a Sunday evening and raining. Kevin leaned out…
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In recent weeks I have, for one reason and another, done a lot of travelling between home, in the Forest of Dean, and Cheltenham, 30 or so miles North along…
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Earlier this year a photo was published in VINTAGE RACECAR magazine . It was taken on the starting grid at Le Mans for the 1996 24 hours race and was…
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Saturday evening. Lazing on the big wide sofa with a pint of real ale, inappropriately grubby rigger boots on my feet , my familiar black Aussie bush hat still on…
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There are a few moments in life when you can say you reached that fork-in-the-road and the direction you took altered everything afterwards. Twenty years ago today , Easter Monday…
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This edition of the annual historic motorsport celebration was a rare event for me. I was a ‘punter’ rather than a trader and doesn’t it look different from the other…
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How many times have you browsed a shelf of books and groaned at the plethora of generic, unimaginative or rather obscure seeming titles? You know the sort – you generally…
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