Articles by Richard Fowler
Video Documentary: Where They Raced
Los Angeles has long been home to a healthy and expansive car culture. And it all got started in earnest in the early 20th century, when we were all working out what cars were and …
Photo of the day: McLaren and Brabham go kart battle
Racers will be racers
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Videos: Bathurst 1000 Greatest Moments – 1980s
The Bathurst 1000 has earned its place as one of motorsport’s great races time and time again, and these videos from V8 Supercars will show you how.
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Video: Onboard in a 1964 AC Cobra at Brands Hatch
Hop on board with Olly Bryant in his stunning ’64 AC Cobra as he uses plenty of rear tyres and all of the track in this stunning sideways lap of Brands Hatch.
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David Coulthard Breaks World Record: Catches Golf Ball in Mercedes-Benz SLS
Sometimes motorsport can get too wrapped up in the super serious search for slightly shaved seconds. It should be something exciting, something fun and something with a sense of pageantry, adventure, entertainment and even whimsy.
These …
Video: Sauber Formula 1 car cut in half
Formula 1 teams try and hide so much now today. Screens, mechanics standing in front of cameras. That’s how technical it has become. So how refreshing is this video from Sauber?
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Murray Walker’s Tribute to James Hunt
”James was a very special sort of person. He didn’t think the way other people do. He certainly didn’t act the way other people do. And he was always a very exciting, stimulating and fun; …
Video: Tom Sneva breaks 200mph at Indy
A little over 65 years from the Indy 500′s inception and just fifteen years after Parnelli Jones broke the 150 mile per hour barrier, Tom Sneva became the first driver to nail its four ferocious corners fast …
Video: Jacques Villeneuve drives his father’s Ferrari 312 T4 Formula 1 car
Jacques Villeneuve hopped into his dad’s famous 1979 Ferrari 312 T4 for a few laps around Fiorano on the 8th May, in celebration of the great racer’s life.
The occasion marked 30 years since his father, …
Photo Gallery: Goodwood FoS Central Displays 1997-2011
Enjoy this gallery of Goodwood Festival of Speed central displays from 1997-2011
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Video: Johnson drives Brock’s Holden Torana around Bathurst
A very emotional Dick Johnson drives his old mate Brock’s Holden A9X Torana around Bathurst.
Via: BowdensOwn.com.au
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Video: Jackie Stewart Drives the 1988 Indy 500 Winning Penske Indycar
“Very smooth. Perhaps one of the smoothest racing engines I have ever driven..”
Jackie Stewart hops into Rick Mears’ 1988 Indy 500 winning Penske-Chevrolet PC 17 in this video from Jackie Stewart’s World of Speed.
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Video: Colin McRae Tests a Jordan Formula One car
1995 World Rally Champion Colin McRae and Formula One icon Martin Brundle swap cars in this video, giving each other an insight into their chosen motorsport disciplines and some brilliant joyriding opportunities along the way.
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10 of the best from Autopics: Allan Moffat
Allan Moffat is one of the true legends of Australian motor racing. He has won everything there is to win, in a huge variety of machinery.
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Silver Arrows to Star at Goodwood Revival
600bhp is really rather a lot, even today – just three years out from hover skateboards. In the middle of the 1930s it was absolutely bonkers. And yet, resting under the shapely bare metal bonnets …
