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AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix 2010: Set to roar at Nürburgring 13-15 August
August 13, 2010 – 9:27 AM | No Comment

The AvD-Oldtimer-Grand-Prix at the Nürburgring is one of the outstanding meeting-places for the oldtimer community and the season highlight for oldtimer fans and lovers of classical racing sport. On the third August weekend (from 13th …

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Stirling Moss to open the inaugural Chelsea AutoLegends
August 12, 2010 – 8:01 AM | No Comment

Sir Stirling Moss OBE will open this year’s inaugural Chelsea AutoLegends, an exciting new automotive extravaganza to be staged in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea on Sunday 5 September.
Britain’s best-loved and …

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Legends: Max Deubel
August 12, 2010 – 7:51 AM | No Comment

What do Max Deubel and Mike Hailwood have in common? From 1961 to ’65 both men won four successive world GP championships — Deubel in sidecars with Emil Hoerner, Hailwood in 500 GP. They were …

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Jenson and Lewis discuss Senna’s legendary 1988 McLaren MP4-4
August 11, 2010 – 8:15 AM | 2 Comments

It seems that Formula 1′s two most recent World Champions have a healthy respect for the sports history.
In the clip Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton visit  the world’s greatest garage containing McLaren’s F1 cars …

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Sporting Tunes
August 9, 2010 – 1:51 PM | No Comment

The World Cup is over and it’s safe to remove the earplugs – not actually inserted to drown out the Vuvuzelas, but rather the endless round of sub-standard football anthems that have become part and …

Willie Green takes the GTO to a well driven win
The Silverstone Classic 2010: Race Report and Photo Gallery
August 8, 2010 – 10:39 AM | One Comment

The Silverstone Classic conjures up images of classic racing cars thundering round Silverstone’s former Grand Prix circuit, this years event didn’t disappoint. The 22 race programme ranging from the HSCC’s ‘big engined touring cars’ of …

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1970: Finland wins the World Cup
August 5, 2010 – 9:43 PM | No Comment

Imagine trying to organise a six-week rally that took 100 crews on a 16,000-mile route from London to Mexico City, via most of Europe and the Americas, and that comprised the most inhospitable and torturous …

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‘Godzilla’ returns to Lakeside 7-8 August
August 4, 2010 – 3:34 PM | No Comment

Two of the most exciting touring cars ever to race in Australia will be back on track at Queensland’s legendary Lakeside Park over the weekend of 7-8 August in the hands of their original drivers.
Touring …

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Great Grand Prix Racing Hereos – New series coming soon
August 4, 2010 – 10:03 AM | One Comment

The thirst for classic Formula 1 footage is stronger than ever and there are more treats in store for fans in 2010.
Here is the official blurb from Brunswick Films about their latest production.
“A new series …

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Dick Johnson Racing kicks off 30th anniversary celebrations
August 4, 2010 – 9:18 AM | No Comment

Dick Johnson Racing kicked off celebrations to mark its 30 year anniversary on Friday with a supporters lunch at the Norman Hotel in Brisbane.
Speaking to the 150 invited guests, founder Dick Johnson …

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You were there: Silverstone Classic 2010
August 3, 2010 – 12:02 PM | No Comment

With some of the world’s most expensive classic cars not only on display but also racing – what more could a Motorsport Retro fan want for a weekend?
Absolutely nothing!!!!!
True classics that you …

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Legends: Giacomo Agostini
August 3, 2010 – 10:19 AM | 6 Comments

Italy’s Giacomo Agostini holds the all-time records for the greatest number of world championships and grand prix victories.
Agostini between 1965 and 1976 won 122 grands prix in the 350 and 500 cm3 classes, and 15 …

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Video interview: Derek Bell – the race of my life
July 31, 2010 – 9:24 AM | 3 Comments

Five-time Le Mans winner and sports car legend, Derek Bell recounts the ‘Race of his life’ to AUTOSPORT’s Kevin Turner during  this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed.
The race which Derek rates as his …

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You were there: Hockenheim Historic 2010
July 30, 2010 – 9:35 AM | No Comment

The sixth edition of the “Jim Clark Revival” was run at the famous Hockenheimring in Germany on April 16-18 2010.
More than 24 000 fans turned up to watch more than ten racing series, like the …

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Red and White Mini’s Return to Rallying
July 28, 2010 – 3:36 PM | No Comment

Well it had to happen, I suppose: the words ‘Mini’ and ‘rally’ are to come into close contact for the first time since Monte Carlo in 1968, when the teeny tearaway’s reign of terror in …