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Best of The Cahier Archive: Alain Prost
July 17, 2011 | 4 Comments

Alain Prost, “The Professor”. The French superstar started 199 Grand Prix, won 51 of them and took four world Championships along the way.
Prost’s silky smooth style was in contrast to that of his fierce rival …

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Bernd Schneider: “The DTM cars at that time were very impressive”
July 13, 2011 | One Comment

What do Formula 1 World Champion Mika Hakkinen, F1 race-winner Mark Webber and Indycar champion and Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti have in common? Answer: All of them have been team mates to a driver …

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Video: The sound of 62 years of F1 cars launching off the line
July 13, 2011 | 2 Comments

The subject of the noise of an F1 car has been in the press a lot of late. The planned introduction of  a V6 for 2014 has moved Bernie to threaten to sue the FIA …

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Movie: Silver Dream Racer
July 11, 2011 | One Comment

Silver Dream Racer stars David Essex as Nick Freeman, a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother, inherits a revolutionary prototype motorcycle. The hot headed Freeman is determined to race the bike …

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£7M+ Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed Sale Results
July 9, 2011 | No Comment

Results from Bonhams’ traditional Goodwood Festival of Speed auction, where some of the most desirable and beautiful cars in the world went under the hammer.

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Impressive Porsches Line Up For Quail Lodge Sale
July 8, 2011 | No Comment

The Porsche 906 is not only one of the most beautiful racing cars that has graced circuits around the world, but also one of the more successful. Time to dive under the couch, go gold panning behind the driver’s seat, and cobble together a few extra dollars to go and buy one at Bonhams’ upcoming Quail Lodge auction.

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Truly Great High-Performance Cars Cannot Be Built in the Laboratory
July 7, 2011 | No Comment

Racing is high adventure. And this alone is enough to account for racing’s incredible popularity.

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10 of the best from Autopics: Sports Sedans 1981
July 6, 2011 | 5 Comments

Sports Sedans were a hugely popular draw card in Australia in the early 1980s. Names like Grice, Moffat, Richards, Briggs and Bowe competed fiercely in their purpose built winged V8 monsters.
The drivers loved them, and …

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Excursion: Heaven VMX, The Lakes, June 2011
July 6, 2011 | No Comment

A perfectly groomed track and blue skys greeted the Motorsport Retro team when we arrived up at the The Lakes Motocross track on the weekend of June 25-26.
I was joined by the flying Johnny Sport …

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Video: Derek Bell drives the Porsche 956 at Goodwood 2011
July 5, 2011 | 4 Comments

Porsche racing legend, Derek Bell, talks to us about his memories of Le Mans while racing the famous Porsche 956 and 962.
We hear about some of Derek’s memorable experiences and also see on car …

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Video + Photos: The HSRCA’s All Historic Winter
June 30, 2011 | 2 Comments

We’re enveloped in the deepest and darkest depths of winter here in Australia, but Mr. Sun kindly managed to forget about it over the weekend, presumably cheered up by the HSRCA’s mighty showing of historic …

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Illustration: Mario Andretti’s Ferrari 126 Turbo
June 30, 2011 | 2 Comments

Mario Andretti started on pole position in his first and second to last Formula 1 Grand Prix. Mario set the racing world alight when he put his Lotus 49 on pole, on debut, at the …

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Days of Thunder is the best racing movie of all time.
June 27, 2011 | 11 Comments

So, then, the Senna movie has gone down a storm – and rightly so. Not to put too fine a point on it, things were simply more exciting then. The circuits were bumpy, the cars …

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Bonhams Teams Up With BMW For Sale At Museum
June 26, 2011 | One Comment

Bonhams European Motoring Department are delighted to announce the addition of a new single marque motoring auction to their European calendar, entitled Power by BMW. The auction will incorporate all that is …

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Photos: Sammy Miller Museum
June 23, 2011 | One Comment

Here are some great photos from Derek Hanbidge’s trip to the Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum. Sammy has a massive private collection of totally functional motorcycles all housed in a multi room Museum which …