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Motor Sport Magazine
March 2022
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Motor Sport Magazine
THE EDITOR
Is there a British bias in Formula 1?
MATTERS OF MOMENT
Spa’s winteroverhaul revealed
After several months, and almost £67m, track safety work on one of the world’s best-loved circuits is almost complete
Peugeot shows off its wingless wonder Hypercar
PEUGEOT APPEARS ADAMANT THAT IT CAN successfully fly
Rossi to tackle GT World Challenge
FRESH FROM HANGING UP HIS LEATHERS, Valentino Rossi
Prost hits out at Alpine after exit
IT’S RARE YOU HEAR A FORMULA 1 DRIVER
Age + experience =a win at the Monte-Carlo Rally
WHO SAID YOU CAN’T TEACH OLD dogs new
EVTOL series picks its first pilots
THE AIRSPEEDER SERIES FOR ELECTRIC aircraft has announced
Baby boomer – Gordon Murray reveals T.33
GORDON MURRAY AUTOMOTIVE HAS revealed its junior supercar,
FORMULA 1
“F1 relies on creativity for success, and people can’t be afraid to fail”
The new season will begin with new team
Breaking up is hard to do
F1 TEAM NEWS
Good month, bad month
Charting the ups and downs of the F1 circus
50 shades of Graham
F1 RETRO – NOVEMBER 2015
It’ll all come out in the wash
MOTOR SPORT TECH
“Bringing back ground-effect aerodynamics has been brewing for a long time”
JOHNNY HERBERT
MOTORCYCLES
“Breakfast was a couple of cans of baked beans, heated up on the Primus stove”
Half a century ago it wasn’t easy being
THE ARCHIVES
“From its debut in the Dutch GP in 1962 the Lotus 25 was the car to beat”
This new year sees a big anniversary for
DIARY
“Looking at the T.33, I saw some of my favourite 1960s sports cars staring back”
I’ve known Gordon Murray for at least 30
REVIEWS
Fast, brash and lots of cash
Phenomenally quick, the new Audi RS 3 is a firm response to Mercedes’ A45 S – but as Andrew Frankel asks, does it justify the cost?
Letters from Bavaria
BMW sub-brands blend for a hefty all-electric offering
Into the firing line
Genesis’s shooting brake has Germans in the crosshairs
Gauge appropriate
Giuliano Mazzuoli’s cult Manometro watch is designed to look like a pressure dial. Don’t blow a gasket... it’s back after a five-year gap
The start of something green
A radically revisited volume applauds a man and a team who put Britain on top of the world, says Gordon Cruickshank
EVENTS
Let’s go round again
Withdrawal symptoms taking effect now? Fear not, the Formula 1 circus is setting up camp for some pre-season fine-tuning
MOTOR SPORT EVENT
GOODWOOD TRACK DAY
Get a taste of the Goodwood Members’ Meeting with Motor Sport
RACING LIVES
Anthony Davidson
“You don’t win Le Mans, Le Mans chooses who wins,” is a phrase this racer grew to accept. Now retired, he looks back at his La Sarthe bad fortune, his F1 pride and his sports car glory days
MY Greatest RIVAL
ANTHONY REID ON TOM KRISTENSEN
Flashback...
For two decades Maurice Hamilton reported from the F1 paddock with pen, notebook and Canon Sure Shot camera. This month we are at Williams’ Didcot HQ off-season in 1985, along with a few journalists, being served soup by Frank
MOTOR SPORT
LETTERS
Does Graham Hill’s superb drive in the 1960
MORE ABU DHABI REACTION...
AS AN AUSTRALIAN I APOLOGISE FOR the decision
250 GTO ON THE ROAD
KING CRIMSON
Sixty years ago, Ferrari unveiled the 250 GTO, a road-usable racer that went on to become the world’s most desirable car. Doug Nye reunites with an old friend
The greatest... or just very good?
Glance at the stats and there’s no doubting the Ferrari 250 GTO’s competition record – more than 50 race wins between 1962 and ’65. But as Doug Nye assesses, is its legendary status really justified?
Beyond compare
Prices fluctuate in the collecting world but as David Gooding, founder and president of auction house Gooding & Company explains, when you buy a Ferrari 250 GTO the only way is up
GTO GOES RACING
As 1962 got underway, Ferrari was still rumbling from its internal tectonic shifts of personnel, yet a display of its latest racing machinery on a February day was a sure sign of intent. Among the line-up was the new 250 GT Berlinetta, aka GTO, which, as James Page tells, made a quick impact with the world’s best drivers at the wheel
DAKAR RALLY 2022
TURNED OUT NICE AGAIN
It’s 20°C and there isn’t a cloud in the sky – although that’s to be expected in Saudi Arabia in January. James Elson packs his T-shirts to follow the dune duels of the 2022 Dakar Rally
CLASH OF THE TITANS
FANGIO VERSUS ASCARI
In their pomp, this pair mopped up F1 titles. Paul Fearnley recounts a rivalry that captivated the world, but was cruelly cut short
MARLBORO MEN
King size allies
In 1972, the colours of Marlboro were first seen on a Formula 1 car and its distinctive chevron design would become an intrinsic – some might say iconic – element of grand prix races. Mark Hughes charts the ties between F1 teams and the best-selling cigarette brand and reveals why their union proved a hard habit to break
F1’s addictive alliance
The smouldering bonds between motor racing and Marlboro
PRAGA R1 TRACK TEST
CZECH MATE
You’ve probably never heard of the Praga R1 before, but competitors in the Britcar series are fully aware of its blistering capability on track. This year the R1 gets its own onemake cup, and as Andrew Frankel discovers at Donington, it’s a dream
TYRRELL’S TITLE SEASON
SHED HEAVEN
While Ferrari and Lotus had the luxury of racing tracks near their engineering sites, at Tyrrell the set-up was less sophisticated. Simon Arron speaks to Jackie Stewart about the Surrey team’s extraordinary climb to the top of the world from a timberyard
End of the road?
The original Tyrrell Shed remains, for now, but time is running out for this primary piece of F1 history
THE SHOWROOM
Rally royale
BUYING, SELLING, AUCTIONS, MEMORABILIA
Buy a Rolls-Royce – life is too short
● For most manufacturers, 2021 will be a
The Anglo-Italian job
AUCTION HERO
California dreaming
AUCTION PICKS
Apparel spritz
AUCTION FOCUS
Prost’s Sega mega-drive
Editor’s choice
THE EXPERT VIEW
Title-winner’s aura
Fast-track to the grid
BUYING GUIDE
Spring has sprung, and it’s full-on
HISTORIC RACING
YOU WERE THERE
This is where London was swinging in the ’60s
It was more about Minis than miniskirts at Crystal Palace, where John Marsh attended the 1968 Formula 2 London Trophy race, luckily for us taking his camera along
PARTING SHOT
PARTING SHOT
AUGUST 23, 1978 VOLKSWAGEN TEST TRACK, WOLFSBURG, WEST GERMANY
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