MotorSport June 2001
Publication Details
| Type | Magazine |
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| Publisher | MotorSport |
| Published date | 01/06/2001 |
Articles
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| 18 | Monzanapolis. Legends by Nigel Roebuck. | Events | 2 |
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| 25 | The Longest Day. 30-page special. The most famous race in Europe is upon us again. We bring you some of Le Mans' greatest stars - cars and drivers - from the very first race to the 1990s. | Events | 26 |
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| 26 | Derek Bell. Long-Distance Operator. One of Britain's unsung motorsport heroes. Derek Bell's sportscar skills are often overlooked by an F1-hungry media. Andrew Frankel asks a living legend to reflect on his exploits at Le Mans which yielded five superb wins. | General interest | 7 |
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| 36 | Green Shoots of Glory. Only misfortune prevented a privateer Bentley from winning the inaugural Le Mans 24 hours - and the lessons learned yielded success, as Andrew Frankel relates. | Features | 4 |
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| 40 | Han Herrmann. The One That Got Away. So Far, Yet So Near. Hans Herrmann 1969 Le Mans 24 Hours. It was the closest finish ever at Le Mans - but there still has to be a loser. The man who missed out tells his story to Adam Cooper. | General interest | 2 |
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| 42 | The Scream that got the Cat. Does the sound of the shrill rotary engine still haunt Tom Walkinshaw? Mazda's 1991 defeat of the overweight Jaguars and fragile Sauber-Mercedes was a classic. Adam Cooper saw it all. | Events | 3 |
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| 46 | Nuvolari's Le Mans Winner. Veni, Vidi, 8C. 'The Flying Mantuan' won the 1933 Le Mans 24-hour race in this car. Jonathan Sein describes that victory, the machine's history and how it feels to drive Tazio's Mount. | Events | 6 |
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| 52 | Sleep of Faith. Porsche's 917 is one of the greatest cars ever. But that's no reason, says Gary Watkins, to build a new one and race it at Le Mans a decade after the original had been pensioned off. | Features | 3 |
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| 57 | Warhorses. 'Remus' ERA R5B. Arguably the most-raced car in the world, Remus has been out in almost every season since 1936. Gordon Cruickshank investigates. | Single vehicle -Reviews | 5 |
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| 70 | Technofile. Stack Data-Logger. Racing drivers are employed to drive, not communicate. Thus a race engineer's lot was not always a happy one - until, that is, Stack developed a device that could communicate precisely what the car was doing in every corner. By Deith Howard. | General interest | 2 |
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| 72 | Stage Presence. Assessing a racing driver's style is relatively straight forward in that he or she obligingly whips past every 90 seconds or so. But to assess the black art of rally driving styles requires the insight of an experienced top-line co-driver. Step forward, John Davenport. | General interest | 4 |
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| 76 | Peter Ryan. Forty years ago, Canada held its inaugural Grand Prix. Stirling Moss took part, but the race was won by a 21-year-old local hero. Less than 12 months later, Peter Ryan was dead. Paul Fearnley tells a what-if tale. | General interest | 3 |
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| 80 | Richard Shuttleworth. Chariots of a Flyer. Richard Shuttleworth enjoyed a background few can dream of. And he made the most of it, as Bill Boddy reveals. | General interest | 4 |
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| 86 | Peter Wright. I Wish I'd Designed. . . GP Cisitalia. It never raced, yet there is plenty of evidence to suggest that this advanced mix of German design and engineering and Italian craftsmanship was on the verge of a racing revolution. | General interest | 2 |
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| 88 | Bill Vukovich. The Mad Russian. Bill Vukovich was heading for a hat-trick of Indy 500 wins his Offy Roadster flipped end over end. The death of this enigmatic poor kid from California sent shock waves through the Paddock, because everybody wanted to be like him. But, says Joe Scalzo, there was only one. | General interest | 5 |
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