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Post by charleselan on Dec 13, 2017 13:28:04 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2017 14:13:46 GMT
I have all Motor Sport Issues, from 1924 to january 2018 if anyone is interested
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Post by René on Dec 13, 2017 16:55:47 GMT
JC, thank you. The download worked perfectly well!  Valentin, that are a lot of Motor Sport issues!!  I don't think I will ever find time to read that! But great to know we have the archive at our disposal and the seventies are accounted for by JC. |
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Post by chrisb on Dec 13, 2017 17:20:42 GMT
sheesh - and i thought I had a lot of Motor Sports and Autosport magazines! my collection of Motor Sports go back to the 1950's with a complete years from around 1959, , and my Autosport from the 1960 season, although I have started to get rid of the more modern Autosports and you really can't give them away... but they aren't very interesting
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Post by charleselan on Dec 14, 2017 16:24:45 GMT
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Post by charleselan on Dec 21, 2017 19:06:53 GMT
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Post by Carl on Dec 23, 2017 22:06:45 GMT
John Charles, Many thanks for the opportunity to read about the Questor Grand Prix, a race I attended as an infant (or thereabouts), in the May, 1971 issue. It was a wonderful event, a fantastic showcase for Formula One, the first on the west coast since the U.S. Grand Prix held nearby at Riverside in 1960. Also great is the cover photograph of Mario Andretti's 312B closing in relentlessly on Mark Donohue's Lola-Chevrolet, by far the class of the stock-block brigade. I'm familiar with some but not all of the staff initials. The race report was written by A.R.M. Is that Andrew Marriott? Curiously, he mistakes the 4th turn of the oval for the 1st (which it is on the road course) and describes the excellent road course as featureless, perhaps unaware that feature-filled corners such as Eau Rouge or Paddock Hill Bend cannot exist in an oval track's infield. His description of A.J. Foyt's disgraceful petulance, however, is well founded and well deserved. Kind regards, Carl |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2017 6:01:40 GMT
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Post by charleselan on Dec 24, 2017 10:57:17 GMT
John Charles, Many thanks for the opportunity to read about the Questor Grand Prix, a race I attended as an infant (or thereabouts), in the May, 1971 issue. It was a wonderful event, a fantastic showcase for Formula One, the first on the west coast since the U.S. Grand Prix held nearby at Riverside in 1960. Also great is the cover photograph of Mario Andretti's 312B closing in relentlessly on Mark Donohue's Lola-Chevrolet, by far the class of the stock-block brigade. I'm familiar with some but not all of the staff initials. The race report was written by A.R.M. Is that Andrew Marriott? Curiously, he mistakes the 4th turn of the oval for the 1st (which it is on the road course) and describes the excellent road course as featureless, perhaps unaware that feature-filled corners such as Eau Rouge or Paddock Hill Bend cannot exist in an oval track's infield. His description of A.J. Foyt's disgraceful petulance, however, is well founded and well deserved. Kind regards, Carl Carl, What an amazing amount of recall for an infant (or thereabouts)  . The event at Questor Raceway must have been a terrific experience; it was a one off was it not and did not take place ever again? I remember reading the reports in Motoring News; Autosport and the Motorsport and being delighted with Mario's triumph in the Ferrari 312B. Mark Donohue certainly was the class of the "stock block" brigade. The author with the initials "ARM" was indeed Andrew Marriott, who was a pretty good reporter for Motoring News and occasionally its then stable mate Motorsport. Later he went on to do voice overs and commentary; which I believe he still does. The LAT organisation had this thing where the writers were always referred to by the initials which was quite quaint, but very much of the time. John Charles |
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