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May 24th, 2010 |
By Pieter Bakker |
Category: Historic Motor Racing, Latest News
It all started on public roads, similar to the Targa Florio, Reims, Rouen-les-Essarts and many other races from that period, but from 1927, the ADAC Eifelrennen was the first race event to be organized on the legendary Nürburgring race track.
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Jan 4th, 2010 |
By Pieter Bakker |
Category: Legendary Circuits Series
What are they, Legendary Circuits? If you ask someone in his twenties, I am sure you will get a different answer, then when you ask someone my age.
The first Grand Prix I watched live, was the 1967 Zandvoort Dutch GP. There I was, 14 years old at that time, buying myself a ticket with some [...]
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Dec 21st, 2009 |
By Pieter Bakker |
Category: Retrospective
Three-times Formula One World Champion Sir Jackie Stewart ’s sons have recorded a tribute song for their father’s 70th birthday and with a little help from Eric Clapton.
An expression of true love between a father and son is sometimes unspoken; not so with the Stewart family. Paul Stewart, Sir Jackie’s eldest son, wrote a song [...]
Tags: eric clapton, f1 mechanics, formula one world champion, grand prix, grand prix mechanics, grand prix mechanics charitable trust, jackie stewart, mechanics charitable trust, paul stewart, sir Jackie, sir jackie stewart, stewart, stewart family Posted in Retrospective |
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Sep 25th, 2009 |
By Pieter Bakker |
Category: Retrospective
Marcos is one of the most enduring marques, which has become a legend among sports cars. Therefore Marcos celebrates 50 years in a new pictorial autobiography entitled “Making my Marque” by Lyn and Jeremy Marsh, founder of Marcos.
With over 300 photographs, most of them previously unseen, it provides a colourful journey through adversity, excitement and [...]
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Sep 21st, 2009 |
By Pieter Bakker |
Category: Historic Motor Racing
The annual F1 Historic & Spa Six Hours event at the circuit Spa Francorchamps will be organized during the weekend of 25 – 27 September 2009.
The revised name clearly reflects the longing to bring to the fore one of the series internationally most enjoyed by the public. Only a few weeks after the modern F1 [...]
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Aug 23rd, 2009 |
By Pieter Bakker |
Category: Track days
Built in the 1920s around the medieval castle Nürburg, and nicknamed – by Jackie Stewart - ”The Green Hell” , the 22.810 meters long track is widely considered to be the toughest, most dangerous and most demanding purpose-built race track in the world.
After months of negotiations back and forth, the German Jan Luehn is delighted to now present [...]
Tags: green hell, jackie stewart, jan b. luehn, nürburgring nordschleife, patrick gassmann, track day Posted in Track days |
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