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Ford RS500 – Super Sierras
The Ford RS500 was the car that made everyone in Group A touring car racing sit up and take notice in 1987. A homologation special, the Ford Sierra RS500 fixed all of the shortcomings of the previous...
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Goodwood Hillclimb – Festival of Speed
The Goodwood Hillclimb, one of the most beautiful spectator events the world of historic racing has to offer. The Goodwood Festival of Speed is the single event that any historic vehicle and/or...
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Nigel Mansell – Stat Attack
Nigel Mansell drove in 191 Grands Prix between 1980 and 1995. These are the facts about everything in between. Nigel Mansell remains one of the most loved Formula 1 drivers of all time, an unlikely...
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Quique Mansilla – One who should have been
He was Ayrton Senna’s Formula Ford team mate, he raced Formula 3 and landed an F1 test. Were it not for politics and war, Quique Mansilla would have had the perfect route to Formula One. Enrique...
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Honda RA272 Cutaway – Photo of the Day
In 1965, the Honda RA272 became the first Japanese car to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix. The driver was American Richie Ginther, and the aforementioned race was the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix, which the...
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Silverstone Classic 2014 – Portraits of Legends
The Silverstone Classic 2014 in beautiful high-def pictures. Some of the most iconic and recognizable motorsport heroes; both man and machine. Motorsport Retro aims to bring viewers the very best...
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Formula 1 Strike One. South Africa, 1982
Images: LAT Photographic The drivers were unified, for once; fighting clauses in their Superlicence contracts, and it sparked a remarkable weekend. This is the story of the 1982 Formula 1 drivers...
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Ferrari 312B – 1971 – Photo of the Day
In 1971, Jacky Ickx, Clay Regazzoni and Mario Andretti all called the Ferrari 312B home. The Ferrari 312B was one of the prettier Formula 1 racing cars built by Scuderia Ferrari. The photo above was...
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Enzo Ferrari – The best of Il Commendatore
The face behind the most evocative brand in motorsport. Meet the real Enzo Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari was born on the 18th of February 1898, and he passed away on the 14th of August 1988. In the 90 year gap...
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Jaguar Lightweight E-Type – Nearly Here
In the early 1960s Jaguar only built 12 of the 18 Lightweight E-Types they had planned. Now more than 50 years later, the missing six will come alive. If the idea of Jaguar bringing back the 1963...
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The Winningest Ferrari 333 SP
Photography by Darin Schnabel, thanks to RM Auctions This 333 SP is the only Ferrari to win both the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring, and at RM Auctions’ upcoming Monterey Sale, you...
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The story of the Connew F1 Team
If remembered at all, motorsports fans recall Sunday, August 13 1972 as the date Emerson Fittipaldi won the Austrian Grand Prix, and in doing so all but clinched his first Formula One World Drivers’...
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My other car’s a Ford RS200 – Video
It’s a part of Group B legend, and one of the greatest rally cars ever built – but what’s it really like to own and rally a real-deal Ford RS200? This cool video from Goodwood Road & Racing allows...
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10 Things we learnt at the 2014 Monterey Pre-Reunion
Monterey Car Week is on most car enthusiasts’ bucket lists. Some go for the car shows, some go for the auctions, some go for the racing. At Motorsport Retro, we went for the racing… starting with the...
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Fog, Fun and Ferocious Racing: Preparing for the Classic Daytona 24 Hours
Image: Louis Galanos thanks to HSR The HSR’s 2014 Classic 24 Hours at Daytona is set for this November 12 – 16, and we can’t wait. To get in the mood, let’s head back to 1975 with a thick fog...
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MSR Shop: (We Want to Go to the) Kobayashi School of Driving
Image: The Motorsport Retro Store Ever since he spent an entire Japanese Grand Prix bombing down the inside of absolutely everyone at Suzuka, Kamui Kobayashi’s been well up our list of most...
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Calsonic Nissan Skyline GTR: Getting to Know Godzilla
Nissan Skyline GTRs entered 29 races in the All Japan Touring Car Championship from 1990 to 1993. And won all of them. Group A was introduced to rally and touring car racing in 1982, and produced a...
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JPS Girls- Photo of the Day
The pits at the 1975 British Grand Prix. Ronnie Peterson is nowhere in sight, but that JPS Lotus 72E doesn’t look lonely. The number five of Ronnie Peterson’s John Player Special sponsored Lotus-Ford...
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Gary Hartstein – “I was just a Doctor” (video)
He was Sid Watkins’ right hand man, anesthetist, and friend. He worked as Formula One’s Medical Delegate and was instrumental in making the sport safer before having the door shut on him at the end of...
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Rewind: The first-ever NASCAR race held outside North America
Images thanks to The Coventry Collection Marcos Ambrose’s time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series over recent years has helped open the eyes of the North American racing world to the talent of...
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