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FINAL DRIVE ■ LETTERS ■ GEAR ■ ON-TRACK ■ ON-SCREEN ■ PICS ■ ARCHIVE YOUR SAY What you think of the motorsport news of the past week EDITORIAL CONTACT mail@autosport.com Having just returned home from a thoroughly enjoyable day out at AUTOSPORT International, I’d like to say thank you and congratulations on putting on such a fantastic event. It was the first time I’d been, and I believe it will certainly not be my last. My personal highlight was shaking hands with Sir Jackie Stewart. While I’m not old enough to have seen him race in his time, Jackie is still one of my heroes and, upon speaking to him, a true gent as well. Ed Worthington Cardiff 88 autosport.com January 17 2013 I’ve always considered 1996 my favourite year: Euro 96, the sixth form, Britpop, and – as your excellent Damon Hill issue reminded me of last week – a terrific year of Formula 1. I think it’s hard to claim that Hill is among the greats when he had such a car advantage, and I’m still not sure he’d have been champion had Michael Schumacher stayed at Benetton or Jacques Villeneuve had more experience. However, it did get me wondering what would have happened had Hill started in cars earlier and maybe joined the Williams team for ’91 when Nigel Mansell announced his ‘retirement’. Could Damon have won the ’92 crown, and if so, how would he now be compared against a titleless Mansell? Moz By email I doubt I’ll be alone in being delighted to see Maxime Martin joining BMW as a factory GT driver – and bagging a DTM test drive into the bargain. Martin’s wet-weather performances last year were Hill won 22 races, but is still much underrated Damon deserves more credit Last week’s special issue about Damon Hill, the racing driver and the man, made for an excellent read. It is all too easy to underrate Damon’s achievements, but given that he was a team-mate to Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna, and that many of his battles were with Michael Schumacher, who would argue that he wasn’t competing against formidable talent. Perhaps it’s time for all to reappraise his entire racing career. Christopher Judge, by email without equal, and in my opinion he’s right up there with Darren Turner, Frederic Makowiecki and Joey Hand at the very pinnacle of GT racing. Now he has won the opportunity to demonstrate that talent on a world stage. Well done, Maxime. Tony O’Toole Dublin Earlier this week I looked at the entry list for the Monte Carlo Rally. Not a single British driver! How times have changed… Alan Harding West Sussex TOP FIVE ON OUR WEBSITE 1. MERCEDES REVEALS 2014 F1 ENGINE 2. MARKO: ALONSO’S APPROACH TOO POLITICAL 3. ANALYSIS: TEAMS FACE DILEMMA OVER DRS 4. FANVISION ABSENT FROM F1 IN 2013 5. WEBBER ‘STRUGGLES WITH TITLE PRESSURE’ TOP STORY ONLINE AUTOSPORT’S DAKAR RALLY BLOG To read this exclusive feature and many others like it, log on to autosport.com/plus and choose which package you’d like. A month will cost £5.50, a year £46. Includes access to Forix – the ultimate stats website. WIN! ROAD ANGEL VANTAGE This week’s star letter will receive a Road Angel Vantage – a dedicated safety camera and blackspot locator that displays the legal speed limit of every road you drive, automatically and wirelessly updating its database every few minutes as you drive. For more details on Road Angel visit www.roadangelgroup.com Please ensure that your full address is included on all correspondence. CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS l The pictured Stewart-Ford on p57 in last week’s issue was an SF3, not the SF1 mentioned in the text. Oops. l Chris Dittmann should have been listed as setting the fastest race lap of the year at Silverstone National with his Dallara-Renault F301 in our round-up in the Dec 20/27 issue. His time was 53.514s, on May 13. It is the policy of AUTOSPORT to correct significant errors as soon as possible. Please note the issue date and page number when contacting us on autosport.editorial@haynet.com PICS: LAT ARCHIVE
THE LATEST GEAR Desirable new releases for motor racing fans: books, DVDs, models, art and gifts ALAN MANN BIOGRAPHY £45 (978 1 899870 851) mrpbooks.co.uk Completed just before Alan Mann died in early 2012, and written in collaboration writer/racer Tony Dron, this is the full story of a man synonymous with Ford – think Falcon, Mustang, GT40, Cortina, Escort and the sublime F3L. Packed with anecdotes and pics of all things red-and-gold, it’s a must-read biography. PORSCHE WSC95 1:18 £149.99 autosport.com/shop Diecast expert Spark has now added another replica to its 1:18 Le Mans winners collection: the Reinhold Joest-run Porsche WSC95 driven to victory in the 1997 French endurance classic. Drivers were ex-Ferrari F1 team-mates Michele Alboreto and Stefan Johansson and race rookie Tom Kristensen. FERRARI 801 1:43 £46.99 autosport.com/shop The Ferrari 801 driven in the legendary German GP of 1957 by Mike Hawthorn is the subject of IXO’s latest 1:43 replica in its La Storia Collection. Like all the previous models, this one comes complete with a tin book-style storage box and a leaflet with technical details of this classic frontengined GP car. FINAL DRIVE LETTERS & REVIEWS ALFA ROMEO 155 DTM 1:18 MODEL £194.99 autosport.com/shop Staggering detail is a hallmark of AUTOart’s 1:18-scale Alfa Romeo 155 – the car used by Italian Nicola Larini to score 11 wins en route to the 1993 DTM drivers’ title. The model is part of the firm’s top-of-the-range Signature Collection and features opening doors and removable front and rear bodywork. The detail of the 2.5-litre V6 engine and cockpit area is exactly what you’d expect from a diecast kit at this price. HOT ON THE WEB THIS WEEK YOUTUBE: LATVALA TESTS VW POLO AHEAD OF MONTE CARLO SEARCH FOR: 2013 Rallye Monte-Carlo: Latvala testing with Volkswagen (2:07) Watch factory Volkswagen WRC new recruits Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikko Anttila putting the Polo R WRC through its paces during a snowy test ahead of the car’s debut this week in the 2013 season opener, the Monte Carlo Rally. January 17 2013 autosport.com 89
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CONTENTS January 17 2013 - vol 211
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Page 46: REPORTS WORLD OF SPORT DAKAR RALLY
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