It will be the second year in a row that we miss the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Last year it was cancelled for the reason we all know by now. This year we could theoretically go. However, the practice makes it so difficult that it would be almost impossible to do.
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Last week you could read an article in this blog about the Volvo P1800 S and its spiritual successor. We now continue with the Volvo brand and go back to 1994 when hybrid and electric cars were not yet available.
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Today we start with something new, old versus new. We start off with the duo Volvo P1800s and a Polestar 1. At Polestar, they don’t hide the fact that the P1800 was the model for the Polestar 1.
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A promise is a promise and here is the first article on the history of Schnitzer BMW. We are not going to do it chronologically but pick out random years or periods. And the first one is perhaps a little atypical with the year 1997, when Schnitzer was sent out by BMW Motorsport to the FIA GT Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans with the McLaren F1 GTR Longtail.
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Actually, the Mont-Ventoux was not directly on my list. Rather by coincidence, I had to work in the immediate neighbourhood for a client.
If you are around, it would be almost unforgivable not to climb this bare mountain.
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Shadow is a car brand that rings a bell only for lovers of motor racing from the 1970s. They built Canam, Formula 1 and Formula 5000 cars. These creations were certainly among the most beautiful of the period. At the base of all this beauty: Don Nichols.
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Organising events in covid times is no simple task. The organiser has to take many things into account. First of all, there are the sanitary regulations and then there are the travel restrictions and quarantine obligations. It was no different for the automobile club de Monaco or ACM, organiser of the Monaco Grand Prix, the Rally of Monte-Carlo ( WRC and historique ), the Grand Prix Historique and the Monaco Formula E Prix.
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A bit of a special category, breaks & station wagons. But I didn’t want to let it pass. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I have been driving an estate car for years. And to me these are and remain very practical cars. Although fortunately a lot has changed in recent decades.
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