Drags and Speedway: up-to-date race coverage
Issue No. 086 6 – 12 January 2009
Format Flip-Flop V8s Propose radical changes to race formats
V8 CONFIRMATIONS
Look what santa brought these V8 Drivers
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Issue No. 086 | 6 Jan – 12 Jan 2009
news 4 Doing the math
6 Just to confirm 8 Red or Blue? 10 F1 World 12 USA! 14 Christmas Pressies
chat 20 5 minutes with ... opinion 22 Lambden
2009 V8 race formats Musical race seats Atko turns red The Honda sarga continues Everything Stateside Ricciardo’s done deal Alex Davison
23 Branagan
A different view I have a cunning plan ...
28 Kallita Memorial 32 Speedway
Fast and Furious Willowbank Where there’s a Will ... All the summer’s action
race 24 Nitro Champs trade 42 Classifieds
It may be testing times in Formula 1, but as they say, the show must go on ...
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