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Issue No. 096 17 – 23 March 2009
BATHURST
Still an Option AS Skaife MAkes TV DEbut this weekend
n io in p o d an s w ie v e r p , s w e N 0 All the pre-50
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Issue No. 095 | 17–23 March 2009
news 5 We’ll be back after this Skaife opens enduro door 7 Black Beauty 8 Beam Boom 10 V8 Moffat 15 The 5000 16 Arrrrgggghhh 15!
chat 20 5 minutes with ... opinion 22 Jewell
Last minute issues for 021 James I tops QR V8 test James II set for FV8 seat Huge big bangers for AGP Audi talks up/down Sebring Jonathon Webb
23 Rowley
No splinters here ... Racing. Phew!!!
32 Island of Rain 36 Q for Qatar 40 Farr and George
Place your [modest] bets Wet Historics still impress Spies smacks them. Again The Tatnell Memorial
race 24 Clipsal 500 is go! trade 42 Classifieds
Remember doin’ the Time Warp? Wow; a Sauber-Mercedes and a Porsche 962 lead a Veskanda-Chev, at PI, in the 21st century.
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