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Rat and Rit Ford finalises its V8 Supercar drivers
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Brock and Pretty Oi! No fighting over that Monaro!
10 Schuey vs Juan? If it is, here is what they will be driving 12 FI Bob Jane Allrounders? Stoddy may be considering it! 14 Murcho on Standby But no full-time CART drive (yet) 25 Motor Mouth Marking 250 editions of MNews 26 Box Seat Ralph Firman Jr; he’s a driver and half-Irish 82 Talk Converter China, Cromley and Network 10
features 28 Rve Minutes With Peter Brock Fie even had his own hill at Albert Park 30 Five Minutes With Paul Radisich Life’s getting Betta and Betta for The Rat 32 Take my Team. Please Glenn Seton speaks on now being ‘just’ a driver 36 The Man who owns the World New V8 team owner, David Richards 38 Quick! Charge the paddles Athletes (and Noonan) test their mettle the AIS 44 Konica heats up A checker block preview of a checker block championship 52 Rallying around the lunch table Crocker and Lowndes chew it over
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56 Swedish Meatheads Umm, meatballs. Marcus Gronholm belts the living hell out of them on the ice and snow of Scandanavia 60 Australian Sprintcar title Kerry Madsen makes it a terrific summer mntni’en'nVt'' Parramatta Reels An American last won the Aussie iMUIOiSDOjI Midget title 40 years ago. George Dubya is gonna love this
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Photos; Cover: redzoneimages.com, suttonimages.com and Mr Ed. Contents: sutton-images.com, Paris Charles and that Mr Ed guy again.
58 Rallying
60 Speedway
66 NASCAR
70 Histories
72 National Scene
76 Marketplace
68 Drag Racing 3