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Issue 281
21 April — 4 May 2004
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14 Brabham-Lamborghini No, not a new FI team,just David’s new Sportscar ride 25 Motor Mouth The sorry state of Nations Cup 26 Box Seat Saward writes something that Ralf might want to skip over 82 Taik Converter Sandown 500, Adelaide 500 ...
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28 5 Minutes With Jose Fernandez Fujitsu’s man takes his first KMV8SS podium 30 5 Minutes With Corrado Provera Peugeot’s WRC boss is not panicking 32 Silver Dream Racer TKR’s Craig Baird is enjoying life 36 One day in Italy With the last Imola FI race looming, we look at the Villeneuve/Pironi feud 40 Senna remembered Ten years after 1 May 1994, we talk to the people who influenced his brilliant career 48 Don’t forget Roland the Rat We didn’t 52 Behind closed doors Inside Team Toyota Racing’s FIQ
race couerage 54 Home Boy Makes Good Andy Jones emerges from the KMV8SS ruck at Winton Ayrton Senna claimed pole position for the 1985 Detroit Grand Prix by an amazing 1.2 seconds in bis JPS Lotus-Renauit 97T. See pages 40-47 for our look back at his career.
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58 Oran Park PROCAR Nathan’s Monaro wins - but where did all the other cars go? 60 Oran Park F3 Crash! Bang! Litt!e teams makes good - and no Gi!mourGir!s... 62 It gets Petter and Petter Solberg tops an all-out battle in Rally NZ 3