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Craig Bounds? If FPR don’t shape up, is it ship out? 7 Nomex Kilt Dept Cleland heading back for enduros 8 SirroKiwi Morris and Baird could seek revenge for '97 'll FI numbers 3.0, 2.4 and $700 million 13 Jos in yellow The Boss heads for the Jordan 25 Motor Mouth Tassie, watch out, Marcos is coming home 26 Box Seat Not so much the FI army as Dad’s Army 82 Talk Converter What? No NASCAR? You cads!
featnres 28 Five Minutes With Rob Nguyen Fle’s home and he’s gained 1000 30 Rve Minutes With Andy Jones Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to Bathurst we go 32 Triple the fun Betta’s Roland Dane is making room for some trophies 36 Engineering the future Claude Rouelle explains it is not all smoke and mirrors 40 Safety Thirst Documenting FI’s amazing advances in safety 46 Indy Brit Dan Wheldon looks forward to the greatest spectacle in motorsport 48 500 Greatest Hits Just some of the amazing stories from the Indy 500 52 Quiz time No, you may not phone a friend. Yes, you may use the internet
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54 Australia. Malaysia. Bahrain. San Marino. Spain If this keeps, we will need two hands to count Schumacher’s trophies
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62 Asia comes to Canberra Dean Herridge does it all 5S-.? over again in the Asia-Pacific Championship opener
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Photos: Cover: Dirk Klynsmithi. ; Ford Racing Media ( j Contents; AF1-Images. Dirk k' Klynsmilh, sutton-images.com, ijl Ford Racing Media and Joel A' Strickland
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