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Red Rattled Has it gone pear-shaped at Maranello? Serving Time Juan Montoya loses drive - to Pat Rafter!! Cheap Thrills SCAR signs its enduro drivers and tech man Briscoe Robbed!! Maybe not - but he is no Kanaan Faan Which Bank, Bernie? God, we hope this saga is over Motor Mouth Glendenning blurried-eyed at Big Picture Box Seat Joe reckons, let ’em play tennis on Harleys! Talk Converter Yes, we know kids have email now
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features 28 Five Minutes With Pedro de la Rosa McLaren’s Super Sub swears a lot... 30 Five Minutes With Toni Gardemeister Ford’s World Rally #1,#2 or #3? 32 My other car is a Champ Car No Wonder Marcus Marshall is smiling 36 Larko Speaks!!! Not about the sale though, which was not much of a shock 40 Minardi turns 20 Everyone’s second favourite FI team reaches a milestone 44 Gold! Gold? Gold! Well, Green and Gold. A look at A1 GP’s Team Australia 48 Worlds Apart We peek into the cars of the WTCC, the BTCC and the DTM
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50 Also present were Jordan ... and Ferrari Fernando hides away (again) while Michael and Rubens wonder what might have happened in the oider cars ... Suzuki Island It is Coronas all round for SBK’s 58 Corser and Kagayama. All the Phillip Isiand news
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