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Showdown The teams face the FIA in Paris today ... Headmasterly advice Max warns FI principals
10 Germany Expects BMW moves in on Sauber 12 Le Mans, now Bathurst Kristensen eyes the 1000 18 Team Oz hits the front Tag leads early but Tracy wins 25 Motor Mouth The Force is strong with Luke ... Youlden 26 Box Seat Just when FI looked good, Indy happened 82 Talk Converter Predictably, you mostly hated Indianapolis
foaturos 28 Five Minutes With Sir Frank Williams Is there life after BMW? Or the FIA? 30 Five Minutes With Chris Atkinson Our man is finding things rough in the WRC 32 Mildura meets Shanghai Todd speaks in his new role as a Chinese Hero 36 Black in the USA The potential outcomes from the USGP fiasco 40 The Road to Shanghai Some of the goods, and must-try-harders,from China But did he take the Gecko? Peter Brock makes Goodwood Perfect 46 The Greatest Dane Tom K talks about 7 Le Mans wins, the DTM and bikes SO State of the Union MNews runs the slide rule over Aussie open wheelers
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54 United States Formula 1 Nope, we refuse to refer to this as a Grand Prix 58 Heat, Dust, Tom Kristensen wins and Loeb doesn't. All the Le Mans news TTTTT 'MN'yi'ir:' 60 Heat. Dust. Seb Do not 26t Monsieur Loeb anfirv, he
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