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Posted Oct 30 2009, 12:35 AM by John Brooks with 16 comment(s)

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1968 was a year of revolution; politically, socially, culturally, even down to something as trivial as sport. Nothing was ever the same again, it was, perhaps, the End of Innocence. Politically, students and workers had taken to the streets in Paris during May nearly toppling the government. In the "Prague Spring" a Soviet satellite made a bid for freedom, bloody and brutal repression by the Russians was the final outcome. In the USA a presidential election year saw LBJ resign and Richard...
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Posted Oct 20 2009, 02:00 PM by John Brooks with 13 comment(s)

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Can you imagine what qualities were needed to be THE top racing driver of the 60s. Big hair, wolfish smile, Mediterranean suntan, hairy chest on display, dolly birds on either arm............in other words a regular Carlos Fandango and yet it was much simpler than that..........all you really needed was a Scottish accent and a wee bit o' tartan. Jim Clark was acknowledged by all his contemporaries to be the best during his reign in Formula One, he was the leader of the pack, absolutely no doubt...
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Posted Oct 19 2009, 09:30 AM by John Brooks with 10 comment(s)

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If Juan Manuel Fangio was top dog when motorsport resumed in full after World War 2, who would take over his role when he decided to retire after winning a fifth driver's title in 1957? (Yes I know that he raced for part of 1958 but effectively he left the sport while still on top.) Then, as now, there could only be one answer.........Stirling Moss. Fangio was a link to the pre-war racing scene having competed against some of the great such as Tazio Nuvolari and Achille Varzi but Stirling Moss...
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Posted Oct 18 2009, 09:30 AM by John Brooks with 10 comment(s)

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In any sport or indeed any form of social activity there is the alpha male, the leader of the pack, the head of the herd, the Numero Uno.........whatever the expression used everyone in the group acknowledges, even if only to themselves, that this individual is the tops. THE MAN. So too with motorsport, even in the ultra competitive arena of Grand Prix racing there is usually an individual who is recognised, sometimes openly, sometimes grudgingly, as the benchmark that all others must measure themselves...
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