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Archive for October, 2006

Video - BTCC Donington 1998

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 Posted in General | 2 Comments »

[youtube]1bM5ua_bz5Y[/youtube] Take a look at this video - it's Nigel Mansell in the wet at Donington Park during the 1998 BTCC. It's probably some of the greatest racing you will ever see. Back in the 1990s the BTCC was the tin-top ...

Site Updates - October 31, 2006

Monday, October 30th, 2006 Posted in Site Updates | No Comments »

Did you know that the same weekend WWII broke out there was a Grand Prix held in Yugoslavia? Have you ever wondered what happened to motorsport from 1939-1945? Find out in Motorsport and WWII - The 1939 Belgrade Grand Prix. Oh, and I ...

Loeb Secures Third WRC Title

Sunday, October 29th, 2006 Posted in Motorsport News | No Comments »

Frenchman Sebastian Loeb secured his third World Rally Championship (WRC) title this morning after title rival Marcus Gronholm failed to finish in the fourth place he required to keep his championship hopes alive after the Rally of Australia. Loeb, who has ...

Site Updates - October 27, 2006

Friday, October 27th, 2006 Posted in Site Updates | No Comments »

New section added to the Almanac - The Formula One Test Drivers Archive. This is a continuation of the list which featured at CFM in the past.     Simon Topham has submitted some photos he took at the 2002 ChampCar ...

Schumacher Bows Out With Gutsy Drive

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006 Posted in Motorsport News | No Comments »

Michael Schumacher finished this final Grand Prix in fourth place at the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, on the back of a characteristically gutsy drive that had seen him slip to the back early in the race following a rear ...

Philippe Wins at Surfers - Photos Online

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006 Posted in Site Updates, Motorsport News | 1 Comment »

Nelson Philippe has won the Gold Coast Indy 300 ChampCar race. Mario Dominguez and Alex Tagliani completed the podium. Sebastien Bourdais finished 8th, enough to clinch his third consecutive ChampCar title. Philippe's win - his first in ChampCar racing - continues ...

Featured Photo - Michael Schumacher 1990

Saturday, October 21st, 2006 Posted in Featured Photos | No Comments »

(Click to Enlarge) Formula 3, 1990 - on the left, Mika Hakkinen, on the right, Michael Schumacher. Together they would win 9 WDCs between them. Hakkinen retired in 2001, but Schumacher races on ... for one more race. This weekend's Brazilian ...

RSS Fixes

Friday, October 20th, 2006 Posted in Site Updates | Comments Off

Just so you all know, this evening I have fixed a couple of issues related to the RSS feeds which help keep you informed when new content is added to the site: The headers generated on each page served from this ...