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8W is forix.autosport.com's motorsport history section and covers the drivers, cars, circuits, eras and technology that shaped the face, sounds and smells of motor racing.
DRIVER BIOGRAPHIES
CONSTRUCTOR PROFILES
TRACK RECORDS
SEASONS' PORTRAITS
TECHNICAL FOCUS
The inventions that made cars fly - or failed in their attempt to do so
The rear-engined revolution
- Horses pushing the cart, by Mattijs Diepraam
Alternative power
- Swoosh and screech! The rise and fall of turbines and CVTs in motor racing, by Mattijs Diepraam
Feature stories
- Brabham BT46B - Ground Effect and the Fan Car, by Darren Galpin
- Cosworth DFV - Customer power, the Cosworth DFV story, by Darren Galpin
- Engine failures - The worst engines of the 3.5-litre era, by Rainer Nyberg
- F1 design - The 1970s: trial and error in Formula One design, by Willem Visser
- Four-wheel drive - The Cosworth F1 car and the history of four-wheel-drive in racing, by Mattijs Diepraam
- Six-wheelers - Overtaken by history, the quick rise and fall of six-wheeled cars in Grand Prix racing, by Mattijs Diepraam
- Rudolf Uhlenhaut - The Mercedes-Benz tech brain, by Leif Snellman
Short articles
