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4 unusual facts about Autosport


Autosport

Cartoonist Jim Bamber is one of its other regular contributors, with his cartoons of motorsport news topics.

Fantasy F1

Fantasy F1 competitions have been run by various newspapers and the motorsports magazine Autosport amongst others, and is available from a number of internet web sites, although the quality of such offerings varies.

Lola T93/30

In January 2009, the motorsport magazine Autosport ranked the T93/30 in fifth position as part of a "top ten rubbish F1 cars list".

Williams FW10

Autocourse subsequently picked the FW10 as third-best car of the year, behind the Lotus 97T and McLaren MP4/2B, and the chassis also won the Autosport magazine's "racing car of the year" award.


CORE Autosport

Core Autosport is an American auto racing team founded by Jon Bennett in 2010 and based out of Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Gunnar Jeannette

He shared the honor with season-long co-driver Ricardo Gonzalez and Genoa Racing's Eric Lux, who ended up on equal points to the CORE autosport duo.

Joe Saward

He began reporting on Formula One in 1988, working alongside Nigel Roebuck and remained as Grand Prix Editor of Autosport until 1993.

LAT Photographic

Established in the 1960s as London Art Technical, the company covers major motorsport competitions such as the Formula One, World Rally Championship, 24 Hours of Le Mans, British Touring Car Championship, NASCAR Cup Series, IndyCar Series and Grand Prix motorcycle racing, and provides pictures for magazines like Autosport, Autocar, F1 Racing and Motorsport.

Steve Saleen

He is best known for being the founder and former vice chairman of Saleen, Inc., originally named Saleen Autosport, which until 2009 was an OEM manufacturer of specialty vehicles including the Saleen S7 and highly modified Ford Mustangs.

Win Percy

Joe Saward of Autosport magazine once described him as being "often regarded as the World's Number One Touring Car Driver".


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