Derek Bell on Motor Sport Podcast. Click here to open podcast page. A couple of filmed laps are mentioned, both of which are superb viewing. I have tracked both down on YouTube, choosing to link to them rather than embed, as the latter often makes blog-pages clunky to load. Is a lap of the old Nürburgring in a Porsche 956.

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Life in Spain for a British F1 fan. I can t really remember when I first started watching F1 or became interested in cars. I know that I was quite young by the fact that I have a lot of very vague memories dating back to the mid 1980 s. Like most people, I m sure, many of my childhood memories blur into one and I can never really be sure of what happened or what I remember of a certain age. A sunny afternoon in Jerez. Fortunately I live in .

Life in Spain for a British F1 fan. Two weeks ago the season opener in Qatar was full of excitement with many thrills and spills and a slightly surprised winner in Valentino Rossi.