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VECTRA - The Virtual Encyclopaedia of Cars, Tracks, Racers And-so-on

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VECTRA represents the collected, distilled and crystallised wisdom of the entire dotdotdotcomma team, so as you can imagine it's pretty bloody impressive. Or you could just regard it is as a loose collection of half-truths, polemic and ill-informed opinion, which nevertheless strives to entertain. With pictures.

Whichever view you take, you'll find within VECTRA's virtual pages everything you need to know about all the drivers, teams, circuits and assorted hangers-on, for which we could be bothered to write an entry.

We still haven't got anything under "X" though.

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SPYKER
updated: 25th Sep 2008
13:36:04

F1 team, formerly Jordan via Midland, now owned by a surprisingly profitable Dutch sports car maker

Marcus Winkelhock, of all people, leads the 2007 European Grand Prix in a Spyker, of all things.
Marcus Winkelhock, of all people, leads the 2007 European Grand Prix in a Spyker, of all things.
Spyker was the 2007 version of Jordan/Midland, this time bankrolled by the surprisingly profitable Dutch sports car manufacturer of the same name. A measure of their success in this venture can be gleaned from the fact that their road cars were not significantly slower than their racing cars.

The Midland team was actually sold to Spyker before the end of the 2006 season but one of those pesky FIA regulations prevented them from racing under their own name until the start of 2007, although they did paint the cars a different colour, just to make the point.

Season highlights for the struggling team were few and far between but Marcus Winkelhock did briefly lead the rain-hit European Grand Prix, following a canny choice of tyre1. Team bosses, understandably delighted with Winkelhock's performance, wasted no time in replacing him with Sakon Yamamoto.

The new owners of the team followed the established pattern by selling it after just a year, when it was offloaded to Indian entrepreneur Vijay Mallya, to become Force India.


1Just to be clear, Winkelhock wasn't following the canny choice of tyre in the race. He wouldn't have been leading if he had, obviously.

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HISPANIA RACING TEAM
updated: 3rd Dec 2012
14:53:30

Having had a fair degree of success in junior single-seaters, Campos Racing made a successful application to move up to F1 as Campos Meta for 2010. The team was only founded in 1998, so team principal Adrian Campos has done a pretty decent job. Campos himself was a Minardi driver for a couple of ...,[more...]

RAIKKONEN, KIMI
updated: 12th Nov 2012
09:11:00

Kimi Raikkonen clearly loves his racing but can just as clearly take or leave everything that goes with it. Often electrifying behind the wheel, he sounds so wretchedly bored by the whole affair when he's interviewed that you're left wondering exactly why he carries on. He is, to borrow Martin ...,[more...]

VETTEL, SEBASTIAN
updated: 5th Nov 2012
12:52:46

Sebastian Vettel holds pretty much all the "youngest ever" F1 records going and several that hadn't even been thought of before he turned up in his pushchair as Sauber's Friday driver in 2006. At the time of his F1 race debut in 2007, he hadn't actually won a title since taking the 2004 German ...,[more...]


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