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Clay Regazzoni (SUI) BMW Motorsport BMW M1 finished in 2nd place. BMW M1 Procar Championship, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, 25 May 1979. World © Phipps/Sutton

This season’s German Grand Prix will see the return of one of the most spectacular single-make competitions in motor racing history. The legendary BMW M1 Procar series will be resurrected at Hockenheim in July for a one-off special event.

The celebrated competition, which ran as a support series for Formula One racing in 1979 and 1980, saw the five...

Lewis Hamilton (GBR), McLaren, drives a historic Mercedes Benz W196 racing car. Brooklands Double Twelve Festival, Brooklands, Weybridge, England. 28-29 June 2008. World © Sutton

McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen got a chance to drive one of the most successful Formula One cars of the 1950s this weekend when they got behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz W196 at the UK’s historic Brooklands circuit.

Hamilton and Kovalainen were participating in the Brooklands ‘Double Twelve’ Motoring Festival, which...

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