Conveniently, it’s pretty much 25 years to the day that I picked up my first ever copy of Autosport – the 11 January edition from 2001. And by picked up, I mean ‘lodged it furtively in my grandmother’s shopping trolley while in Tesco in the hope that she’d ring it through at the checkout and not question it’, as if it were indistinguishable from a box of Weetabix. As I’m sure many of our readers have concluded in the comments, I’ve barely accrued any additional intelligence in that time.
For pure nostalgic value, I figured I’d read it back and work through the prose of many now-familiar names (notably, including my current colleague Stuart Codling’s stint in the American Le Mans Series). Beyond the reports from the categories that had eagerly opened for business in early January, the remaining contents came accompanied with a contingency-for-slow-news-week sheen: the Pit & Paddock section featured “Honda targets 2002 title challenge”, “[Mike] Gascoyne plays down Benetton chances” (which he was right to do, given the way its 2001 season went), “Maranello avoids noise ban”….
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