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December 29 2011 – vol 206 no 12

Up-to-the-minute news and reports from F1, WRC and more. Subscribe for must-read opinion, stats and images

COVER IMAGES: DUNBAR/LAT, WENSLEY/ SCOTT MEDIA INSETS: McKLEIN, GIBSON, EBREY/LAT, LE FLOC H/ DPPI, LEVITT/LAT SOUTH

“There are about 500 people who have been into space. From 2014 my business card will say, ‘Tom Coronel: racing driver and astronaut’” YES, WTCC ACE TOM CORONEL IS GOING INTO SPACE. ROCKET MAN!

INTERNATIONAL SEASON REVIEWS

50 Number of international motorsport championships to feature in this week’s reviews of 2011, from IndyCar to Megane Trophy. And then there’s all the national and club material…

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Vettel wasted the most champagne this year

18 IndyCar Series Franchitti fights off Power, but it’s a bitter-sweet season 26 GP2 Series Grosjean makes his own luck to take big step back to F1 32 GP3 Series Bottas heads off Calado 34 Intercontinental Le Mans Cup/Le Mans Series/ American Le Mans Series Peugeot wins the diesel war 42 GT1 World Championship Nissan wins a dramatic season

44 World Rally Championship Leaping Loeb leads again 52 DTM Tomczyk’s perfect riposte 58 World Touring Car Championship Muller beats his team-mates 60 British Formula 3 Championship Nasr is speedy and consistent 62 FIA Formula 2 Championship Bortolotti back on the F1 radar 64 Formula Renault 3.5 Series Wickens just edges Vergne

Ford had to give best in the rally world

66 World of Sport NASCAR; Australian V8 Supercars; Formula 3 Euroseries; Auto GP; Grand-Am; Japanese Super GT; IRC – and many more

DTM boys tried to do a spot of rallying too

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6 Formula 1 diary Struggling to make sense of what took place when? Here’s the blow-by-blow account of what happened in 2011 16 Obituaries, 2011 Remembering those we’ve lost over the past 12 months 38 Win an amazing trip to the Daytona 24 Hours 40 Subscribe for a free gift 96 Index 2011 What we’ve written in the mag this year – and who wrote it 98 Rally of my life John Davenport, Safari Rally, 1972

NATIONAL/CLUB SEASON REVIEWS

84 British Racing & Sports Car Club 85 British Automobile Racing Club 87 British Rallycross & Hillclimb championships 88 Historic Sports Car Club 89 MotorSport Vision Racing 90 Masters/ Castle Combe Racing Club 91 Scotland/Ireland 92 Classic Sports Car Club 93 MG Car Club/ Historic Racing Drivers Club 94 Club champions of 2011

Club Formula Ford 1600: furious as ever

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