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Mark Glendenning reviews Sam Collins's 'Unraced... Formula One's lost cars'
Whenever I see a picture of the Lola T97/30, I'm reminded of the audition episodes of those Pop Idol-type shows (admit it, you watch them too).
The best part of those programmes are the early bits, when they are still separating the wheat from the chaff, because pretty much every week you get to see what happens when someone discovers (often several years too late) that their ambitions - and often, their assessment of their own ability - is dramatically at odds with reality.
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