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The 'Buck Stops Here

After 31 years - and roughly 230,000 cigarettes - Autosport Grand Prix editor NIGEL ROEBUCK is bowing out. Here, he looks back on his time at the magazine

After 31 years - and roughly 230,000 cigarettes - Autosport Grand Prix editor NIGEL ROEBUCK is bowing out. Here, he looks back on his time at the magazine

More than anything, it's the row of Autocourses that gets across to me just how long I have worked for this magazine: the last 31 of them cover that period of my life. I joined Autosport the very week - in September 1976 - that Niki Lauda made his comeback at Monza, 40 days after being given the Last Rites. And logically I suppose I should begin there.

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