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The North East has been a hotbed of motorsport since the early years of the last century.In this book motorsport broadcaster and journalist Larry Carter presents a selection of memorable motorsport events, competitors, venues and personalities in the region from the 1920s onwards. The circuit at Croft is justly famous, witnessing the early days of stars such as James Hunt, Barry Sheene, Niki Lauda and Wilson Fittipaldi, but the huge variety of motorsports, both cars and bikes, in the region are represented in this book, including circuit racing, rallying, rallycross and trials. The North East has spawned many great racers over the years, both men and women, some of whom died tragically young, such as motorcyclist Ken Redfern and sidecar legend Mac Hobson. Also included are famous clubs such as the Darlington & District Motor Cub and lesser-known venues at Catterick military base and Albemarle Barracks. This book is also a tribute to events that have declined or disappeared – grass track racing, sand racing on the Cleveland beaches, hill-climbs, scrambling, speedway and stock car racing.Delving through archives, Larry Carter has unearthed a fascinating collection of the most memorable motor-sporting events and achievements of the last 100 years in the North East which will appeal to all motorsport enthusiasts in the area.

Yorkshire has been a hotbed of motorsport since the early years of the last century. In this book, motorsport broadcaster and journalist Larry Carter presents a selection of memorable motorsport events, competitors, venues and personalities in the county from the 1920s onwards. The Sutton Bank Time Trials and the Harewood Hill Climb started in the early years of the last century and the latter is still going today. The 1938 Scott Trial was held on the Yorkshire Moors as war clouds gathered and in 1971, one of the most iconic RAC Rallies ever started at Harrogate. Yorkshire competitors include Formula One World Champion Mike Hawthorn, several generations of the Lampkin family, Wakefield stars Mick Grant and Denis Parkinson on two wheels, as well as Doncaster ace Tony Sugden and Leeds entrepreneur Chris Meek on four wheels. There is also the tragic Carter family linked to the Halifax and Bradford speedway teams. The lost tracks at Carnaby and Rufforth staged massive races into the 1980s, motocross at Hutton Conyers was regularly shown on TV and Oliver’s Mount in Scarborough welcomed a roll call of world champions for over half a century from the 1940s.Delving through the archives, Larry Carter has unearthed a fascinating collection of the most memorable motorsport events and achievements over the last 100 years in Yorkshire, which will appeal to all motorsport enthusiasts in the area and beyond.

Scotland has a rich heritage when it comes to motorsport. Some of the most successful competitors of all time hail from Scotland with such names as World Formula 1 champions Jim Clark and Sir Jackie Stewart, as well as fellow F1 ace David Coulthard, World Rally champion Colin McRae, multiple TT winner and British Superbike champion Steve Hislop, Touring Car legends John Cleland and Gordon Shedden, Le Mans 24 Hours winner Allan McNish, wife of F1 boss Toto Wolff, Susie Wolff, Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti, decorated Olympic cyclist and part-time racer Sir Chris Hoy and land speed world record holder Richard Noble amongst others. The Scottish Six Days Trial (SSDT) has run since 1909 around Ben Nevis, and the Rest and be Thankful Hillclimb in Argyll started even earlier in 1906. Historic old tracks include Beveridge Park, Charterhall and Ingliston, and the burgeoning Knockhill circuit which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary and the gruelling Scottish Rally Championship is held annually on a variety of courses throughout the country.Delving through archives, Larry Carter has unearthed a fascinating collection of the most memorable motor sporting events and achievements of the last 100 years in Scotland which will appeal to all motorsport enthusiasts in the country.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC'98, held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA in August 1998.The 24 revised full papers presented have gone through two rounds of selection and reviewing. The volume is divided in topical sections on Java, locality, network computing, Fortran, irregular applications, instructions scheduling, and dependence analysis.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC'99, held in La Jolla, CA, USA in August 1999. The 27 revised full papers and 14 posters presented have gone through two rounds of selection and reviewing. The volume offers topical sections on Java, low-level transformations, data distribution, high-level transformations, models, array analysis, language support, and compiler design and cost analysis.