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On 11/19/2019 6:04 AM, Sir Tim wrote:
a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> wrote:
Finally official - I got my final issue of AUTOWEEK
A lot of print on paper magazines have been closing down lately.
AUTOWEEK joins them. And long ago, they were a newspaper,
and a lot of them quit also.
I guess you can still read their stuff at
- autoweek.com
I fondly recall the golden years. It came in newspaper
form every week, give a good coverage of races only about
one week delayed, while the magazines were always a
couple months late. I still have my issues from 1962 and on.
Sounds rather like “Motoring News” in the Uk, which was a weekly in newspaper format. We were lucky in also having “Autosport”, which
was a more expensive glossy.
/Autoweek/ started out as a fortnightly motorsports newsletter, titled /Competition Press/. In 1964 distribution was changed to weekly, the
title was changed to /Competition Press & Autoweek/, and vehicle reviews
and industry news were included. The name was shortened to /Autoweek/
in 1975. [paraphrased from Wikipedia]
Their logo throughout depicted Jean Behra's helmet and goggles. Here's
the very first issue (page 4: "Brooks and Vanwall Win GP of Europe"):
https://s3-prod.autoweek.com/s3fs-public/combinepdf_rfs.pdf
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