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Muscle memory

‘If we gave our competitors a bunch of no-name race tracks our entries would go down’

Nostalgia might not quite be what it was, as the suitably old joke goes, but in motorsport there’s an awful lot of it around, which is part of the reason why historic racing is so popular with spectators and competitors alike. But one question often arises when people start to ponder on the reasons why they’re so drawn to the past, and that is; why can’t racing be like this now? Well, actually it can. And when it comes to Trans Am, actually it is.

Trans Am is a hugely historic race series in its own right. For around 50 years, with just a couple of dormant seasons in 2007 and 2008,

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