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Fast Lane Magazine - 1989/1990 Track Test Tapes

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Fast Lane was an excellent British high-performance motoring magazine published 1984-1994.  That era coincides with arguably the greatest period of sports/super cars and almost every issue is packed with iconic, now classic cars.  A more popular rival to Fast Lane was Performance Car , which survived until 1998 when the publisher pulled the plug and the staff relaunched it as Evo . Although I was too young to buy many issues when new, I've since collected 30+ issues thanks to eBay.  One issue that my brother bought new was the April 1989 issue which came with a free cover-mounted cassette tape.  The tape contained in-car sound and commentary of several cars being driven at Donington Park circuit and a major coup for this experiement in multimedia was the inclusion of Nick Mason's Ferrari F40. So what prompted me to revisit this now?  Well in his latest video, modern day journalist Chris Harris (former Evo writer who now creates reviews for a YouTube channel called DRIVE