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All-round nice guy Ron Howard – whose new movie, Rush, a souped-up treatment of Formula One’s 1976 season, is on our screens now – explains the secret of his five decades of success

All-round nice guy Ron Howard – whose new movie, Rush, a souped-up treatment of Formula One’s 1976 season, is on our screens now – explains the secret of his five decades of success