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The 1980 VSCC "Pomeroy"
Although the Pomeroy Memorial Trophy Contest run by the Vintage Sports Car Club is really a minor event, comparatively speaking,…
Although the Pomeroy Memorial Trophy Contest run by the Vintage Sports Car Club is really a minor event, comparatively speaking,…
Air Historian G. Stuart Leslie has pointed out that there was a misprint in the lead-in to the Diary instalment in…
The Rover Sports Register is holding its third annual Belvoir Castle Rally on June 22nd, organised by its East Midland…
"In his youth he was a keen amateur motorist having achieved a speed of 170 m.p.h. in his Frazer-Nash in the…
Fuel tanks The fuel tank, like the radiator mentioned in Motor Sport Feb. 1980, is a tiresome part of a…
Punishing rallies in which a car cannot be driven at the upper limit of its performance without grave risk of…
There are no such things as predictions in rallying. Guesses there may be, but attempts at forecasting are invariably no more…
Things aren't as bad as they sounded at Bob Jankel's Panther Westwinds Ltd. in Byfleet (see Motor Sport, February). Though…
Apart from the useful directories of light aeroplanes referred to on the Book Review pages last month, another reference book…
In 1935 the Scuderia Ferrari, who carried the fortunes of Alfa Romeo in Grand Prix racing, were being thoroughly trounced by…
Always one of the best European Motor Shows, this year's 50th Geneva Show was packed with even more interest than…
"The Complete Book of Electric Vehicles" by Sheldon R. Shacket. 168 pp. 11" x 8" (Davidson Publishing Limited, 109 Southampton…
Having referred recently under this heading to some petrol-powered cars suitable for children, we learn of another, made by John…
There are one or two interesting references to cars in "and the next object . . ." by Norman Hackforth (Angus and…
In a serious bid to extract even more performance and refinement from their excellent Lagonda, already one of the fastest…
The progress in four-cylinder engine development is clearly shown by the new engine developed by Brian Hart for Martyn Griffiths to use…
While the 1980 South African GP was not one of the most exciting to watch, and even less exciting to…
There was not so much new this year at Kyalami, as in the past, as many teams had got their…
Last month, in the Correspondence columns, Cecil Clutton took me to task for criticising the oversize tyres used on the…
David Sewell is undertaking to compile an up-to-date Register of all known Bugatti cars existing in the United Kingdom, on…
The big stories from the past week in motor sport from the Archive. The Embassy Hill plane crash claimed the lives of six, 40 years ago last weekend. Among them…
Tyre temperature and pressure are everything in motor sport – and not only in MotoGP. In Formula 1, or any other category where the stakes are high and the lap…
The first back-to-back race of the season takes F1 to the Circuit de Catalunya Barcelona where we should get a clear idea of the true competitive order
It’s always said that NASCAR’s marathon season gets underway not at the traditional Daytona 500 season-opener, but at the year’s second race. Thanks to the use of power-sapping restrictor plates…