Arecord 160 entries plus fresh ice and snow helped the fifth Monte Carlo Challenge live up to its promise of…

Alpine Roots This year's Classic Marathon returns to the Alps, and ventures onto Czech roads as well as back to…

Surtees Super Prix Anew race series for rear-engined Fl and Tasman cars features in the Brands Hatch Super Prix programme…

A Fiat Fiasco The most monstrous single-engined car built to attack the "fastest-ever", or "LSR", was undoubtedly the enormously high,…

Fiat S76 A Recollection The S76 had been such a sensation that when a Middlesborough evening paper published a photograph…

Vintage Winners At its AGM the VSCC's 18 main trophies and the MOTOR SPORT Brooklands Memorial Trophy and cash prizes…

The Racing Conan Doyles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle should be forever praised for having written what were intended as simple…

Rolls-Royce Reliability One of the best-known demonstrations of RR reliabitty was on the Alpine Trial of 1913; here the cars…

Cars In Books When I saw that Douglas Botting had written a full-length, as they say, biography of the late…

The Test That Went Wro In the earlier days of motoring, car owners paid great attention to tyres. Punctures were…

OBITUARIES Anthony Brooke t was a great shock to members of the VSCC to learn of the death in February…

The VSCC Pomeroy Memorial Trophy The "Porn" is an essential rite of Spring, though this year it took place on…

V-to-t, Miscellany Areader who owns a 1934 Alvis Firefly tourer which his wife discovered had taken part in that year's…

Sitting in a Bugatti in a freezing gale at the top of a one-time speed hillclimb course, at the behest…

Birkin Memorial Rally. Duke Video. 35 min, £19.99. If you missed last year's Norfolk gathering to remember Sir Henry Birkin,…

In-Car Manx Rally Experience. Duke Video. 86 min, £10.99. A cliché? Certainly. Well produced? Indubitably. Worthwhile? Questionably .. . Just…

1993 British F3 Review. Duke Video. 95 min, £12.99. In the past, astute camerawork has succeeded in transforming many a…

The Williams Renault Formula 1 Motor Racing Book, by Xavier Chimitis and Francois Granet. Dorling Kindersley, £9.99. According to the…

• Two more volumes of MRP's useful Collector's Guides are available on TVRs, compiled by painstaking and knowledgeable Graham Robson,…

Sporting Rovers 93. Duke Video. 120 min, £10.99. If you raced, or rallied, a Rover (216, Metro GTi or even…