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Arecord 160 entries plus fresh ice and snow helped the fifth Monte Carlo Challenge live up to its promise of…
Arecord 160 entries plus fresh ice and snow helped the fifth Monte Carlo Challenge live up to its promise of…
Surtees Super Prix Anew race series for rear-engined Fl and Tasman cars features in the Brands Hatch Super Prix programme…
Alpine Roots This year's Classic Marathon returns to the Alps, and ventures onto Czech roads as well as back to…
A Fiat Fiasco The most monstrous single-engined car built to attack the "fastest-ever", or "LSR", was undoubtedly the enormously high,…
Vintage Winners At its AGM the VSCC's 18 main trophies and the MOTOR SPORT Brooklands Memorial Trophy and cash prizes…
Fiat S76 A Recollection The S76 had been such a sensation that when a Middlesborough evening paper published a photograph…
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…
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…
Birkin Memorial Rally. Duke Video. 35 min, £19.99. If you missed last year's Norfolk gathering to remember Sir Henry Birkin,…
Saloon Car Action, '70s style. PP Video. 60 min, £12.99. Now here's a first. Hands up anyone who knows of…
• 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…
There are only a handful of times in my life when I would fully admit to being blown away. My first ride on a superbike (after having learnt to ride…
Alfa Romeo has given its new 2020 car a run out at Fiorano in a private test ahead of the two weeks of winter testing in Barcelona. Kimi Räikkönen turned…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Not the first motor race with a GP suffix – that was Pau in February 1901…
Race day is only part of the Indy 500, as Fernando Alonso has found out. But he's been taking everything in his stride “Dad! Alonso is at my school!” It’s…