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Matters of moment, August 1971
The future of Le Mans Le Mans, instituted in 1923 and once regarded as the most important sports-car race of…
The future of Le Mans Le Mans, instituted in 1923 and once regarded as the most important sports-car race of…
During the past month we were invited by the British Leyland Press Department to a function at the vast Longbridge…
Kent Alloys Ltd., the member of the GKN Division down in Rochester that produces many of the castings used in…
Stewart and Tyrrell again Silverstone, July 17th Although the British Grand Prix does not have a long and venerable history, like…
The occasion of this year's British Grand Prix at Silverstone was also the twenty-first anniversary of the BRM team, for…
At the end of June there was an Alpine Rally in Southern France, but it was an Alpine in name…
Mosport Park, Ont. (June 13th) The sixth season of J-Wax-sponsored Group 7 competition in America got under way at Mosport…
The Sports Car Club of America has sold itself to television! Commencing with the Watkins Glen race, the balance of…
For the second round at Le Circuit Mont Tremblant, the Can-Am circus was joined by the latest version of the…
A Tyrrell double Castellet, France, July 4th Before anyone gets too excited it is worth remembering that the original series of…
With only one week-end between the Dutch GP and the French GP most teams had to repair the ravages of…
HRH Princess Chula asks us to say that all the motoring books by her late husband Prince Chula, and Prince…
Having gone to the trouble of digging out from the mildewed archives that BARC certificate which proved that in 1911…
With the Grand Prix of France taking place on the newly-built multi-million-pound Paul Ricard circuit alongside the Castellet aerodrome, about…
The National Traction Engine Club has published a soft-cover booklet "More Engines at Work", using illustrations originally used in their…
A reader recommended "Another Self", by James Lee-Milne (Hamish Hamilton, 1970), which has some motoring references in it. There is,…
Pedro Rodriguez died in that terrible accident at the Norisring. Some people have sentimental praise bestowed on them after they…
By Derek N. James. 446pp. 8 3/4 in. x. 5 1/2 in. (Putnam & Co. Ltd., 9, Bow Street, London,…
The Editor talks to a popular pre-war racing driver Cyril Paul had a long and eventful motor racing career which…
JW-Gulf Porsche Team fights to the finish Osterreichring, Zeltweg, June 27th. The magnificent circuit carved out of the hills in…
Charles Leclerc will start on pole position for tomorrow's Azerbaijan Grand Prix, posting a lap almost 0.3sec faster than anybody else after a close qualifying session. The Ferrari driver said…
Lost on the dusty tape racks of Motor Sport's former assistant editor, Andrew Marriott, was a box that simply said: "TV Villeneuve doc". For years it sat there, its existence…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring McLaren's 100th win and Brawn's memorable first March 27 1965: Gregor Foitek, F3000 race winner and Grand Prix starter, is born.…
Andrew Frankel looks back on the 1967 Formula 1 season starter, held at Kyalami Fifty years ago this week Pedro Rodriguez won the South African Grand Prix. It was a…