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Matters of moment, June 1989
The public image On July 29, 1973, millions of television viewers worldwide watched helplessly as Roger Williamson was burned alive…
The public image On July 29, 1973, millions of television viewers worldwide watched helplessly as Roger Williamson was burned alive…
Nearly 15% of the total production of Frazer Nash. (some 70 cars, the great majority chain-driven) will drive the 2500…
Berger suffers breaks and burns Gerhard Berger's horrific accident at the San Marino Grand Prix on April 23 resulted in…
Second Classic Marathon It might be many people's idea of heaven to wake up on the peak of the Stelvio…
With the disappointing non-appearance of two Ferrari F40s entered by Charles Pozzi for Nicola Larini and Jean-Pierre Jabouille, and the…
As rumoured at the turn of the year (Motor Sport, February 1989), the loss-making March Group has rationalised by selling…
More Changes to Grand Prix Rules On the eve of the Monaco Grand Prix, the third race of the new…
Pre-war racing cars on public roads - that is the promise of the Merlin Manx Classic Speed trials planned for…
A miracle Miracles do happen in motor racing. We saw one at Imola during the San Marino Grand Prix. It…
Same tune, new sound The mythical "they" (whoever "they" might be) were saying that it was all going to be…
Continuity I always find continuity in the racing scene of great interest: the sons of famous racing drivers taking up…
Sweet sixteen for Senna The bald facts say that Ayrton Senna pulverised his opposition to win his 16th Grand Prix…
The eleven year plan I sometimes wonder if I am totally out of step with the rest of the world…
Trading places Last month we spoke of the massive budgets of professional teams, the comparatively meagre resources of private competitors…
Latin spirit It is true that the current Mille Miglia retrospective is merely a historic regularity rally, but clocking in…
"With the Minister will be the past-Chairman and Vice-President elect of the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain, Bryan Goodman,…
The roads of the 1920s We are coming close to the end of the Twenties, whose motoring life we have…
Rolls-Royces in old age In his recently-published book on Rolls Royce, George Oliver has a chapter entitled "See how they…
For those who like to try their hand at solving conundrums, here is rather a nice one! In 1922 a…
Reading DSJ's piece (Motor Sport, May 1989) about the mistakes made by journalists, the Editor was conscious that through a…
F1 has hit a wall with sprint races but there's scope to experiment with the concept, and a radical reformatting could be brilliant
Red Bull couldn't challenge for the win but has Mercedes and McLaren put themselves closer to the front?
There have been numerous instances of Formula 1 chopping off its nose to spite its face. This week, however, was a first: appending a nose to the same effect. Although…
The Parnelli VPJ-4 is one of F1's great coulda-woulda-shoulda stories, writes Preston Lerner. Without it, Mario Andretti would not have won the title with Lotus in 1978