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Some MOTOR SPORT "Firsts"
WE normally dislike the sticking-outof-necks, especially ours, but on the advice of those who say you gain no credit unless…
WE normally dislike the sticking-outof-necks, especially ours, but on the advice of those who say you gain no credit unless…
WE have just heard about a Canal cruise from Paris to Le Mans to coincide with the 24-hour race. Anyone…
The Fiat 131 Supermirafiori 2000 TC WHEN contemplating Continental makes of cars competing for large-scale sales, one comes upon the…
In the April edition of the news sheet which the RAC Motorsports Association sends out to clubs is an urgent…
IN THE March issue of MOTOR SPORT I said that one thing about the World of Formula One was that…
—Lauda the perfectionist Long Beach, April 4th WHEN the teams arrived in California, direct from Brazil, there being but one…
ALTHOUGH a Grand Prix may finish at 3 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon we seldom leave the circuit much before…
WHEN the teams packed up their cars and boxes of spares, tools, and equipment to go to the Brazilian Grand…
An attempt to solve a classic motor racing problem "A maze of legend has grown up about the destiny of…
A section devoted to old-car matters Motoring as it was A Look-Back to the 1920s (Continued from the April issue)…
THIS traditional event the Edwardian and Light Can Section of the VSCC took place, in the usual form, over the…
A COLD and mainly dry March weekend saw VSCC members assembling at Priddy in the Mendips for the first Club…
Sir, Reading the (Obituaries in your March MOTOR SPORT I notice that the late Lord de Clifford, OBE, used Lagonda…
Sir, It isn't often I would correct Rivers Fletcher on motoring topics but I must show him the black Bag…
Sir, I would like to put the record straight with regard to two points in your article about the Payne…
Sir, Whilst reference is frequently made in the appropriate section of your magazine to little-known and largely forgotten makes of…
Sir, I visited the South Yorkshire County Records Office in Sheffield and can confirm that W 332 (pictured recently in…
— Although the owner of the fine Mercedes illustrated on page 289 of the March issue has not been identified,…
Sir, On p. 287 brief reference is made concerning the 100 ascents of Porlock Hill by a Singer Junior Sports…
Sir, I am writing to you concerning the Daimler Conundrum. By strange coincidence, one of our Australian members recently sent…
Power reflects on at last ending his Indy 500 hoodoo with a fine Penske team effort Will Power celebrates his 38th birthday today. He was viewed for years as IndyCar's…
Somehow it was fitting that I should be watching the modern iteration of the World Sportscar Championship when the chaps in the office e-mailed over the wonderful photos that take…
Established in 1946, the Cooper Car Company started life with a pair of donor Fiat 500s. Stripped of their front suspension components and disc wheels, the little Fiats formed the four…
Williams looks set to finalise its 2018 driver line-up with a two-day test, Mark Hughes can exclusively reveal Robert Kubica and Paul di Resta will each test Williams’ own 2014 car…