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Gnoo Blas
Track visit Introduced as a rival to Bathurst, just down the road, Gnoo Blas was a scarily fast road circuit…
Track visit Introduced as a rival to Bathurst, just down the road, Gnoo Blas was a scarily fast road circuit…
As Nick Pellett has rightly remarked, it is a minor miracle that all three of the 1914 Tourist Trophy Sunbeams…
The BRDC Bulletin, a long way from when it was just a short item every month in Motor Sport, had…
The VSCC Pomeroy Trophy contest started as an idea of the late Laurence Pomeroy, whose father had engineered the pre-war…
A UK de Dion Bouton Club has been started for this pioneering marque. The inaugural meet was held on April…
I note that Rob Aherne, editor of Autocar, in announcing the new Rolls-Royce Phantom, writes that "it wins nothing on…
The pre-1915 Humberettes were not as prepossessing as the post-war small cars but they were good nonetheless, and it was…
Gordon Cruickshank, in his look at experimental racing and record gas-turbine cars, the most complete I have read, explained the…
This year's Brooklands Society Reunion will take place on June 25, from 10am. It will include the usual attractions like…
We have received some stupendous books about historic racing cars and their history recently. All credit to their industrious authors:…
In the Journal of the Society of Automotive Historians in Britain there is a brief history by Michael Worthington-Williams of…
The owner of a Lea-Francis tourer, CN 3333, is looking for information on the car. It was first owned by…
George Wingard has had published a superb book entitled Red Wolves in Sheep's Clothing (ISBN 1 5 9971 0587) describing…
Club magazines often contain valuable items of motoring history. Recent examples include the very complete account of the Triumph copy…
We referred recently to what could be a 1906 grand prix Darracq engine, now installed in a suitable chassis. As…
What an effective club the VMCC is. Founded in 1946, it has 76 sections, which between them organise over 1000…
Sitting at the back of the grid for the opening Derek Bell Trophy race at Donington Park, Mark Dwyer didn't…
Jimmy McRae swept to victory on round two of the Armajaro MSA British Historic Championship, the Astra Stages in North…
Cooper Monaco driver Graeme Dodd was a runaway winner of the opening round of the BRDC Historic Sports Car Championship…
Astra Historic Stages, April 1 1 Jimmy McRae/Campbell Roy (Porsche 911): 2 Gareth Lloyd/Ryland James (Escort Mk2); 3 Steven Smith/John…
The British Grand Prix is fast approaching and this week Damien Smith and I discuss the race and the new pit and paddock complex at Silverstone. We also talk about…
Where to watch W Series live: Channel 4 will broadcast every round of the inaugural all-female W Series in the UK Channel 4 will show all six rounds of the W…
If any group of people were left looking more idiotic than the Government after its bungled handling of the only alleged fuel crisis, it was the general public. Whipped up…
Toyota's table-topping performance at the WEC Prologue on April 7 does little to paint a comprehensible picture... so what can we learn from the opening test? There…