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Matters of moment, March 1966
The new season's prospects The 1966 Club racing season commences in earnest this month. A very intense year's activity looks…

The new season's prospects The 1966 Club racing season commences in earnest this month. A very intense year's activity looks…
We have had good results from Holt's, and particularly from Total, spray-on de-icing fluid when clearing the screens and windows…
Two Fiat 850s, a saloon and a coupe, recently undertook a 24-hour run at Snetterton. Driven by a team of…
American Fords quieter than Jaguars? Sir, The American market is probably the most important single Export target for any British…
After Stirling Moss had won the 1961 Oulton Park Gold Cup race with the Ferguson P99 Four-wheel-drive car, in a…
SAAB Wins Swedish Rally Unlike the Monte Carlo Rally which .started well and then turned into a nightmare, the Swedish…
News from Ferrari Due to various delays the factory Ferrari team was not ready in time to take part in…
"My Father Mr. Mercedes," by Guy Jellinek Mercedes. 319 pp., 9 in. 5 3/4 in. (G.T. Foulis & Co. Ltd.,…
by George A. Oliver. 14 pp. 14 in. s: 18 3/4 in. (Hugh Evelyn Ltd., 9, Fitzroy Square, London, W.…
"Auto-Universurn-1966." Edited by Arthur Logoz. 212 pp. 13 in. 9 1/4 in. (Arthur Barker Ltd., 20, New Bond Street, London,…
by Grp. Capt. F.R. Wynne. 96 pp. 7 1/2 in.x 5 in. (Peter Skelton Ltd., 44. Old Bond Street, London,…
by John B. Rae. 265 pp. 9 1/2 in. 6 1/4, in. (The Univercity of Chicago Press, 70, Gt. Russell…
There is an account of a forced landing on an island in the Nile when the Clerget engine of a…
B.M.W. 1800 TI Road test Sir. Reading your road-test report on this car, I was left wondering once again why…
Having enjoyed "Motor Tramp" by John Heygate (see this column last December), I set about reading his earlier book "Talking…
Audi 1700. A Luxury Family Saloon with High-Compression Mittel-druckmotor. "The Auto-Union Powered by Mercedes-Benz" The name Audi is unfamiliar in…
Audi 1700 The F.102 was a small luxury car and when Volkswagen N.G. obtained the majority of Auto-Union shares in…
Are We Back To Square One ? At Le Mans in 1952, during the practice sessions, the Daimler-Benz concern tried…
A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters V.S.C.C. Charterhouse driving tests (February 6th) The driving test meeting of the Vintage S.C.C.…
This year's M.C.C. 40th Exeter Trial was a good occasion for pre-war cars, a Wolseley Hornet Special taking a 2nd…
The month of May has arrived which means it’s Indy 500 time. Practice gets underway this week with qualifying next weekend. IndyCar has run five races so far, all on…
I like this time of year. New racing cars break cover, their teams and drivers full of hope that potential shored up during winter will spring into reality as testing…
For the second year in a row hometown favourite Ed Carpenter is on the pole at Indianapolis. Carpenter, 33, is Tony George’s adopted son and came up through midgets and…
Renault will cease its involvement as a Formula 1 engine supplier this weekend, after more than four decades that have seen innovation, domination, but all-too-frequent failures as well