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Matters of moment, April 1973
Our "Stop Clobbering" campaign MOTOR SPORT received an overwhelming response to the views expressed on this page in the February…

Our "Stop Clobbering" campaign MOTOR SPORT received an overwhelming response to the views expressed on this page in the February…
EASTER will see two endurance events, one traditional, the other new. The MCC Land's End Trial takes place as usual…
Our Cricket Correspondent writes: The time seems to have come when mere professional players no longer hold the attention of…
WHILE British racing circuits have been closing down, a group in Lancashire have built a little 800-yard track just five…
—a speculative essay— A MOMENTOUS event in the motoring world is scheduled for next month—the story will be released in…
THE completion of the new Swansea Computer Centre has unfortunately resulted in a simplification of the car logbook and the…
DAVID HOWE, of 108 Sheen Road, Richmond, Surrey, who owns a couple of non-supercharged Austin Ulsters and says he regards…
IN the course of 90 very interesting "capsule" road tests of the 1973 American cars, Automobile Quarterly remarks that a…
THE following has been received from Girling Ltd.: "Remember 'Dirling'—the unknown maker of disc brake pads in boxes bearing more…
Brands Hatch, March 18th. BRANDS HATCH'S Race of Champions has, for several years, started the European Formula One season but…
THE REACTION from readers to the article last month asking when you lost interest in Grand Prix racing was quite…
Broadspeed beat the regulations APART FROM a break last year, Broadspeed Engineering, the Southam Warwickshire based team, have been preparing…
Formula Two win for STP-March-BMW A FEW MONTHS ago in the Around and About column we highlighted the forthcoming battle…
The National Motor Museum. As motor museums are in the news at present we went to Beaulieu last month, to…
Mr. John Chamber of Leamington Spa, who is Chairman of the Midland Section of the VCC, writes to say that,…
A section devoted to old car matters VSCC Pomeroy Trophy INTENDED to define the best all-round touring-car of the meeting…
THE first VSCC race meeting of 1973 takes place at Silverstone on April 28th, starting at 12.15 p.m. There will…
A 1923 Austin Chummy, claimed tube older than that in the National Motor Museum, is being restored in South Wales.…
WE ARE as enthusiastic about replicas of historic trials and similar events as we are adverse to replicas of most…
Sir, "Fanfare for Europe" was a tremendous success. For us, it was a symbol of Britain coming in at last—to…
Lewis Hamilton's victory in the 2008 Monaco Grand Prix reinvigorated his charge to a first world title. But as Matt Bishop recalls, luck had a lot to do with this turning point in the championship
When Marc Márquez swept to Honda’s 700th Grand Prix victory on Sunday he did so at the head of the factory Repsol Honda team, probably the biggest outfit in the…
A post-race penalty sullied what could have been a perfect first race weekend in F1 Academy for Mercedes junior driver Doriane Pin. But her pace shouldn't be so surprising, given her highly impressive racing resume
Few, if any, challenges in motor sport are tougher: as the countdown to Dakar 2023 continues, race returnee Dania Akeel talks of driving beyond the limit, making your own luck, and racing as a Saudi woman