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Matters of moment, October 1970
• BLMC quits competition motoring Last month Lord Stokes, boss of British Leyland, was in the hot-seat for chiding customers…
• BLMC quits competition motoring Last month Lord Stokes, boss of British Leyland, was in the hot-seat for chiding customers…
The Editor Belatedly Road-Tests British Leyland's New V8 3-litre Triumph Convertible Last month I felt obliged to explain in an…
Engine: Eight cylinders in a 90° vee, 86 x 64.5 mm. (,2,997 c.c.) Overhead valves operated by single overhead camshafts.…
Lexington After an interval of four weeks, the Can-Am circus returned to the United States for the fifth round of…
With only a week between the fifth and sixth rounds (and less than that to overhaul the machinery), a number…
To celebrate the Jubilee of 50 years' production, Aston Martin cars delivered after July 11th have a golden radiator badge…
As a result of financial difficulties experienced by the Bridgehampton circuit on Long Island, the seventh round of the Can-Am…
An exhibition of AC cars will be held by the ACOC at 137, Piccadilly. during the early part of October.…
The most interesting event on the American scene in the past month has been the opening of Ontario Motor Speedway,…
The story in brief Writing in the weeks after Jochen Rindt's death at Monza, Denis Jenkinson turns on the championship…
Imola, a little way south of Modena and Bologna, used to host non-Championship Formula One races, and recently a good…
Starting with the fifth round of the European F2 Trophy for non-graded drivers on August 23rd, Formula Two cars once…
Rally of the Thousand Lakes General Classification 1st:H. Mikkola/G. Palm (Escort TC) .......................... 16,612 2nd:T. Makinen/H. Liddon (Escort TC) ......................…
To the strains of the National Anthem and the fluttering of unused sales literature floating down from the first floor…
Regazzoni saves the day Monza, Italy, September 6th. After the sweeping victory in Austria the whole of Italy was behind…
The reflections left by the Italian Grand Prix at Monza are a mixture of joy and sadness, for the Ferrari…
A section devoted to old-car matters A wet VSCC Thruxton (September 12th) The final Vintage SCC Race Meeting of the…
Steam at Bishop's Castle (August 31st) I like to go to at least one traction-engine rally and one flying display…
No. 14: Clyno The story of Clyno has been well told elsewhere—the start with motorcycles and a prototype small car…
Talbot ambulances
If you've heard that a driver looks fast on paper... this isn't quite it. Matt Bishop casts his eye over the fastest names in F1, with his own formula to explain why Ayrton Senna and Jim Clark belong in the slow lane, lagging the nippily-named Clay Regazzoni and Lando Norris
Dad – a Vintage Sports-Car Club regular in our everyday chain-drive Frazer Nash – was my first motorsporting hero. My second was a square-jawed multiple Formula 1 world champion called…
Motegi guzzles more fuel than just about any other MotoGP circuit, which is why race-winner Marc Márquez only just made it to the finish: Grand Prix of Japan race insight…
A dramatic British Grand Prix had a little bit of everything but there was more going on than the crash between Hamilton and Verstappen