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Matters of moment, October 1981
Into top gear again, is it? As we said last month, we are glad we are not saddled with the…

Into top gear again, is it? As we said last month, we are glad we are not saddled with the…
The last Saturday in August is, by tradition, the day on which the Bentley Drivers Club holds its annual Silverstone race…
Silverstone September 12/13th The Mazda RX7 of Tom Walkinshaw and Chuck Nicholson overcame the might of BMW's challenge from Helmut Kelleners…
Although motoring historians make play with the variants of the Talbot name, which has been applied to widely differing cars, we…
Avon Racing Tyres When Goodyear pulled out of Formula One at the end of last year, and Michelin only guaranteed to supply…
It was a motoring lesson, of sorts. Two visits to France in the space of a week to drive two very…
Dull indeed would be the World Rally Championship if each event conformed to the standardisation which F1SA seems bent on imposing.…
Geoff Lees is the new European Formula Two Champion. Lees clinched the title in early September at the penultimate round of the…
From skating to Formula One, Jabouille and Laffite have never been far apart. . . . Twenty-six years ago two…
Renault all the way Monza, Italy, September 13th In these rather unsettled days it was nice to get back to the…
During the lunch break at Monza, on the day of the Italian Grand Prix a Tipo 159 Alfa Romeo from 1951…
The course-car When the green light comes on and the 24 Formula One cars take off from the starting grid to begin…
A section devoted to old-car matters The Life and Times of Montie Grahame-White (Continued from the September issue) Following his unsuccessful…
Not pursuit along dusty roads of a bevy of 40/50 hp Rolls-Royces, simply a glance-back at some off-beat motoring history. First, during…
The heading applies, not to the single-seater Miller that appeared at this year's Brooklands Re-union, which seems to be a post-war…
While the Assistant Editor was having himself a speed-orgy over the August Bank Holiday at the Bentley DC Silverstone races and…
For the sixth year running the Vintage Sports Car Club combined with Charles Wilkinson, proprietor of Lincolnshire's Cadwell Park, to promote a race…
There are few more pleasant places for VSCC driving tests than the drive of Madresfield Court on a hot September afternoon…
Sunbeam Sidelines Sir, I found the article on the 3-litre Sunbeam in last month's issue most interesting and informative. The…
The advantages of placing an engine to drive the front wheels transversely across the engine bay have taken a long time…
Just days before the 2025 Indianapolis 500, IndyCar was rocked by a high-profile cheating scandal involving Penske leading to the firing of its entire senior leadership and casting a shadow over both the race and Roger Penske's legacy
Ferrari will update its SF90 F1 car for the Spanish Grand Prix rather than the Canadian Grand Prix Ferrari hopes that an early update to its power unit at the…
Simon Arron recounts how, with the pulling of multiple strings, he helped Perry McCarthy (Top Gear's former Stig) compete in the penultimate round of the 1989 Formula 3000 Championship One of…
Two years ago, Sebastian Vettel decided to bring an end to his glittering F1 career, so picked up the phone to Matt Bishop — then Aston Martin comms boss. He details the ensuing scramble and Vettel's increasing determination to speak out