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A Date to Remember Among the heat and fury of Grand Prix races counting towards the World Championship club racing…
A Date to Remember Among the heat and fury of Grand Prix races counting towards the World Championship club racing…
A Well-Earned Victory – Knittelfeld, August 14th In spite of the Osterreichring being in the middle of the country and…
(By means of which our European reporter occasionally keeps in touch with the Editor.) Dear W.B., For a change I…
Heavy rain on August 14th did its best to wash away the Prescott hill-climb course on the occasion of the…
Racing with silencers The era of silenced racing cars returneth! As mentioned in the July issue (and see Letters from…
Tourist Trophy, Silverstone September 18th is the chosen date for Britain’s only qualifying round in the European Touring Car Championship…
Described to the Editor in a recent interview Before the war Jack Bartlett was well known in the sporting motoring…
"The Fabulous Porsche 917" by Peter Hinsdale. 104 pp. 8 1/2in. x 11 in. (Patrick Stephens Ltd., Bar Hill, Cambridge,…
"Aston Martin 1914-1940—A Pictorial Review" by Imnan Hunter. 192 pp. 8 1/2 in. x 6 in. (Transport Bookman Publications, Syon…
Although there is but slender material for this long-established column in the recently-published autobiography of Dennis Wheatley ("The Time Has…
"Victorian and Edwardian Cycling and Motoring from Old Photographs" by A. B. Demaus. 110 pp. 10 in. 7 1/2 in.…
"Hudson—The Post-War Years" by Richard M. Langworth. 136 pp. 7 5/8 in. 10 in. (Motorbooks International, PO Box 2, 729,…
The organising body of the German Grand Prix were split down the middle; the businessmen wanted to run the race…
As a further Silver Jubilee tribute, Meccano of Liverpool have produced a Dinky miniature of the Austin London taxicab, finished…
"...I would remind you that remembering Brooklands is a major task of the Brooklands Society . . .; I do…
A section devoted to old-car matters VSCC Hawthorn Trophy Meeting (July 30) By the time this issue is published the…
Sir, Though I have read your excellent magazine for many years, I cannot recall any mention ever being made of…
Sir, I was interested to read, in the V-E-V column of the July Motor Sport, that one of the cars…
Sir, A copy of your May issue has reached me, with a reference to the Cowey car. I went to…
Sir, We were most interested to read the letter of Mr. De Lacroix concerning the Crossley owned by a relation…
This week in motor sport, from the database June 15 // June 16 // June 17 // June 18 // June 19 // June 20 // June 21 June 15 1952 After a 22-year absence, Mercedes-Benz made a triumphant return to Le Mans…
Fifty years ago this week in the French Grand Prix on June 28, 1964 at the Rouen-les-Essarts road circuit Dan Gurney scored the first F1 World Championship win for Jack…
Sergio Perez's F1 seat looked in jeopardy at some points last year, but after an assured start to the 2024 season he looks increasingly likely to stay with the team. Former boss Otmar Szafnauer explains why Perez is Red Bull's best bet
A history of Motor Sport’s first track day host: Thruxton ‘My feeling is’, wrote Bill Boddy in 1968, ‘that Thruxton will provide fast, interesting racing on account of its wide…