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Matters of moment, February 1982
Formula One technicalities As the highly-respected mooring writer Karl Ludvigsen, Vice-President of Ford-of-Europe Inc., reminded us last month, the engine-capacity…

Formula One technicalities As the highly-respected mooring writer Karl Ludvigsen, Vice-President of Ford-of-Europe Inc., reminded us last month, the engine-capacity…
The Vintage Motor Cycle Club The VMCC certainly takes its rightful place with the older VC, and VSCC, and the…
There is something of a gloom in Holland at the moment for the Dutch Grand Prix has been struck off…
The circuit inspector Before anyone can hold a Formula One Grand Prix the proposed circuit must have an FIA licence…
The Maserati firm of the brothers Alfieri, Ernesto, Bindo and Ettore was always involved in Grand Prix racing, though they…
In “The Hall In The Field" by Margaret Evans (Hodder & Stoughton, 1978), about running an ancient manor house in…
Alfa Romeo (GB) Limited seem determined, on a "do or die" course to improve their share of the UK market…
In January's Motor Sport an advertisement offered for sale a car which had been made ready for the Peking to…
Duncan Rabagliati who has compiled a register of all 35 Connaught cars that were built between 1950 and 1957 is…
The SDI Rover was first introduced in 1976 to replace the by then ageing 3 ½-litre large saloon and the…
Despite having been with us for nearly a quarter of a century, the rotary engine is still considered by laymen…
A look back Because snowstorms of record severity, combined with iced-up roads, prevailed over Southern England before the 1982 "Exeter"…
Fiat Ritmo Abarth 125TC Ritmo/Strada + Abarth = 118 m.p.h. and a new production competitor January 1980: the writer huddles…
Motoring Memories North Tipperary and elsewhere, 1920 onwards The particular part of North Tipperary lies in a triangle with points…
The Payne & Bates The makers of the experimental Payne & Bates cars were gas-engine manufacturers of Coventry, a company…
In conjunction with the Diamond Jubilee of the Austin 7 the 750 MC an holding an ambitious demonstration of the…
That vintage motoring is in good heart in Herefordshire and Wales was evident on New Year's Day, when, as last…
The Bulletin of the Riley Registe, another excellent printed Club magazine, in its issue of last December, posed the question…
May Motor Sport have the last word, after the correspondence about what happened when Jean Bugatti brought the 4.9-litre 4WD…
The whole point of the mention I made last month about a 1906 20 h.p. Rolls-Royce being rebodied in crude…
A brand new book about the pioneers who created Britain’s first permanent true road racing circuit, new collectors' editions from the editors of Motor Sport, plus models and more. All new to…
The two principal car requirements of Silverstone are aerodynamic efficiency and horsepower. And so, obviously, you didn’t need to look beyond the Mercedes W11. The team’s recent Silverstone record was…
When the teams began testing without traction control, at the end of last year, most drivers were enthusiastic about the change, Lewis Hamilton and others commenting that being in sole…
Sergio Perez has been having a tough time of it of late. After his great early-season, his pace deficit to team-mate Max Verstappen had ballooned alarmingly as the car’s development…