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Parting shot in the foot
Sir, Oops! With regard to March's Parting Shot photograph, I feel that it may have been taken at the 1961,…
Sir, Oops! With regard to March's Parting Shot photograph, I feel that it may have been taken at the 1961,…
Sir, A copy of MOTOR SPORT for August 1998 has just reached me. Although I am an avid reader of…
Sir, I attended my first motor race as a teenager in the late '60s and, like many from that era,…
Sir, Congratulations on reaching MOTOR SPORT'S 75th year with the magazine in such good health. Long may you continue to…
Sir, The excellence of the new MOTOR SPORT notwithstanding, for me one picture sums up the changes that have taken…
Sir, In his item on the Wankel engine Mr Boddy refers to the memorial at Cuffley which he visited in…
It was in the fifties, as a kid, that I fell in love with racing, and it is no coincidence…
GP racing was once ruled by manufacturers. Now it's the FIA and constructors. Matthew Franey asks how long it will…
The one big change in safety in the last 75 years, has not to do with helmets or gravel traps…
The journalist's job has changed beyond recognition. In some ways it's easier now, in others far harder and a lot…
In 1905, under the watchful eye of impresario Carl G Fisher, two of America's motorsport pioneers, WF lap' Clemens and…
Increasingly F1's poor relation, sports car racing should be remember the halcyon days argues Gordon Cruickshank Nostalgia is an easy…
Rallying may have lost the heroic edge of the old endurance events but, says, John Davenport, the sport still remains…
On paper, the Land Speed Record has changed more than any other discipline in the sport. Ever since being the…
From Coys to Goodwood, Le Mans to Monza, this season's historic calendar is packed with thrills. Marcus Pye previews the…
Will Hoy had good experiences both of Porsche's 962 and Vern Schuppan's team. However at Le Mans in '91 an…
What happened in the 1930 Mille Miglia is the stuff of legend. The greatest drivers of the day, Tazio Nuvolari…
The birthplace of Napoleon is a rally driver's nirvana. a wide-eyed John Davenport remembers some 'on-the-edge' motoring in Corsica They…
A tribute by Simon Taylor
In the first of a series on innovations which changed the course of racing, Keith Howard looks at one of…
Project Brabham, Le Mans, Formula Ford, Mike Thackwell, Formula 3000, F1, the ALMS, Jack Brabham... There wasn't much not discussed when the podcast team sat down with David Brabham. Fueled…
Silverstone, 13 May 1950. The first race in the new Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship, which would - eventually - go from strength to strength, inspiring motor sport fans worldwide…
History is on Hamilton’s side in the battle for title number five Sebastian Vettel has a mountain to climb if he’s to beat Lewis Hamilton to a fifth world title.…
While spectators took in the atmosphere and on-track action, Ed Foster spent the Goodwood Revival scampering along the start-line to interview the drivers — broadcast live to an audience of…