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Matters of moment, August 1971
The future of Le Mans Le Mans, instituted in 1923 and once regarded as the most important sports-car race of…

The future of Le Mans Le Mans, instituted in 1923 and once regarded as the most important sports-car race of…
During the past month we were invited by the British Leyland Press Department to a function at the vast Longbridge…
Kent Alloys Ltd., the member of the GKN Division down in Rochester that produces many of the castings used in…
Stewart and Tyrrell again Silverstone, July 17th Although the British Grand Prix does not have a long and venerable history, like…
The occasion of this year's British Grand Prix at Silverstone was also the twenty-first anniversary of the BRM team, for…
At the end of June there was an Alpine Rally in Southern France, but it was an Alpine in name…
Mosport Park, Ont. (June 13th) The sixth season of J-Wax-sponsored Group 7 competition in America got under way at Mosport…
The Sports Car Club of America has sold itself to television! Commencing with the Watkins Glen race, the balance of…
For the second round at Le Circuit Mont Tremblant, the Can-Am circus was joined by the latest version of the…
A Tyrrell double Castellet, France, July 4th Before anyone gets too excited it is worth remembering that the original series of…
With only one week-end between the Dutch GP and the French GP most teams had to repair the ravages of…
HRH Princess Chula asks us to say that all the motoring books by her late husband Prince Chula, and Prince…
Having gone to the trouble of digging out from the mildewed archives that BARC certificate which proved that in 1911…
With the Grand Prix of France taking place on the newly-built multi-million-pound Paul Ricard circuit alongside the Castellet aerodrome, about…
The National Traction Engine Club has published a soft-cover booklet "More Engines at Work", using illustrations originally used in their…
A reader recommended "Another Self", by James Lee-Milne (Hamish Hamilton, 1970), which has some motoring references in it. There is,…
Pedro Rodriguez died in that terrible accident at the Norisring. Some people have sentimental praise bestowed on them after they…
By Derek N. James. 446pp. 8 3/4 in. x. 5 1/2 in. (Putnam & Co. Ltd., 9, Bow Street, London,…
The Editor talks to a popular pre-war racing driver Cyril Paul had a long and eventful motor racing career which…
JW-Gulf Porsche Team fights to the finish Osterreichring, Zeltweg, June 27th. The magnificent circuit carved out of the hills in…
The late Max Mosley’s first racing wish was the usual one: to become Formula 1 world champion. He would get as far as Formula 2 – and there in short…
The Shanghai circuit gave F1's teams a new test on every day of the 2024 Chinese Grand Prix weekend, with a familiar result: a double victory for Max Verstappen, well ahead of everybody else
Frank and as fiercely competitive as ever, Jason Plato tells Damien Smith why he believes he can bow out of the BTCC as champion — with 100 career wins, and his plans to race at Le Mans — free from the off-track distractions of touring cars
In the wake of Britain's impending departure from the EU, we look back at five Formula 1 exits. Prost leaves Renault/McLaren/Ferrari Usually outspoken, Alain Prost has a history of departing teams and their…