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Matters of moment, December 1986
75 Years Of Ford In Britain We cannot let 1986 slip away without offering the Ford Motor Company hearty congratulations…

75 Years Of Ford In Britain We cannot let 1986 slip away without offering the Ford Motor Company hearty congratulations…
Since record breaking has been permitted at the MIRA banked track at Milbrook this form of high-speed activity is returning…
January 24th is the date of the BMW Car Club's Annual Dinner and Dance, at the Randolph Hotel, Oxford. Tickets from…
Prost's end of term surprise The way in which the last two Formula 1 races of the season came together…
Return of the Touring? There has long existed a tradition of converting saloons into estate cars. One thinks of such…
British BMW chaser — how close? The launch of the Rover 800 series was one of the most eagerly awaited…
The Williams-Honda Team 1986 A measure of the success of a Formula One team over a season can be gauged…
In a year of numerous new car introductions, one that included important Jaguar and Rover replacements, we asked our industry…
Committee room victory for Lancia in Sanremo Whatever opinions one may have concerning rules and their enforcement, when the results…
The popularity of this annual two-day event was assured before it started, with 90 competitors wanting to have a go,…
Motor Sport and the Brooklands Society originated the post-war return of Brooklands personalities to the old Track which had unfortunately…
A 1906 Nordenfelt with a 30 hp Barriquand et Marne engine and a Darracq front axle has been found in…
In the last but one issue of the now-defunct magazine The Automobile two questions of veteran-car identity were posed, which…
Last August I attempted to pay tribute to those courageous people, the riding mechanics in motor races, who disappeared from…
VSCC Eastern Rally The Premier Award was won by McEwen's 1938 Riley Lynx, navigated by D M Allen, who took…
AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX TO GIVE Johnny Dumfries a send-oft in his final race for Lotus (above) his mechanics donned the…
Two Seats and a Dickey — the Suburban Sportscar Not many manufacturers can boast that they have introduced a new…
About a year ago, I had a Citroën BX19 GT on test, and I recorded my disappointment with the car.…
The Editor meets a well-known pre-war racing driver I was delighted when I met Mr. T.P. Cholmondeley Tapper, whom I…
November marked the 90th anniversary of the Emancipation Run that celebrated the freeing of the horseless carriage from many petty…
Alain Prost adopted a disguise; Kimi Räikkönen was "Eskimo"; and Ayrton Senna was bizarrely unsuccessful: the strange and secret stories of F1 drivers who tested cars they were never meant to drive
Last weekend was surely motorcycle racing’s biggest-ever super Saturday/Sunday. The Isle of Man Superbike TT, the Spa 24 hours and the Catalan MotoGP round all happening at the same time…
“And I’ve got to stop because I’ve got a lump in my throat…” The well of emotion was all too predictable from dear old Murray Walker as Damon Hill crossed…
F1 fans were cheering Andretti's bold effort to join the grid — and so were insiders. And yet its bid was abruptly rejected this week. Matt Bishop unpicks the reasoning given by Formula 1 and finds himself unconvinced by the "scarcely relevant" logic