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Whitmore's early upsets
Sir, With reference to your article in December's magazine on Sir John Whitmore in which he talks about his father,…

Sir, With reference to your article in December's magazine on Sir John Whitmore in which he talks about his father,…
Sir, I appreciated very much your December issue and Matthew Franey's analysis of the elements which make some drivers great…
Denis Jenkinson had Catholic tastes in music, as in much else. If his particular devotion was to traditional jazz -…
The clues to greatness were there to be seen, even in that first car. Professor Ferdinand Porsche's passion for motorsport…
The Porsche 917 is one of the machines in the running to be named Race Car of the Century; will…
The Porsche 917 was born from regulations aimed to make sure such a car was never built. In 1967, alarmed…
Porsche has, to date, won just one World Championship grand Prix. The driver was Dan Gurney who now talks to…
Porsche's involvement in the World Championship actually began four years before its F1 debut, and at time when the marque…
As US Air Force One touched safely down, STP Pontiac number 43 raced past it on the parallel back straight…
When the steering wheel came off, it still steered from the rear...John Davenport hears about a saloon with an attitude…
It was Tony Vandervell's impatience as much as anything else which created the machine which won the inaugural Formula 1…
Leonce Girardot had a habit of coming second. Did he lack the ultimate talent or was it just all bad…
Some-time, back in the early sixties, shortly after Piers Courage decided that motor racing was going to be his life,…
By Jeremy Walton Published by: Robert Bentley Inc. £59.95. ISBN 0 8376 0206 8 We tend to keep reviews of…
By Chris Nixon Published by: Transport Bookman, £39.95. ISBN 85184 056 6 I'll declare my interest now to save you…
By Eric Dymock Published by Haynes, £19.99. ISBN 0 85429 995 5 Few car companies can boast a longer or…
By Richard Graves Published by Bloomsbury, £30.00, ISBN: 0 7475 3771 2 This book celebrates more or less a century…
By Michael Lynch, William Edgar, Ron Parravano Published by Haynes, £29.99. ISBN 0 7603 0367 3 Author Lynch claims this…
By Anthony Pritchard Published by AMP, £19.95. ISBN I 899870 38 5 Do not confuse this book with Ivan Rendell's…
Argentine GP & 1000Km, January 1960 He didn't know it at the time, but Cliff Allison's career was about to…
By Perry McCarthy A new race car’s first day on track is a nervous one for all. It’s akin to being in a hospital delivery room as your wife gives…
Le Mans marked one-third distance in the 2022 MotoGP world championship and should confirm Enea Bastianini as a title contender, even for the non-believers. The 23-year-old Italian’s latest ride in…
The 2020 Silverstone Classic is the latest event to be cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Originally scheduled to take place on the weekend of July 31 - August 2,…
It’s almost 40 years since MotoGP’s first carbon-fibre chassis, so with Honda’s and Suzuki’s latest carbon-fibre frame coatings, how long before we see the next fully carbon MotoGP bike? Honda's…