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Matters of Moment, January 1979
• Happy New Year .... This issue of Motor Sport appears a little later than usual due to the present…

• Happy New Year .... This issue of Motor Sport appears a little later than usual due to the present…
Here we go again! On January 21st the 1979 Formula One season is due to start with the Argentine GP…
Lotus: Heading the 1979 list, naturally enough, is Team Lotus, no longer supported by John Player, the cigarette firm, while…
The VSCC would like to run the main race at its Donnington meeting next year for the Nuffield Trophy, for…
To mark the 3-million production-milestone of Bedford vehicles, Vauxhall Motors Ltd. has issued a lavishly-illustrated 48-page, large-format booklet tracing the…
Mr. R. H. Beauchamp, AMIME, continues his account of life at T & T's of Brooklands under the great Reid…
A section dedicated to old-car matters Some Lucas History Last year the great Lucas electrical organisation, on which so many…
Single-Plate Clutches Sir, I wouldn't call myself an historian but I can read reference books, let's hope they are right;…
VSCC Driving Tests, Enstone (Dec. 2nd) Moved from Silverstone to this new venue on the lofty heights of Oxfordshire beyond…
The Land-Rover Register has compiled a list of known pre-production prototype Land-Rovers, constructed prior to July 1948. It knows of…
"The Art of Gordon Crosby" by Peter Garnier. 95 pp. 13" x 9¼". (The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., Astronaut House,…
If you, like me, have suffered a deterioration of sound from your car cassette player because of inaccessibility, Ross Electronics…
We hear that the new sports three-wheeler that we referred to in the November 1978 issue of Motor Sport and…
It looks as if this very long-lived series, which I hope may sometimes bring to the notice of readers books…
"He can be regarded as the leader of the latest type of racing-motorist created in the atmosphere of the track"…
The Bugatti Owners Club held its annual Prize-Giving Luncheon at the Chateau Impney at Droitwich on November 26th last year,…
This years Model Engineer Exhibition, which is of interest to so many of our readers, will be opened by Stirling…
The Things They Say ... "... it seems probable to me that those who read this book will have been…
Lombard RAC Rally of Great Britain One year ago we began the review of the 1977 RAC Rally by writing…
Sparking plugs can be ignored between services in most modern engines, but this is not always the case for some…
Red Bull follows up its FP1 dominance by topping FP2 in Monaco Red Bull once again set the pace in Monaco Grand Prix free practice, with Daniel Ricciardo quickest on…
MotoGP has always required self-sacrifice and always rewarded its fastest survivors with gold, glory and everything else. This interview with MotoGP’s biggest winner of all time paints a perfect picture of the risk and reward equation in racing’s golden age
Liberty’s takeover of Dorna offers big opportunities for MotoGP – most important is to change the governance of the technical rules and a TV series that replicates the huge success of F1’s Drive to Survive
A Ford GT40 MkII which managed 12 laps at the famous 1966 Le Mans 24 Hours has become been auctioned for a record amount