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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…
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…
The VSCC would like to run the main race at its Donnington meeting next year for the Nuffield Trophy, for…
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;…
The Land-Rover Register has compiled a list of known pre-production prototype Land-Rovers, constructed prior to July 1948. It knows of…
VSCC Driving Tests, Enstone (Dec. 2nd) Moved from Silverstone to this new venue on the lofty heights of Oxfordshire beyond…
"The Art of Gordon Crosby" by Peter Garnier. 95 pp. 13" x 9¼". (The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., Astronaut House,…
We hear that the new sports three-wheeler that we referred to in the November 1978 issue of Motor Sport and…
If you, like me, have suffered a deterioration of sound from your car cassette player because of inaccessibility, Ross Electronics…
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…
Lombard RAC Rally of Great Britain One year ago we began the review of the 1977 RAC Rally by writing…
The Things They Say ... "... it seems probable to me that those who read this book will have been…
Sparking plugs can be ignored between services in most modern engines, but this is not always the case for some…
Formula 1 continues to dance very dexterously around the challenges of the pandemic in keeping the whole show on the road. But perhaps its greatest calendar-related challenge is set for…
This week in motor sport, from the database May 12 // May 13 // May 14 // May 15 // May 16 // May 17 May 11 1940 Swiss amateur sports car driver Herbert Müller was born. Early success came…
With a pole lap 0.5sec quicker his team-mate's and a car set up for rain, look behind Lewis Hamilton for action in the race after 2020 Belgian Grand Prix qualifying, says Tony Dodgins — there should be plenty
Lauded for a moment of overtaking brilliance, but there was more to F1's foray behind the Iron Curtain The backdrop was tantalizing. Formula 1 was about to embark on its…