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Matters of Moment, January 1999
editorial First things first. A happy Christmas and best wishes for the new season from the staff of Motor Sport.…
editorial First things first. A happy Christmas and best wishes for the new season from the staff of Motor Sport.…
Chris Humberstone Chris Humberstone, former head of Spice Racing Cars and creator of the outrageous Allard WSC car, has died.…
Network Q Rally of GT Britain & Coys Historic Extraordinary events in November's Rally of Great Britain led to Tommi…
By the time these words are read the Mile Miglia will be taking place. There seem to be three methods…
The Japanese Grand Prix and its attendant dramas are long gone now: consigned already, it seems, to the history books.…
Sir, I was most interested to have my attention turned to the above car in the October 1998 edition of…
Sir, Turn it up, mate! Fosters spends millions on sponsoring Formula One and you will give them a serve about…
Sir, I thoroughly enjoyed Bill Blydenstein's article in the October issue on racing his Borgward saloon in the '50s and…
Sir, Chris Nixon is not quite right (Letters, December) in stating that there were only two versions of the Reims…
Sir, Having just read the very interesting article on the Straker Squire racing car in your July 1998 issue, it…
Sir, Re John Aston's letter in the December issue. As a competitor, I confess I had my doubts as the…
Sir, The two letters in your December issue commenting on the Goodwood Revival Meeting struck a chord about how easy…
Sir, It was with disappointment that I read Mr Boddy's rather negative BRM article in December's Motor Sport. He concluded…
Sir, I was grateful for that excellent Hotchkiss article. I have had that roadster CUL 597 for 27 years. The…
Sir, Further to Bill Boddy's article "British Racing Misery" in December, in 1950 I was still a medical student in…
Twenty years ago this month, found myself a week before Christmas in a place to which ordinarily wild horses would…
Compared with its immortal rival, the sleek Suprmnarine Spitfire featured in last month's Motor Sport, the Hawker Hurricane was considered…
While several Spitfires have been restored over the years, the same cannot be said of the Hurricane. In its heyday,…
The Forgotten Races - 1914 French Grand Prix Whether bravery of pointless egoism, Georges Boillot's vain battle shadowed the conflict…
The Forgotten Races - 1950 Belgian Grand Prix Who'd bet on a slow old Talbot against Alfa's works GP team?…
No wonder he needed a moment. Lewis Hamilton sought a sliver of respite after stepping from his Mercedes W12 in Jeddah on Sunday. He and his trusty, ever-present physiotherapist/assistant Angela…
It's the 90th year of the Nürburgring and to celebrate we'll be bringing together all that's great about the Green Hell throughout this year – this is what it's like to be…
Capricious things, anniversaries. In the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix, Pastor Maldonado scored Williams’s first victory in eight seasons – the perfect follow-up to team founder Sir Frank Williams’s 70th birthday,…
Fully electric VW I.D. R revealed ahead of Pikes Peak record bid Volkswagen unveiled its Pikes Peak challenger, the I.D. R, on Sunday, as it aims to beat the existing…