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Wings and Things
Sir, The British Touring Car Championship has a problem. The recent back-to-back Grandstand scheduling of our leading national car racing…
Sir, The British Touring Car Championship has a problem. The recent back-to-back Grandstand scheduling of our leading national car racing…
Sir, William Boddy's interesting article about the Women's Automobile and Sports Association (WASA) reminded me of a most enjoyable Reliability…
Though remembered more for streamlined Spridgets, Lenham once had big ambitions. Laurence Meredith investigates. The history of motorsport suggests that…
This year, MOTOR SPORT supports the FIA Thoroughbred Grand Prix Trophy for historic F1 cars. Paul Lawrence watched the Bank…
After its 1995 absence, this historic meeting has returned to Spa. Alan Cox went too. Celebrating the circuit's 75th birthday,…
In his March Editorial Simon Arron wrote of the Memorial Day Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, saying that, for reasons he dealt…
David Filsell, as I do, likes to find rare books about motoring. The one he lent me recently, The Road…
Came upon an interesting item from long ago, while looking up information for another article. It is customary for the…
I never tire of reminding you how much we owe to the MCC for continuing its famous long-distance trials, the…
Last month we referred to the vee-twin Hotchkiss engine, in association with some comments about air-cooling. It was an engine…
It was fine for this year's VSCC Colerne speed-trials on April 20, whereas last year the rain was so heavy…
The death of the most successful Brooklands driver of his time, J G Parry Thomas, at Pendine in March 1927,…
(March 30/31) The results of this event were not available in time for last month's report but we now append…
Derek Rutherford, who was part of the successful Lagonda team at Le Mans before the war, has died aged 88.…
To be recommended to those who like reading in detail about the 1899 to 1936 period, there is also a…
The Humber Register is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first Humber on June 30, with a run from Humber…
Have recently written of Hudlass and Lemon Burton Specials the law of browsing averages quickly turned up some more. Thus…
If you were a biscuit, what kind of biscuit would you like to be?" Asked of eleven BTCC drivers by…
Along the century in which the motor-car has been invented, then improved to be made in vast numbers, all too…
Part Two Jensen 541 1954-1963 Glass-fibre body, 4-litre straight-six engine but styling is an acquired taste. 541 introduced 1957 with…
If Lewis Hamilton decides to put his signature to another three-year F1 contract after his current one expires, he will be starting the 2023 season as a 38-year-old. At what…
I could hear my name being called, but it was tricky to pinpoint the source. There was plentiful ambient noise, with mechanics priming cars ahead of the FIA European Rallycross…
Formula 1’s plans for a budget cap that is set to be introduced next season will be $30m less than originally planned, with the new total lowering the ceiling to…
Verstappen appears to have been making the drivers' title his own in recent races, but as Chris Medland points out, the margins are small and much could still change – history tells us so