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Editorial, June 2000
Next month's issue of Motor Sport will, I hope, become one of the more collectable editions. To celebrate fifty years…
June 2000
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Past winners flocked Monaco historic GP
No fewer than six Monaco Grand Prix-wining cars head a glittering entry for the second Grand Prix Historique, with Sir…
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Maserati VS Ferrari at Le Mans historic race
Five Ferrari 512Ms and a 512S are expected to head the sensational scarlet line-up for the special Shell Historic Ferrari-Maserati…
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Rockingham opener to include Brooklands Vets
Ninety four years after Hugh Locke-King completed Britain's first purpose-built motor circuit at Brooklands, veterans of the great banked outer…
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McLaren MP4S sold en masse
The collection of 16 Marlboro McLaren MP4 Grand Prix cars, which was acquired by David Clark's consortium, as reported in…
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Pearson wins GP Support Race
Local Lister-Jaguar ace Gary Pearson won the BRDC's Historic Sports Car Championship round which graced the British Grand Prix support…
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The Targa Florio returns
A retrospective edition of Sicily's celebrated Targa Florio road race is to be run in October of this year, with…
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F5000 to have it's own races
F5000's revival has been a long time coming, but the big V8s have now captured European competitors' imagination sufficiently to…
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New archive at Silverstone
Access to racing history should be simpler and quicker in future thanks to a new initiative to centralise the archives…
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Simon Taylor
It's been a turbulent month for Formula One, which has once again found itself on the front pages of the…
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Right crowd, wrong place
Sir, Silverstone — home of British motorsport. What a shambles. The same story every year: narrow country lanes, pasture land…
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Swiss role
Sir, I greatly enjoyed your Klausenpass track test in the April issue of the ever improving Motor Sport, the stunning…
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Hash and splash
Sir, Two letters in the March issue prompt this one. Mike McDowell writes on Ivor Bueb, and Robert Edwards writes…
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Ladies first - and third
Sir, Here are brief details, from Paul Sheldon's invaluable Record of Grand Prix and Voiturette Racing, of three women drivers…
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Virtual passenger
Sir, Just a line to thank you most sincerely for the superb Jaguar tape sent with April's issue — I…
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Campari Coda
Sir, On page 55 of the article devoted to Giuseppe Campari, Bill Boddy asks "if anyone knows if Campari may…
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In praise of modesty
Sir, I was very interested to read the letter from Dan Gurney in last month's Motor Sport. It did not…
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Dancers and hillclimb
Sir, I am compiling a history of competitions at Dancer's End Hill Climb, the venue near Tring, Hertfordshire, which was…
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Come in no 12
Sir, As the registrar for the Lotus 12 model for the Historic Lotus Register I am seeking information a missing…
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Hang on a moment
Sir, I was surprised that your recent article "The Moments That Changed the Sport" omitted a moment that has probably…
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