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Matters of moment, March 1952
Allard's great victory Belatedly, because Motor Sport is a monthly, but none the less sincerely, we acclaim Sydney Allard's great victory in the Monte…
Allard's great victory Belatedly, because Motor Sport is a monthly, but none the less sincerely, we acclaim Sydney Allard's great victory in the Monte…
Sunbeam-Talbot 2nd. Simca Sport 3rd. Class Winners Comprise Dyna-Panhard, Volkswagen and Simca Sport. Mrs Molander (Saab) takes Coupe des Dames. Mike…
—by Sydney Allard My crew consisted of Guy Warburton and Tom Lush, and the crew arrangements were that Guy and I should share…
Sydney Allard's first Allard, the famous CLK5, was built in 1939. It was evolved from a crashed Ford V8 saloon. The chassis…
A great deal has been published about the immortal Model-T Ford both during its currency and since its demise, but…
If the VSCC Bisley Rallies come rather close one to another and display little originality in the matter of driving tests, they constitute…
This Southsea classic, which counts towards the BTDA 1952 Gold Star, was held on February 10th and attracted 48 entries. We believe the…
S.M.M.T. Formulae The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders announce that agreement has now been reached by car manufacturers on…
As quite a lot of people took us to task for our analysis of the European sports-car races of 1951 we…
Many years ago CA Lejeune wrote in the Observer : "The practice of summing up the year's activities in films, plays, books and public…
A road-equipped 2.9-litre P3 Alfa-Romeo The monoposto P3 Alfa-Romeo ranks as one of the world's great racing cars. So, hearing that…
Laurence Pomeroy, MSAE, had the distinction of reading a paper entitled "Road Racing and the British Motor Industry" before the…
It has been said that as the car owner spends a very considerable part of his life in the driving-seat…
There is no doubt about it, the Vintage Sports Car Club is a very successful and altogether exellent organisation. It runs…
We hear Geoff Duke was voted Sportsman of 1951 in a national ballot organised by the Sporting Record. Out of over 223,000 votes…
The annual general meeting of the Welsh Counties CC was held on February 4th at the Carpenter's Arms, Romney, near Cardiff.…
Driving a Hillman Minx equipped with extra petrol tanks and a roof water tank, George Hnchcliffe has driven from the RAC in…
On January 15th Taruffi took his remarkable 1 ,750-cc Maserati-engined, twin-boom Italcorsa machine to the Appian Way near Rome and clocked…
The Americans are so alive and virile that one is no longer astonished at the things they get up to,…
The Chronique des Pasquier, by Georges Duhamel, is a serial novel in ten volumes, and as it is possible that some of…
Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet, Williams in the 1980s, Frank Williams, Patrick Head, the state of modern F1, the problem with overtaking, Toyota, Jarno Trulli, Juan Pablo Montoya, Alain Prost... There is…
65 years ago, three drivers made their world championship debuts at the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix: Bernie Ecclestone, Graham Hill and Cliff Allison would each make their F1 mark in very different ways
It had all looked so promising after qualifying, the top cars so closely-matched, the differing tyre choices intriguing. But it didn’t work out that way. Sebastian Vettel was unopposed into…
MotoGP’s Spanish rights holder has done some great things and some not-so-great things during its 25 years in charge This year Dorna celebrates 25 years as lord and master of…