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Matters of Moment, May 1981
Budget Blues Car-users always pay very dearly in taxation and the last "blue" Budget ran to form, with 20p a…
Budget Blues Car-users always pay very dearly in taxation and the last "blue" Budget ran to form, with 20p a…
* Only clubs whose secretaries furnished the necessary information prior to the 14th of the preceding month are included in…
The second Vintage SCC race meeting of 1981, counting towards the Motor Sport Brooklands Memorial Trophy Contest, will be held…
When a racing man dies in action, in a race or while testing, it is sad. When a racing man…
Cooper Car Club Plans are afoot to form a Club or Register for owners and enthusiasts for Cooper cars and…
The Vintage SCC had excellent weather and a fine entry of 150 cars for its first Silverstone race meeting (Club…
Wiscombe Park The first of 16 rounds of the 1981 British Hill Climb Championship took place on Sunday, April 12th…
Piquet makes up for his Brazilian mistake! Buenos Aires, April 12th From the start of practice for the Argentine Grand…
Dear D.S.J. When I arrived in Argentina I began thinking about the old saying which goes "the Good Lord smiles…
News of a remarkable model aeroplane engine appeared last year in The Chartered Mechanical Engineer, whose Editor has given us…
Third time was very lucky for Swedish Toleman-Hart driver Stefan Johansson at Hockenheim on April 5. Johansson, won his third…
Aerodynamics It seems that every time we reach the threshold of a new and fascinating development in Formula One somebody…
VW's 200 m.p.h. diesel 47 m.p.g. at a constant 155 m.p.h. The object at my damp feet looked more like…
The Renault 18 Turbo A Splendid Family Car, with Racing Connotations The Renault Group, France's biggest car manufacturer, having decided…
Some personal landmarks I do not remember when I became obsessed with speed, but it must have been at a…
Sports and Racing Cars Fifty years ago, in 1931, the Alta Car and Engineering Company Ltd. was formed by Geoffrey…
A section devoted to old-car matters The VSCC Light Car Weekend This year's Welsh Weekend run by the Light Car…
No. 40: The Zephyr Your reference in a recent issue to car component manufacturers in Lowestoft mentions the Brooke car…
Firestone Vintage and Classic tyres and tubes are now available from Lambrook Tyres of Colyton, Devon, following an agreement with…
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, it is an interesting speculation to consider which racing-car design has been…
NASCAR’s long season kicks off next Sunday with the 55th running of the Daytona 500. Practice and qualifying started last weekend and continue this week with a pair of 150-mile…
This maddest of mad MotoGP seasons reaches its climax next month, with back-to-back races at Valencia and the season-finale at Portimao. So far Fabio Quartararo has won the most races,…
The oil-burning dispute appears not to be over Recent comments by Renault Sport’s MD Cyril Abiteboul have re-lit the oil burning controversy that has rumbled on through the season. He…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). This was a race whose grid bore little relation to the racing reality. Ferrari seemed in…