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Letters From Readers - Steaming Across Australia, May 2000
Sir, Bill Boddy asks when Australia had its first steam car and mentions P A Robinson building one in 1900…
Sir, Bill Boddy asks when Australia had its first steam car and mentions P A Robinson building one in 1900…
Sir, Your series of revisiting circuits of days gone by continues to fascinate, particularly the comparative photos of then and…
Sir, Regarding the Mellaha Circuit near Tripoli, I lived in that city for five years during the 1960s, and on…
Sir, According to the potted history in your March 2000 issue, the Ferrari 375 Plus of Mr Favero would have…
Sir, I very much enjoyed the March issue and have one or two comments to make. On the subject of…
Sir, May I congratulate you on the magazine. I don't care about how many pages it has, or how big…
Sir, The appraisal of 'The Greatest Rally Driver' in your April issue is interesting, and few would disagree with the…
Sir, To my shame, I have only just read the March issue. Your item about Sitges caught my eye, as…
Legends
At the time, they seemed trifling events: A freak win for a new F1 constructor in a faraway place; A…
When David Richards tired of being a second-seat man in rallies, he went from performing in the show to producing…
Kyalami, February 1981. As the first race of the season, four drivers are making their Grand Prix debuts, including the…
Against all the odds, Jo Siffert won the 1968 British Grand Prix in a private Lotus 49. Rob Walker recalls…
Disc brakes appeared as early as 1902 but it wasn't until Jaguar's stunning Le Mans victory with the C-type in…
The name of Campbell is firmly linked with record-breaking on land and water but as Bill Boddy reminds us, Sir…
This year's Australian Grand Prix should have been one of the great moments in Jaguar's history. In the end, the…
This Elise Sport is not just another one-make racer; Lotus has taken a great road car and turned it into…
I have noted before that it is our habit to forget all too easily those people whose impact on this…
Ferrari 312 It had a bumpy career with some serious low-points, but the flat-12 Ferrari eventually brought Maranello its first…
Speed at Brighton A recent novel having used an accident at the Brighton Speed Trials as a theme, it seems…
What's left for Hélio Castroneves to conquer: The Brazilian added another Daytona 24 win but where else could he go and star?
In the early days of the Donington Park circuit, the likes of Tazio Nuvolari, Bernd Rosemeyer and Rudolf Caracciola lunched at the stately hall and relaxed in its grounds between…
The countdown is on. As I write, there are just 45 days to go until the 83rd Le Mans 24 Hours rolls into action at the fabled Circuit de la Sarthe…
‘The DNA of Formula 1’ is a phrase much used by Niki Lauda, with whom I conducted an interview in Montreal for the next issue of Motor Sport. It came…