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Parnelli Jones
'Aggression,' Parnelli Jones has said, stating his guiding maxim, 'is something you can't teach a race driver. You either have…
'Aggression,' Parnelli Jones has said, stating his guiding maxim, 'is something you can't teach a race driver. You either have…
One of Parnelli's most significant victories was the 1971 Baja 1000, the big off-rood desert dash across the trackless wilds…
The discovery of what appears to be a Nazzaro Lapel-badge reminds me of the cars which bore that famous racing…
Not the title of a Sherlock Holmes pastiche, although I am perhaps guilty of writing the first of these, in…
I think the picture on page 86 of the February 2002 Motor Sport is something of a scoop, as surely…
It seems that the Bert Hadley Memorial events will again go well. By February, 18 entries had come in, including…
A reader, by minute detective work, tells me that the picture used with my piece on the 200hp V8 Darracq…
Of course exceeding a speed-limit by as much as 105mph must incur a severe penalty, in an age when Big…
When BBC2 showed a replay of the 1960s film Your Money or Your Wife, one was reminded of what a…
"The VSCC has reached an anomalous position where a member can build a chassis from parts of four makes, insert…
Ford in Britain (Haynes, ISBN 1 85960 823, £30.00), a history of the company and its cars, is by Martin…
Motoring was more fun years ago than it now is, I think most would agree. In July 1945, Motor Sport…
This year's Brooklands Society Reunion is taking place at the Track on June 23. It will be based on 'The…
What splendid pictures compose the 2002 Motor Sport Calendar. Not only do the LAT photographs constitute an evocative recall of…
This year's VSCC Pomeroy Trophy at Silverstone had 93 entries and 83 starters, 13 driving pre-1931 cars, 13 in those…
For Jowett Jupiter fans Edmund Nankivell has The Jowett Jupiter, A Car for Road, Rally and Race (ISBN 9541144 0,…
In the February issue I queried whether the small vintage Amilcar sportscars would be a match for post-vintage ones. The…
Ed Foster journeys north to visit restoration and sales business Cheshire Classic Cars. The rapidly expanding enterprise is owned and run by Iain Tyrrell who started life working on Rolls…
Monza on my mind. Sounds like some kind of Italian country and western song, if you can imagine such a thing. But this is not a race report – you…
Jack Sears, the first man to win the British Saloon Car Championship, has died at the age of 86. Motor Sport sends its condolences to his family and friends. Sears was a regular…
Whisper it: the United States Grand Prix might at last have found a new spiritual home. The Circuit of the Americas’ difficult birth was eased by the enthusiastic response of…