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Sir, A short note on your British F1 World Champions stories and Jim Clark in particular. Bill Woods' excellent book…

Sir, A short note on your British F1 World Champions stories and Jim Clark in particular. Bill Woods' excellent book…
Sir, An excellent article on Stuart Graham. I can't imagine an individual progressing in the sport in such a simplistic…
Sir, I read Nigel Roebuck's recent commentary on St Jovite with some interest. While in Canada attending the Grand Prix…
Sir, Having been lucky enough to witness Jimmy McRae's dominance of the Circuit of Ireland throughout the 1980s and see…
Sir, In your photo report of the Goodwood Festival of Speed (p58, September issue) you captioned one picture as "1924…
Sir, I do not always agree with everything that Andrew Frankel writes, but he is right to rail against the…
Sir, Gordon Murray is on the right track with his simplified Formula 1 ideas. Make the wings effectively neutral (for…
Arguments over its nationality swing back and forth, but 50 years on, the Cobra, with its Yankee muscle and British…
It's become a legend. Fifty years after it bellowed its way onto the race track, the Cobra remains a rampant…
For the Cobra's Le Mans debut, the works AC roadster was one of two 289s given an extended hardtop in…
By 1963 John Willment's racing team was bursting with ambition. He was running Frank Gardner in Formula 1 and, fresh…
This was the whole point of the Cobra exercise – a light chassis bulging with bhp which would thrash GM’s…
It was Ferrari's own fault. By squeezing its svelte GTO through a tiny 'body option' loophole in the GT regs,…
We have the horsepower, it's time to slash the drag. That was the philosophy behind the various Cobra coupes, and…
Built for FIA Homologation to race internationally, the 427 should have been called 390 after the aluminium race V8 Shelby…
AC survives and (hopefully) thrives at Brooklands. With styling from Zagato, its new model should fly By rights, the AC…
Silver and Gold The return of the Silver Arrows will be one of the Goodwood Revival’s greatest moments, but there’s…
A 'you were there' special There is one place where history and the present day come gracefully together Goodwood holds…
Credit Suisse: a loyal supporter of the classic car scene Pebble Beach, Goodwood, Monaco – fixtures at the forefront of…
As part of its Classic Car Program, Credit Suisse supports three of the most famous international classic events, including the…
Take a look at the graphs below. They compare the qualifying form of Mercedes and Red Bull over the last four seasons. Two patterns are immediately obvious: 1) The Mercedes…
There's no guaranteed route to the top in motor sport, but you can get a big helping hand. A lead instructor from the legendary Skip Barber Racing School reveals how it has turned thousands of amateurs into professional racers
More from Silverstone: does Rossi have a carbon-fibre swingarm on the way? How Miller joined the Hells Angels, briefly; the agony of Lorenzo’s comeback weekend; why Márquez went back to…
The latest on aero-gate, how Honda overtook Ducati on top speed and Fenati's MotoGP plans Read part one Read part three DUCATI'S AERO, AN EXPERT SPEAKS The argument about Ducati's…