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Arresting development
Early motorists coping with rear-only brakes feared "the dreaded sideslip". Bill Boddy follows the development of four-wheel braking Brakes on…
Early motorists coping with rear-only brakes feared "the dreaded sideslip". Bill Boddy follows the development of four-wheel braking Brakes on…
Jumper' would have walked this race but for two simultaneous mechanical problems. He describes his finest but most frustrating hour…
Was it blind faith or curmudgeonly stubbornness that sparked Mickey Thompson's desperate attempts to conquer the brickyard? Joe Scalzo tells…
Rauno Aaltonen and Tony Ambrose dominated the 1964 Liege-Sofia-Liege rally. Here, Tony describes 5600km squeezed into four gruelling days I…
The London Black Cab may have been an attraction to visitors from places like America, but the age of taxi-appeal…
A reader's query about the Abbott Nash raced at Brooklands by C Le Strange Metcalfe from 1932 to 1934 has…
On the one-make club magazine front, the Singer OC has a Golden Jubilee issue with very good coverage of all…
Good to see that the unusual 1909 Austin town-carriage with its underfloor engine and driving compartment right at the front,…
The 50th anniversary of the VSCC Light Car & Edwardian Section, having been deflected from its correct date by the…
The next major VSCC event will be the Loton Park hillclimb, on September 2. The 750MC has race meetings at…
The survival of banked tracks, even after their racing days have ended,is minimal. Brooklands has part of the restored Members'…
At the VSCC kilometre speed trial at Colerne aerodrome on June 23, Charles Dean's T51 Bugatti recorded FTD (24.32sec). He…
A rare car is to be offered at H&H Classic Auctions' September sale. It is a 1909 45hp two-speed Sheffield-Simplex,…
I commented recently on how gaps are being filled in the one-make book field. Latest proof is Michael E. Keller's…
Brooklands Museum, so disastrously flooded last November, was reopened fully on July 17, when HRH Prince Michael of Kent cut…
Lotus' Evija is the world's most powerful series production car with 1972bhp: a £2m electric machine that will accelerate from 0-186mph in under nine seconds, and re-launch the Lotus brand. Rarely has the significance…
Formula 1 is about to head off on its traditional summer break, one that was obviously lacking last year thanks to the delayed start to the season caused by the…
The Nissan GT-R LM NISMO is a FWD/AWD LMP1-H racer that meets FIA WEC and ACO criteria and features a 3-litre TTV6 IC engine with DI, in conjunction with an…
Aston Martin new sponsor of Autosport BRDC award as McLaren pulls out, Red Bull to give junior drivers an F1 chance Aston Martin is the new partner of the Autosport BRDC Award…