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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…
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,…
A reader's query about the Abbott Nash raced at Brooklands by C Le Strange Metcalfe from 1932 to 1934 has…
The survival of banked tracks, even after their racing days have ended,is minimal. Brooklands has part of the restored Members'…
The next major VSCC event will be the Loton Park hillclimb, on September 2. The 750MC has race meetings at…
The 50th anniversary of the VSCC Light Car & Edwardian Section, having been deflected from its correct date by the…
Brooklands Museum, so disastrously flooded last November, was reopened fully on July 17, when HRH Prince Michael of Kent cut…
I commented recently on how gaps are being filled in the one-make book field. Latest proof is Michael E. Keller's…
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,…
The Lola T-90 chassis 90/2 in which Jackie Stewart almost won the 1966 Indy 500 – and did claim that year's Fuiji 200 – is going up for auction
As a career catalogue of near-misses go, there are few to match Adam Carroll’s. He outpaced Formula 1 champions, left Indianapolis and Le Mans winners floundering in his wake and…
I’ll admit to being surprised by Stefano Domenicali’s recent revelation that, in the aftermath of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, he considered resigning his post as Ferrari team principal. Yes,…
Ford recently announced a new ‘Heritage’ edition of its GT supercar, painted black and white in honour of the original 1964 GT40. And you might think it an odd car…