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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…
Jean-Pierre Jarier had a very strange F1 career. He took three poles, set three fastest laps, and for a brief…
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 highlight of my year thus far was lunch in a supermarket café. Not the gastronomy, though I did capitulate at the offer of an absurdly rich pudding, but the…
Will Power, Scott Dixon and Ryan Briscoe dominated last weekend’s eighteenth edition of the Surfers Paradise Indy car street race on Queensland’s Gold Coast, qualifying one-two-three. Penske driver Briscoe became…
Few expected fireworks from Justin Wilson and Nordic Racing in the 2001 F3000 series, but the combination — plus Coca-Cola sponsorship — brought a spectacular result against talented competition
Funny now, is it not, to look back a decade or so and remember what the powers-that-be were saying about Formula 1, and the way it needed to change? According to…