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Matters of Moment, April 1969
• It's All Happening The sport of competitive motoring is again in full swing. Those who compete and those who…
• It's All Happening The sport of competitive motoring is again in full swing. Those who compete and those who…
—A climatic catastrophe Brands Hatch, March 16th This year the annual season-opener run by the B.R.S.C.C. broke new ground in…
Wheras the Swedish Rally is characterised by snow, the San Remo Rally ought to have been held in the March…
The Swedish Rally There was once a popular theory that high-powered cars, such as Porsches, were not at all suitable…
[By means of which the Continental Correspondent, while he is motoring abroad, keeps in touch with the Editor.] Dear W.…
There will be no steam-powered cars at Indianapolis this year. The last of three such projects fall by the wayside…
Never having led a very regulated or orderly life I tend to let things happen as they will and adjust…
A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters The V.S.C.C. Pomeroy Memorial Trophy Competition, Silverstone (March 1st)
John Howell tells us that the V16 Maserati is going together again. The single-seater Austin 7 which W. D. Castello…
The TB three-wheelers were built by Thompson Bros. (Bilston) Ltd., a company of boiler makers and steel fabricators formed in…
It came about like this. Graham Rankin, who lives just round the corner from me, last year acquired an impressive…
We have been asked to announce the following:— Auto 66 Vintage/Veteran Fixtures (April 13th and June 29th). These will be…
Any fresh information about Rolls-Royce history is getting very hard to come by, and although new things about Brooklands come…
The French magazine, l'Anthologie Automobile, lists a race at Montlhéry on April 19/20th for historic cars in the Coupe de…
Welcome as marking the end of winter, the full return of spring (it may be snowing, of course) the first…
The 70th anniversary of the first car being driven into the yard of the House of Commons is to be…
Having, on another page, reviewed Sir Harry Ricardo's very enjoyable autobiography, recently published, it was interesting to come upon an…
Exaggeration Sir, I could not agree more strongly with your sentiments on high-powered advertising of vintage and "specialist" cars: in…
No, not that sort of plug, or even that one. But we were astonished when, immediately after the last-but-one episode…
For the last seven years the South African Grand Prix has been held just before or just after New Year’s…
It was confirmed last weekend that Steve Hallam (below) will leave his post as McLaren’s head of race operations at the end of the F1 season to join Michael Waltrip’s…
Data by Ekagra Gupta, edited by Jake Williams-Smith This weekend's F1 championship decider could come down to a strategic fight rather than a wheel-to-wheel duel in Abu Dhabi after Friday’s…
F1 in Miami: what’s not to like? Beachfront hotel parties, spectators basking in the Florida sunshine and the artful pastel poster with obligatory palm trees. In reality, the new circuit…
Drivers typically have just a single shot at Formula 1, or else none at all, but then there’s Pedro de la Rosa. Left without a race seat when HRT folded…