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The month in Motor Sport
Feb 18: Toyota Team Europe is rocked by the resignation of three of its top rally engineers. Feb 20: At…
Feb 18: Toyota Team Europe is rocked by the resignation of three of its top rally engineers. Feb 20: At…
Ever since its crushing defeat by Williams in the South African GP, McLaren has been pushing ahead with development of…
Sort it out As this issue closed for press, the Sportscar World Championship was still alive. Just. The cancellation of…
Leila Lombardi We were saddened to hear of the recent death of Leila Lombardi, who entered the record books on…
Active suspension made a triumphant return at Kyalami, where Nigel Mansell ran away and hid As the dust settles once…
Responsible Dear Reader, Some years ago, when Mr Ecclestone was getting the Formula One teams organised into a responsible body…
It used to be commonly expressed that you could beat neither the Finns in Finland nor the Swedes in Sweden.…
Gone are the days when the old TAP Rally had no roadbook, no mapping of any real value to navigators…
In 1988 Steve Sydenham gave up banging his head against a brick wall and reluctantly folded Racing for Britain. Now…
Everybody in motor racing knows that European Formula 3000 is an expensive pastime. As more sophisticated, and therefore costlier, materials…
Shortly before the South African GP, Longines announced that it was withdrawing as F1's official timekeeper. Like Mercedes-Benz, a couple…
Doing anything on May Bank Holiday? Fancy a day out at an undersung motoring event that attracted a crowd of…
The thought occurs, why is it that railway accidents, some of them horrific, are often due to signal failures (alarming…
A contemporary motoring weekly has done an experiment to see if driving at 200mph on a public road is safe.…
The major political parties are rushing about like mad with their election campaigns, and hang the cost. . . But…
"The engine responds to wide throttle openings with an outraged gasp and a lurch forward; it's like pinching the Queen's…
For weeks on end the success of the 1992 Sportscar World Championship depended on the whim of the Sultan of…
Ever wondered why some racing car colour schemes stand out much more than others? Ian Hutchinson makes his living knowing…
Rob Wilson, an expatriate Kiwi based in downtown Brentford, is an experienced racer who nowadays competes mainly in the states.…
There have been faster racing saloon cars than the BMW M3 - notably the Nissan Skyline GT-R and Ford Sierra…
The last time grand prix racing was properly interrupted was in September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering the Second World War. Those circumstances and the circumstances of the…
Martin Brundle won Le Mans in a Jaguar XJR-12; watch as he's reunited with one of the V12 Group C cars for a blast at Silverstone — and then hands…
Oh dear, I’m in trouble with the factory Ducati team’s PR people for writing things they don’t like, so I’ve been blacklisted. Boohoo!
The big stories from the past week in motor sport from the Archive. It may be only January, but Argentina twice hosted Formula 1 this week. Denny Hulme opened the…