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Matters of moment, January 1984
Mixing our metrics For the past two years at least petrol has been sold in litres at major garages, and…
Mixing our metrics For the past two years at least petrol has been sold in litres at major garages, and…
The Motor Sport / Motoring News petitions against the 70 mph speed limit on motorways proved enormously popular, and we…
Following last month's announcement of further setbacks to the plans for developing the "Forty Acres" area of Brooklands Track axon…
Citroën Anniversary It is 50 years since Andre Citroën unveiled the Traction Avant, with so many innovative features, and enthusiasts…
The German tyre manufacturer, Conti, has announced the ultimate in run-flat tyres which, it hopes, will be adopted by motor…
Bell's race, Ickx's title For the first time since 1974 the Sports Car Club of South Africa was allocated a…
Ten years ago this month Motor Sport published a lengthy feature article on Oldham & Crowther, a Peterborough company which…
Bill Blydenstein's watchword is "driveability". Over the many years he has been tuning cars; concentrating on Vauxhall GM and latterly…
The calendar of the major International events is listed below, these being the ones counting towards the various Championships. Bearing…
Last month in Formula One Scene the current engine situation was discussed with the fact that there are eight different…
The Rally Manufacturers in conflict If nothing else the 1983 World Rally Championship helped disprove two myths. The first, that…
The Honda Accord EX The need for a convenient car to use as a tender when! went in the 1904…
In a particularly busy round of autumn announcements, many of them geared to the Frankfurt Show last September, little attention…
"To finish first, you must first finish" the saying goes and during the 1983 Formula One season most of the…
When FISA finally gave in to an overwhelming demand and created, in 1979, an official World Championship for rally drivers,…
In commenting last Show-time on the trend of design, Autocar pointed to the recent re-introduction of multiple valves as an…
Once regarded as the world's best rally, the Monte is no longer an adventure for the private British teams. Our…
It has been said that only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noon-day sun. The sun shone for…
An imperfect classic The principle of supercharging is as old as the hills, but it's a brave manufacturer who re-introduces…
Exclusivity in extremis! An outing with a Bristol is like taking a trip back in a time capsule to a…
As you may have read, Jaguar announced last week that it’s going to build the six ‘missing’ lightweight E-types, which is another way of saying that back in 1963 they…
Lando Norris's penalty for running Sergio Perez off the road at the Austrian GP was widely criticised, but stewards made the right decision on this occasion, writes Chris Medland
Tony Dron towered above the cohort of mid-sixties aspiring young motoring journalists both physically but also with his skill at the wheel of a racing car and with the typewriter.…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Trailing Sebastian Vettel by 13 points, but with 25 at stake, Fernando Alonso arrived in Brazil…