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Matters of Moment, January 1999
editorial First things first. A happy Christmas and best wishes for the new season from the staff of Motor Sport.…
editorial First things first. A happy Christmas and best wishes for the new season from the staff of Motor Sport.…
Chris Humberstone Chris Humberstone, former head of Spice Racing Cars and creator of the outrageous Allard WSC car, has died.…
Network Q Rally of GT Britain & Coys Historic Extraordinary events in November's Rally of Great Britain led to Tommi…
By the time these words are read the Mile Miglia will be taking place. There seem to be three methods…
The Japanese Grand Prix and its attendant dramas are long gone now: consigned already, it seems, to the history books.…
Sir, I was most interested to have my attention turned to the above car in the October 1998 edition of…
Sir, I thoroughly enjoyed Bill Blydenstein's article in the October issue on racing his Borgward saloon in the '50s and…
Sir, Turn it up, mate! Fosters spends millions on sponsoring Formula One and you will give them a serve about…
Sir, Re John Aston's letter in the December issue. As a competitor, I confess I had my doubts as the…
Sir, Having just read the very interesting article on the Straker Squire racing car in your July 1998 issue, it…
Sir, Chris Nixon is not quite right (Letters, December) in stating that there were only two versions of the Reims…
Sir, It was with disappointment that I read Mr Boddy's rather negative BRM article in December's Motor Sport. He concluded…
Sir, The two letters in your December issue commenting on the Goodwood Revival Meeting struck a chord about how easy…
Sir, Further to Bill Boddy's article "British Racing Misery" in December, in 1950 I was still a medical student in…
Sir, I was grateful for that excellent Hotchkiss article. I have had that roadster CUL 597 for 27 years. The…
Twenty years ago this month, found myself a week before Christmas in a place to which ordinarily wild horses would…
Compared with its immortal rival, the sleek Suprmnarine Spitfire featured in last month's Motor Sport, the Hawker Hurricane was considered…
While several Spitfires have been restored over the years, the same cannot be said of the Hurricane. In its heyday,…
The Forgotten Races - 1914 French Grand Prix Whether bravery of pointless egoism, Georges Boillot's vain battle shadowed the conflict…
The Forgotten Races - 1950 Belgian Grand Prix Who'd bet on a slow old Talbot against Alfa's works GP team?…
Goodwood's Kinrara Trophy is a throwback to a bygone era of sports cars – and Dickie Meaden had the perfect seat A few weeks back I was in the fortunate position…
This weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix is pivotal – there being nine races either side of it in the schedule. Sebastian Vettel’s title rivals will be running out of time from…
Top four qualifiers are separated by just a tenth of a second ahead of the 2019 US Grand Prix: Valtteri Bottas starts on pole but Lewis Hamilton is only fifth Photo: Motorsport…
The polymers harvested from recycled Red Bull cans – down payment for a possibly link-up as Williams ponders becoming a Mateschitz junior outfit – were rumoured to have made up Albon's crucial new team wear