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Matters of Moment, July 1979
Where has all the North Sea oil gone? The prevailing petrol-famine is likely to cause many motorists to sing the…
Where has all the North Sea oil gone? The prevailing petrol-famine is likely to cause many motorists to sing the…
Matters of Moment ... 951 Fixtures for July ... 952 Les Vingt-Quatre Heures Du Mans ... 953 VSCC OuIton Park…
* Only clubs whose secretaries furnished the necessary information prior to the 14th of the preceding month are included in…
A Question of Endurance, not Speed Some aspects of the international racing scene may change with almost frenetic haste from…
(June 16th) The Vintage SCC Oulton Park Meeting reminded me a little of those smaller Club days at Brooklands, when…
Swedish Grand Prix There have been a number of unusual happenings on the Formula One front recently, all of which…
A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters Another Vintage Racing-Car Restoration
Another Mystery Solved Sir, In the May issue you show a picture of an "unknown" engine owned by Mr. Ross…
(June 2nd-8th) This club, catering for perhaps the most exciting motor cars of all, celebrated its Golden Jubilee, or 50th…
Stout stuff - His Worship the Mayor of Cheltenham leads the BOC Parade in Chairman Barrie Price's Type 57 Bugatti.
Front Aerofoils While the principal objective of the rear aerofoil on a racing car is to provide a down-force on…
The Chairman and Directors of Rolls-Royce Motors Ltd. gave a luncheon at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, on May 22nd to…
“The Rolls-Royce Twenty” by John M. Fasal. 560 pp. 10” x 7”. (Burgess & Son Ltd., Station Road, Abingdon, Oxon.…
I have long maintained that Ford, perhaps more than any other manufacturer, has supplied primarily transport for the masses, along…
We described recently a fine Rolls-Royce model that can be made from a Revell plastic kit. New car models from…
The debut of Lancia's Group 5 Beta Montecarlo at Silverstone for the qualifying six-hour round of the World Championship of…
Turbocharging American Style From the Fifties to Today The use of turbochargers in European road or track cars has been…
While the ubiquitous Range Rover will rumble up to nearly 100 m.p.h. it is by no means the most agile…
Some time ago I referred to the beautifully made, finished, and detailed TOGI of Italy's model - it is to…
Acropolis Rally Whether a football match is good or bad depends entirely on the playing performance of the teams, and…
The World Endurance Championship versus Formula 1 debate has been done; they have separate and distinct appeals. It's much easier, instead of drawing comparisons, to simply look at what the…
On March 5, in Geneva, FOTA – Formula One Teams Association – had its inaugural press conference, and my immediate impression was to feel a touch underwhelmed. Luca di Montezemolo,…
Rick Mears was an off-road racer and dirt tracker who was hired by Roger Penske to drive Indy cars in 1978. Mears won three races in his first year with…
Steve Soper never used to be the friendliest of racing drivers. The first time I met him was at the Sebring 12 Hours in 1999, when he was racing a…