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Matters of moment, May 1978
Computer confusion The great computer Vehicle and Driving Licence Complex at Swansea what has it cost the tax-payer; £400-million, wasn't…
Computer confusion The great computer Vehicle and Driving Licence Complex at Swansea what has it cost the tax-payer; £400-million, wasn't…
The Vauxhall Chevette 2300 HS Vauxhall's elusive Chevette 2300 HS, already a highly successful rally car which has brought a…
Perhaps the most striking aspect of the first two European rounds of the World Championship for Makes was the degree…
The GP Opel conclusion Last month we published pictorial proof that Opel I, described in Motor Sport for September 1977, and…
[The report of the US Grand Prix West appears in the colour section on page 658.] What a good thing it…
The two Brabham team cars were BT46/3 (Watson) and BT46/4 (Lauda) and since the S. African GP they had undergone numerous…
The 1978 European Formula Two championship opened at the traditional Easter Monday Thruxton meeting, providing, not surprisingly, the proven March-BMW…
There was a time when Opel cars, for all the company's participation in Grand Prix racing and experiments with rocket-propelled vehicles,…
"The Lea-Francis Story" By Barrie Price. 144 pp 10 in. x 7 1/2 in. B.T. Batsford Ltd., 4. Fitzhardinge Street. London. W1H 0AH £5.50. There…
Nothing outstanding for the present, although in "Dear Me" by Peter Ustinov (Heinemann, 1977) we find, as expected, a reference to the…
If I had to cover Renault products in a very few words I would say that they make cars with…
After five days, fifty-five special stages and five hundred and fifty competitive miles, the current RAC National Rally Champion and 1977…
April 8th/9th With entries down for the main VSCC fixtures since the Measham, it was gratifying to the Light Car…
A section devoted to old car matters The Amilcar Six After making a series of acceptable voiturettes and small…
John Godfrey Parry Thomas, the great Welsh racing-driver and engineer, was killed attacking the LSR on Pendine sands; in South Wales,…
A Birmingham reader is anxious to learn more about the “missing history” of a 1934 Hooper-bodied 20/25 h.p. Rolls-Royce which…
Later this month the VSCC intends to pay a visit to Boulogne, to try to recapture the atmosphere of the…
Sir, The March issue of your always enjoyable magazine, which I have read without missing a single copy since 1927,…
Sir, The photograph which accompanied a letter from Jim James shows a Horch of the 1935/313 era, and, I suspect,…
Sir, Your comments on page 36 of the January 1978 Motor Sport regarding the quality of the chassis of Edwardian…
I have often wondered what that great engineer WO Bentley would have made of the turbocharger. His view of the supercharger is well known, as he once famously fumed that…
COVID-19 threatened to cancel F1 2020 completely – but Steve Nielsen, in partnership with the forward-thinking organisers of the Austrian GP, was instrumental in saving last year's remarkable grand prix season
GT racing could get its first zero-emission series this season, but there are obstacles to clear yet The next pulse of electric motor sport could be about to hit: Electric…
The Williams FW41 could be masking Russian rookie Sergey Sirotkin's impressive debut F1 season Disguised behind the shortcomings of the Williams FW41 has been the progress of Sergey Sirotkin, the…