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Matters of Moment, May 1981
Budget Blues Car-users always pay very dearly in taxation and the last "blue" Budget ran to form, with 20p a…
Budget Blues Car-users always pay very dearly in taxation and the last "blue" Budget ran to form, with 20p a…
* Only clubs whose secretaries furnished the necessary information prior to the 14th of the preceding month are included in…
When a racing man dies in action, in a race or while testing, it is sad. When a racing man…
Cooper Car Club Plans are afoot to form a Club or Register for owners and enthusiasts for Cooper cars and…
The second Vintage SCC race meeting of 1981, counting towards the Motor Sport Brooklands Memorial Trophy Contest, will be held…
The Vintage SCC had excellent weather and a fine entry of 150 cars for its first Silverstone race meeting (Club…
Wiscombe Park The first of 16 rounds of the 1981 British Hill Climb Championship took place on Sunday, April 12th…
Piquet makes up for his Brazilian mistake! Buenos Aires, April 12th From the start of practice for the Argentine Grand…
Dear D.S.J. When I arrived in Argentina I began thinking about the old saying which goes "the Good Lord smiles…
Third time was very lucky for Swedish Toleman-Hart driver Stefan Johansson at Hockenheim on April 5. Johansson, won his third…
News of a remarkable model aeroplane engine appeared last year in The Chartered Mechanical Engineer, whose Editor has given us…
Aerodynamics It seems that every time we reach the threshold of a new and fascinating development in Formula One somebody…
VW's 200 m.p.h. diesel 47 m.p.g. at a constant 155 m.p.h. The object at my damp feet looked more like…
The Renault 18 Turbo A Splendid Family Car, with Racing Connotations The Renault Group, France's biggest car manufacturer, having decided…
Some personal landmarks I do not remember when I became obsessed with speed, but it must have been at a…
Sports and Racing Cars Fifty years ago, in 1931, the Alta Car and Engineering Company Ltd. was formed by Geoffrey…
A section devoted to old-car matters The VSCC Light Car Weekend This year's Welsh Weekend run by the Light Car…
No. 40: The Zephyr Your reference in a recent issue to car component manufacturers in Lowestoft mentions the Brooke car…
Firestone Vintage and Classic tyres and tubes are now available from Lambrook Tyres of Colyton, Devon, following an agreement with…
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, it is an interesting speculation to consider which racing-car design has been…
You would think that gold and glory would be enough to get them fired up, but a little extra always helps… Journalists sit very low in the feeding chain in…
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…
V12 racing cars carrying the logos of football teams? Charting the beginning and end of Superleague Formula Tottenham Hotspur, Rangers, Beijing Guoan FC… this wasn’t a breakaway football tournament but…
It is apposite that Jean Alesi never raced a V10 Ferrari. The French-Sicilian was a throwback whose heart ruled his head. Michael Schumacher, in contrast, was sent from the future:…