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Budget Blues
A considerable proportion of the British electorate are vehicle owners, to whom Budget Day is a time for hope or…
A considerable proportion of the British electorate are vehicle owners, to whom Budget Day is a time for hope or…
Careful checking with all the manufacturers represented at Suzuka, and with Max Mosley to fill in some gaps, reveals just…
Confident enough to emphasise its return to one of the major leagues of motor racing, Alfa Romeo recently held a…
I came here in 1979 and 1980 and each time it was a French victory. "Jean-Marie Balestre was in the…
Now that we have had the first two races of the 1990 Formula One World Championship season we can take…
With a chilling precision, Mercedes took control of the Suzuka 480 Kms race in Japan and repeated last year's 1-2…
Those who have followed the FISA saga through the winter may be aware that President Jean-Marie Balestre was given a…
Dear Reader, We live in changing times, I am glad to say, otherwise we would stagnate and then go backwards,…
December 14 was an important date for Italy's last remaining independent supercar manufacturer. It marked the introduction of the new…
We are sorry to learn of the death, at the age of 81, of Eric Gordon Tate, who was well-acquainted…
This enjoyable annual fixture took place this year on April 7/8 and was organised by Jane Arnold-Forster. The Welsh weather-gods…
It is with the deepest regret that we learn of the death from cancer of T A (Bob) Roberts, OBE,…
With an entry of over 80 and only four non-starters this event, divided into two classes, required competitors to tackle…
Ever since H F Locke King built his remarkable Brooklands Motor Course at Weybridge in Surrey in 1906/7, it has…
VSCC Wessex Trial The VSCC held this annual event over the weekend of 10th/1 lth March. Out of an entry…
Writers like Eoin Young, Doug Nye and Michael Riedner have been recalling that splendid Mercedes-Benz transporter built to carry racing…
I harnessed the Ford Sierra 4x4 (a little more rattly now but 100% troublefree over 32,750 miles) recently and set…
If you wish to have your club event publicised in this section, please contact SS at the usual MOTOR SPORT…
Aston Martin Virage by Chris Nixon. 160 pp. 10%" x 14". Osprey Publishing Limited, 59 Grosvenor Street, London, W1X 9DA.…
Bentley — The Silent Sports Car 1931-1941 by Michael Ellman-Brown. 452 pp. 9"x8W: Dalton Watson, 3 Harbour Exchange Square, Limeharbour,…
British Touring Car Championship organiser TOCA has announced plans for a revised 2020 calendar that will run from August to November. The altered schedule aims to fit 27 races into…
Getting to know the characters of a bygone era If you’re a regular visitor to my admittedly rather random online missives you’ll know I have a rather serious YouTube habit.…
The internal combustion engine is not dead, despite what you may have read A while back I asked Mercedes-Benz boss Dieter Zetsche what he thought about the perceived witch-hunt against diesel…
He’s old and he’s fat I’m joking, of course, but not entirely Valentino Rossi’s 113th Grand Prix victory was historic and much more. It was the success that brought him…