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Matters of moment, November 1971
• Showtime Soliloquy With the last of the Earls Court visitors leaving the Motor Show to discover whether or not…
• Showtime Soliloquy With the last of the Earls Court visitors leaving the Motor Show to discover whether or not…
They don't love Jackie Stewart at Laguna SCCA, or the motoring writer of the San Francisco Chronicle doesn't. That paper…
British Leyland, the only major motor manufactory this country now possesses, has many problems. We wonder whether at times they…
On the eve of Earls Court we received a hand-out over the name of Raymond Playfoot which told us that…
Cevert's first Formula One victory Watkins Glen, October 3rd What a tremendous season Elf-Team Tyrrell have had in 1971. Their…
The 2-mile-long V-bomber runway at RAF Elvington in Yorkshire has proved so successful as a venue for attacking short-distance records…
Some weeks before the Motor Show British Leyland invited us up to Silverstone where they had laid on a test…
A slice of Talbot lore, I fancy, can be culled from an article by Jack Gilbey on "The Vanished Cab…
Interesting mainly for their colour plates, mostly of modern racing cars and motorcycles, are two Orbis Books volumes, "Racing Cars"…
By George Oliver. 220 pp. 8 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in. (Cassell and Co. Ltd., 35, Red Lion Square,…
By Lettice Curtis. 337 pp. 8 1/5 in. x 5 2/5 in. (G. T. Foulis & Co. Ltd., 50a, Bell…
By Tim Nicholson. 138 pp. 8 4/5 in. x 6 1/2 in. (Cassell and Co. Ltd., 35, Red Lion Square,…
Brainerd, Minnesota, September 12th Peter Revson won his fourth Can-Am race of the season at Donnybrooke International Speedway, an ultra-quick…
The European Formula Two season effectively came to an end at Vallelunga at the beginning of October when Ronnie Peterson…
"It is a matter for sorrow that those who lead the Trades Unions whose members are mostly employed in our…
It's easy to estimate the popularity of a rally; one need only count the number of people who want to…
TAP Rally When it was first held five years ago, some people thought that it had a connection with plumbing;…
On the Can-Am trail While in North America last month for the Canadian and US Grands Prix I was lucky…
Ferrari For the past couple of years the efforts by Ferrari in sports car racing have been a bit luke-warm…
A section devoted to old-car matters The VSCC Welsh Week-end (October 2nd/3rd) The traditional excursion over the Welsh border for…
Formula 1, MotoGP, Grand-Am and even the Australian V8 Supercars have all given a big thumbs up to Austin’s Circuit of the Americas, and this weekend it’s the turn of…
Gordon Cruickshank reflects on how a boom decade showed off on the road as part of ‘80s month. Buy the '80s special print magazine here In among a miners’ strike…
Ferrari and Mercedes trade places, teams fit new front wings and Williams goes multicoloured Mercedes’ George Russell set the track record at the Hungaroring in the final day of Formula 1 testing on Wednesday,…
The tightest F1 team battle of 2022 ended with Aston Martin and Alfa Romeo on level points. With data from Project F1, we examine how Alfa lost its early edge and why older drivers showed their worth in the fight for sixth place