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Matters of moment, November 1989
Mansell's misdemeanours Nigel Mansell's performances certainly enlivened the Portuguese Grand Prix. They are dealt with by our reporter on the spot but can be summarised…
Mansell's misdemeanours Nigel Mansell's performances certainly enlivened the Portuguese Grand Prix. They are dealt with by our reporter on the spot but can be summarised…
Motor Sport held its first Concours at the HSCC meeting at Silverstone in September. Among a quality field of cars to arrive were Michael Fisher's…
Obituary: Richie Ginther One of motor racing's true free spirits, Richie Ginther, died in France of a heart attack, just…
From time to time we receive enquiries as to how the editorial Ford Sierra XR4x4 is behaving. To date it…
Sour grapes It could have been one of his great Grand Prix wins. Instead, Portugal's F1 round will go down in history…
Half a dozen of one... Sir, I was saddened to see on the television coverage of the recent Portugese Grand…
Invisible man Somewhere in all the controversy, acrimony and infamy that characterised the Spanish Grand Prix, Ayrton Senna racked up…
Pole Position At the recent Spanish Grand Prix, Ayrton Senna made the fastest qualifying lap and took number one position on…
The three commandments At one time the European part of the Formula One season used to finish at Monza, when…
Pipped at the post As Jean-Louis Schlesser stood by his Sauber Mercedes at Spa his mind went back a year…
Another irony for Jean-Louis Schlesser to contemplate is that if the WS-PC teams had occupied their usual pits on the…
Half a crown Half a litre of fuel, or the lack of it, was all that prevented Jean-Louis Schlesser from…
Crocodile officer! Automotion Australia has set itself the ultimate challenge. By 1992 it hopes that the Australian Safari will be…
Shadow Play Some twenty years ago a group of enthusiasts in Cyprus, some of them Cypriot and some members of…
Motoring into Motorfair Naturally, the approach to the Autumn motor shows of Frankfurt and London Motorfair is littered with new car launches.…
A brief perusal Compared to earlier years Motorfair has become far less dealer-orientated when the sale of secondhand cars was…
Aiming to be World class If Sir John Egan mentioned the expression 'world class' once during the recent Scottish launch…
Mazda's much publicised replacement 323 range has now arrived in Britain in three distinct guises. The three different engine options,…
It says much for the differing personalities of the designs that PSA has been able to launch with confidence two…
The Renault 21 saloon is hardly an inspiring car. Competent, dependable...and dull. Renault has now introduced a hatchback into the…
The tension had deeper roots than a mere motor race when teams and drivers gathered at Lyon in July 1914. Little more than a month afterwards, the world would be…
The ACO launches the 2017 FIA World Endurance and European Le Mans Series season with a live-streamed press conference at 3pm GMT. Entries for the 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours will…
If or when they ever arrive, the new Formula 1 regulations will place tight limits on teams updating their transmissions. However, if we scroll back 15 years, no such restrictions…
Perhaps the gods of the racetrack decided they had done enough for Valentino Rossi after this year’s first race at the Red Bull Ring, where he so narrowly avoided a…