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Matters of moment, October 1981
Into top gear again, is it? As we said last month, we are glad we are not saddled with the…
Into top gear again, is it? As we said last month, we are glad we are not saddled with the…
The last Saturday in August is, by tradition, the day on which the Bentley Drivers Club holds its annual Silverstone race…
Although motoring historians make play with the variants of the Talbot name, which has been applied to widely differing cars, we…
Silverstone September 12/13th The Mazda RX7 of Tom Walkinshaw and Chuck Nicholson overcame the might of BMW's challenge from Helmut Kelleners…
Avon Racing Tyres When Goodyear pulled out of Formula One at the end of last year, and Michelin only guaranteed to supply…
It was a motoring lesson, of sorts. Two visits to France in the space of a week to drive two very…
Dull indeed would be the World Rally Championship if each event conformed to the standardisation which F1SA seems bent on imposing.…
Geoff Lees is the new European Formula Two Champion. Lees clinched the title in early September at the penultimate round of the…
From skating to Formula One, Jabouille and Laffite have never been far apart. . . . Twenty-six years ago two…
Renault all the way Monza, Italy, September 13th In these rather unsettled days it was nice to get back to the…
During the lunch break at Monza, on the day of the Italian Grand Prix a Tipo 159 Alfa Romeo from 1951…
The course-car When the green light comes on and the 24 Formula One cars take off from the starting grid to begin…
A section devoted to old-car matters The Life and Times of Montie Grahame-White (Continued from the September issue) Following his unsuccessful…
Not pursuit along dusty roads of a bevy of 40/50 hp Rolls-Royces, simply a glance-back at some off-beat motoring history. First, during…
The heading applies, not to the single-seater Miller that appeared at this year's Brooklands Re-union, which seems to be a post-war…
While the Assistant Editor was having himself a speed-orgy over the August Bank Holiday at the Bentley DC Silverstone races and…
For the sixth year running the Vintage Sports Car Club combined with Charles Wilkinson, proprietor of Lincolnshire's Cadwell Park, to promote a race…
There are few more pleasant places for VSCC driving tests than the drive of Madresfield Court on a hot September afternoon…
Sunbeam Sidelines Sir, I found the article on the 3-litre Sunbeam in last month's issue most interesting and informative. The…
The advantages of placing an engine to drive the front wheels transversely across the engine bay have taken a long time…
Roger Penske has long been the standard when it comes to success both on and off the race track. A man simply known as ‘The Captain’ turns 84 years old…
The FIA's decision to introduce the halo hasn't been well received The implementation of compulsory cockpit halo devices in Formula 1 from next year is already – and predictably –…
While one Japanese manufacturer dominated the four-stroke racing scene, another was working away on a special machine developed to topple Honda from its throne. Suzuki's performance road bikes couldn't quite…
Formula 1 must reform the way it operates after years of "organisational difficulties" that led to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix fiasco, McLaren Racing's CEO, Zak Brown, has said. He…