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The Month In Motor Sport
Aug 20: FISA releases draft plans for its proposed GT supercar class. Pre-requisites include a power to weight ratio of…
Aug 20: FISA releases draft plans for its proposed GT supercar class. Pre-requisites include a power to weight ratio of…
All of a sudden, the British national press has discovered something new: Indycar racing. Yes, that's right, Indycar racing... born…
Michael Schumacher becomes the first German since Jochen Mass to win a Grande Epreuve In the end it was the…
I recently came across the following paragraph in a 1931 edition of MOTOR SPORT, in a race meeting report: "The…
Mansell retires twice in one day, and as Patrese also falters Senna sweeps to a lucky but deserved victory A…
France's old Reims-Gueux circuit might effectively have been a high-speed triangle that put the onus on power rather than skill,…
Every now and then friends say "Have you been to such-and-such a circuit (or hillclimb, or rally route)?" and if…
The Le Mans 24 Hours will be held next year on June 19/20 and regulations have already been published. Entries…
You have to sympathise with Jean Todt and the Peugeot Talbot Sport team. Winners of four Sportscar World Championship races…
There was a time when no one thought it possible that a driver from outside the Nordic region could ever…
Richard Brown wants to be the first man to break the Sound Barrier on land. He's designing his own rocket…
They call it Unser Mountain. This gigantic chunk of pink granite in the southern part of the Rocky Mountains inhabited…
The worst part of the BARC sprint meeting at Goodwood was that all the way round the circuit I could…
How much does it cost to acquire a championship-winning racing car? The answer might have fewer noughts on the end…
The traditional track test feature used to be safely rooted in a private test day, at which risks were low.…
Introduced with the objective of winning the World Rally Championship at least once in the '90s, the Ford Escort RS…
Recently, JaguarSport delivered three examples of the twin turbo, 542 bhp, XJ220, to the Salzburgring in Austria. The £415,000 machines…
Plucking with painful PR consciousness at every strand that connects the Bentley marque and Brooklands, the Crewe car maker recently…
It was just approaching six in the morning. It was foggy, with a touch of moisture in the air. As…
Volkswagens, particularly the Beetle, and MOTOR SPORT used to be synonymous whilst VW was awaiting post-war recognition. Today, we struggled…
Alfa Romeo’s reserve driver clocked the fastest time of Formula 1 testing day four, as Robert Kubica registered a 1 min 16.942sec to top the timesheets. His time was comfortably…
Testing, with a side of bacon rolls. What else is there to do in cold and damp March? I’ve always enjoyed winter or early season testing. It’s great to get…
Both Ferrari and Mercedes are ringing the technical changes in a bid to catch Red Bull – but they've already spent too long going in the wrong direction, writes Mark Hughes
Taken from the July 1997 issue of Motor Sport On and off, Mario Andretti has been trying to win Le Mans for more than 30 years. The place has hardly…