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Matters of moment, September 1963
Important technical developments Three notable technical advances have been announced recently. The first is associated with the dispersal of power.…
Important technical developments Three notable technical advances have been announced recently. The first is associated with the dispersal of power.…
Results: 1st: J. Surtees (Ferrari) .. 60 laps—1 hr. 18 min. 0.8 sec. 221.824 k.p.h. 2nd: P. Arundell (Lotus-Climax) ..…
Last month the various methods of controlling rear wheel movement on Grand Prix cars were discussed and illustrated, and on…
It was less than ten years ago that the idea of a British car winning a Grand Prix was considered…
(August 11th)—Two heats of 20 laps each On the tight little circuit at Karlskoga, a Formula One race was run…
Driving one of the Indianapolis Lotus-Ford V8 cars, Jim Clark won the 200-mile race at Milwaukee (U.S.A.) against the cream…
Our last article on the R.A.C. British Hill-Climb Championship appeared in our July issue and gave the position after the…
August 18th The sun shone and there was over-spill from the large car parks to an adjacent field for this…
A good all-rounder, capable of over 110 m.p.h., with adequate acceleration and the usual sports-car amenities, plus improved weather protection.…
Last March I commented that I had put a 12-volt MotoMeter car clock on a simple Meccano test-rig, energising it…
Stuttgart, July 28th A circuit that is made up from normal everyday roads, with climbs that bring an ordinary saloon…
As if to celebrate the 25th German Grand Prix the weather at the Nurburgring in the Eifel mountains almost behaved…
Whenever anyone has a suspension or handling problem on a car they will eventually receive advice from an enthusiast to…
The Editor revives his enthusiasm for the Volkswagen by driving the VW 1500 estate car for 2,000 miles, finds the…
The miniatures continue to flow from the production lines but many of those sent to us recently have been of…
Edgar Barth scored another victory in the European Mountain Championship on August 11th when he won the Freiburg hill-climb with…
Rare encounter — a roamer with Duesenberg engine
The London Cheshire Home Fete on September 14th, to be opened by H.R.H. Princess Alice—Countess of Athlone, will include a…
About Britain's Premier Race Circuit:— "It is now very obvious that the positioning of the pits for the Silverstone Grand…
For three years now Nancy Cawthome has organised an unusual and most interesting assembly of privately-owned "specials" from amongst the…
The trouble with Andrea Dovizioso is that he doesn’t have a killer’s instinct. Dovi at the 2019 Austrian Grand Prix: “Hold my beer…” Dovizioso and Marquez were this close time and…
Everybody loves a trier – although I’m not sure that the world’s biggest manufacturer of cars will (initially) thank me for calling it such. Admittedly Toyota is today more of…
Ten years ago, when Valentino Rossi was already the old man of the MotoGP grid, he was worried about keen youngsters like Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa and Casey Stoner coming to…
Former Honda Britain race boss Barry Symmons, who died earlier this week, masterminded one of the all-time greatest victories in the history of motorcycle racing: Steve Hislop’s historic 1992 Senior TT win for Norton. A few years ago Symmons and other the main men involved revealed the story behind their fairytale success