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Matters of moment, September 1998
Given all the fuss about Rolls-Royce and Bentley right now, you'd be forgiven for not noticing that automotive GBH is…
Given all the fuss about Rolls-Royce and Bentley right now, you'd be forgiven for not noticing that automotive GBH is…
A unique fuel filler is thought to have identified the monocoque of a Lotus 49B as R2, the car in…
Vanwall VW10, in which Stirling Moss won the Dutch and Portuguese Grands Prix in 1958, was sold for £800,817 including…
Thirty Formula One cars, the largest gathering at Watkins Glen since the 1980 United States Grand Prix, wowed spectators in…
Motor Sport’s Camaro was back in action at Castle Combe on August 8. With two race series combined to create…
Barry Sheene is to race a motorcyle for the first time since he retired from the sport in 1984 at…
It seems that the angle-grinder Lord Brocket used to slice up part of his car collection will no longer be…
The VSCC returned to Prescott for its annual two-day bash as the hill celebrates 60 years of competition. While bad…
Why not a World Rally Championship for Drivers? In December’s Motor Sport, when writing of the Tour of Corsica, we…
Great Britain, Austria, German: three Grands Prix in four weekends. Not to mention a three-day Monza test, the first confirmations…
When winning wasn’t everything Sir, I beg to ask the question "Who won Le Mans in 1927?" In July you…
Gerhard Berger never made any bones about why he left McLaren for Ferrari at the end of 1992. "It was…
It has taken years of planning, negotiating and hard work but the time has come, at last, for motor racing…
If ever proof was needed that for some people, things come all too easily, then look no further than the…
Stirling Moss Inaugural Goodwood Meeting, September 1948 The place was pretty bleak, but it was a lovely meeting. We…
Racing returns to Goodwood this month. Andrew Frankel, in the last of this series of track tests, visits the legendary…
When Damon Hill’s Arrows A18 faltered on the last lap of the 1997 Hungarian Grand Prix, he lost the chance…
This year’s Coys Historic Festival was the best and biggest yet staged. Marcus Pye was there Fifty years fell away…
Henri Toivonen and the Group B rally car were destined to make and then destroy each other’s life. John Davenport…
Johnny Herbert – 1986 Quest SF86 Formula Ford 2000 While some of his Formula One seats have left a bit…
Formula 1’s continent-hopping adventures continue. From a double-header in the Middle East to a red-eye return to Australia, the grand prix teams have travelled back to Europe – briefly –…
Nick Tandy gave the Porsche 919 a British send-off at Brands Hatch World Sportscars has created some unforgettable memories for many at Brands Hatch. Particularly with Porsche, for that matter. …
Almost two decades ago Yamaha built a single-crank new YZR500 to beat Honda and Valentino Rossi to the final 500cc title. The bike remained a secret, until now… Yamaha has…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). When Michael Schumacher signed for Ferrari for ’96 it looked like his ego had got the…