CIRCUITO DI ALESSANDRIA 1934. THE Circuito di Alessandria is a Grand Prix which has come very much to the fore this year. The circuit itself is 8 kin, in length…

Mat Oxley Mat is described elsewhere as being "MotoGP's race track Roffweiler" for his incisive reporting of two-wheel action but he's always very well behaved when he comes to the…

AN IMPORTANT APPOINTMENT Mr. Trevor Westbrook, hitherto general manager of the SupermarineAviation Works (Vickers) Ltd., at Woolston, has been appointed general manager of Vickers Aviation Ltd., at Weybridge. Commenting on…

A valuable link Sir, Reader Bill Timm (March 1994) may have a point that Monaco is an anachronism in the context of modern Grand Prix racing, but I have to…

In writing this my first letter to MOTOR SPORT, I wish to beth commend your exCellent publication anal add also a note of what I hope may be constructive criticism.…

Sir, I very much appreciated your 27-page special feature on BRM. It sometimes seems a long while ago and yet, at other times, only yesterday. BRM was born to turn…

While the early post-war history of Aston Martin is dominated by six-cylinder engines designed by W O Bentley and Tadek Marek, the last quarter-century has seen the Newport Pagnell company…

Sir, Further to the recent articles regarding BRM, I see no mention of its famed designer von Eberhorst. Please correct me if I am wrong but von Eberhorst also designed…

Otta, /lewd WE HEAR . . . . Roddy Clarke has disposed of his Type 43 Bugatti to the chief jailer of Brixton Prison, but still has the parts from…

CHANGING THE AXLE OIL Sir, As one of the " shy little oil company P.R.O.s" referred to by Mr. J. H. Shields of Fivehead in his letter in your September…

REMINISCENCES Sir, I was very interested in recent references to Tamplins and Cardens. My first four-wheeler was a 1922 7-1t.p., air-cooled, twin two-stroke, gearbox-on-the-backaxle Carden with, if vim remember, i.f.s.…

Sir, Having attended the IndyCar race at Las Vegas in anticipation of a great weekend, it turned into one of great sadness. I spoke to Dan Wheldon on Friday afternoon,…