Targa Florio Sicily looks beautiful, but it's a bit quiet, isn't it? Not this month, as the centenary of the Targa Florio, one of the world's most celebrated races, shatters…

by Patrick Greene There is an old saying that no man is a hero to his valet and this might apply equally, or more so, to his racing mechanic. However,…

  The B.R.D.C. successfully put on a very full day's racing at Silverstone, but unfortunately a gloom had been cast over the meeting by the fatal accident to Harry Schell who, in…

"SMUGGLER'S COME-BACK." THE FIRST STORY TO BE SELECTED IN OUR JOHNSON MOTOR COMPETITION. FIFTY years ago he was pilot for the sailing vessels out of Kenmare, and he was eighty.…

NEWS FROM THE U.S.A. BILLY WINN, BOB SAIL AND REX MAYS WIN IMPORTANT EARLY FALL CONTESTS. JOHNNY HANNON BADLY INJURED. NO A.A.A. Championship races were held during the early Autumn…

This famed Ford GT40 and McLaren sportscar racer has died, aged 85. As a team owner, he ran the short-lived Jordan-BRM F1 project and owned a Lola T332 F5000 car,…

CINDER-SHIFTING AT WEMBLEY.

Le Mans, April 10/11th. In order to give entrants a chance to prepare new cars for the 24-hour race at Le Mans, the circuit of the Sarthe was made available, for two days,…

There will be a veteran-car class (age limit not specified) in the Wokingham Carnival on August 27th. Details from: Carnival Office, Shute End, Wokingham. Berks.

"In view of the fact that class divisions, are becoming increasingly popular in trials, usually start at up-to-1100cc, the Austin Seven, as a 747cc side-valve car, inapt tube outclassed in…

THE 16 h.p. S.S.I. COUPE WTIEN the S.S.I. coupe was first introduced at the Olympia Motor Show of 1931 it was felt by many that, handsome as the car undoubtedly…

THE " DOPE " QUESTION SETTLED. We understand, on going to Press, that the A.C.U. has agreed with the Manufacturers' Union that " dope " fuels shall not be allowed…