Innovations Last year saw the first road race on the British mainland in over eighty years of motor racing but it was interrupted by heavy rain. This year no such…

Police chiefs may advocate raised motorway speed limits. But not the DoT. A new glossy brochure Killing Speed and Saving Lives lists its plans to tackle excess speed. Excess speed,…

New attractions alongside the usual allure of the best competition cars and renowned drivers from around the world mean that this year’s Goodwood extravaganza shouldn’t be missed Words: Robert Stride.…

Clive Wood won the second Classic FF2000 round from a capacity grid at Thruxton (right). Racing his Van Diemen RF82 on home ground, the former F3 racer saw off the…

PLAYING " IN " THE GALLERY A REVIEW OF THE ACCESSORIES AT EARL'S COURT APPEALING TO SPORTSMEN SPORTING motorists are not, as a rule, numbere&a.mon.gst those visitors to a motor-show…

Annual outings Look at the grid for most rounds of the World Sportscar Championship, and you can count perhaps 30 Group C cars. Stand in the tribunes at the Sarthe…

MOTORING SPORTSMEN. Mr. Harold Walter Purdy. By THE EDITOR. MR. H. W. PURDY, who is known to the majority of our readers for his fine performances on the Brooklands Track…

Polish Rally 1st: R. Aaltonen / T. Ambrose (Cooper S I275) 2nd: S. Zazada / K. Osinski (Steyr Puch 650) 3rd: E. Carlsson / T. Aman (Saab Sport) 4th: R.…

EDITORIAL NOTES. The Speedman and Olympia. Owing to the scarcity of information concerning the exhibits at the forthcoming Motor Cycle Show at Olympia, as we are going to press, it…

THIS miserable war must end sometime. Being a mere motoring enthusiast and not a political journalist I am spared the task of endeavouring to prophesy when an armistice will eventually…

THE ALL-ROUND ALLARD Some time ago the Allard-Special was referred to by one of the weekly motoring papers as "not everyman's car," because of "specially light construction and general weight…

HSCC Championship Finals day at Silverstone produced great racing in front of a large crowd. Star race was the Historic Racing Saloon finale, won by Richard Oldworth's Ford Falcon. Geny…