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Sir, I find it difficult to believe that your correspondent Mr Cracknell (July 1999) has taken four decades to realise that Denis Jenkinson was an enthusiast rather than an objective…

Sir, As the author of Racing the Silver Arrows I wish I could help David Jones (September letters) regarding the 1939 European Championship, but I can't add very much. I…

John Grant says that he is lucky to be alive after one of the biggest accidents in recent seasons of historic racing. His McLaren M8C Can-Am car speared off the…

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Sir L Wickham deplores the damage being done to the English language by some advertisers. I wonder if he noticed a Willment Ghia Cobra, in the September issue, described as…

Sir, I am a British subject living in France, and I always look forward to receiving my monthly MOTOR SPORT. I have just received my August edition and was very…

Peter Collins/Pat Griffith Aston-Martin DB3 Wins "News of the World" 9-Hour Sports-Car Race. Privately owned Ferraris 2nd & 3rd in Dramatic Finale. Type C Jaguars in Trouble. Ever enterprising, on…

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