Thirty starts, twenty-three finishes, seven victories, six second places, six third places, three pole-positions, six fastest race laps, the World Drivers' Championship and the World Manufacturers' Championship. Those are the…

Racing cars on the road Driving a single-seater Grand Prix car on the roads of England, Scotland and Wales in full racing trim is very much against the law. It…

Wheels All the Formula One teams are in agreement on two things where wheels are concerned and they are that wheels are of light alloy and have a single nut centre fixing.…

The drive by Niki Lauda in the 36th Monaco GP will go down in the history books of Monte Carlo, whether he likes it or not. It was a classic performance and…

After Stirling Moss had won the 1961 Oulton Park Gold Cup race with the Ferguson P99 four-wheel-drive car, in a most convincing manner, it looked as though the racing world…

A perfect demonstration Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium, May 9th. The annual 1,000-kilometre race for sports cars, organised by the Royal Automobile Club of Spa, took place on the magnificent Spa-Francorchamps circuit without…

I grew up with the simple child-like faith in the saying that "the camera cannot lie." Life was straightforward and pleasant until one day in the mid-Thirties I opened my…

All things being equal, though in motor racing they seldom are, the 1974 Tyrrell Formula One should have made its first public appearance at the Spanish Grand Prix as these…

The name of Alfa Romeo has always been held in great respect in the sporting world and it is reckoned that when Alfa Romeo go racing they make a proper…

'The courage award undoubtedly went to 1. Derek Warwick, who started the race stiff and bruised from his Saturday accident, but stuck it out to finish seventh. Afterwards there was…

Among the many interesting happenings of last month was the first appearance in Europe of the Chaparral car from Texas. To those who follow American sports car racing the name…

Measuring the power of an engine in horsepower has always seemed something of an anomaly, considering that the internal combustion engine put paid to the horse as a worker. Having…