October 27 Mercedes wins the final round of the 1991 Sportscar World Championship at Autopolis, Japan. Silk Cut Jaguar is the winning team, Teo Fabi the World Champion driver. November…

The Le Mans 24 Hours was, after all, a success if measured as a sporting event, though a financial failure for the Automobile Club de l'Ouest. Next year's race will…

Quick and comfortable THE Peugeot make has always been renowned for durability and comfortable strength, and had a perfect showcase in the 1960s when the East African Safari was the…

Ten years ago this month Motor Sport published a lengthy feature article on Oldham & Crowther, a Peterborough company which was rapidly acquiring a fine reputation for restoring jaguar sports…

Controversy mars the Monza 1,000 Kms Endurance racing has been fairly free of politics for some years, but the World Endurance Championship for 1984 got off to a had start…

5: Single-seater club racing No matter how popular saloon car racing becomes, the added excitement of single-seaters will always ensure the survival of one or more formulae at club level. In…

The star ascendant Thirty years after Daimler-Benz’s withdrawal from racing, the Mercedes name returned to Le Mans in 1985 associated with Peter Sauber’s World Endurance Championship contender. It was not…

Matra's Le Mans hat-trick The claim on the advertising posters that the Le Mans 24-Hour race is "la plus grande ourse du Monde" seemed rather extravagant when the final entry…

Surprises at Monza Sprint racing is something new in the World Sportscar Championship calendar, and the 1986 season started up with a 365 kilometre dash through the Monza parkland on…

A life support system has kept the Sportscar World Championship alive for another season, almost certainly its last. This time it was provided by the three major manufacturers actively involved…

Last gasp Racing on the 4.1-kilometre Kyalami track near Johannesburg for the last time, Jochen Mass won the non-championship Yellow Pages Sportscar Sprint on November 28 in the Richard Lloyd…

"Grands Prix, 1934-1939," by Rodney Walkerley (Motor Racing Publications, Ltd., 7s. 6d.). In this book Walkerley has done a job which should have been undertaken before — he has written…